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Look at it this way. If just one cashier, truck driver, EMT, nurse, office cleaner etc. feels safer with the majority of people wearing masks, think of their peace of mind and put on a mask..
That's kind of my feeling. Some of these very low paid workers are taking the hit for the rest of us to have our conveniences. I'm kinda like "it's the least I can do".
Can we all stop throwing around the term "troll" - a troll is not someone you disagree with. And if you have continued disagreements with someone, put them on ignore! Sheesh!
Can we all stop throwing around the term "troll" - a troll is not someone you disagree with. And if you have continued disagreements with someone, put them on ignore! Sheesh!
I know this thread isn’t about Facebook, but I mentioned in a convo with a couple posters a few pages back. If anyone subscribes to the WSJ take a look at their story on Facebook,how it polarized people and it’s recommendation algorithms worked extremely well at recommending people join “extremist fan pages”.
FB did their own research on this two years ago and the Zuck was basically like “ya this bores me”.
Jessie Eisenberg nailed that guy in The Social Network
Same thing goes for YouTube though. If you wanna hear more, NYT has a new podcast called Rabbit Hole that talks about algorithms and polarization
As Did I Pierre. Deleted everything but twitter and LinkedIn. And I’ve sent maybe 10 tweets in 9 years. Left in December 2018 and haven’t missed it a lick.
Unless every resident of Wake County has been tested then you don't know what the infection rate is and your statistic is meaningless.
nope. Goes back to my last post even. Feel free to go figure Wake Co population age ranges, use NC % of cases, model it out, and report back.
Or simply, say 1.1MM x 7% positive max (as we test more, the % gos down, 7% is a max) = 77,000 positives (1/5 of current NY). 5% hospitalization = 3,850. 2% ICU = 1,540. ~24% death rate in ICU = 370 deaths.
That's all worst case, unless you want to find and use different figures.
So, worst case is 370/1.1MM = 0.03% = 3 deaths for every 10K. If NC is average for heart disease death - Wake County is 2,000 deaths. Vs 370. Your R "death" factor would need to be 6 from COVID to equal heart disease.
By the way, death rate from pneumonia among 65+ are 0.11% of entire population.
In NC From COVID: 65-74: 0.02% and 75+ 0.09%; combined: 0.07% of population
None of what I said means or implies COVID isn't a big issue. But many people need some context.
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