Fake News has them shitting themselves with fear.
Just saw a PSA on the news trying to explain the protocol for various possibilities, conceding that there was confusion, and ending up with "don't worry, you'll be ok." DM is eager to make Trump look bad.
Probably hand-dipping ice with an unwashed scoop and putting it in a bucket to carry from room to room. Then never sterilize the bucket.
Indeed, and even if they are fudging the numbers with a broad definition of "flu deaths," where is the outcry that this high total goes on year after year? And instead the CDC is fiddling around trying to find more gun-related deaths (thanks, Zero) which are also inflated but much less.
Check the difference when you toggle "linear" to "logarithmic." Cases and deaths have flattened a little.
I wonder if that will include the upcoming serological test to see if you have had it already. That is going to be very illuminating about the spread.
Or someone got wise and is about to expose them.
This is China, but Italy's experience is available to check to see if proportions are similar: difference between Covid cases and all cases is the excess mortality presumed due to Covid. So for 80+, excess mortality is about 7%.
It's getting all over now.
If they stole it from us, they are technically correct. Similarly if they deliberately tried to infect us through their spies and it ended up getting taken back to China.
People don't understand triage because usually we have the capacity. Italy has gotten overwhelmed beyond their capacity.
This would really kill a lot of employers. All you would need would be one chronic malingerer and you would be paying their semiretirement forever.
People are in places like that because already it takes a lot of effort to keep them alive. And places like that tend to get sloppy in the fine details because the patients are a lot of work and they are all going to die anyway. It's no mystery at all that a contagious disease or bad food or loss of electricity tends to kill off a bunch.
In the US we have good care because usually we aren't up to capacity. But managers in care facilities don't like paying staff to stand by.
Amazing what can be done with great infrastructure and a lot of skilled people when they are told to get to work.
No, and I think getting cut off from all the perks is going to be very hard on poor little Megan. She may need to find an American billionaire.
Overdosed on Koolaid from his Obamanoid wife, no natural defenses thanks to PC culture and lack of free speech in the UK.
The taxes collected are putatively for Medicare and Social Security, but they aren't really covering it now afaik--at least we're always hearing how insolvent those programs are
No matter how little you earn it is collected, unlike income tax.
Yes. It is really a bold move.
As an employer, I can say these payroll taxes are quite a burden. An employee pays,say, 7% per paycheck out of his pay: the employer pays 7% x (number of employees) per paycheck and has to give the Govt. the collected money and a summary report quarterly. Heaven help you if your reporting isn't satisfactory. The paperwork alone must be very costly to the Govt as well as the employer in manhours.
Tommy scores!
Very interesting. This is the scenario I imagine happened in China and Iran, but worse in the other places because of cultural factors. So we now seem to have three separate populations and system collapses to compare plus our own extra bad spot in Kenniwick. We can know how much air pollution, smoking, testing, treatments, etc. contribute and stop speculating, which will reduce panic. Sad, as usual advanced knowledge comes at a great price for some.
Another Deus Vult moment for us.