@Stormblessed wait didn't Clinton propose medicare age to 55 last time
gotta admit though, 9.86% all the way down to 8.5% and very limited debt forgiveness to people except those who went to private or for profit schools is pretty exciting
@Memor-X It's new cases vs total cases, so new cases plummeting and not significantly increasing the total cases (on a log-log scale) is to be expected.
Also realize they basically quarantined the entirety of Hubei (sp?) province
We need a new thing for trump, like 'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity' but 'Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by gross corruption'
@Elva I was just thinking about that concept as it relates to something else I'm doing. I was pulling this up the split second that I saw there had been life in here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
So I guess this is happening. Yellow vests Canada is also the group that wanted all the aboriginals protesting on railroads to all be arrested or shot.
Not to be confused with the yellow vest movement in other countries which was fighting for rights. This group is just run by racists.
> Canadian police are to begin visiting homes to enforce the government’s COVID-19 quarantine, the RCMP said on Friday, warning that “recklessly” failing to comply could result in a $1-million fine and three years in prison.
> Officers will speak to those under quarantine and advise them of the “potential consequences of non-compliance,” the police force said in a statement that cautioned violators could face “significant penalties, including fines and imprisonment.”
> “Arrests would be a last resort, based on the circumstance and the officer’s risk assessment,” the RCMP said. Instead, police can issue those charged with a notice or summons requiring them to appear in court.
> Checks will “generally be limited to persons who, after PHAC has done initial verifications by phone, text or e-mail, may require a physical verification by police,” the RCMP statement said.
This is wild.
Also, it's the 1 year anniversary of the black hole image. I, uh, feel there's something poetic about that.
Government entities that print their own fiat currency can pretty much just create money yeah
And by "can pretty much" I guess I really mean "do, by definition"
money creation is really only limited by inflation, since it's not a real resource like labor or natural materials are, from a macroeconomic standpoint
Important to understand what we're going to be dealing with for the forseeable future, even in the best case scenario
> I thought, perhaps naively, that reading [these plans] would be a comfort — at least then I’d be able to imagine the path back to normal. But it wasn’t. In different ways, all these plans say the same thing: Even if you can imagine the herculean political, social, and economic changes necessary to manage our way through this crisis effectively, there is no normal for the foreseeable future.
> Until there’s a vaccine, the US either needs economically ruinous levels of social distancing, a digital surveillance state of shocking size and scope, or a mass testing apparatus of even more shocking size and intrusiveness.
> What they did not foresee was that the federal government might never come to the rescue. They did not realize this was a government failure by design—not a problem to be fixed but a policy choice by President Trump that either would not or could not be undone. “No one can believe it. That’s the No. 1 problem with the whole situation: the facts are known, but they are inconceivable,” Ries told me. “So we are just in denial.”
> Independent reporting has corroborated what Ries and other volunteers saw for themselves: “a fragmented procurement system now descending into chaos,” as the Associated Press put it. The news agency found that not a single shipment of medical-grade N95 masks arrived at U.S. ports during the month of March. The federal government was not only disorganized; it was absent.
As you can see they are concerned about problems in the campaign finance system (that they made much worse than it already was) for all the right reasons
When I see "contact tracing" I assume that they're trying to track the disease spread overall, which allows for stuff like focused testing and better resource allocation
You can also do stuff like work backwards: if someone tests positive, you can see how it might have spread from them via people who they recently interacted with
and essential employees who were in contact with a positive should be sent home for 14 days (I don’t know if that will actually happen but it would be a good use of it imo)
I think there are entirely reasonable concerns in there, but trying to do something to save people's lives is good, and it's really worth seeing the actual plan to determine how and whether those concerns apply and whether it's possible to work around them.
