BERLIN — Germany’s disease control center says the country’s rate of corona virus infections has slightly increased but the number of new infections remains at a manageable level.
And this is in Germany, which has been doing a very strong job of managing and testing.
It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see what is coming for the South, with all those states lifting restrictions and testing basically being nonexistent.
The German second wave.
The US second tsunami will be washing ashore soon.
I have differences with most of the people I met in Florida, but in no way do I wish them the death or illness the anti-lockdown movement will cause.
Well, we people in Florida are thankful for that. 
Its good to know you don’t want me to die soon.
Yeah, a bit disappointing — but people here are also a bit tired of it all and impatient. It’s been particularly hard because we have had absolutely splendid weather for weeks, warm and sunny and perfect weather for sitting in a Biergarten and enjoying life. We have a lovely garden at home so it’s been easier on us than on others.
I am waiting to hear from my employer about whether, as planned, I have to go to work next Monday. I suspect that there’s a likelihood that this news will affect that. We’d gotten some info about planning from our department but nothing official from HR or our director. One email from my boss this morning sounded sort of, well, undecided, so they may have already done some rethinking of some of that. Personally, I have no problems staying home longer, but I know plenty of others who are more extroverted than I and they miss the contact to others (and some really just need their labs and equipment).
Last I checked all y’all were still humans living on Planet Earth. We’re all in this together.
Love Red Green!
Humanity has a problem
Humanity’s car has a really really bad vibration … so bad that
… Humanity’s car has not been fixed … the “fix” is on extended backorder … maybe for over a year
Until there is a fix - How fast should Humanity drive?
a. 10 MPH
b. 30MPH
c. 40 MPH
d. screw it - go 120 MPH!!! it will all smooth out!!!
The last two nights I’ve heard experts commenting on flattening the curve. And my take away is that we’ve lost the original intent, which was to keep from overwhelming the hospitals.
As for the assholes that think that they’re being denied their Constitutional rights I hope they all go out with a whimper.
So there’s hope for Georgia and Tejas yet.
A co-worker (for whom I make titanic struggles to keep her away from the event horizon of the all consuming right-wing sewage hole) made the observation “but these southern states are opening up!”, though I was too tired to tell her, “Yeah, and watch their body counts also open up. Hooray.”
Enjoy your freedom, Confederate states.
I hope a symbolic whimper … and a hopefully a bit of realization
… as annoying as their raging ignorance & arrogance can be - the world does not need millions of idiots making their way to the grave with one last gasping wheeze!
Oh I don’t know survival of the fittest is Mother Nature’s way. And as for those protected by Jesus’ blood isn’t there a story about a flood, a guy on his roof, several attempts to try to get him off the roof and into a boat, and he dies because God was going to protect him?
In the part of rural 'Murika I live in there is quite a bit of push back on reopening (which is very surprising).
OTOH, 50 miles away, a county has nearly 600 cases, out of 12,000 residents. Bledsoe county doesn’t have anything in the way of towns, etc. So the locals here are getting a front row seat on what could happen.
And it will be bad in the south - Tn has nearly seven million people, but we have only tested 155,000.
Maybe one way you demonstrate your fitness is not to resort to magical thinking all the damn time. If there’s a practical way to avoid death and other annoyances, maybe you do that before insisting on being saved by a miracle.
Germany should be a model for reopening and it is experiencing an uptick. I just can’t wait to see what is going to happen in the “let 'er rip” red states.
R=0.96. Not great. Not terrible, but not great.
Live Free and Die?
The US will blow by the 60,000 dead mark within a few days, then it’s on to the 100,000 that Trump describes as “a huge success”. Now that states are jumping the gun to reopen, we’ll look back wistfully at 100,000 as the good old days…you know, before 1 million Americans were wiped out by Agent Orange and his criminal administration.
Like @lizzymom I live and work in Germany, I’m a professor at a university. Yesterday, I was told that there will be no classroom teaching this semester (which runs until July 20th). This was after we had been told that classroom teaching would be possible after June 2nd.
As @lizzymom observed the weather has changed from absolutely lovely to the normal, if slightly warmer than it used to be, which makes social distancing easier. As in the US there are voices in Germany saying that we’re on earth in order to die (not in these crude words, but slightly more cunningly (Schäuble) or slightly less cunningly (Laschet) phrased), and so let’s remove the constraints on daily life. Others are firmly against this (importantly Merkel is one of these voices).
But I am one of the lucky ones, my income is not in jeopardy, there are nice parks around to take a walk in, my family is healthy, my friends are healthy. There is really very little I could ask for. Well, perhaps only this: a blue November?