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OMG Lets LOCK EVERYTHING DOWN FOR A VIRUS THAT HAS A 99% SURVIVAL RATE... or better yet.. lets have the 1% of people stay home while the rest of us live. They are just trying to steer the boat back to the same BS to turn eyes off of the election fraud that took place. Nothing to see folks
How did they (both Dakotas) get there with 10 people/mile^2 is beyond me.
No one catches Covid19 walking by someone on the street. It has nothing to do with population density, other than maybe use of public transportation increases in highly dense environments.
Almost all of Covid19 transmissions are between close family and friends, and a little at work. A place maybe less dense when looking at homes and buildings, but people still gather indoors with the same density as they do in NYC.
Do u have any other suggestions? Yes. Yes I do. Lots of them.
Learn basic math and statistics. If you cannot do that or do not want to do that – you don’t get a voice in the policy. Your gut instinct on “what it all means” is rarely correct.
Understand that population density matters. The same “infections per capita” is worse in Italy, for instance, than it would be in the USA.* It’s a geographical advantage we have.
Accept that the ONLY THING that drives policy is the strain on medical resources. Not cases, not positivity, not deaths. Resources. This is the written policy – not my opinion. Accept it and move on.
Stop freaking out over this. Back in March / April, NYC had days where cases increased 10,000 per day. Confirmed. For ALL of NY (state), this is 1 person per 5 miles. Right now – USA – you’ve got 1 person per 20 miles – and that’s doubling the number of reported infections.
Realize that you are ALWAYS one of two things: A Spreader or Not A Spreader. EVERYTHING YOU DO makes you one of these things. Choose wisely. NO ONE is riding the bench right now. BE THE SPREAD or STOP THE SPREAD.
The number of cases DOES matter – but ONLY when considered with respect to the area. Right now – more cases than before – but widely spread (sorry El Paso, not you).
People – please – ya need to take this serious – but stop freaking out. There is no “national lockdown” in your future, nor is it likely to help. Without showing you more boring math – believe me (well, the CDC, not me) when they say: Practically ALL spread right now is caused
by a very - tiny – teeny – percentage of our population. Maybe 0.1%, maybe 0.05%. Something like that. Will those people do the right thing – the responsible thing – because of ANY policy, law, or whatever? Unlikely. Because they are almost certainly not following policies right now.
But – if they ARE following policies right now – well, the policies are not foolproof, and not advertised as such. Besides that – folks need to eat, which means stores are open, and the virus is still contagious.
*Italy has one-fifth our population – and about 1/32nd of our land area. If 1% of Italy’s population were infected – it would be 5 sick people per square mile. Same numbers. Same “per capita.” Italy suffers more. You cannot compare nations in this way – nor respond as they do. Pointless.
The number of cases of coronavirus has been skyrocketing in the last few days and deaths are following suit. 118 000 cases yesterday and at this rate it'll reach several hundred thousand per day.
But it was only an Anti-Trump conspiracy which would disappear on Nov 3.......
The spread does seem alarming; but so far, we're not seeing a death toll that matched what we were seeing in the spring. It seems our medical care has stepped up and we are better able to deal with the disease and prevent fatalities.
We'll see in the next few weeks. I'm watching it daily, and yes, there is an uptick in deaths. Hopefully not matching the rise in cases.
Prayers.
it doesn't match what we saw from late July peak to early September. We are still behind Sept 3 7-day average. We are also behind early August (deaths trail by about 10 days) avg of 1170 deaths.
Our case count has been above July peak for 2 weeks already.
Geez - finally a thread about Covid which has been forgotten along with the riots. Let Covid run it's course just as the flu does every year - had we done this in the beginning with those susceptible taking precautions - we'd be over this for the most part.
there's very active existing threads, and generally a new one started every single day. Just because you maybe didn't notice doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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