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Related: About this forumFrom the "we're screwed" file
As of yesterday afternoon, the fatality rate was 3.1%, so don't pick out the casket just yet over Covid-19. Picking it out because of the massive ignorance of a bunch of businessmen trying to run government as a business, as you were.
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Warpy
Feb 2020
OP
It was not behind a paywall, just too many people accessed it. It was back normal later in the day
LiberalArkie
Feb 2020
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alwaysinasnit
(5,279 posts)1. Incompetence married to corruption. Yup, we're screwed.
enough
(13,468 posts)2. Good god. NT
LiberalArkie
(16,706 posts)3. It was not behind a paywall, just too many people accessed it. It was back normal later in the day
If you had not fired all the people that gathered the data, you could have just phoned the CDC, but now a Uni has to do it..
Warpy
(113,131 posts)4. These dumb bastards are convinced government doesn't work
and that means the CDC, where Johns Hopkins was getting their domestic figures.
It takes a special kind of stupid to be part of this administration.