Cory Wong With Metropole Orkest: “Ellie”

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when my daughter was a few weeks old, it was December and we were walking around the city for the ‘Holidazzle’ parade. we were watching all of the bright lights and people dressed up as huge Chrismas lights and ornaments….a light snow and not the typical bitter Minnesota cold.
a perfect night to be out.

we went out to enjoy the holiday spirit, and so did seemingly everybody in the city. It was a joyful chaos….people all around with their families, hot cocoa, bells, and whatnot.

Ellie was asleep in her stroller as peaceful as could be amongst the hustle of the outside world.

I kept hearing this tune as a piano lullaby where she’s so innocently sleeping, yet so much happening around her.

It was something that made me reflect on own ‘world’ as an adult; needing to find peace, comfort, and joy when there’s chaos around me.

In this tune.
The role of ‘Ellie’ is played by the Piano
The role of ‘Chaos’ is played by the Drums and String section
The role of ‘Dad’ is played by the guitar

Produced/Mixed/Mastered: Cory Wong
MO Artistic producer: Robert Soomer
Recording engineer: Dirk Overeem

METROPOLE ORKEST
Conducted by Vince Mendoza

guitar
Cory Wong

1st violin
Arlia de Ruiter
Vera Laporeva
Denis Koenders
Pauline Terlouw
Jasper van Rosmalen
Christina Knoll
Gideon Nelissen
Belen Pérez Carreras

2nd violin
Merel Jonker
Herman van Haaren
Willem Kok
Ruben Margarita
Xaquín Carro Cribeiro
Coleman Willis
Saskia Frijns

viola
Norman Jansen
Mieke Honingh
Julia Jowett
Iris Schut
Isabella Petersen

cello
Emile Visser
Annie Tångberg
Jascha Albracht
Jascha Bordon

double bass
Erik Winkelmann
Arend Liefkes

harp
Joke Schonewille

flute
Mariël van den Bos
Janine Abbas

oboe
Maxime le Minter

saxophone / clarinet
Marc Scholten
Paul van der Feen
Leo Janssen
Sjoerd Dijkhuizen
Jesse Brevé

french horn
Liz Hunfeld

trumpet
Ray Bruinsma
Martijn de Laat
Nico Schepers
Koen Smits

trombone
Jan Oosting
Robinson Khoury
Jan Bastiani
Martijn Sohier

bass trombone
Martin van den Berg

orchestral percussion
Murk Jiskoot
Jorge Sanz Pineda

drums
Martijn Vink

guitar
Peter Tiehuis

bass
Seth Tackaberry

piano/keys
Hans Vroomans

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83 comments
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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 19, 2020 • 5:59:13pm

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:01:53pm

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jaunte  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:04:01pm
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:11:32pm

My day to be CL’ed.

re: #187 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’ve seen deer in the streets of our suburban town. Far more common is wild turkeys, but deer aren’t unusual to find crossing the streets looking for something to munch on in someone’s yard. In this close, they have no fear; a couple miles north or west, and they wouldn’t be caught in the open for love or money.

East of where I live is parkland (regional parks), and university land with a few labs. So wildlife mostly stays up there, with just a few forays into “settled” areas.

Boys club
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ckkatz  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:13:35pm

I think that this is behind the paywall, but:

Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests

A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists.

The Facebook groups target Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and they appear to be the work of Ben Dorr, the political director of a group called “Minnesota Gun Rights,” and his siblings, Christopher and Aaron. By Sunday, the groups had roughly 200,000 members combined, and they continued to expand quickly, days after President Trump endorsed such protests by suggesting citizens should “liberate” their states.

washingtonpost.com

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Dread Pirate  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:15:36pm
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:17:49pm

Go here right now to see Annie the peregrine feeding her day old chicks.

ETA: Show’s over.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:26:57pm

Not gonna comment on the “Joe Biden’s ad is racist” controversy, except to note that the Chinese government is not our friend, and it isn’t racist to be aware of that.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:27:06pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:34:21pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Not gonna comment on the “Joe Biden’s ad is racist” controversy, except to note that the Chinese government is not our friend, and it isn’t racist to be aware of that.

If it has anything to do with the coronavirus, it’s basically taken as faith that the official Chinese numbers are complete bullshit. They are trying not to become the world’s scapegoat, and at this point, everyone should view it in that lens.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:34:54pm
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:39:20pm

re: #10 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

If it has anything to do with the coronavirus, it’s basically taken as faith that the official Chinese numbers are complete bullshit. They are trying not to become the world’s scapegoat, and at this point, everyone should view it in that lens.

Whether they’re hiding their casualty figures or not, they should not become “the world’s scapegoat.” The jump from bat (?) to human could have happened anywhere and has happened elsewhere in the past. (I don’t know whether I’ve seen that Biden ad or not.)

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:42:00pm

re: #3 jaunte

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:42:02pm

re: #12 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Whether they’re hiding their casualty figures or not, they should not become “the world’s scapegoat.” The jump from bat (?) to human could have happened anywhere and has happened elsewhere in the past. (I don’t know whether I’ve seen that Biden ad or not.)

Oh, no, I agree. The problem is that they’re hiding their numbers because they think “looking good” at handling the pandemic will make everything better. People will hate them (baselessly) regardless. I feel like it would be better that they be honest and helpful, rather than trying to pretend, because now their image problem is compounded by the fact that they are being dishonest.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:45:36pm

re: #14 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Oh, no, I agree. The problem is that they’re hiding their numbers because they think “looking good” at handling the pandemic will make everything better. People will hate them (baselessly) regardless. I feel like it would be better that they be honest and helpful, rather than trying to pretend, because now their image problem is compounded by the fact that they are being dishonest.

Agree entirely (and I did not assume that you were “blaming the Chinese”), but at this point, I feel the need to stomp on that notion wherever it pops up.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:46:20pm

re: #15 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Agree entirely (and I did not assume that you were “blaming the Chinese”), but at this point, I feel the need to stomp on that notion wherever it pops up.

That’s definitely fair, and I’ve had a few so my phrasing may be questionable. ;)

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:46:21pm

re: #12 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Whether they’re hiding their casualty figures or not, they should not become “the world’s scapegoat.” The jump from bat (?) to human could have happened anywhere and has happened elsewhere in the past. (I don’t know whether I’ve seen that Biden ad or not.)

Biden’s basically saying that he would have been way more aggressive than Trump at getting information out of China about the spread of the disease.

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mmmirele  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:48:04pm

re: #17 Belafon

Biden’s basically saying that he would have been way more aggressive than Trump at getting information out of China about the spread of the disease.

Well, Biden certainly wouldn’t have removed our CDC person in Beijing, which is what the Manchurian Cantaloupe did.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:48:13pm

re: #12 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Whether they’re hiding their casualty figures or not, they should not become “the world’s scapegoat.” The jump from bat (?) to human could have happened anywhere and has happened elsewhere in the past. (I don’t know whether I’ve seen that Biden ad or not.)

Here it is.

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makeitstop  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:50:12pm

That Biden ad is devastating. That’s why they’re howling about it.

Racist, my ass. They don’t like it because it’s true.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:50:27pm

Gov. Whitmer’s lockdown may have gotten us to the other side of the peak, but we need to stay locked down for a while longer.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2020 • 6:58:19pm

re: #20 makeitstop

That Biden ad is devastating. That’s why they’re howling about it.

Racist, my ass. They don’t like it because it’s true.

People on Twitter, and I’m assuming other places, are trying to make it like he’s attacking Chinese people because he doesn’t explicitly make a distinction between the people and the government. It’s a bogus argument.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:01:23pm

re: #22 Belafon

People on Twitter, and I’m assuming other places, are trying to make it like he’s attacking Chinese people because he doesn’t explicitly make a distinction between the people and the government. It’s a bogus argument.

Any deflection in a storm.

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:03:27pm

I went to Dallas Morning News to find out what Texas’ Covid-19 numbers look like, and found this instead: A gas line caught on fire in Arlington yesterday:

High-pressure natural gas fire burns in Grand Prairie, Texas

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makeitstop  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:03:42pm

No matter what context they try to spin it into, the takeaway from that spot is that Biden would have been inside their shirt getting information to protect Americans.

And Trump did the exact opposite of that.

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gwangung  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:04:50pm

re: #22 Belafon

People on Twitter, and I’m assuming other places, are trying to make it like he’s attacking Chinese people because he doesn’t explicitly make a distinction between the people and the government. It’s a bogus argument.

How many Asians are saying that?

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:06:04pm

An interesting piece of information about the “peak” as it’s being described for Dallas:

When Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins issued a shelter-in-place order for the county on March 22, he and Huang referenced a data set from covidactnow.org, a project designed by epidemiologists and public health experts across the country.

At the time, the data suggested the state’s hospitals would be overloaded or “peak” on April 28.

That date is no longer valid. As of Thursday, according to COVID Act Now, the state’s hospitals will probably not become overloaded at all.

The ever-changing date of Texas’ projected peak doesn’t necessarily mean that cases will or will not skyrocket at a certain point, but the moving date is a result of social distancing and sheltering-in-place, said Dr. Nirav R. Shah, who serves as an adviser to the project.

“The social distancing you’re doing is changing the number of people being hospitalized,” said Shah, a senior scholar at Stanford University and former commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. “That’s reflected in pushing the date out of when your hospitals get overwhelmed.”

As of Thursday, the estimated date for Dallas County’s hospital overload is May 22. On Tuesday, Jenkins said he predicted the county could reach its peak of cases late this month or in early May.

So the peak moving out is a good thing. If we do things right, it could move out far enough that we don’t overwhelm our hospitals.

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makeitstop  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:06:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:08:22pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:09:11pm

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? OTHER THAN YOUR LIFE…

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Belafon  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:12:07pm

re: #30 The Pie Overlord!

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? OTHER THAN YOUR LIFE…

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A small price to pay.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:12:56pm

re: #30 The Pie Overlord!

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? OTHER THAN YOUR LIFE…

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If the New York State Attorney General would charge Trump with Murder One…

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Teukka  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:14:20pm

re: #32 Joe Bacon 🌹

If the New York State Attorney General would charge Trump with Murder One…

Doesn’t NY have a law for intentionally spreading poison or disease after that little thing with Mary Mallon?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:17:11pm
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Teukka  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:20:55pm

re: #19 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Here it is.

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Anyone know someone who makes the videos for Biden? An ad set to this…

Stump (As featured in the HBO TV series trailer “The Outsider”)

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teleskiguy  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:21:53pm
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Barefoot Grin  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:25:51pm

re: #4 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

My day to be CL’ed.

East of where I live is parkland (regional parks), and university land with a few labs. So wildlife mostly stays up there, with just a few forays into “settled” areas.

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Tom tom club

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:29:51pm

re: #27 Belafon

An interesting piece of information about the “peak” as it’s being described for Dallas:

So the peak moving out is a good thing. If we do things right, it could move out far enough that we don’t overwhelm our hospitals.

It appears that we’ve done it for California (if we stay the course), you can do it too.

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retired cynic  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:30:42pm

re: #37 Barefoot Grin

Tom tom club

Looked out my kitchen window this evening and the ground was moving on the hill. It was a very chubby groundhog, standing up nibbling at various plants. I tried to take a photo through the window and the screen, but I’m sure they aren’t going to turn out.

So I went out to bring in the bird feeders, and surprised a large raccoon, heading in that direction with his eyes on the peanut butter bar. He saw me and skedaddled. Both fellows were sleek and fat.

Putting out the bird feeders in the morning, I almost have to fight my way through the goldfinches, eager to have the thistle seed I’m bringing out. I love living here.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:31:31pm

re: #17 Belafon

Biden’s basically saying that he would have been way more aggressive than Trump at getting information out of China about the spread of the disease.

He would have still had a group there to inform him.

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Jack Burton  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:32:33pm

re: #38 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

It appears that we’ve done it for California (if we stay the course), you can do it too.

In California at peak (which was projected to have been Friday) we are only using about 10% of hospital bed capacity for COVID patients, and around 25% OF ICU beds.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:36:44pm

re: #41 Jack Burton

In California at peak (which was projected to have been Friday) we are only using about 10% of hospital bed capacity for COVID patients, and around 25% OF ICU beds.

California acted early.

Though I really wonder if any of this is related to that early report from China that there were 2 varieties of this novel coronavirus: one much more aggressive than the other. If so, it’s possible that California may have had cases from that variety, while New York which has been shown to have been infected from Europe, may have the more serious version. Of course, maybe none of that is relevant — but just my speculation.

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calochortus  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:39:05pm

re: #42 Hecuba’s daughter

California acted early.

Though I really wonder if any of this is related to that early report from China that there were 2 varieties of this novel coronavirus: one much more aggressive than the other. If so, it’s possible that California may have had cases from that variety, while New York which has been shown to have been infected from Europe, may have the more serious version. Of course, maybe none of that is relevant — but just my speculation.

I don’t think that theory panned out. The varieties are pretty much the same in their impact.
However, I will note that at least here in the Bay Area meetings were being cancelled the week before we went on “shelter in place” and we did that a few days before the whole state did.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:42:01pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:42:17pm

Scratch a wingnut, find a nazi.

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makeitstop  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:43:08pm

Happy Birthday, Tim Curry! Everybody sing!

I Do The Rock - Tim Curry HD, Clarified, 16x9 (Movie Theater)

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BigPapa  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:47:52pm

CA reacted early. HI did too for the most part.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:48:41pm

So I loaded some calendar data into my Mac Calendar…and it hangs. Trying to restore Calendar from Time Machine and OSX tells me that Calendar can’t be restored because it is needed by OSX.

I’m confused… OSX is normally a well functioning operating system (though some applications like iTunes are still buggy after all these years.)

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:50:27pm
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BigPapa  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:53:38pm

Orange Foolius also called a virus brilliant.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:55:52pm

re: #50 BigPapa

Orange Foolius also called a virus brilliant.

Well, compared to him…
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Thankew, thankew, I’ll be here all week & all next week & the week after! Try the pie, and don’t forget to tip the server!

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:58:37pm

re: #47 BigPapa

CA reacted early. HI did too for the most part.

I can’t help but feel there is something else at play. MA issued their stay at home order just a couple days after california, has some of the highest per capita testing in the country, lots of great hospitals and yet states like florida and louisiana that were slow to implement stay at home orders and shutdowns don’t seem to be any worse off and in the case of Florida seem to be doing quite a bit better. Maybe they just haven’t hit their peak yet, but it just seems like something else may be going on.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 19, 2020 • 7:59:11pm
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calochortus  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:02:04pm

re: #52 danarchy

I can’t help but feel there is something else at play. MA issued their stay at home order just a couple days after california, has some of the highest per capita testing in the country, lots of great hospitals and yet states like florida and louisiana that were slow to implement stay at home orders and shutdowns don’t seem to be any worse off and in the case of Florida seem to be doing quite a bit better. Maybe they just haven’t hit their peak yet, but it just seems like something else may be going on.

Florida, etc. puzzle me as well.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:02:57pm
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Amory Blaine  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:04:56pm

Radiohead - Karma Police

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:06:24pm

re: #54 calochortus

Florida, etc. puzzle me as well.

The young people partying in Florida returned to their home states, where their illnesses were added to the totals in these other communities.

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JC1  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:06:55pm

And now for something completely different…

Nanowar Of Steel - Norwegian Reggaeton (feat. Charly Glamour & Gigatron)

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:07:11pm

re: #54 calochortus

Florida, etc. puzzle me as well.

Texas is another one. I think they still haven’t fully shut down or have lot’s of exceptions and they are doing even better than California just by the numbers.

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calochortus  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:11:28pm

re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter

The young people partying in Florida returned to their home states, where their illnesses were added to the totals in these other communities.

That is true, but once it is in the community it should be spreading faster if people aren’t staying home. I’m not seeing any evidence that is happening.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:13:20pm

re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter

The young people partying in Florida returned to their home states, where their illnesses were added to the totals in these other communities.

And the relatively early lockdowns in New York and the northeast kept a lot more people who might have been infected/asymptomatic from traveling to Florida and adding to the spread there.

(Hell, I would likely have ended up at a few Spring Training games in mid-March somewhere in Florida. I assume I wasn’t infected, and I certainly haven’t been symptomatic at all, but in the absence of robust testing, who the hell knows?)

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plansbandc  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:13:49pm

re: #56 Amory Blaine

LOVE

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ckkatz  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:14:41pm

re: #52 danarchy

I can’t help but feel there is something else at play. MA issued their stay at home order just a couple days after california, has some of the highest per capita testing in the country, lots of great hospitals and yet states like florida and louisiana that were slow to implement stay at home orders and shutdowns don’t seem to be any worse off and in the case of Florida seem to be doing quite a bit better. Maybe they just haven’t hit their peak yet, but it just seems like something else may be going on.

My current presumption is that there is a lack of testing in a lot of places. Presumably under the theory that if unpleasant and uncomfortable facts are ignored, maybe they will just go away. Or perhaps that the rubes won’t be the wiser.

Also that a lot of deaths are not being counted as Covid-19. This has been a problem even in places with a well organized and supported response, such as Germany. Didn’t NY add several thousand deaths previously not connected to Covid-19 to their Covid-19 total deaths just last week?

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JC1  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:14:45pm

re: #59 danarchy

Texas is another one. I think they still haven’t fully shut down or have lot’s of exceptions and they are doing even better than California just by the numbers.

Mass has done 2x the per capita testing of Florida and 4x the per capita testing of Texas. Also, to keep their numbers down, I believe that Florida is only counting full time residents, not many of the snowbirds who are down there getting sick right now.

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teleskiguy  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:15:56pm

How am I finding this *just now*???

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:16:34pm

India baffles me as well, I was expecting it to be a complete nightmare once it started spreading in the slums there, but unless it is and just isn’t being reported, I haven’t seen it. I am starting to wonder if higher temperatures do mitigate the spread somehow. Just seems northern states and countries are getting hit worse than their more temperate counterparts.

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retired cynic  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:18:59pm

re: #66 danarchy

I wouldn’t trust Modi to report things truthfully.

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calochortus  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:20:36pm

re: #64 JC1

Mass has done 2x the per capita testing of Florida and 4x the per capita testing of Texas. Also, to keep their numbers down, I believe that Florida is only counting full time residents, not many of the snowbirds who are down there getting sick right now.

I’ve heard that they aren’t counting the snowbirds, and it is possible they aren’t doing full reports of residents who die in nursing homes.

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:20:37pm

re: #67 retired cynic

I wouldn’t trust Modi to report things truthfully.

Nor would I, but I would also expect if people were dying in huge numbers the media would report it, regardless of official state reports.

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sagehen  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:24:22pm

re: #44 Dread Pirate

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so in 1968… we’d been there for about a decade? Small numbers of advisors at first, but lots of combat troops starting in about 1962?

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:25:32pm

re: #68 calochortus

I’ve heard that they aren’t counting the snowbirds, and it is possible they aren’t doing full reports of residents who die in nursing homes.

But in NY, NJ, MA, Spain, the UK we are getting reports straight from overwhelmed hospital workers, are the hospitals in Fl experiencing the same. That kind of thing is hard to hide.

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calochortus  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:27:40pm

re: #71 danarchy

But in NY, NJ, MA, Spain, the UK we are getting reports straight from overwhelmed hospital workers, are the hospitals in Fl experiencing the same. That kind of thing is hard to hide.

Yup. I suppose we’ll find out more about it all eventually.

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sagehen  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:29:06pm

re: #52 danarchy

I can’t help but feel there is something else at play. MA issued their stay at home order just a couple days after california, has some of the highest per capita testing in the country, lots of great hospitals and yet states like florida and louisiana that were slow to implement stay at home orders and shutdowns don’t seem to be any worse off and in the case of Florida seem to be doing quite a bit better. Maybe they just haven’t hit their peak yet, but it just seems like something else may be going on.

MA is a small state, full of people who regularly spend time in NY, NH, CT, PA, RI… and who knows how many were in Florida for spring break…

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sagehen  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:35:51pm

Another in the long list of reasons to say New Zealand chose well when they elected this woman:

New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern takes 20% pay cut during coronavirus pandemic

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:37:17pm

re: #42 Hecuba’s daughter

California acted early.

Though I really wonder if any of this is related to that early report from China that there were 2 varieties of this novel coronavirus: one much more aggressive than the other. If so, it’s possible that California may have had cases from that variety, while New York which has been shown to have been infected from Europe, may have the more serious version. Of course, maybe none of that is relevant — but just my speculation.

Unknown at this time, but there’s also been some speculation about that in the Italian press, since the north was hit so hard, and the south got off so (comparatively) lightly. Of course, the south had a bit more warning than the north, but so did California compared to New York. However, I’m not seeing anything about different strains —in fact, they’re saying that it’s not mutating hardly at all.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:37:36pm
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Belafon  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:40:41pm

re: #59 danarchy

Texas is another one. I think they still haven’t fully shut down or have lot’s of exceptions and they are doing even better than California just by the numbers.

Smaller population, more spread out than California, and we lag behind the coasts.

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ckkatz  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:40:59pm

re: #58 JC1

A reggaeton in Spanglish by an Italian goth comic band about Norway. A few legs are being pulled here. :)

(Edit: I need to learn to spell reggaeton.)

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:42:51pm

re: #52 danarchy

I can’t help but feel there is something else at play. MA issued their stay at home order just a couple days after california, has some of the highest per capita testing in the country, lots of great hospitals and yet states like florida and louisiana that were slow to implement stay at home orders and shutdowns don’t seem to be any worse off and in the case of Florida seem to be doing quite a bit better. Maybe they just haven’t hit their peak yet, but it just seems like something else may be going on.

I wonder if it’s not the just bitch-goddess luck. As in it happens that several more infected people went to place “a,” or some super-spreaders. We’ll be analyzing this for a long time before we really know what hit us.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:45:06pm
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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:46:58pm

re: #67 retired cynic

I wouldn’t trust Modi to report things truthfully.

I wouldn’t trust that he’d be able to report accurately, even if he wanted to. India, you know…

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:51:47pm

re: #77 Belafon

Smaller population, more spread out than California, and we lag behind the coasts.

“Spread out” may be the key factor, since it appears that person to person droplet transmission is the principal means of infection.

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danarchy  Apr 19, 2020 • 8:59:10pm

Over the past couple of weeks I keep seeing stories like this and thinking “whelp, they are screwed.”

edition.cnn.com

This was from india almost three weeks ago and I was sure they were doomed.

npr.org


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