Covid-19

[D-West & PO-Z]

Just for the heck of it, here's another comparison with Sweden.

Ohio 14,694 cases 656 deaths (4.5% death rate of identified cases)

Sweden 16,755 cases 2,021 deaths (12.1% death rate of identified cases0

Perhaps some of the measures Ohio has employed have, at least, held the death rate down.
Here and in Europe, nursing homes are the places not to be.

I don’t think it’s nursing homes are where you don’t want to be as much as it’s nursing homes have those most susceptible and will obviously have a population greatly effected.

[paulxu]

True of course. But also not good for the staffs.

[paulxu]

This didn't take long.

[GoMuskies]

Saw this posted on a different board. So far, C-19 is LITERALLY a life saver in the United States:

Total US deaths were down ~15% in Week 14 of 2020 vs. Week 14 of 2019. Continuing the weekly trend since early March

Total US Deaths - Week 14
2020: 49,292
2019: 56,595

Total US Deaths - Week 14 under 18 (over a 55% drop in fatalities)
2020: 287
2019: 618
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

[paulxu]

No crap. No one is driving. Traffic deaths should be WAY down.

Speaking of which, I think some insurance companies (who are saving literally billions) will be refunding some premiums on car insurance.

[Masterofreality]

Ok, folks. This “testing” thing has gone from Red Herring to Red Flag!!
And carefully putting my Tin Foil Hat on here, but DeWine, Husted and their “Doc of the Day” today (not Acton) will now implement Surveillance Testing on a random basis to check people. Holy Iish!!! This is tantamount to Searching someone’s property without a Search Warrant and equals these jackbooted random traffic stops. Total Bullshit.
The overreach is now becoming a huge infringement on Citizens individual freedoms. It’s entering insanity.
This has to stop. And so do these daily “update press conferences”. They’ve become infomercials and look at me moments for a bunch of politicians.

[xu82]

Ok, folks. This “testing” thing has gone from Red Herring to Red Flag!!
And carefully putting my Tin Foil Hat on here, but DeWine, Husted and their “Doc of the Day” today (not Acton) will now implement Surveillance Testing on a random basis to check people. Holy Iish!!! This is tantamount to Searching someone’s property without a Search Warrant and equals these jackbooted random traffic stops. Total Bullshit.
The overreach is now becoming a huge infringement on Citizens individual freedoms. It’s entering insanity.
This has to stop. And so do these daily “update press conferences”. They’ve become infomercials and look at me moments for a bunch of politicians.

What exactly does this entail?

[X-man]

Ok, folks. This “testing” thing has gone from Red Herring to Red Flag!!
And carefully putting my Tin Foil Hat on here, but DeWine, Husted and their “Doc of the Day” today (not Acton) will now implement Surveillance Testing on a random basis to check people. Holy Iish!!! This is tantamount to Searching someone’s property without a Search Warrant and equals these jackbooted random traffic stops. Total Bullshit.
The overreach is now becoming a huge infringement on Citizens individual freedoms. It’s entering insanity.
This has to stop. And so do these daily “update press conferences”. They’ve become infomercials and look at me moments for a bunch of politicians.

I assume that you are including Trump's bizarre daily shitshow in the ones that have to stop.

[Masterofreality]

Today's "Let's do a Reality Check" Report for Ohio:

Model Projection of new Cases per Day (Mitigated) 2,000 on April 17. (Projected peak Today 4/22 shows 1,850 per OSU model)
Today's Actual new reported Cases: 475 - Down by 113 from yesterday (31 Probable/Assumed cases today.)
Highest Daily Total Increase in cases since report began on 3/9: 1380 Monday with 56 probable/assumed- A LOT from the Marion County prison
Actual TOTAL Hospitalizations: 3,053 (up only 93 from yesterday) since reporting began over a month ago. Where are the Marion County cases?
Actual TOTAL ICU admits: 920 since reporting began a month ago (up 20 from yesterday). Where are the Marion County cases??
New Deaths today: 34 to 690 total (includes 41 presumed)
Total Ohio Hospital Beds: 34,000
Total Ohio ICU Beds:2500
Ohio Population; 11.7 million
Still.....All that incredible testing at Marion yielded a short blob of more cases reported, but apparently no big run on hospitalizations or ICU's.
Models still truly "fake news". Still followed by DeWine.

And today's big news out of the Presser is that we will soon have "Surveillance Testing"!! Wow. Big Brother is really watching over us now!!! Yaaaay!

Yeah. MORE TESTING!! Yea Baby!!!

[Masterofreality]

What exactly does this entail?

Just what I said. In DeWine's presser today they will soon invoke random (yes actually called) Surveillance Testing to just check on people who may or may not have the virus. I have no idea where and when it will be done, but I have the vision of Big Brother with a device and swabs in his hands outside a grocery or hardware store swabbing people and taking their temperature as they enter the store. If they have a slight fever, they're sent away.

Very 1984, don't ya think?