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from the keep-your-distance-and-wear-your-mask dept.
In June, IHME predicted that the death toll in the U.S. would reach 200,000 by October, which appears to be on track.
[...] IHME previously projected 317,697 deaths by Dec. 1. The model now predicts that the daily death toll could rise to nearly 3,000 per day in December, up from over 800 per day now, according to Hopkins data.
[...] The most likely [IHME] scenario estimates that Covid-19 will kill 410,450 people in the U.S. by Jan. 1. The worst-case scenario, which assumes that restrictions and mask directives will ease, projects up to 620,028 people in the U.S. will die by then and the best-case scenario, which assumes universal masking, predicts that 288,380 people in the U.S. will die from Covid-19 in 2020.
[...] Despite the drop in new cases, the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 everyday in the U.S. has remained high, at nearly 1,000 new deaths per day, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
[The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused 2,977 deaths; the current US COVID-19 fatality rate is like having two 9/11 attacks each week. --Ed.]
(Score: 5, Informative) by anubi on Sunday September 06 2020, @01:04AM (1 child)
Oh, how I understand.
I have 40 years engineering experience.
Working in aerospace.
And am made subordinate to the Summer MBA.
Who has no idea of what I have learned about getting the job done. A lot of which is dependent on tools that have taken me decades, and close association wi the author of those tools, to master.
All gone when the MBA deprives me from using these tools, ranks me for having a "bad attitude", when he does so, then the MBA uses that as a justification for termination.
Been there, done that, just give me my welfare check.
Actually innovating and building stuff was fun while it lasted, but times have changed. That's China's job now. We do not do that anymore.
As a nation, we have outgrown our need to be self sufficient, and only need to maintain a military sufficient to deal with nations that can't pay
their debts.
We have become a nation of bankers, of merchants, parasitic to everyone else on this planet.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Sunday September 06 2020, @02:32AM
Similar experience here. Worked as a defense contractor. Had to deal with military types who are wont to think any obstacle can be overcome if you just put in enough effort. Tell them something can't be done, and they'll accuse you of being lazy or unwilling. Are you a quitter? A wimp? You could do it if you really wanted to, because you're a super genius. Why don't you want to do it? Why do you hate America? That guy over there says his company can do it. If you won't do it, we'll fire you and hire them.
The last defense project I was on was a total train wreck. It ended my brief career as a defense contractor, as if I had been an officer on a ship that suffered a collision. Not that I tried very hard to find other work in that business. Industry is of course too often just a different flavor of dysfunction.