The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Pretty soon you won't be able to understand the other half of the words coming out of his mouth.

[Anteater]

Beautiful.

CNN - Delta gave its employees 2 months of extra pay

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

Beautiful.

CNN - Delta gave its employees 2 months of extra pay

The workers should own it all

As Chief Executive Officer at DELTA AIR LINES INC, Edward H. Bastian made $14,982,448 in total compensation. Of this total $891,667 was received as a salary, $2,277,090 was received as a bonus, $3,795,014 was received in stock options, $7,705,118 was awarded as stock and $313,559 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2018 fiscal year.

The average flight attendant would have to work for three centuries to make what he makes in a year.

[OccultHawk]

Unpaid basketball player went ham.

[Mindy]

[OccultHawk]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-demo-n1122716

Georgia district won't pay for surgeries for student burned in chemistry demo, his attorney says

[Mindy]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

I meant this to be in the spam thread, a mod can move.


Im sorry about this

[Frownland]

Death toll stands at 22 in Turkish earthquake; 1,000 hurt

Millions of locusts are swarming in Kenya.

China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns

Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands

Four horse deaths at New Orleans race track

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Death toll stands at 22 in Turkish earthquake; 1,000 hurt

Millions of locusts are swarming in Kenya.

China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns

Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands

Four horse deaths at New Orleans race track

^ Yep, that's a lot of depressing news. The coronavirus is not looking good; as numbers of cases keep jumping, it's looking like an extremely contageous
virus. That China is "locking down" a city of 11 million indicates how serious the situation is.
Maybe we can take some small comfort from these figures though:-

With global attention on the Wuhan coronavirus and its spread around China and other countries, it's important to put it in the context of other deadly infections -- including seasonal influenza, which claims the lives of thousands of people every year.

According to a September 2019 study by Chinese scientists published in The Lancet, there are about 88,100 influenza-related deaths every year in China, with a mortality rate of between 1.6% and 2.6%. The majority of those who died as a result of the flu were aged over 60, the report said.

While the true extent of the new coronavirus is unclear, it appears to be more deadly than seasonal influenza. Of the 1,317 cases confirmed globally as of noon Saturday in China, there had been 41 deaths, a mortality rate of 3.1%.

However, that is far less deadly than related coronaviruses SARS and MERS. SARS has a mortality rate of about 10%, while MERS killed 34% of those infected.

[OccultHawk]

Last night on the news hour a guest who wrote a book on contagions chastised China for the travel ban.

So sick of china bashing. When a country takes aggressive protective action like that the world should show some ****ing gratitude.