COVID-19 Thread San Diego (black, target, control)

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Pretty sure I'm going deer hunting tomorrow at 3 am and if "heading to 7/11 for breakfast" works as an excuse so be it. I won't see another soul the entire time I'm up there I'll bet. I'll just leave my camo off and firearms under a sleeping bag in the back seat till I'm up there.

[Mike930]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

By the way Mike ... I am not really trying to suggest agreement with the government response protocols ... I am merely understanding why this is being treated as a big deal. I get the magnitude of the reaction.

I am not impressed with the politicization and resulting folderol clown show across the states. This s**t called for an immediate smackdown. Hard. And then hard focused management. But people be basically pretty stupid, ya know pal? “Muh freedumbs!!!”

I just saw this. Yes, the level to which this has been politicized is amazing. You have such a contract between Hawaii, the most restrictive state, and Florida where there are no restrictions. It was a big deal at first, but now we need a more focused approach.

Pfizer said they’re seeking emergency approval for their vaccine within a few days and expect to have the first round out by the end of December.

I’ll be happy to see these threads go off into the CD sunset. Hopefully this won’t happen again for a long time or we’ll be better prepared next time. The new messenger RNA technology that the drug manufacturers are using is said to be a huge breakthrough, so there’s one silver lining in all this.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by JohnAlt

I'm thinking the number of those is immaterial. BTW are there no false negatives?

I agree they're probably rare enough not to matter and I'm sure there are false negatives too. The difference is I don't know anyone who had a false negative. More importantly, it'd also be hard to determine a false negative since most people don't get multiple tests simultaneously. In other words, if you were tested and it came up negative until the next time you were tested and that changed (i.e. were tested positive), the logical conclusion would be you were infected sometime between the first test results and the second -not that the first test was wrong.

How about those hospitalized or dead? Would you agree those weren't false positives?

Is that a serious question or a statement?

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Didn't Biden win? Why are we still TDS'in folks? Get outside. Fresh air. This place is like the doomsday of social media. See ya in a week after I chase some local deer.

It's such a pain to drag my Cray supercomputer out on the patio to read this stuff on the interwebs. Maybe someday, someone will invent a device that let's me have all that computing power (possibly more) in the palm of my hand.


Say hi to the deer and be safe.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by Mike930

The curfew. LOL. So I go out at 11:00pm. I get pulled over because I live in one the the few counties that are actually enforcing it. The officer asks why I’m breaking curfew. I’m hungry and going to get take out. He has to let me go. Meanwhile, his time could have been better spent elsewhere.

Maybe the state can dump hundreds of millions of dollars into developing a breathalyzer that detects Jack in the Box in your system to see if you're lying. BTW, you can also just claim you're homeless since there's an exemption in the order for that.

[GuyInSD]

Just on the off-chance that someone visiting this thread is actually interested in something related to San Diego:

"Saturday was the 11th consecutive day more than 600 new coronavirus cases were reported by the county, and the most in a single day. Last Saturday, 1,087 cases were reported, 922 were reported Wednesday, 899 Thursday and 1,091 Friday. County health officials are attributing the sharp increase in cases to a general fatigue of the pandemic and are urging San Diegans to avoid gatherings and take COVID-19 seriously over the Thanksgiving holiday week....The number of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County hospitals continues to rise, with 440 currently hospitalized in the county and 127 in intensive care — nearly double the numbers a month ago."

[bloom]

Originally Posted by Mike930

Yeah you keep saying this and it’s not a valid argument.

The mortality rate is around 2% or less. The response is way out of proportion.

Enough already.

2% of 330M is over 6 million dead. My Lord, man.

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[quote=Mike930;59740030]How about those being miscategorized? Someone has COVID, dies of some other cause and it’s attributed to COVID.
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If someone is Covid positive but incidentally gets run over killed in an auto accident, then that is not a Covid death.

If some has cancer and contracts a Covid pneumonia and dies, then that is a Covid death.

[bloom]

Originally Posted by Mike930

I just saw this. Yes, the level to which this has been politicized is amazing. You have such a contract between Hawaii, the most restrictive state, and Florida where there are no restrictions. It was a big deal at first, but now we need a more focused approach.

Pfizer said they’re seeking emergency approval for their vaccine within a few days and expect to have the first round out by the end of December.

I’ll be happy to see these threads go off into the CD sunset. Hopefully this won’t happen again for a long time or we’ll be better prepared next time. The new messenger RNA technology that the drug manufacturers are using is said to be a huge breakthrough, so there’s one silver lining in all this.

I think the Pfizer vaccine was emergency approved yesterday so doses being now shipped. I think 20M by end of year

[stablegenius]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Didn't Biden win? Why are we still TDS'in folks? Get outside. Fresh air. This place is like the doomsday of social media. See ya in a week after I chase some local deer.

Seriously. I've been wondering that myself. A buddy of mine threw out his latest TDS claim today in the water, and I'm like, "Dude your guy won, when are you going to stop being outraged". Move on.

To keep it on topic, we surfed Black's which is located in San Diego.