Biden is a neoliberal corporatist asshole.
I'm not seeing where the rate is, all I see if the total number of deaths which is similar, but without the number of infections it's an apples to oranges comparison. (Although I am tired so I might just not be seeing it)
But, COVID 19 is a risk factor for Pneumonia, so by taking your chances with COVID you're increasing your risk of getting Pneumonia again.
Yeah, that's what I saw when I searched earlier, but that I think was from like August of 2020 so they may have found more since then.
TL;DR : It's way deadlier than the flu and spreads exponentially faster.
Based on what I was able to find with a cursory search the death rate for COVID 19 is about 2.14% worldwide. That's taking all the deaths and dividing it by all the cases recorded.
Now, it's almost certainly much lower than that because people can get it and be asymptomatic, so they don't ever know they had it. But, we don't know how much lower.
The death rate for Influenza, even if you use the worst possible numbers (lowest case # = 340m cases per year, highest death number = 650k deaths) is 0.19%
So, that'd make COVID 19 eleven times more deadly than the flu. It's the difference between having a 1 in 50 chance of dying from it vs a 1 in 550 from the flu.
Also, the R number for COVID 19 is estimated to be about 2.87. The R, or reproduction number, is a measure of for every person who gets the virus how many people they'll infect on average. So for COVID 19 if you get it you're on average going to infect 2.87 others, then they'll each infect 2.87 others and so on.
For the typical seasonal influenza it's about 1.28. So COVID 19 is about 2.25 x more infectious, and keep in mind that makes it exponentially worse because each generation infects 2.25 x more.
So, after 10 infection cycles with the average seasonal flu a total of approximately 12 people would have been infected.
With COVID 19 that number would be 37,916.
As far as masks go I personally feel like if not wearing a mask only put the person who wasn't wearing the mask at risk, fine. It's your life and if you want to take the risk you should be allowed to. The problem is masks are much better at protecting others around you. Doctors don't wear masks for themselves most of the time, but to protect their vulnerable patients.
Current COVID 19 infection/death #s - https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0hpcbGbIn7ITyOOdeAQUlICV6nN31QocZL8V4z6xf--EQTvB0KOSHSmJI#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
R number for COVID - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242128
Death #s for Influenza, R # for Influenza - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
I'm glad to see this. I don't agree with much the President says, but his banning by these corporate tech stooges was ridiculous.
When did wearing a mask become a political issue instead of a scientific one? Doctors and nurses have been wearing masks for a long time now because we know that it helps prevent the spread of airborne diseases.
As far as the flu comparison, there are many many more variants of Influenza than there are of COVID 19. The flu isn't just one disease, there are four types of the flu and many more variants under each type. Type A is thought to have almost 200 variants alone.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/learn-about-different-types-of-flu-770509
I just wish both sides would stop the name calling and start talking to each other like human beings. I'm a Progressive leftist but I came here because I wanted to engage in dialogue with my fellow Canadians.
At the end of the day I think we have a lot more in common than we realize. I mean I'd like to live a nice, happy life with enough money to pay for the things I need to survive, have some left over for recreation and maybe a vacation every year or two. I want my family and friends to be safe and to have those things too. I imagine that your desires aren't too incompatible with that.
IMO the real enemies are the oligarchs who are already insanely rich but still want more, and they use their resources to try to divide us while they laugh all the way to the bank. I don't have a problem with people being rich, but I do have a problem when they use their wealth and power to hurt those far further down the economic scale.
I can only speak for myself, but I've never been a supporter of violence, on my side or the right.
I'm all about the non violent protests, organizing, general strikes, etc. Like the 2011 Wisconsin protests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests
I personally had no problem with the idea of marching on and into the capitol. Obviously I don't agree with the cause (the 2020 election was no more or less rigged than any previous U.S. election) The only issue I had with the method was the violence. (and I mean actual violence, breaking windows and shit I could care less about)
When the George Floyd protests were happening last year I agreed with some of the methods and disagreed with others. Shit like burning down private businesses which had nothing to do with the reason for the protest, what did that solve? All it did was make the protestors look bad IMO.
Also, the articles you've posted aren't the actual left, they're neoliberal centrist establishment types. Trust me when I tell you the actual left hates these fuckers as much as you guys do.
The interview he had later in this live stream with Matt Stoller hasn't been uploaded yet, but once it is I'll post it too. It's long AF but well worth the listen IMO.
I think this is an issue the left and right can come together on. I may not agree with all you guys say (and you me) but I think we all should be able to speak our minds. What's been happening to the right since the Riot on the Capitol is unacceptable.
From what I could find the police said that he wasn't the target of the investigation, and that the raid was related to drugs, not his speaking out on COVID.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151023
I can't seem to find anything beyond the initial story, like any comment from him afterwards or if he's suing the cops, if they even had a warrant for his place, etc.
Do you know of any follow up to this story? I'd like to read more.
Yeah, I was a supporter of her opponent, Shahid Buttar. I knew he wouldn't win because the media and establishment down there is so corrupt.
It looks like Germany has even stronger free speech protections in their constitution than the U.S. does.
Unlike the US Constitution, which codifies a prohibition for Congress to make laws abridging free speech, the rights codified in the German Basic Law additionally have a “radiating effect” on private law, meaning that private parties are indirectly bound by them.[4]
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/freedom-expression/germany.php
But, not being German I don't know if/how they enforce this.
Pelosi doesn't care about regular people, she cares about herself and her power. She blocked the 2k payments before the election because she didn't want the President's name on the check.
As a Progressive I couldn't care less if you put "Hitler von Satanstan" as the name on the check, just get people the fuckin help they need.
The real left doesn't support corporations. The Democrats and the left you're referring to are neoliberals.
I'm about as left as they come, but I don't support this shit, and I've seen an unfortunate number of my fellow Progressives who support this censorship. I guess they don't get that they'll come for us next. (Although to be fair a lot of the censorship supporters are fake leftists, people who voted for Hillary and Biden)
Anyone who's a REAL Progressive doesn't support censorship.
Do I think Twitter and Amazon has the RIGHT to censor? They're private companies so they have the right to shut down anyone for any reason. But that doesn't make it right.
I've never been a subscriber to the notion that the platform should be responsible for the speech on it. So, like if someone is planning something illegal over the phone you don't shut the phone company down. You go after the people who actually did it.
As far as the President goes I don't have a problem with his account being shut down per se, I have a problem with it being done by Silicon Valley billionaires who have no accountability to anyone instead of a court of law, after the President has been afforded a fair trial.
There are limits to free speech, I think every sane person agrees to that. The "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" example and all that, but if someone does that they have to answer to the law.
Desperation makes people do desperate things. I read that Italy passed multiple aid packages in October and November of last year, but apparently it wasn't enough.
Does anyone know if they're doing the things we have in Canada? Made non contact delivery easier and more viable, allow places to open with social distancing restrictions, etc?