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8 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

'They are leading us to catastrophe': Sweden's coronavirus stoicism begins to jar

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For now, Swedes seem to believe him, going about their daily routines wondering if – not when – that point might be reached. Tegnell and the government have set their course, and while it is hard to doubt their sincerity, it is difficult to reconcile Sweden’s response with efforts across the rest of Europe. Perhaps other Swedes privately feel the same, but so far are unwilling to give voice to such concerns.

 

Orla Vigsö, a professor of crisis communications at Gothenburg University, sums up the dilemma. “People are starting to ask: are others stupid and paranoid? Or is Sweden doing it wrong?”

 

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https://variety.com/2020/film/news/morbius-ghostbusters-afterlife-uncharted-pushed-back-2021-sony-1203549616/


If it wasn’t already clear, there will not be a 2020 summer at the theaters. Now the question is whether we have a meaningful amount of fall product. I’m honestly growing skeptical we have virtually any major film releases in the rest of 2020.
 

Here is my thinking there: the studios are going to be worried after 4 months off and a lot of deaths that folks won’t be eager to return to cinemas, so they will be wary of dropping their major film product after this first wave of Covid peters out in June/July. Warner is hopeful right now with that WW84 date. But what if audiences don’t come back right away?

 

The next issue will be the 100% chance that we have a flare up of Covid in the late fall/winter. Are the studios going to want to ramp up the release schedule only to potentially be dealing with cinema closures in major markets again, and during key months of November and December?

 

Who knows, but I’m basically in prepare for the absolute worst mode right now. What a wild month it’s been!

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There are strong signs that Italy is flattening the curve.

 

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While Italy continues to be battered with new cases, including 756 new deaths reported on Sunday, the daily rise in infections has reportedly slowed to 5.6 percent since February 21, Italian officials confirmed.

 

The country also saw its lowest daily rise in new cases since Wednesday, reporting a total number of 97,689 confirmed cases on Sunday, up from 92,472 previously, a 5,217 increase.

Italian officials reported on Sunday that 13,030 patients had fully recovered from COVID-19, while 3,906 being treated in intensive care.

 

It's worth noting that most Italian media cite "change in active cases" as their number of new cases in their reporting. The "change in active cases" is actually devised by the following formula: The number of newly infected cases minus the number of new deaths minus the number of new recoveries, the Protezione Civile (Italian civil protection agency) clarified at a press conference earlier this month. So the actual number of new cases in the country may be higher than the number reported as "newly infected" by Italian media.

 

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10 hours ago, Jose said:

@PaladinSolo @SaysWho?

Stat nerds ASSEMBLEEEEEEEEEEEE

Would have been nice to have this done about a month ago, now all you get out of it a better idea of how deadly the virus is, with no way to change your course of action because of how late in the epidemic it is.  Testing is also still in short supply, we needed 5 million last month not this month, so i don't even think its possible.

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Just now, skillzdadirecta said:

Just saw a report on CNN that the rates of infection in NY and California may be slowing. Remember California was the first state to initiate social distancing with NY, NJ and others following shortly after.

It should have been done nation wide all at once, but thats just not what Murica is about.

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3 minutes ago, SlipperySlope said:

That doesn't mean things do back to normal though? you just go "slow enough" and release everyone wouldn't it speed back up? 

This Murica some places gonna open right back up and explode.  The only way to safely open up is to do the random testing of everyone.

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Even with the rates apparently slowing in some states we're still weeks if not months away from business as usual. Random testing and continued social distancing and preventative measures will go a long way to getting this thing under control. Some states are JUST now experiencing what NY experienced the previous two weeks.

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