Guns drawn on the House floor.

TEAR gas has been used in the Rotunda.

Members are being told get gas masks under their seats.

Fight inside the Capital.

@th3j35t3r
Looks like The Rise of Gideon.
Blessed be the Orange.

The US Capital is being stormed.

The Capital Police are currently tear-gassing Trump protestors trying to storm the building.

@misslovelymess @Render But, but...I want to believe!

@bl4ckat Yes, that's the terrible future we're about to encounter.
I'm feeling for all those people who think 2021 is going to be better. The country is going to go into a despondent depression.

@corlin Excellent find! Thanks!
I decided to avoid predictive models after a few months into the pandemic. But, I'm OK with reviewing others' work and making simplistic assessments of the future! Somehow this makes me *feel* a little more in control.

@MarianneWerzOBrien
I'd need something stronger than beer.

1.8% of the country has been infected over the past 30 days. This is one out of every 55.8 Americans.
5.83% of the country has been infected since the start of the pandemic. This is one out of every 17.2 Americans.
https://bit.ly/COVIDUSStates

@GlytchMeister @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @netspionage @XSGeek
I think it could be Catalyst due to the context of widespread social media to activate the ugly side of America. But, I'll also maintain that America is not necessarily unique in its ugliness. This insidious character is probably endemic to most of humanity.
But, I have a hypothesis that it had been much worse throughout history and we're actually trending better. We can just see it more easily now.

I would be remiss if I didn't provide the following warning about 2021:
The first months of this year are going to suck like never before. At Christmas there were about 6M cases of COVID that are less than 30 days old - a 50% increase from 4M on Thanksgiving where
2 weeks later daily deaths had increased 43% to 2300 from 1600.
We hit ~2700 deaths at Christmas.
W/ 6M cases, at the same rate, we're looking at 3860 deaths **per day** after Jan 8th.
And, it's probably not going to be linear.

@GlytchMeister @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @netspionage @XSGeek
It's the difference between Catalyst and Accelerant.
With "Catalyst", the results were prepared to emerge.
If "Accelerant", they were built by the instigator.
And, it could be a combination of the two wherever they found fertile ground.

@th3j35t3r Since when did they install a rail gun on Jupiter?

@Dane You would think that a company in this business would have more extraordinary measures to ensure the integrity of their codebase. For instance, have a system with an air-gap do a periodic gap analysis that requires management approval. Sure, it's a lot of work, but should be table-stakes moving forward.

@mushrj Agree. We need to use this time to re-think the future of normal so that it includes love and empathy for all. We also need to develop the fortitude to deal with those who lack empathy - just like you would with a child that could be changed. Let's not give up on them just yet.

Revisited the COVID-19 data to see how long people take to enter a hospital after testing positive. Looks like 10 days has the highest correlation.
Should assume an additional 2-3 days to show symptoms to choose to get a test. So, somewhere between 12 to 13 days from infection to entering a hospital. Then, if they are going to die, seems like 10 days is the highest correlation.

At this point in time 1.45% of all Americans have become infected by COVID-19 in just the last 30 days. (5.3M)
And the Thanksgiving infections have yet to hit.
Sweet dreams, COSOnaughts!
https://bit.ly/COVIDUSStates

Yesterday there were 19,396 people in an ICU. Mortality rates for these people is about 77%. That means that 14,935 of these people will die. If nobody went into the hospital as of today, we would still exceed 280K deaths. 5% of the total COVID deaths will be from people presently in the hospital. 1 out of 20.
And....infections are getting worse, not better.