The coronavirus spread updated in real time

[_Temp. Admin.]

(Dr. Shades here, using our "Temp. Admin." account.)

A court has ruled that Mayor Bill De Blasio and Gov. Cuomo no longer get to chose which causes get to keep their 1st amendment rights during Covid.

The truly sad part is that it actually took a court ruling for people to figure that out.

[_EAllusion]

A rare judicial victory for religion. A court has ruled that Mayor Bill De Blasio and Gov. Cuomo no longer get to chose which causes get to keep their 1st amendment rights during Covid. If you can hold mass protests we can go to church. To bad we may not keep our right to go to work as well. But I guess earning a living isn't as important as getting CHAZ up and running.

That's not what the ruling says. It's a 25% capacity limit on indoor gatherings for religious services. The ruling argues that comparable secular indoor gatherings were given a higher limit (50%), thus placing an undue burden on religious indoor gatherings. The devil is in the details of "comparable." Since the protests are outdoor gatherings, they have nothing to do with this.

[_EAllusion]

Does it ever bother you that your media sources constantly lie to you? Like, even a little bit?

[_ajax18]

The ruling argues that comparable secular indoor gatherings were given a higher limit (50%), thus placing an undue burden on religious indoor gatherings. The devil is in the details of "comparable." Since the protests are outdoor gatherings, they have nothing to do with this.

If it's about outdoor versus indoor gatherings, wearing masks or not, then there should be no reason we can't have the US Open tennis and golf, football season, etc.

I suppose you church folks could have really had a moment to show your inspiration by setting the example, but if your idea of winning is mass infecting yourselves, have at it mofos.

We're all going to get infected. That's unavoidable. Shutting down the economy again and banning people from doing their jobs again after allowing massive protest marches during quarantine is unacceptable. Who do you think pays the bills that gives these protesters so much free time?

[_Chap]

We're all going to get infected. That's unavoidable.

Uh-huh.

So the US has a total of about 128,000 COVID-19 deaths so far, from an infection level of less than 10% or so. If you go up to 100% infection rate, that would suggest total deaths of the order of 10 million.

And your attitude to that is ... what? "Hey, whaddya gonna do? Win some, lose some."?

Who do you think pays the bills that gives these protesters so much free time?

So you think people only take part in such events when they don't lose any money from doing so? So even for something you considered really key to what you care about (say, getting Trump re-elected) you would never take the afternoon off work and say "To hell with the money! This is about principles." Bet you would. And believe me, there are plenty of people who feel the same way about the rate of killing of black people by the police.

[_EAllusion]

We're all going to get infected. That's unavoidable. Shutting down the economy again and banning people from doing their jobs again after allowing massive protest marches during quarantine is unacceptable. Who do you think pays the bills that gives these protesters so much free time?

It's not inevitable and this outcome hasn't come close to happening in the majority of the world. Aren't you ever even a little curious about what's happening in countries outside of the US?

[_EAllusion]

If it's about outdoor versus indoor gatherings, wearing masks or not, then there should be no reason we can't have the US Open tennis and golf, football season, etc.

Golf and Tennis as a spectator sport probably can exist just fine in a modified form. Football would be hard to pull off safely. The ruling concerns rules regarding indoor gatherings, though, which you falsely described. How come?

[_Some Schmo]

Nobody defends their right to be an abject moron like ajax.

[_Jersey Girl]

Does anyone else here loathe and despise Rand Paul or is it just me?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/ ... us-vpx.cnn

[_Jersey Girl]

Trump likes to brag how he banned travel from China. Now we're the one that's being banned because we're so effed up with the virus. Ain't nobody going nowhere. Hey Mr. President. F.U.

Coronavirus: US travel ban on 26 European countries comes into force
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51883728