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They're being sued by the County of Charleston, not the city. I was like, why the hell would the CITY of Charleston be suing over this and based on what grounds? I know Charleston well. My wife went to CofC and we lived down there for awhile. I like it, but you'll never catch me down there between between June and August. Absolutely oppressive heat.

All viruses mutate and evolve. All indications are that COVID mutates significantly more slowly than the flu. That should allow a vaccine to be more effective. Most viruses tend to evolve to become less lethal, not more so. Viruses that are less deadly are a lot more biologically successful. Just look at the common cold and common flu. Not very deadly, super biologically successful. MERS, SARS, Ebola, etc. Very deadly, not very biologically successful.

There's rednecks, people of low education, and just general morons everywhere. I gotta say, in my town there's a real effort to socially distance and mask wearing is close to 100%. But, there's no shortage of pretentious entitled assholes to deal with. You win some you lose some.

CMC's home town is not off to a good start after the stay at home mandate was lifted. https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/dozens-of-people-pack-into-castle-rock-restaurant-in-face-of-public-health-order

The U.S. and the rest of the world will have to break their addiction to cheap poo for that to happen. Good luck with that. I could see this kicking off a major wave of getting India and other places in SE Asia outside of China ramped up to take a bite out of some of China's manufacturing monopoly.

I applaud your company. I very seriously doubt many others will follow suit. Hopefully enough do that it seriously impacts companies' abilities to land and retain top talent when they maintain a rigid "butts in seats" mentality.

It's definitely less contagious in warmer weather. "Less contagious" still means it can spread like wildfire anyway if people are idiots.

If you're being mindful of touching your face and ensuring you wash your hands before you do so, I don't really see a big benefit of wearing gloves.

This thread is very close to getting locked for good at this point. It's virtually devoid of productive conversation and has devolved into pure political sniping. Knock it the fug off.

It's the American way. These large corporations getting the bailouts spent a lot of money financing political campaigns. Nothing matters until there is legit campaign financing regulation changes. Until then, our representatives are bought and paid for before they ever step foot in office. Your support (or lack thereof) matters on election day and that's it.

Mine too. Right up until you get on the phone. Then she's craving your undivided attention. I was just talking to my neighbor the other day who also has a four year old daughter (their birthdays are only a couple of weeks apart) and he's dealing with the same thing, so maybe it's just a this age thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html Over all, Dr. Grubaugh estimated, infections spreading from New York account for 60 to 65 percent of the sequenced viruses across the country. “New York acted as the Grand Central Station for this virus, with the opportunity to move from there in so many directions, to so many places,” said David Engelthaler, head of the infectious disease branch of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona. It's time to stop this charade of propping Governor Cuomo up as some type of national hero in this pandemic. New York did a terrible job of handling their outbreak and their terrible job largely led to the national outbreak. If you want a national hero, I'd look toward the west coast where those states and major cities did MUCH better jobs containing their own outbreaks.

420k Coloradans have filed initial unemployment claims over the past 7 weeks. That's almost 15% of our total workforce that has lost their jobs in under two months.

I thought it was a fair question. I mean, we are basically trying to strike a balance between managing loss of life and managing economic devastation. I'm not sure there is a clear cut right or wrong answer.

There's no black and white answers there. We constantly have infectious diseases circulating in our population that WILL result in deaths.

Yeah, it's stupid but again... as long as the job is getting done, who cares?

Bingo. The majority of the people working from home are likely salaried anyway. As long as the job is getting done, who cares? It's not like there isn't a ton of time wasted in a typical office setting with small talk and interruptions from coworkers anyway.

Yeah, we don't have any immunity to a novel virus. The only potential immunity is following an infection or a vaccination. I do doubt that it would kill "millions" though. I just don't think this virus is going to prove lethal enough to do it even if it achieved 70%+ infection rate. The more data we get, the lower the mortality rate gets.

If you understood the process of how those scary sounding things were actually used then you'd understand why they're of no concern in the end product.

Where are we getting this vaccinations are bad "information" from? Memes posted on social media by Karens?

If she actually had something, she should've been smart enough to pass the info along to someone who's credibility isn't already thoroughly shot to hell. Everything she has is hearsay with no evidence to back it up, but we're supposed to believe any and all evidence against her was a complete fabrication? C'mon...

Maybe, just maaaaayyyyyybe, it's because a lot of really terrible diseases have been virtually eliminated by widespread use of vaccines.

Yeah, what do you expect someone to say when caught for falsifying data and fired for it? Her reputation and credibility were ruined. At that point, she pretty much has to double down and scream conspiracy.

Yeah, I watched it yesterday. I'm not saying she's wrong on everything, but I'm not buying some grand conspiracy theory from someone confirmed to have falsified research data.

This is the anti-vaxxer who has spent time in jail and basically threw away her career and credibility creating blatantly fraudulent clinical trial data.