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Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration. Immigration has traditionally been a strong campaigning theme for Mr Trump, but has taken a back seat during the pandemic and in the lead-up to the November election. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration. Immigration has traditionally been a strong campaigning theme for Mr Trump, but has taken a back seat during the pandemic and in the lead-up to the November election.Does it even matter anymore at this point?
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.
On Twitter, he cited "the attack from the invisible enemy", as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details. It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration. Immigration has traditionally been a strong campaigning theme for Mr Trump, but has taken a back seat during the pandemic and in the lead-up to the November election.Does it even matter anymore at this point?
It means people who were approved or partway through the process but didn't complete it yet are now stuck in limbo, indefinitely. The American approach to immigration.... let you start, never let you finish.
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PSA - We now support Shortcode SMS and are routing all Canadian traffic entirely in Canada.
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@Skyetel said in Non-IT News Thread:
PSA - We now support Shortcode SMS and are routing all Canadian traffic entirely in Canada.
Awesomeness.
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Netflix sign-ups jump during coronavirus lockdowns
Netflix has seen subscriber numbers surge this year, as lockdowns around the world keep people at home where they want to be entertained.
Almost 16 million people created accounts in the first three months of the year, the firm said. That is almost double the new sign-ups it saw in the final months of 2019. However, the streaming service, which is behind some multi-million dollar productions, said shutdowns have halted "almost all" filming around the world. And sharp declines in the value of many currencies has meant new subscribers outside of the US, where Netflix is based, are not worth as much to the company as they would have been before the crisis. And that has hurt its international revenue growth. -
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Karen couldn't read?
Why did Karen press ctrl + alt + delete?
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Coronavirus: First US deaths weeks earlier than thought
An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.
The first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March. New information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline. Autopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19. Samples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: First US deaths weeks earlier than thought
An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.
The first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March. New information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline. Autopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19. Samples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.This would indicate that they were sick and contagious for up to a month prior, most likely.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: First US deaths weeks earlier than thought
An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.
The first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March. New information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline. Autopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19. Samples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.You really think nobody left China the second the first person got it? It obviously did a lot of spreading around the world before anyone started reacting to it.
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: First US deaths weeks earlier than thought
An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.
The first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March. New information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline. Autopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19. Samples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.You really think nobody left China the second the first person got it? It obviously did a lot of spreading around the world before anyone started reacting to it.
Exactly - there are so many more people who have it than they realize.
I won't be a bit surprised if this thing ends up being only slightly more deadly than the Flu.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: First US deaths weeks earlier than thought
An autopsy in California has revealed that the first US coronavirus-related death came weeks earlier than previously thought.
The first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March. New information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline. Autopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19. Samples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.You really think nobody left China the second the first person got it? It obviously did a lot of spreading around the world before anyone started reacting to it.
Exactly - there are so many more people who have it than they realize.
I won't be a bit surprised if this thing ends up being only slightly more deadly than the Flu.
What? So you mean in something like 50 years? Please clarify, because the numbers don't lie.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
I won't be a bit surprised if this thing ends up being only slightly more deadly than the Flu.
In the last decade, the most deadly estimate for any annual flu for the US was 61K deaths. That's the highest, and it's for a year.
In the last ~month, or maybe two at most, coronavirus has already killed 47,680 in the US with most people still sick, the bulk of the infections still active, and lots of coronavirus dead not being counted yet because they are still figuring out how many older cases are from that. NY, for example, just found like 3K cases that weren't counted last week.
We are still increasing the rate of infection in the US, and we are still increasing the rate of death in the US. And we are currently between 2,000 and 3,000 per day. So about 5-9 days away from having a 1.5 month death toll higher than the recent flu record. And we are just about to start the first big round of intentional infections (GA and TX stopping the preventative measures) and we have incredibly high numbers of currently infected that just haven't died yet.
Even if we level off now, and even if we find a miracle cure in two weeks, we'll make the flu look pretty tame. We are already past the point of maybe being "slightly more deadly than the flu." And all of this is with the US working hard to downplay how bad it is. If this is downplayed, imagine how bad it actually is!
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Exactly - there are so many more people who have it than they realize.
Example, for the day that just ended....
30,000 new tested infections and 2,341 deaths. That's a single day, the on upward slope of the pandemic in this locality!
And that's how bad it is with all reasonable states in the most extreme lockdown in history. No flu has ever had this level of medical or political care taken to restrict it. None, ever.
I think we are worlds past "bad as the flu." We are solidly into "holy effing shit, this is so much worse than any flu" category already.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
In the last decade, the most deadly estimate for any annual flu for the US was 61K deaths. That's the highest, and it's for a year.
But that is with an available and used vaccination in the market...
According to this page from the CDC, over 65% of those who are aged 60+ have been getting the flu vaccination for longer than the last decade. I seen some articles that said it was higher! And also, roughly half of all adults!
So I think that has a significant impact on reducing the number of deaths due to the flu in the U.S., making it seem like it's a whole lot less of a deal than it actually is.
Here's a page from the CDC that's more recent, but with less info.
I'm not saying COVID-19 is less deadly than the flu, what I'm saying is that the flu is worse than you just portrayed, without the high yearly vaccination rate for well over this last decade, especially the elderly.
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