I’m going to need mine back now.......also do you have my spleen?

Yeah, but if the poors spend less time worrying about what they’ll do when they’re really sick, they just might spend more time thinking about truly scary things like equitable wealth distribution. 

if we’re actually living in a simulation, someone needs to figure out how to turn off the game of plague, inc that someone fired up on the server. 

Really glad to see this article point out the fact that the numbers we have are based reported cases - the amount of mild/asymptomatic cases are by all estimates way WAY more and drop the mortality/medical care necessary numbers dramatically. That fact has been lost on most of the doom and gloom crowd…

Handing out syringes is the cheapest among bare minimum options.

Five of those six came from a retirement home and were 75+ all with significant geriatric health issues. The other was not from the home but was also an older woman with underlying health issues.

Of which at least 5 (1 case, a person in their 40's, we don’t know about yet) of those were older and all had “underlying health issues”. 1 was 50's, the rest were 70+. The “OMG THE MORTALITY RATE IS HIGHER THAN WE THOUGHT BECAUSE LOOK AT WASHINGTON STATE” panic is inflated because it hit a poor nursing home.

and, the major center of the Seattle outbreak has been in a community of elderly people, those most at risk from COVID-19.

Ok now I’m terrified of MERS

A test result only reliably shows whether a person WAS infected roughly 3 to 6 months ago, not whether they have been more recently infected, so it’s of very limited usefulness in determining who is safe to have sex with whom in the moment. At least in developed nations, the segments of the population who are…

Americans have all those pre-existing medical conditions in spades. Decades of government deregulation and a non-centralized health system has seen to that.

#ThoughtsAndPrayers

It’s considerablly more morally sickening to do nothing.

if that fails, just pray it away

Some fools are hoarding masks. Me? I’ve been hoarding lungs.

Sure, but the real cure will be a massive fiscal stimulus package and maximum interest rate cuts to keep the stock market afloat through November!

If someone is going to do something dangerous and you can’t stop them, but you can make it slightly less dangerous, isn’t that a good thing?  Nobody’s saying “well I WAS going to do drugs today, but all I have is this dirty needle so I guess I’ll just not do drugs”

Outreach and understanding is still a massive problem.  There are an astounding amout of people (particularly in poorer communities) that think they wont get it because they are women (dont have sex with gay men) or are straight males (again, dont have sex with gay men).  This false narrative is heavily believed and…

Luckily Trump said we can just use the flu vaccine that we already have, and we’ll have a specific vaccine in just a couple months. No worries... The best people are in charge.

Not 100% of infections are sex or drug related, but keep being glib about people dying.

That’s nice, the adults are having a serious discussion on creating real solutions.