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U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week
More than 11 million confirmed coronavirus cases have been recorded in the United States, according to a COVID-19 tracker by Johns Hopkins University. The country reported 166,555 new cases on Sunday, with 1,266 new deaths.
The staggering milestone was reached only six days after the U.S. hit 10 million cases. Positive test rates and hospitalization rates are on the rise across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[...] Hospitalizations continue to climb. More than 69,000 people were hospitalized as of Sunday, more than ever before.
The pandemic also continues to disproportionately affect Black and brown communities in the U.S. According to data from the CDC as of Nov. 7, hospitalization rates for Hispanic or Latino people are 4.2 times higher than that of white people. American Indian or Alaska Native people have been hospitalized at 4.1 times the rate of white people, with Black people being hospitalized at 3.9 times the rate of white people.
[...] The Trump administration has blocked the current coronavirus task force from communicating with President-elect Biden's team.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:01PM (41 children)
Why is it that new stories out of the USA always play the race card. Now it is the fault of white people for not being sick enough? Has the USA got a race sensitive chip on its shoulder about the size of Texas? In this instance I think the infection rates have a lot to do with lifestyle - more social community centric living versus isolated one family per home and don't even know the neighbours? And it just so happens that over time these differences happen to reflect certain minorities?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:17PM (2 children)
Some people are incapable of thinking without race crossing their tiny minds. It appears that most of them are affiliated with the D party. Identity politics is the thing in America now.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @08:18AM
Don't fool yourself into thinking the Rs aren't delighted by the ratio...
That's a big reason that losing 1% of the population doesn't bother them!
If 3/4 of those 1% are people you don't like anyways, and you have treatments that are unavailable to them, it's a win win for the Racist white elites!
Don't blame the Democrats for being appalled!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:56PM
They do it in the name of being "do-gooders", simply to boost their own sense of self-importance and power.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:18PM (2 children)
The summary just lists a bunch of numbers and facts. Where does it say anything about anyone's fault?
I mean, holy crap, you're a sensitive victim. No one can say anything nowadays without offending some delicate blossom. "B...b...but muh feelz!!!11 Doesn't anyone think about muh feelz???"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @09:33PM (1 child)
To GP's (partial) defense, it might have been more useful to slice up the stats by some other criteria, for example single family houses, vs low density apartments, vs high density apartments. Or by average income in each neighborhood.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @10:10PM
Absolutely. How about by age group, or geolocation? Or some useful metric that will help the rest of us figure out what to do to minimize our exposure.
But nope, news media not interested in being helpful with useful information. Sensationalism is where the $ are.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @10:15PM
Democrats are not all-in on universal healthcare but do agree on race. So is a good argument for universal healthcare.
(Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Monday November 16 2020, @10:24PM (6 children)
Eeeeeh kinda anti-Semitic to complain about that kind of stuff in 2020. Those people absolutely love race baiting as a hobby. Divide and conqueror.
Careful read shows hospitalization rate.
The disease mostly seems to make sick people sicker so skinny little kids laugh at it aside from fear mongering about microscopic numbers of anecdotes, meanwhile for REALLY old people like 80+ its like 1/3 fatality rate.
And the obesity rate at like age 50 is surprisingly different between the races. Its almost like the differences are more than skin deep, or something.
Over 40% of black women are clinically obese in the South, adding in merely overweight its the majority now. Meanwhile white women are less than half as likely to be obese, something like 19% last time I saw. So if the cutoff for "sick enough to require hospitalization" were merely being obese, it would hit black women only twice as hard as white women.
My guess is the virus pretty much culls any person over 400 pounds, and at that weight its essentially mostly minorities. Note that at 400 pounds they'd be dead of a heart attack or diabetes complications in the next couple years anyway pandemic or not. Its not like a vaccine would magically mean every quarter ton black would live to 85 like skinny old white people do.
I get kind of annoyed at the whole "shut down gyms" thing because us gym goers are exactly the people least affected, and birds of a feather flock together and all that so its not like we can spread the disease even if we're unaffected (I literally don't go out other than the gym, neither does rest of family anymore now that schools shutting down again). Meanwhile keeping Walmart open, masks or not (masks don't work, as you can see in the figures) means walmart is gonna fill morgues up this winter because holy F does walmart have a fat clientele.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @12:02AM
100% of VLM is a deplorable racist. But we already knew that. Ought to be in a cage. With a wolverine.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:18AM
FTFY
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @04:44AM (3 children)
You may be physically healthy but your mental health is very questionable. You should probably seek some professional help, at least in the form of some counseling.
Your posts imply that you believe the lives of elderly people and those with weight problems inherently have less value. Regardless of the reason you hold those views, they indicate dark personality traits. Aging is a natural process, one that you, too, experience. Weight and other health conditions are strongly related to socioeconomic status, much of which is determined by ones upbringing. Those who are born into wealthier families tend to be wealthier and have inherent advantages. It is far more complex than to simply dismiss overweight people as those who are too lazy to exercise and with too little willpower to make healthy lifestyle decisions. It shows extreme callousness for you to not seem to care about whether others are well.
You come across like a psychopath, showing a lack of empathy for others. I hope you find some peace so you don't have to live this way. Believe me, your posts make me angry because of the injustice that I see from your lack of regard for others. It's easier to understand why you might behave that way if you actually are a psychopath.
I wish you the best. Please seek help.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Tuesday November 17 2020, @06:08AM
Aging is a natural process,
It may be natural, but its entirely avoidable.
When I first joined the computer industry, the head of HR was retiring, but sill looked young. We asked him how he retained his youthful looks. he replied:
"I never put sugar in my tea or coffee, and never put money in slot machines."
I took his advice, and still look as young as I did then, and I am every bit as foolish!
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @10:14AM
Look fat people ate more calories than the rest of us. They're killing this planet!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @02:05PM
Go yap at insurance companies that raise their premiums for those categories of people, or outright refuse them, then.
If you dare raise "your" voice against your paymasters, that is.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @10:35PM (7 children)
Projection.
Seriously, if you have to keep making that accusation in every topic where you prefer conspuracies then the problem is with you. Gee willickers it would be nice of conservatives would take some personal reslonsibility for themselves and stop attacking liberals for no reason.
Sorry your political party is filled with white supremacists? Hell, even the Poor Boys finally admitted they are white supremacists.
Time to face reality conservatives and denounce your shitty brothers and sisters. Your support of Trump in the face of a 4 year shitshow really ripped the mask off. Now we see that there is no good faith and you are perfectly happy to support fascism to get what you want. Clinton nailed it when she called you deplorables, because after four years all you've done is reinforce your selfish and hate filled world view.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @11:26PM (6 children)
This here is a democrat. How can I tell?
[x] Call other humans deplorable
[x] Call people with an alternative view "shitty"
[x] Call all conservatives fascist
[x] Support a Clinton
[x] Call anyone with an alternative view "selfish"
[x] Call anyone with an alternative view "hate-filled"
[x] Accuse an entire party to be racist
[x] Accuse conservatives of not taking personal responsibility, but democrats, by nature, set up structures so other people have to do what they want.
[x] Redirect the entire conversation away from the actual topic at hand, which, in this case, is why stories having nothing to do with race have race stats in them.
[x] Jump on anything and everything that doesn't appear to be from the Democratic party and attempt to destroy the person on a personal level without facts or reason.
Want to know why I'm a PROUD REPUBLICAN?
It's because I support and take personal responsibility. It's because I work. It's because I am the head of my household. It's because I support my fellow man by teaching them to fish, instead of having x # of people randomly give out MY fish. It's because I see Democrat college professors screaming at the camera. It's because of the BLM movement. It's because the Republican party uses logic and reason. And most of all, it's because I fact-check and trace statements to what the Constitution supports. Democrats have openly denounced parts of the Constitution. Want to know what's ripping this country apart? It's literally the Democratic party. It's a race issue that doesn't actually exist? Democrats. It's a wage disparity between males and females that doesn't actually exist? Democrats. It's senators calling for people to move to states so they can vote for democrat candidates? (Federally illegal BTW), again, Democratic party.
Just ignore the Democratic party and their mindless shock-culture. It's mostly lies and feelings anyway (you're guilty if they "feel" you're in the wrong). They're the only ones causing issues when it comes to skin color. The rest of us don't want to hire anyone because taxes are sky-high and we'd rather high people who want to work, who actually work, and who aren't going to threatening to bring the company to court because their desk job doesn't pay as well as the workers in the field actually doing the job the company exists for.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @11:58PM
Not really. Pretty obvious it is because you are a total moron. Get a job, you Tea Partier on Disability!
(Score: 4, Touché) by Mykl on Tuesday November 17 2020, @02:00AM (4 children)
I think you make some good points about the worst elements of the D party (rated you Interesting), but you're delusional if you think that the R's are a party of reason at the moment.
This is what is so good about mandatory voting in Australia. It tends to force a more centrist position from both parties, rather than the race to the fringes that US politics seems to be enjoying, because the parties have to cater to the group in the middle.
The preferential/proportional/runoff voting element also provides a stronger voice to minor parties, even if they don't have a significant number of elected representatives.
(Score: 1, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday November 17 2020, @04:19AM
If that's what's so good about mandatory voting, then it's time to end it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @04:22AM (1 child)
We get fined (a couple hundred if I remember correctly) for not voting in Australia but pay nothing to get a covid test. In the US its the opposite, go figure - whether you're a R or D cult member surely you see how screwed up that is?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @05:12AM
Interesting note, liberals will probably agree while conservatives will disagree for no reason.
Brainwashing is a hell of a drug.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 18 2020, @03:02AM
I'm not convinced about that mandatory voting at all. If someone doesn't care enough to vote, how is forcing them to vote going to convince them to make an informed decision, instead of just choosing randomly or choosing someone who's name they remember?
I'll wager that the reason you get a more centrist position is really because of the other factor you mentioned: preferential/proportional/runoff voting systems. Plurality (first past the post) voting necessarily leads to a 2-party system and prevents non-incumbent parties from seriously challenging the 2 dominant ones. Just look at the US: no political party has *ever* risen up and challenged the incumbent ones. The *only* time the system changed is when the Whig party died out, and then the other party (the Democratic-Republicans) split in 2, forming the 2 parties that now exist. If we ever have different dominating parties (without changing the election system), it'll be because one of the two parties imploded, and the other party broke in half. I thought this might possibly happen to the Republican party in this election due to Trump, causing the Democratic Party to split into the center-right/conservative party and the progressive/leftist party, but apparently I was quite wrong, as it seems nearly half the population has wholeheartedly embraced far-right political ideals (similar to Germany in the 1930s, when they went from the more liberal days of the Weimar Republic to Naziism and most of the population eventually embraced it. Luckily it isn't that bad here, but it does show how political views do not always get more liberal over time as some people believe, and in fact can swing back the other way pretty quickly).
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16 2020, @11:38PM (9 children)
I have yet to see any real science describing why blacks are so much worse. It's not like they are genetically more prone to it. If they got to the bottom of the matter, they would probably have to say poor people are more prone, or certain social behaviors are more prone, or something that would inadvertently sound racist just because a lot of blacks happen to fall in to that group.
And yes, the USA got a race sensitive chip on its shoulder about the size of Texas. Here you have to make all kinds of concessions to blacks, put unqualified blacks in high paid jobs, (Steve Harvey is very unfunny, but if you don't laugh, you might be racist). if a black person shoots your entire family and then you shoot them before they put another bullet in you, then you are racist.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @12:05AM (1 child)
Fucking racist! Why do black people have to put bullets in you in the first place, except you running them down in your racist pick-em up truck. like those "former law enforcement" good ol' boys down in Georgia? Fucking asshole racist!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @04:24AM
I'm not white, but yellow if we need to label folks with colors. Lived in Michigan for 5+ years and 1+ years in Minnesota - guess which ethnic group I copped the most racist slurs from? Here's a hint, the very tanned ones.
(Score: 3, Troll) by RS3 on Tuesday November 17 2020, @12:09AM (4 children)
Actually black / African descent people have somewhat different body chemistries. I had a couple of blood tests a year+ ago and they list your result, and then list the "normal" ranges, and a couple of them were one way for caucasians and something different for blacks, like white cell count, which is somewhat lower normal for blacks.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1895180/ [nih.gov]
Often proper medical diagnosis and treatment involves precision, so the differences and consideration thereof can make a huge difference in patient outcomes.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday November 17 2020, @11:06AM (3 children)
Everything is a tradeoff. It's far more important that we fight systemic racism and generational injustice than provide the best medical treatment to certain subgroups per our best understanding of medicine at the moment. You have to make sacrifices for the greater good.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:24PM (1 child)
LoL. Dude, Poe's Law - seriously. :D
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:47PM
Thank you! But remember, and I need to keep it in mind, that this is SN- people get their power and jollies writing snarky stuff, even when they're dead wrong. It's not a matter of what OP actually meant, but it's much more about showing how clever you can be at reading into something someone says, interpreting no matter how wrong, and putting words in their e-mouth. I've had people actually put quotes around something that was not even close to something I wrote. Some people's brains are that scrambled. Maybe they had coronavirus neuropathy.
I keep forgetting where I am, and trying to be helpful. I need to remember this is NOT a place of constructive interaction / think-tank, but much more of a flamewar environment, because the assholes here got kicked off of slashdot and other places. Tis a shame so many good people and otherwise good conversation has to be ruined by assholes. If it was my board, I'd take the good people more seriously. And maybe someday I'll have the time to start one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:37PM
So it's better to apply the same broad-brush medicine to everyone, so that we don't appear "racist"? Even if some people literally die in the process? I think I would call that racist. You give a medicine that will kill, or not enough medicine to help the person, because you're trying to say that ALL people need to get the exact same medical treatment no matter the underlying biology? I think I'd like to consult with some non-white people and get their opinion. Or would that be "racist"? I'll actually ask some Black people I know.
In other words, the term "racist" no is no longer limited to discriminating against someone?
I'm not a doctor, nor even work in the medical world. Your gripe is with the medical community, so please focus your time and effort not here, but with the United States of America's National Institute of Health. https://www.nih.gov [nih.gov]
Oh, and please start fighting "Affirmative Action" and any other discriminatory practices. And contact all the far left people who want "Reparations".
(Score: 4, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:28AM
Well, it's associated with higher exposure to pollution, and it's associated with having a job where you can't isolate yourself from infectious people. Those are both reasons why minority groups tend to be more exposed and have worse reactions. Bad cases are also associated with blood type A and with low levels of vitamin D. (That last may not be as simple as it sounds...but it may be that people who don't take vitamins are more likely to get a bad case...and that would correlate with low income.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Dr Spin on Tuesday November 17 2020, @06:14AM
I have yet to see any real science describing why blacks are so much worse
That is because you are supposed to wear the mask over your nose and mouth, not your eyes.
At the very least:
Lack of Vit D (proven to be an issue by Scientific research in at least 4 countries).
More likely to be in "public facing" jobs.
More likely to live in high pollution areas.
Notice that Covid levels in a lot of Equatorial Africa are a tiny fraction of what they are in Northern Europe.
America is much worse because of the infection by Trumpism.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @01:12AM (2 children)
Black and brown people disproportionately fill jobs with a higher risk of catching covid. They disproportionately make up care workers at the bottom of the hierarchy (the ones who have to deal with bodily fluids etc. of patients). They also make up the majority of workers in service jobs that remained open and in contact with the public/things the public have contacted, like gas stations, cleaning crews, restaurant workers, etc.
They are also disproportionately poor, and are more likely to live in crowded conditions in multi-generational households, or multi-family households.
Lastly, the jobs above are less likely to have health care coverage, so folks are going to be in very bad shape by the time they break down and seek medical care.
Nothing should be surprising about the ethnic breakdown of COVID cases, nor the breakdown in fatalities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @03:20AM (1 child)
Believe me,t here is plenty of White people that would take these jobs, but somehow allowing immigration from White countries is racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @05:39AM
No there aren't. What self-respecting white person old enough to drink works a minimum wage job? If you do see a white person in one of those jobs it's because they're screw-ups who will never amount to anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @02:59AM
The 'race card' is actually LEA chumming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumming) for the worlds most notorious racist, bigot, and presumptive 'social offender' suspect, which just happens to be the poster of this response. It all got started in Yakima, WA (https://www.yakimawa.gov/) in the early 1970s, and continues to this very day.
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday November 17 2020, @11:02AM (1 child)
They are trained enough though not to play Jew card.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @05:22AM
Oh look, another buddy of VLM.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @12:25PM
As the chip is shifting from black/white towards gay/not gay, remember they can't force you to be black...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2020, @08:26PM
uhh... NPR is controlled by the same Jews that control the rest of our media, industry and government, and likely yours. In case you haven't noticed there's a Neo-Bolshevik takeover under way here. If you live in a White country yours is probably being invaded by hordes of muslims and sub saharan africans, while you're arrested if you complain (or question the holohoax) as they rape your daughters and assault your increasingly wimpy sons... and who the fuck do you think is bringing all those throwbacks in, and funding the writing of your laws? That's right, it's the International Talmudic Jews. The same people who orchestrated the killing of 100+ million whites between ww1 and ww2 for profit and as part of their ongoing race war from the times of Egypt, Babylon and Rome against the naturally noble and gifted White race. Hitler was a racial hero, denigrated by the evil Jew ever since. Learn what's really going on before it's too late.
The only country is race.
White Genocide is Real: In Their Own Worlds: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JY6exTqkTQd1/ [bitchute.com]
(Score: 1, Troll) by mcgrew on Tuesday November 17 2020, @08:39PM
Any statement that includes the word "always" is instantly dubious, but the fact is that Covid kills blacks more easily than it kills whites, and racists like Donald Trump want to kill as many Black people as possible.
It so often has to do with race because America is a racist country that pits racists against antiracists.
Impeach Donald Saruman and his sidekick Elon Sauron