Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

helping people to help people? For suckers.

The way you know you’re helping people is when it hurts someone I don’t like.

 

I’m not that worried about the issues distributing the vaccine. Is it ideal? No.

But most people don’t live in remote areas, and the people who need the vaccine the most are in nursing homes and hospitals so they’ll be among the easiest.

 

Not that an @Azrael v. @Alma cage match isn't a heartwarming way to open Advent, but at present South Dakota's deaths per 100K is 60% of New York's (this with a per-100K infection total that is 2.8X that of the Empire State). While it may be the case that South Dakota et al. simply haven't had a chance to catch up, it seems reasonable to think they've learned at least something (like, for example, don't force nursing homes to take in infectious people).

 

Treatment has improved, certainly. But taking population density into account, neither Up Dakota nor Down Dakota is doing very well.

And the nursing home thing remains widespread and heartbreaking.

COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 147 long-term care facility residents in South Dakota | The Globe

'All those funerals': North Dakota nursing homes can't escape COVID-19 devastation | Grand Forks Herald

COVID-19 outbreaks in East TN nursing homes killed at least 19 more people in past week | wbir.com

https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article247154826.html

etc

Lots of lip service paid to "protecting the most vulnerable" - and invoking New York - but we haven't managed to do it.

 

Helping people to help people...the loan companies aren’t going to just go without the money, you know.Someone’s paying for it. We will. The taxpayers.

 

I never said they were. But even though they both have a much larger case rate, their death rate is still much lower than New York's.

To be sure, their death rate may ultimately dwarf New York's. But it doesn't seem, from where I sit, that they didn't learn a fucking thing from Cuomo et al.

 

What values?

 

I don't know. North Dakota didn't issue a mask order until November 14.

South Dakota still doesn't have one.

By comparison:

 

That is a very good point.

 

It might have a lot more to do with the fact that the doctors have learned a helluva lot about how to treat Covid-19 since NY's deaths were spiking, but don't let that get in the way.

 

Indeed it might.

Your anger seems ... at odds with the tone of the discussion.