[Charlie Allnut]

Originally Posted by TB12inTB2020

Completely and 100% false. The virus was being studied in a lab in China. A lab that has **** poor controls. A lab worker got exposed to the virus through poor controls and then it spread when they left the facility. It had nothing to do with China wanting to destroy the United States. They did not let it out on purpose. Please stop with the misguided and dangerous conspiracy theories. Thank you.

I do not have the knowledge of what transpired in China that started this virus fiasco, so I do not know.
I think it is good idea that we look at all possiblities without automatically discounting other view points.
However, if one does argue for either side, they should present credible evidence.
But right now, that is not possible at our paygrade.

Tomorrow will be a sunnier day than today in the SUSHINE STATE!

[Charlie Allnut]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

Forget tarpon. I only fish 40 to 120 miles offshore. Now party boats are done since they can't take enough peeps to make any money honey.

You fishing for Grouper or just in a stupor?

Whoa! 2nd thought, 120 is too far offshore for my fishing. I like to come back the same day.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by Charlie Allnut

You fishing for Grouper or just in a stupor?

Whoa! 2nd thought, 120 is too far offshore for my fishing. I like to come back the same day.

No much grouper left in the gulf. Really been bad the last few years. I fish for mango snaps the most then other stuff duff. I stay out for days ray.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by WRnative

Likely a very losing bet! A Stanford study estimated that less than 5 percent of the population of California's Santa Clara County as of April 1 carried COVID-19 antibodies. Social distancing policies have lessened the infection rate in much of the U.S.

<< the early findings indicate that between 48,000 and 81,000 residents in Santa Clara County were infected as of April 1, back when the official count was 956. The estimate is based on 3,330 blood samples that were taken from volunteers in Mountain View, Los Gatos and San Jose on April 3 and April 4 and tested for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2.

When adjusted for Santa Clara County's population and demographics, the number of positive results suggests that between 2.49% and 4.16% of the county's 1.93 million residents have had COVID-19.
The study's results "represent the first large-scale community-based prevalence study in a major U.S. county completed during a rapidly changing pandemic, and with newly available test kits," the authors wrote. Survey of blood samples suggests between 2.49% and 4.16% of county residents may have coronavirus antibodies.>>

https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020...by-coronavirus

This study, to the extent it is representative of much of the U.S. outside of hard-hit areas such as New York City, suggests that the nation is far from reaching herd immunity and that carelessly relaxing social distancing policies could rapidly result in a spike in hospitalizations and ultimately deaths.

A USC study of Los Angeles County residents also finds less than 5 percent of the population has tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. This article suggests that both the Los Angeles and Santa Clara research projects actually may overstate the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies due to false positives in the underlying test kit used in both studies.

<<Statistician John Cherian of D. E. Shaw Research, a computational biochemistry company, made his own calculations given the test’s sensitivity and specificity — and conservatively estimated the proportion of truly positive people in the Stanford study to range from 0.2 percent to 2.4 percent of the Santa Clara population. Adjusting for demographics, Cherian’s calculations suggest that county prevalence could plausibly be under 1 percent....

And remember: 4 percent or 5 percent is the high-end estimate. The true prevalence of COVID-19 is probably lower. So even in a world where current testing is only detecting one in 50 or infections, the United States is nowhere near herd immunity.>>

https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-studi...161418566.html

[LA33301]

Originally Posted by TB12inTB2020

Completely and 100% false. The virus was being studied in a lab in China. A lab that has **** poor controls. A lab worker got exposed to the virus through poor controls and then it spread when they left the facility. It had nothing to do with China wanting to destroy the United States. They did not let it out on purpose. Please stop with the misguided and dangerous conspiracy theories. Thank you.

All of what you just said is hearsay/opinion .... not factual. Nobody really knows the truth so stop spreading lies and drama when you really have no proof unless you were there in the lab in China and saw what exactly what happened with your own eyes.

[LA33301]

Originally Posted by Pinta loca

The virus was spread by a bat who drop a fruit piece that was eaten by a pig that later was butchered by a chef who gave a beautiful American woman a handshake without using Purell first.

Wait, I just got a text. The virus was created when some gay frogs were cooked for Kim jongun in China. Rumor has it he spread it and now is fighting for his life

Or maybe there’s billions of viruses in nature that will eventually make it to human populations. I don’t know what’s more credible...

Frivolous jokes while millions are dying, and millions more will die !!!!

[LA33301]

Originally Posted by Pinta loca

You know what’s sick? The decisions your dear leaders made and are still making. I’m not the one who is making these decisions that are killing tens of thousands of people. So if you are feeling really sick with the number of deaths, and I can see you are even using caps, call your leaders, don’t insult anonymous Internet posters who are not in charge of anything.

My leaders? Stop casting stones from Colombia, Cuba or some other corrupt country. How is your leader Bolsonaro handling the situation? Nice try hating on the United States when you are thousands of miles away in some corrupt and trashy third world country .... Nice try.

[LKJ1988]

This is the way the planet deals with over crowding. Much worse will come as there are too many peeps as it is.

[Fredesch]

Estimated earliest dates for states to relax social distancing. Florida is in the latest group.
COVID-19 estimation updates | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation


This is from The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

[LKJ1988]

Not sure if Party boats will ever make it after this. If they can't take 30 or more peeps fishing they are done.