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U.S. Hits 11 Million Coronavirus Cases, Adding 1 Million In A Week:
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: 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.