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  1. From the AP:

    US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted

    NEW YORK (AP) — This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time — due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic.

    Final mortality data for this year will not be available for months. But preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year, or at least 400,000 more than in 2019.

    U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.

    That would mark the largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers died in World War I and hundreds of thousands of Americans died in a flu pandemic. Deaths rose 46% that year, compared with 1917.

    COVID-19 has killed more than 318,000 Americans and counting. Before it came along, there was reason to be hopeful about U.S. death trends.

    The nation’s overall mortality rate fell a bit in 2019, due to reductions in heart disease and cancer deaths. And life expectancy inched up — by several weeks — for the second straight year, according to death certificate data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    But life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as three full years, said Robert Anderson of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The CDC counted 2,854,838 U.S. deaths last year, or nearly 16,000 more than 2018. That’s fairly good news: Deaths usually rise by about 20,000 to 50,000 each year, mainly due to the nation’s aging, and growing, population.

    Indeed, the age-adjusted death rate dropped about 1% in 2019, and life expectancy rose by about six weeks to 78.8 years, the CDC reported.

    “It was actually a pretty good year for mortality, as things go,” said Anderson, who oversees CDC death statistics.

    The U.S. coronavirus epidemic has been a big driver of deaths this year, both directly and indirectly.

    The virus was first identified in China last year, and the first U.S. cases were reported this year. But it has become the third leading cause of death, behind only heart disease and cancer. For certain periods this year, COVID-19 was the No. 1 killer.

    But some other types of deaths also have increased.

    A burst of pneumonia cases early this year may have been COVID-19 deaths that simply weren’t recognized as such early in the epidemic. But there also have been an unexpected number of deaths from certain types of heart and circulatory diseases, diabetes and dementia, Anderson said.

    Many of those, too, may be related to COVID. The virus could have weakened patients already struggling with those conditions, or could have diminished the care they were getting, he said.

    Early in the epidemic, some were optimistic that car crash deaths would drop as people stopped commuting or driving to social events. Data on that is not yet in, but anecdotal reports suggest there was no such decline.

    Suicide deaths dropped in 2019 compared with 2018, but early information suggests they have not continued to drop this year, Anderson and others said.

    Drug overdose deaths, meanwhile, got much worse.

    Before the coronavirus even arrived, the U.S. was in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in its history.

    Data for all of 2020 is not yet available. But last week the CDC reported more than 81,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months ending in May, making it the highest number ever recorded in a one-year period.

    Experts think the pandemic’s disruption to in-person treatment and recovery services may have been a factor. People also are more likely to be taking drugs alone — without the benefit of a friend or family member who can call 911 or administer overdose-reversing medication.

    But perhaps a bigger factor are the drugs themselves: COVID-19 caused supply problems for dealers, so they are increasingly mixing cheap and deadly fentanyl into heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, experts said.

    “I don’t suspect there are a bunch of new people who suddenly started using drugs because of COVID. If anything, I think the supply of people who are already using drugs is more contaminated,” said Shannon Monnat, a Syracuse University researcher who studies drug overdose trends.

  2. 6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

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    BTW, how your folks doing?

    Mom is recovered. Sister did an excellent job in getting her taken care of and has now gone back to Denver.

    Dad is still in the hospital where they expect him to be a couple of more weeks. At 83, I'm afraid it's going to be a slow process and am pretty sure he'll need some PT to build back up some of his muscle strength after lying in a hospital bed for a little over three weeks now.

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  3. 1 hour ago, blacklab said:

    If they incorporate they have to provide sewer, water and garbage. The cost of sewage and water will take a long, long time to recover and we have to spend our money removing lanes from streets, not doing something that is good for the long term of the city.

    As an unproductive and unhelpful aside, whenever I see your avatar now I briefly think she's got a pacifier in her mouth and that makes me feel a little funny in my underpants.

  4. 2 hours ago, Viper said:

    My god that was amazing. One question, did not katan just die? I don't remember seeing her get up after gideon unloaded on her

    That's what I thought at first, but in the final scene when they showed the whole crew together she was standing there. I'm a little confused, because there was a Mandalorian chick who definitely looked like she was shot to death by Gideon. Reading through this thread though, folks are mentioning a third Mandalorian chick who wasn't part of the fight in taking the ship and bridge.

    I dunno, man. Maybe someone with keener eyes will weigh in.

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  5. 22 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:



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    Does this mean we’re gonna have a Space Academy now?

    They're currently looking for a permanent headquarters for the U.S. Space Command for our Space Force Guardians. The finalists are Redstone Army Airfield (Huntsville, AL), Port San Antonio fka Kelly AFB, Patrick AFB (next to Cape Canaveral), Offutt AFB (Omaha), and Peterson AFB (Colorado Springs) near the Air Force Academy...so maybe?

  6. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    With or without reapportioning, how would it look if each district voted on its EC vote, and statewide vote was used for the 2 senate EC votes?

    I assume that would currently slant red based on the number of red states and the relative even split of the US house. 

    While that would make some sense for a hybrid-type of model that would be slightly more representative, it could still be easily corrupted by the continued gerrymandering of districts which is almost completely up to the individual states - especially now that the Civil Rights Act has been gutted.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Explain to me again why these people haven't been arrested on charges of domestic terrorism and/or conspiracy to commit a terrorist act?

    If they keep at it, they're going to fuck around and find out with a new sheriff in town beginning with that date.

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  8. Oh joy.

    Proud Boys plan to ‘wreak havoc’ at Biden’s inauguration — while dressed in disguise: report

    President Donald Trump notoriously told members of the far-right organization Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” before the 2020 presidential election. Since Trump lost, the Proud Boys have no longer been standing by.

    Over the weekend in DC, there were multiple instances of violence and the Proud Boys were accused of burning Black Lives Matter banners at Black Churches.

    According to a new report by The Sun, the group is planning false flag operations to impersonate supporters of President-elect Joe Biden while causing chaos at his inauguration.

    “Members of the Proud Boys are reportedly plotting to disguise themselves as Joe Biden fans to wreak havoc during the presidential inauguration,” The Sun reported. “The Trojan Horse-style plot was revealed on InfoWars alum Joe Biggs’ YouTube channel — on which the right-wing militants were ordered to ‘kick off this presidency with f*cking fireworks.'”

    Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio explained the plot during a November 20th episode of Biggs’ YouTube.

    “Revolt motherf***ers,” Tarrio instructed. “Do whatever you got to do to f*cking get your tickets.”

    “You show up there in Biden gear and you turn his inauguration into a f*cking circus, a sign of resistance, a sign of revolution,” he urged.

  9. 1 hour ago, Michael Knight said:

    "There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont"

    And each one of those audiences are virtually ignored (and neutered) because of our winner-take-all Electoral College system.

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    "From standing courageously behind our law enforcement community to demanding safer conditions for our homeless population to fighting for transparency at City Hall, the voice of Northwest Austin is [sic] has been heard," she wrote. "Considering the stark differences between my campaign's priorities and the platform of the incumbent, their united voice is resoundingly clear this evening."

    Her first official press release had a typo...or she could've been rambling drunk. [Sic] not added by me.

     

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  11. 46 minutes ago, Lobo said:

     That's a well-educated and successful part of town, and even folks like that will fall for her con, er...I mean platform.

    Catching up, I was just about to recommend you go visit her website, but then...

    31 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    I don't think I ever went to her campaign website, the coverage on Surly was too damn good.  But I just clicked on it and there's nothing there except a photo of her "Family", polling locations, and a contribute button.  I wanted to see, out of morbid curiosity, where her election night watch party was gonna be "No Masks!  No Rules!  No Jimmy Bitches!" 

    But there's no tabs like "About Me" or "Issues" or "Endorsements", it's just her looking like the front of the truck from "Maximum Overdrive" and a demand for $25.  

    ...I see that you went and did it. This serves as a good reminder to always read through a thread before responding, because there's usually going to be someone who already said what you wanted to. In this case, you answered yourself.

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