Just thought I'd create a thread for updates and discussion on the Coronavirus.  As of right now there's about 120,000 cases worldwide with 4300 deaths. 

On 5/24/2020 at 10:14 PM, DRW50 said:

 

That's absolutely shameful. I'm so sorry.

Thanks Carl. It's an awkward situation and some people are just straight up in denial. Most of us can't entirely stay in for six months at a time, but when people are crowding into restaurants and other

 enclosed spaces, I just don't get it. It's really disturbing to see how partisan it is too.

 

In other bad news one in 10 diabetics die within a week of getting this. Ugh, I know a lot of people with diabetes. It really is a bitch of a disease.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/health/diabetes-study-covid-19-deaths/index.html

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On 5/30/2020 at 10:07 AM, victoria foxton said:

 

  

  

Given all the videos that week at Land of the Ozark...well...so it begins.

 

And just annoyingly shocked at the second one. 

 

  

In her new NYT advice column, Roxane Gay went off on a privileged woman asking if it was still safe to employ her housekeeper during a pandemic, and Times readers are *triggered* (read the comments).

 

Plus, this, tying COVID together with the protests:

 

 

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https://variety.com/2020/music/news/chris-trousdale-dead-dies-boy-band-dreamstreet-coronavirus-1234624957/

 

 

 

 

  

While the overall number of positive cases has spiked in the past two days, the percentage of positive COVID-19 tests — out of all the results reported in a day — has declined over the same time period, as the state provides testing to more people. https://t.co/7qSb3lGQ9t

— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) June 4, 2020