Hey Vivster, a buddy of mine is in the US Army and he's based in Kaiserslautern right now, are you close to that city?

With that time difference I mean how far (or little) behind the USA is in total detected cases vs total detected cases in Europe. Since the USA is steadily catching up it's clear they started measures later. The question is, will the USA peak higher than Europe, which seems likely given the slower response in the USA. Once Europe peaks USA will catch up fast like what's currently happening with Spain and Italy. Spain will pass Italy total in total detected cases.

There are some wildcards in Europe though, Turkey is starting to come up from behind and I have no idea of what Greece is doing.

You sure ate up everything the richest people on the planet want you to think. That's how you get those juicy bailouts.

The only way things are not gonna be fine after this is that certain people either do not want it to be fine or are doing things out of pure greed that will lead to it. Now that I said it out loud I think you're right. We're completely fucked.

My economics teacher was South Park Season 13 Episode 3.

No power, no problem. Spring is here, got a stack of books to catch up on. No gas might be a bigger problem, still would like some cooked food!
Actually no power means my kids will be so bored I won't get to read at all anymore, so yep, no good!

This social distancing, would be fine for me if it stays that way lol. People on the trails make room for us to pass (I took my kids out cycling for a bit yesterday). Roads have far less traffic. I don't have to worry about getting stopped and held up with an idle chat along the way. I have a great excuse not to go shopping or go to the dentist. Gas is cheap. The air is cleaner, less traffic noise. Nice quiet park, no more filling up with tons of cars for baseball and soccer practice. No more trash blowing onto my property as a result. No rowdy kids in rafts coming by on the river.

I'm enjoying this new life. The only downside, my kids are home all day. Currently they're loudly arguing over who is more lazy (they're having a competition about being the laziest...) The competition who can be quiet the longest doesn't work anymore lol. Next crisis, netflix isn't working on the tv. (too lazy to watch on any of the other 10 devices it works on)

cant be worse than this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=188&v=U_bUpN52Iyw&feature=emb_logo

How the hell is Africa gonna deal with this? Are they trying to just let 60-80%+ get infectioned?

theres 1,3 billion people in africa.

This is not gonna end well.
in europe and america, we talk about probably haveing half as many ventilators, as we would like, dureing a controlled shutdown, and a "flattened" curve.

In Africa, they likely wont be able to flatten the curve... and ventilators? jeez.

africa is going to be fine, they live in the hardest conditions already

And they will die in hordes in their villages, unnoticed by everyone else.

So business as usual?

Remember the USNS Comfort that hospital ship that Trump sent to New York.
Its been there 5 days....

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/only-20-patients-currently-being-treated-on-usns-comfort/

"The vessel’s captain, Patrick Amersbach, said in a call with reporters Thursday morning that only three of the 1,000 beds on the ship were put in use since the first patient was accepted Wednesday — but he expected the number to increase soon."

"A Navy spokeswoman on late Thursday night updated the number to 20."

Its been there 5 days and has possibly helped 20 people.

“If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke,” - Michael Dowling, the head of New York’s Northwell Health hospital system, told the Times.

It's a converted tanker, intended for wounded soldiers in war zones. Essentially an "Open-Deck" hospital, zero isolation rooms. Now the last thing you want in an "open hospital" is people throwing around any virus - hence almost zero patients. What NY needs is isolation rooms.