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Here locally, cases are rising at the fastest rate yet. Deaths haven't caught up, but hospitalizations are straining facilities and health care personnel.
Yes, Texas re-opened too early. We should have listened to the experts.
Instead, the politicians did what the business world demanded.
And here we are, right where the epidemiologists said we'd be.
Florida with almost 20,000 new cases in the last 2 days. Holy....
Yet the Florida governor refuses to mandate masks. Holy sheet. This is going to get much much worse. Eventually the Florida governor will eat crow and mandate masks. How much worse will he allow Florida to get before he reluctantly decides there is no other choice but to mandate masks.
What happened to all that antibody testing? It seems like when they were consistently showing an existing infection rate 40-80 times as much as the numbers, that they were all quietly buried.
The study that showed that was severely flawed. I guess that's why it was "quietly buried", lol.
It wasn't the result that the lockdown monkeys wanted. Was that the "flaw"?
South Carolina same......in a city like Charleston, restaurants are an important part of our economy and they are shutting down. Each day a new one is shutting down. Their staff showing symptoms, testing positive. Side note -- staff aren't over 60 in nursing homes.
It's real.
About two weeks ago folks were not wearing masks in grocery stores, they are back after a week of 4 or 5 record setting days.
I wonder about how damaging closing, then re-opening, and then closing again is to all the small restaurants.
They were already losing money steadily before the over-eager state governments jumped the gun and told them it was safe for them to re-open their businesses.
Trusting their government's wisdom and sincerity, all those places that opened again had to spend even more of their dwindling resources to re-stock their food supplies, re-hire workers, advertise they were open again, and then see it all go to waste before recovering any of their money back.
That was both very stupid and foolhardy on their politician's part. Restaurants are risky to begin with at the best of times, but they employ a lot of people directly, and even more in all the supply businesses they use.
The citizens of any state depend on their officials to make wise decisions in this time of deep economic crisis. This was a huge mistake that will put a lot of restaurants under for good, and in a city like Charleston, permanent closures would damage the rest of the city's economy deeply for years to come.
I hope those folks kick out every single one of the idiots who said all is safe now, so go ahead an open back up.
That was too big a mistake to be forgiven, and those responsible for it should be fired.
It wasn't the result that the lockdown monkeys wanted. Was that the "flaw"?
No, the flaws were not accounting for false positives (which could account explain ALL of the observed positive results) and the totally biased recruiting. Actually , that's an understatement, it was far worse than biased. So faux math and faux sample. Clear?
P.S. One more thing, it's not common for a study to trigger IRB investigation, and its not a good thing, lol.
I suspect there is still some testing bias in favor of positivity. Generally people experiencing no symptoms go for a COVID test on a lark. I suspect that there is near-universal exposure to COVID viruses in the New York area.
I agree with that. I didn't say current testing is completely random and representative, but much more so than previous testing.
Here locally, cases are rising at the fastest rate yet. Deaths haven't caught up, but hospitalizations are straining facilities and health care personnel.
Yes, Texas re-opened too early. We should have listened to the experts.
Instead, the politicians did what the business world demanded.
And here we are, right where the epidemiologists said we'd be.
Same thing would've eventually happened no matter when Texas re-opened. If they had opened a month later we'd see this surge a month later. Only difference, more businesses would've been killed and people would have been more financially distressed.
Same thing would've eventually happened no matter when Texas re-opened. If they had opened a month later we'd see this surge a month later. Only difference, more businesses would've been killed and people would have been more financially distressed.
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