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If anything, the lower death rate confirms that social distancing, wearing masks, and staying home works.
The spike in cases as a result of thinking this is over is a dangerous concept. We can not return to normal, open up too early, or gather in mass crowds lest we undo all of the work and sacrifice we all made in lock down.
Look at Arizona and Texas to see your future if we open up too soon and downplay the threat of this highly contagious SARS virus. Heck, look to the world and where they got this virus right vs how badly our country is doing. We are an embarrassment on the world stage, and now a pariah because we are banned from so many borders.
You can tout the temporary low death rate, but when cases spike, the death rate follows. We are heading to the danger zone of exponential growth with 50,000 cases a day that keeps increasing. Over 130,000 American's have died vs 7 in Taiwan. You do the math.
If anything, the lower death rate confirms that social distancing, wearing masks, and staying home works.
The spike in cases as a result of thinking this is over is a dangerous concept. We can not return to normal, open up too early, or gather in mass crowds lest we undo all of the work and sacrifice we all made in lock down.
Look at Arizona and Texas to see your future if we open up too soon and downplay the threat of this highly contagious SARS virus. Heck, look to the world and where they got this virus right vs how badly our country is doing. We are an embarrassment on the world stage, and now a pariah because we are banned from so many borders.
You can tout the temporary low death rate, but when cases spike, the death rate follows. We are heading to the danger zone of exponential growth with 50,000 cases a day that keeps increasing. Over 130,000 American's have died vs 7 in Taiwan. You do the math.
No, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling. Despite your fervent hope for further mass casualties, that isn't going to happen thanks to the Trump administration and Republican governors.
Here's a graph of what I've been getting from the Washington Post.
Remind me why we need to start shutting the country down again?
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The daily death toll has come down significantly since April, but has sort of leveled off recently. The 7-day moving average is 520 deaths per day. Which works out to 189,000 per year, so yeah I'd say we still have work to do.
The number of cases have been rising steeply. The fact that there hasn't been a concomitant increase in deaths may be due to a natural lag between becoming infected and dying, or to a larger proportion of infections going to younger people or some combination.
BTW, compare our 520 deaths per day to Italy's (18) or Japan's (1).
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