new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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COVID-19: NOT "THE FLU"
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol no.
You're going to have riots on the street if this social isolation goes another month.
You better figure out another answer or just let this thing run its course.
Do you miss going to work? Yup, didn't think so.
I'm guessing (not really) that there's someone or group behind the recent, coordinate, well organized, perfectly timed, all in states with Dem Govs, "we want to go back to work!" bullshit. Were you out there banging a drum to go back to your sh*t job? No? Why not?
Yeah. I actually do. I loved my job.
It's not just about work.
If you don't get it now, you will.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
COVID-19: NOT "THE FLU"
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Do you think that people who haven't seen a graph before will just suddenly "get it" and that's the only reason they didn't before?
....
Hey. Maybe you're right. Maybe all you need is a graph. Here's a graph for you.
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Yep, SIX making shit up again. Because he's all about "facts".
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Hey JACK - if your graph doesn't come true, will you admit you were wrong?
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I'm not going to adhere to those specific weeks. That graph took me 30 seconds to make with my limited graphic arts skills and a parabola tool.
I also couldn't be arsed to give it any more time than that because it was already more effort than this Coomph panic deserves.
I'm not wrong though. That's how these things always have worked out in the past. The Coomph will always be with us. And it will always be something that kills a few tens of thousands of old folks every year for as long as there are still old weak folks to kill off.
Boo hoo. Maybe people shouldn't eat so much McDonalds if they're going to cry about it when it's too late to do anything about it.
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Quote:Of course not. That's because you just blithely ignore reality.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not going to adhere to those specific weeks.
Quote:Well, if you're saying that the # of deaths per day will eventually go down as vulnerable people die off... you're right! But it won't happen as you show because there are still lots and lots and lots more (about 20X more) people across the USA to be infected, so my guess is that if we follow your "advice" and don't try to slow transmisison down the number of deaths per day would peak out 10X higher than it is now. So yeah... imagine that chart ten times taller, and the #of deaths per day at 15,000, not 2,000.
SIX: I'm not wrong though.
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JACK, you have no idea what reality is. And that's why you can't stand behind ANY of your posts, including the phony made-up graph you posted. As soon as real data trashes your blather, you drop it like a hot potato and go on to other equally stupid blather.
Whatever.
I already spent more time replying than it's worth.
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Now this is an interesting conundrum in England very similar to the US political dynamic.
Recent reports were that BoJo (:Trump) missed 5 emergency meetings about COVID-19, while it became a runaway train. Apparently, that's a 'sackable' offense. But as incompetent as BoJo was, the alternative Labor (:democratic) party seems to be even more odious. And they just can't gain any political traction from BoJo's (:Trump's) COVID-19 awfulness.
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The problem with preventing epidemics is that if you do everything right ... nothing happens.
That tends to lead to the question "What WOULD have happened if we had done nothing"?
That's why I look at primarily Sweden and Norway, two nations that are culturally, economically, socially, as alike as possible, with the exception that Sweden has decided not to impose mandated social distancing while Norway has.
So, just checkin in with these nations on 91-divoc, I see that Sweden has surpassed a whole number of nations in deaths/MM, and is closing in on the Netherlands, which was one of the EU nations noted with a relatively high death rate - not quite as bad as Italy and Spain, but almost. So Sweden has jumped up to 187 deaths/MM and is still climbing rather smartly. It still has that peculiar "stairstep" pattern to the data.
Norway OTOH is at about 35 deaths/MM. Altho other nations have managed to control their outbreaks more successfully (Albania, Lithuania, Greece etc) Norways's curve is a lot flatter than Sweden's.
Just as a point of curiosity, Czechia has been pointed out quite often as the nation which requires wearing masks in public. Their current death rate is 19.5/MM.
However, masks weren't their only response. They were one of the first to close their borders to China (Jan 30), Italy, S Korea, and Iran (Mar 2-7), and eventually to all nations (Apr 6), one of the first to ban gatherings (Mar 23) and close schools (mar 10), and require face masks (march 18). Since then, they have eased a lot of rstrictions.
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