Yeah, I don't really understand the curfew that some countries have imposed. I guess it's supposed to cut down on late night carousing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Athens Greece has a 10 pm curfew because their coronavirus is nocturnal only.
Here in the US, if you tell someone to wear a mask you get shot. It's in the 2nd Amendment. Also, apparently the state of Georgia allows the hunting of humans now. But that might not be coronavirus related.
Yeah, I don't really understand the curfew that some countries have imposed. I guess it's supposed to cut down on late night carousing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't say "here in the US". That's not true everywhere. In Massachusetts, they'll shoot you if you *don't* wear a mask.
And we're one of only 2 states out of 50 that has no plans to reopen this week or next! Strangely, PA is the other one. I know their rural areas have low rates of infection. And a lot of the state is conservative and low income. So I'm not sure what's going on there.
Well they have one of the lowest rates of infection, so maybe they're doing something right.
One can be a very good, serious and competent student of an interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) field of study without having published much in that field. That would be me. I've been preparing to publish … for years. I'm an "outsider" -- an independent scholar working in human ecology as it intersects with such fields of inquiry as ecological design, food production, economics, history, philosophy, psychology, etc. So I do wear a few hats. And I can make sense of stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/c1iAOK1aucY
Unemployment is off the charts, you see. And little is likely to change this trend in any near term scenario which does not involve pixies riding wing-flapping rainbow unicorns from the fifth dimension pooping magical sparkling skittles on our towns and cities, farms and fields.
Of course, the Fed can print a lot of monopoly money and fly over and drop it on us, but even that "solution" is likely to have less than perfectly desirable consequences.
I don't think you need to have published anything to be competent in understanding what I have just said. But you will need to have read a lot of stuff and paid a lot of attention to the sorts of things I keep my eyes on.
I'm also a community organizer, which is what I'm doing these days instead of writing and publishing books and articles. That's because organizing is at least as important as publishing might ever be.
And we're one of only 2 states out of 50 that has no plans to reopen this week or next! Strangely, PA is the other one. I know their rural areas have low rates of infection. And a lot of the state is conservative and low income. So I'm not sure what's going on there.
Trump came a'calling because you're a swing state. You'll see his efforts to re-open economies will be more and more focused on states in which he needs to bolster Republican voter support. Let's all remember that this president lost the popular vote by 3 million and only won because of a few swing states, Pennsylvania being one. The glorious economy is Trump's silver bullet to win in November, so he'll be increasingly whipping up his base and encouraging the calls to get back to business as usual.Trump seems to be trying to stir things up:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/pennsylvania-tom-wolf-coronavirus.html
Yesterday, Florida had it's highest number of new cases thus far. And that's just the ones that were counted. But hey, Disney is open now
Yay, Disney! And that means tourists bringing their FL Covid back to every state in the US.
What were your numbers yesterday?
In MA, yesterday we had 420 newly reported cases and 35 deaths, and we just entered Phase 2 of reopening. Total numbers of cases- 102,000+. Deaths- 7,200+.
FL had 1305 new cases and 53 deaths reported Friday, June 5.
Cases have been spiking. 4041 new cases in the past 72 hours.
61,488 total cases.
2,660 total deaths.
My "stepfather" went to the hospital a couple days ago. He has congestive heart disease and was having trouble breathing. He says they tested him four times for Covid. He was negative.