The extra federal benefits expire after 13 weeks (though Pelosi is trying to add another half a year).
I'd just try to make people and small businesses "whole" again. Look at how much they made in the past half year and make up for any shortfalls in income/revenue they've suffered in the past few months. As much as I enjoyed receiving a $2400 check (which promptly went to vet and hospital bills), I didn't need the money. I'm still getting paid my normal salary. Won't be next year, but that's not a problem for short-term stimulus to address.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/...s-us-by-state/
I like the way the data is presented here because it is in per capita numbers. It wouldn't be fair to compare how each governor did just by raw numbers as each state has a different population size but by doing a per capita review we can tell how effective each state was in handling the disease.
Per capital data is only really useful once the outbreak is over.
If you have a forest of a million trees and a forest of 10,000 and both of them have a fire, the fire isn't going to spread faster in the million tree forest because it's larger so in the early hours of the fire you're going to have the same number of trees burn in each, and if you compare the number of burnt trees per capita, you'd come to the entirely erroneous conclusion that the fire was far more serious in the smaller forest.
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We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
To show, again, how useless per capital data is, here is some data tracking cases by state as they rise or fall. You might notice that several states that are at the bottom of lewks list are still showing a rise in cases
https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-...kpb/index.html
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We're not in early hours though, we are past the peak* and four to five months into the outbreak being present in our countries.Your logic works if the outbreak is confined within a 10,000 tree area of the forest, but if the fire has spread beyond that and is now across the entire million tree forest that's not the case. Per capita is entirely appropriate by now.
Of course that says nothing about demographics, population density and everything else you need to make an educated comparison. Comparing Smallville to Metropolis is never going to be reasonable.
Edit: * Well at least in Europe we're past the peak. Who knows what's happening in the USA.
You can't claim effectiveness of a particular state government without knowing when the curve peaks, and for several states that peak hasn't occurred yet. It took more than a month from our first death till the 50th state reported a case. There was no starting line to judge states by.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Some states are past the peak, others are just getting started. Some are past the peak, but are at risk of getting a second peak because there are states that aren't past the peak who are reopening prematurely and you can't exactly restrict interstate travel the way you can in Europe. Big ole mess, basically.
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Should Laura Kelly be praised for ensuring that Kansas has a lower population density than NYC?
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Belarus's President reckons that the virus can be stopped with vodka - which would make it remarkable anyone in Russia is sick.
I think we can take the numbers coming out of Russia with a mountain of salt. Russia will have many, many more cases than they ever admit.
There's also the more mundane issue of testing. Crappy tests and poor reach outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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He's bothered enough to make it look like he's trying. Reminds me of Trump in that regard.
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This is the weirdest most unexpected turn this pandemic circus could've taken, as far as I am concerned:
According to a whistleblower, the highly publicized—and severely criticized—Santa Clara seroprevalence study out of Stanford was funded by... well, you gotta read it.
I doubt it had any impact on an already-flawed endeavour, but good god is that an unnecessary embarrassment.
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Ah, long day. I don't even know what day it is.
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I know Sodium bicarbonate affects some virus RNA. I wonder if gargle with it would be useful. Inocuous and cheap. Should we give it a try?
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