Being an atheist frees one's mind from all the fear and logical inconsistencies of theism.

Chemistry created you and chemistry will reclaim you. 

Enjoy the ride.  Be kind to other sentient beings.

The spacetime expansion was triggerred by some other natural process that we do not understand. 
It is nonsensical to even be asking for a cause in the absense of spacetime.

Why the hell do we have Black Holes in our universe?  Maybe we are on the other side of one such Black Hole.   
Is the cosmos an infinite Swiss cheese of recursive Black and White Holes, with frequent Big Bangs causing new universes to be born?

Our Big Bang could be an expanding White Hole, creating chemistry that created us, capable of asking this question.

If you can imagine Physics without a spacetime, you might be getting closer to building a model of how our spacetime came to exist.

The short answer: "The answer lies 'beyond' our spacetime.  The 'beyond' being undefined."

What WHO "thinks" is irrelevant.  Mortality rate is always reported using available data. Whether it is cancer cases or influenza infections.

Of course you have people who had COVID-19, have recovered and were not counted in the number of infections.  Just like we have undetected cancers and remissions. Also, we are not including infected/untested people who died in accidents, or had strokes.

The mortality rate of an ongoing disease is a moving target and can change at any moment.  All you can do is report mortality at a specific date, with the available data.  Anything else should be cordially dismissed.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

The numbers you are looking for are:

217,658/7,831,355 or 2.78%

as of Oct 8th.

mortality of an infection=deaths/# of infections

So if my grand-grand-grand-grand-grandfather was a slave owner, and his sons lost all his ill gotten wealth, and my father worked his ass off to pass some decent coin to me, I have to share my wealth (through extra taxation) so that some lazy, poor, descendents of slaves my grand-grand-grand-grand-grandfather owned get free lunch?  How is it fair to me or to them?

What if my father was a descendant of slaves himself?  Would I be compensated as a descendant of slaves and slave owners?

This proposal is a legal pandora box.

It is revisionist, reverse racism that intends to strip mostly whites of their wealth.

They better start paying everyone as we all come from East Africa.  Otherwise it will be a blatant discrimination. ROFL.

Vote for Biden! 

Problem solved.

Education leads to lower reproduction rate. Bronze age cultures and religions are big negative factors.

The GDP per capita is the symptom, not the root cause.  Education is the root cause.

Educate and empower young girls and women, that is how you get there.

https://populationmatters.org/the-issue?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5aX18dvt6wIVPvzjBx3ocwD3EAAYASAAEgKa5fD_BwE

About 50-60% of human body is water.  We are poop and pee making machines.

Stop having kids and the whole issue of global warming will go away.  If you reverse population growth, you will reduce the economic (energy) output and reduce the environmental impact on this planet (of limited resources).

Less is more.

I would trust a word coming from Putin's mouth. Trusting Russians is just plain stupid.  These people say one thing, think another and do yet another, all while being half drunk.  Most are moral and ethical degenerates.

They can have it.

The main reason why some countries have low infection rates, and hence low mortality rates is that citizens of those countries can follow simple instructions, understand the public health emergency AND are willing to change their behaviour.

Americans are ignorant, uneducated, dumb clusterfucks who wave their constitution in your face the moment you ask them to do something they don't like.  I suspect that obesity, rampant diabetes and cancer rates among Americans have contributed to the bottom line.

I expect that majority of Americans would not follow the strict social distancing, lockdown measures even if Trump mandated wearing face masks and face shields right from the start, in March.  His failure to understand the issue exacerbated the problem.  His arsenal of five adjectives accurately reflects the level of intelligence of a typical American.

Some dipshits in the US see mask wearing as 'their personal freedom' issue.    It is very difficult to manage such an ignorant cohort of apes.

Kids have lungs, they talk and breathe.

Of course they can be infected, can have internal organs damaged, can die from it and can infect others.

Kids vaccination records should include vaccination for COVID-19.  No kids or teachers should be allowed in schools for in-person learning without being vaccinated for COVID-19.

Your nonsensical post reminds me when in March/April people were saying that by the summer time the higher temperatures will kill this virus.
How well did that half-backed idea work out?

Stop the nonsense.  The idiots who will make a decision to open schools before kids are vaccinated should be charged with genocide.

ROFL.  'big holes', 'mostly it's okay'.  You are going for that 'vintage look'.

I say it is time to cough up a few bucks and buy a new mask.

Old masks are as good as new by exposing them to UV light for an hour or so; or few minutes in the microwave, if Sun light is not available where you live (under the rock?).

Bacteria cannot live without water source. Viruses were never alive, but you need to disrupt hydrogen bonds and non-polar hydrophobic interactions to disable their replication mechanism.  Heat, UV light, alcohol, reducing agents etc.

When an aerosol with Covid-19 virus drops on something, the virus becomes ineffective by ifself after few hours but in some cases it takes days for the virus to become ineffective.

When you are getting shot at (corona aerosols) every time you go out, it might not be such a bad idea to wear some protection; or stay the fuck at home.

How do you know you are not infected/shedding the virus?  Are you getting Covid-19 tests done every 5 days?

These things overshoot, 10M dead will have repercussions that will lead to partial degradation of basic services.  Not to mention possibility of secondary infections on the remaining 320M 'inoculated' population.  Hence, my 50M+ dead count by Nov 2021.

People don't realize how vulnerable our societies are.  It is the domino effect that will bring us to 50M+, The Walking Dead scenario.

I must admit that it is probably unlikely even for hardcore, no-mask 'freedom fighters' from your local trailer park, even they will succumb to the realization that something needs to be done to stop the spread when their loved ones start dying.

But, like I said, if nothing is done, that is where we are headed.

There is not much to disagree.  Maybe the future rates. There is plenty of irrational behaviour going on in the US.  I guess more than the 'global' average. That is what is surprising.

Back in March I did similar extrapolation based on Italy's numbers and people propably thought I have lost my mind, but the numbers were
more or less correct.


Not sure why the handling of this pandemic has been made into a political issue.  Too close to the election? Maybe Trump cannot admit the mistake he has made at the beginning by not mandating masks from the get go, and has cornered himself now in hopes this thing will go away by itself.

Well, it will, just like all wild fires do.

Here are some covid idiots for you (the Canadian Edition):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInQ0CpSY6A

People do not understand how big oxygen, carbon dioxide, nucleotides, proteins, RNA molecules or corona viruses are.  

When cornered they become agressive or don't want to talk about it.  All suffer from cognitive dissonance.

Guess what BADeckers guys, condoms are also not 100% effective, just like the N95 masks.  Yet people use them all the time.

BTW, looking at FL Rt=1.06 from rt.live I am officially scared for the rest of the country.  Not sure if Rt from rt.live is helpful, NY Rt=1.07

I think it is just better to use https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries numbers and look at the rate of change at various points.

If nothing is done, by November we will get

July 17, 2020    3,763,977.00       0.04
July 18, 2020    3,914,536.08       0.04
July 19, 2020    4,071,117.52       0.04
July 20, 2020    4,233,962.22       0.04
July 21, 2020    4,403,320.71       0.04
July 22, 2020    4,579,453.54       0.04
July 23, 2020    4,762,631.68       0.04
July 24, 2020    4,953,136.95       0.04
July 25, 2020    5,151,262.43       0.04
July 26, 2020    5,357,312.93       0.04
July 27, 2020    5,571,605.44       0.04
July 28, 2020    5,794,469.66       0.04
July 29, 2020    6,026,248.45       0.04
July 30, 2020    6,267,298.38       0.04
July 31, 2020    6,517,990.32       0.04
August 1, 2020    6,778,709.93       0.04
August 2, 2020    7,049,858.33       0.04
August 3, 2020    7,331,852.66       0.04
August 4, 2020    7,625,126.77       0.04
August 5, 2020    7,930,131.84       0.04
August 6, 2020    8,247,337.11       0.04
August 7, 2020    8,577,230.60       0.04
August 8, 2020    8,920,319.82       0.04
August 9, 2020    9,277,132.62       0.04
August 10, 2020    9,648,217.92       0.04
August 11, 2020    10,034,146.64       0.04
August 12, 2020    10,435,512.50       0.04
August 13, 2020    10,852,933.00       0.04
August 14, 2020    11,287,050.32       0.04
August 15, 2020    11,738,532.34       0.04
August 16, 2020    12,208,073.63       0.04
August 17, 2020    12,696,396.57       0.04
August 18, 2020    13,204,252.44       0.04
August 19, 2020    13,732,422.54       0.04
August 20, 2020    14,281,719.44       0.04
August 21, 2020    14,852,988.21       0.04
August 22, 2020    15,447,107.74       0.04
August 23, 2020    16,064,992.05       0.04
August 24, 2020    16,707,591.73       0.04
August 25, 2020    17,375,895.40       0.04
August 26, 2020    18,070,931.22       0.04
August 27, 2020    18,793,768.47       0.04
August 28, 2020    19,545,519.21       0.04
August 29, 2020    20,327,339.98       0.04
August 30, 2020    21,140,433.57       0.04
August 31, 2020    21,986,050.92       0.04
September 1, 2020    22,865,492.95       0.04
September 2, 2020    23,780,112.67       0.04
September 3, 2020    24,731,317.18       0.04
September 4, 2020    25,720,569.87       0.04
September 5, 2020    26,749,392.66       0.04
September 6, 2020    27,819,368.37       0.04
September 7, 2020    28,932,143.10       0.04
September 8, 2020    30,089,428.83       0.04
September 9, 2020    31,293,005.98       0.04
September 10, 2020    32,544,726.22       0.04
September 11, 2020    33,846,515.27       0.04
September 12, 2020    35,200,375.88       0.04
September 13, 2020    36,608,390.91       0.04
September 14, 2020    38,072,726.55       0.04
September 15, 2020    39,595,635.61       0.04
September 16, 2020    41,179,461.04       0.04
September 17, 2020    42,826,639.48       0.04
September 18, 2020    44,539,705.06       0.04
September 19, 2020    46,321,293.26       0.04
September 20, 2020    48,174,144.99       0.04
September 21, 2020    50,101,110.79       0.04
September 22, 2020    52,105,155.22       0.04
September 23, 2020    54,189,361.43       0.04
September 24, 2020    56,356,935.89       0.04
September 25, 2020    58,611,213.32       0.04
September 26, 2020    60,955,661.86       0.04
September 27, 2020    63,393,888.33       0.04
September 28, 2020    65,929,643.86       0.04
September 29, 2020    68,566,829.62       0.04
September 30, 2020    71,309,502.80       0.04
October 1, 2020    74,161,882.91       0.04
October 2, 2020    77,128,358.23       0.04
October 3, 2020    80,213,492.56       0.04
October 4, 2020    83,422,032.26       0.04
October 5, 2020    86,758,913.55       0.04
October 6, 2020    90,229,270.10       0.04
October 7, 2020    93,838,440.90       0.04
October 8, 2020    97,591,978.54       0.04
October 9, 2020    101,495,657.68       0.04
October 10, 2020    105,555,483.98       0.04
October 11, 2020    109,777,703.34       0.04
October 12, 2020    114,168,811.48       0.04
October 13, 2020    118,735,563.94       0.04
October 14, 2020    123,484,986.49       0.04
October 15, 2020    128,424,385.95       0.04
October 16, 2020    133,561,361.39       0.04
October 17, 2020    138,903,815.85       0.04
October 18, 2020    144,459,968.48       0.04
October 19, 2020    150,238,367.22       0.04
October 20, 2020    156,247,901.91       0.04
October 21, 2020    162,497,817.99       0.04
October 22, 2020    168,997,730.71       0.04
October 23, 2020    175,757,639.93       0.04
October 24, 2020    182,787,945.53       0.04
October 25, 2020    190,099,463.35       0.04
October 26, 2020    197,703,441.89       0.04
October 27, 2020    205,611,579.56       0.04
October 28, 2020    213,836,042.74       0.04
October 29, 2020    222,389,484.45       0.04
October 30, 2020    231,285,063.83       0.04
October 31, 2020    240,536,466.38       0.04
November 1, 2020    250,157,925.04       0.04
November 2, 2020    260,164,242.04       0.04
November 3, 2020    270,570,811.72       0.04
November 4, 2020    281,393,644.19       0.04
November 5, 2020    292,649,389.96       0.04
November 6, 2020    304,355,365.56       0.04
November 7, 2020    316,529,580.18       0.04
November 8, 2020    329,190,763.39       0.04

and almost everyone will be infected for the first time by November assuming 4% infection rate (it might be quite higher and non-linear, once schools open without any restrictions).

The mortality of second infections will be much higher as internal organs would already be permanently damaged by first infections.

I am assuming it will be around 50% for the people who get second infections.  As we approach the herd immunity, the virus might mutate further as it will be harder for it to survive, so all bets are off.

People do not quite understand the gravity of the situation.

So why do factory, farm, health care workers wear them?  To make themselves sick?

You are an idiot on wheels.  Masks provide a mechanical barrier to block small particles from entering your lungs.

N95 is the way to go.  Stop the insanity, wear the mask in public.

Wearing PPE during pandemics should be legislated not mandated.  People should be arrested and charged.

We have laws against operating vehicles under influence of drugs or alcohol. They are in place to protect drivers and others who share the same public roads. 

Same principle should be applied here.  Wear PPE, stop endengering yourself and OTHERS.

Don't be a dick.

"Until Trump is defeated?" LOL.

Trump has nothing to do with this virus.  

He has shown to be an incompetent imbecile on the subject of pandemics.  It does not matter what he says or does.  
He should be ignored.

Americans should start wearing masks NOW or have 1M+ deaths by November, 2020, and 50M+ deaths by November 2021.

In the absence of a reliable vaccine, only a change in human behaviour (wearing PPE, social distancing) can stop the spread of this virus.