Except those estimates are assumptions, not based in the data. When they’ve gone back and canvassed populations for antibodies that would indicate significant populations of mild/asymptomatic cases, they are not finding the numbers you’d assume they’d find, the ones that would justify assuming a lower death rate.

Okay donny ...

I hope you understand "severe seasonal influenza" is a big deal.

The mortality rate for this is very low, if you don't count the elderly and people with chronic health issues as people, lol. Fortunately we don't have many of those unpersons in the US, so this is not going to be a big deal, right?

Just locking her up until she could make bail and putting her through the courts wasted more money than leaving her to continue making frivolous calls would have. You’d need a more extreme case, one of these people who calls thousands of times, for that argument to work. And frivolous calls are a known factor so if…

Right, it’s literally the only number she could call. for clarity, though, you can’t actually call without service - if you’re not in range of a cell tower you are screwed, it’s just that the cell phone companies have to Let you call 911 even if you haven’t paid them.

Ironically bloomberg is acting as a spoiler vis a vis moderate dems and aiding bernie. Biden might actually have stood a chance on super tuesday if bloomberg was not siphoning off his voters.

Wow, the crazy is thick in this comment section. Bloomberg is legally barred from running as an independent by sore-loser laws, and if he’d wanted to run as an independent he would have done so from the beginning. And bloomberg didn't spend half a billion dollars driving trump's negatives up in order to re-elect…

What? Trump’s approval ratings among republicans would beg to differ with you. 95% of republicans are trump cultists and the rest have left the party.

Bernie’s going to boost turnout, ironically not by turning out berniebros (who don’t vote), but by turning out people of color - and those people, not the mythical swing voters, are the ones who determine whether dems win elections. People of your persuasion are leaning on outdated assessments from 2016, for…

You are overestimating Biden, who doesn’t have the resources to compete nationally, and underestimating Bloomberg, who does and who will eventually buy/win a brokered convention if it comes to that, unless somebody keeps pushing his negatives up. If Liz is going to be vice president she has to be Bernie’s surrogate in…

“Elizabeth Warren baking us cookies after our abortion”

You think these future generations won't be fucking up at least as badly as we are now? How optimistic.

No, the voters are telling you they want bernie, as evidenced by his winning more votes than anybody else in every contest, including the won he "lost".

It doesn’t confuse the issue, it gives necessary context. That physical abuse which you’re so happy to pass over as commonplace (as though the commonness of child abuse in any way reduces the urgency of calling it out) enabled the sexual abuse that occurred, just as the nonsexual abuse in usa gymnastics caused the…

You don’t tell a creator how to create his own word because there’s no such thing as “his word” - word coiners have no rights. Word usage is determined by the consensus of the people who form a language, who give it the commonality that makes language language. If you have a problem with that, feel free to go galt and…

Wait, why was she accompanied by her grandfather? If she’s mature enough to be carrying a loaded weapon she’s mature enough to represent herself, and to look after herself at legislative hearings. I’m gonna bet that grandpa and her parents insist on never letting her out of their sight because they (correctly) think…

No, you’re projecting the derangement of bernie haters. Those of us in the progressive movement who are sane would happily have voted for elizabeth or pete had they built a winning coalition, something only bernie has been able to do in this race. Bernie’s success this time around has been built not on bernie bros but…

But we cancelled them! How are they still around?

No, just beyond reasonable doubt.