Covid-19

[Muskie in dayton]

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/commun...2e06b5538f.png

Here is the chart (a few days old, it looks even better now) showing cases clearly declining.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-full-episodes

Here is the NBC Nightly news from last night (about the 5:30 mark) saying how Georgia cases have surged 64% since beginning to reopen. OK, the total cases are still going up, but at a greatly declining rate. Talk about some media bullshit! There used to be days with ~900 new cases, now it’s more like a dozen. But they sure can scare the shit out of the old ladies in the retirement home! Like my mother who watches the news (against our wishes) then says “I was sure I’d be dead by now!”

I know, I know....what do you expect......


EDIT: one of the peak days (4/27) was 920 confirmed new cases. So far today there a grand total of 3 (THREE!) confirmed new cases, and just 24 hours ago NBC used said cases “SURGED 64%” since opening up. That is deliberately misleading and inexcusable fear mongering!

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Tonight, NBC had “unreleased new data” showing “a 72% surge in cases where States have reopened”. Top secret never before seen data!

Oh, and color me shocked that there was no response to my email inquiry as to the source of the data in the story you mention above.

It’s a downright lie.

[Muskie in dayton]

Meanwhile, in Sweden, cases continue to drop, and intensive care beds and deaths have plummeted to a level so low they haven’t seen them since mid-March. WITHOUT EVER SHUTTING DOWN:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...6f9f87457ed9aa

[Muskie in dayton]

This is a hell of a side effect from stay at home and unemployment. Hopefully this study is way off!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ns/3081706001/

So we will kill 150k people saving maybe a few thousand had we ended this lockdown a month ago when it became apparent it wasn’t nearly as bad as the model predicted. Way to see the big picture Fauci et al.

[Muskie in dayton]

1 sneeze= 200,000,000 virus particles.

Nice useless and baseless scare tactic that means nothing. Do you work for NBC?

I’m glad your fellow Georgians are feeling so much better.

[xu82]

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Tonight, NBC had “unreleased new data” showing “a 72% surge in cases where States have reopened”. Top secret never before seen data!

Oh, and color me shocked that there was no response to my email inquiry as to the source of the data in the story you mention above.

It’s a downright lie.

Technically, I think it MAY be (almost) statistically accurate, but it is definitely deliberately misleading. Georgia was having about 900 new cases per day when reopening. The new cases are dropping rapidly, but for many days the total was very high, so that was increasing the total cases since the beginning. They ignore the trend because it’s positive, and focus on how many more cases there are overall.

There is a guy who is “owning” this topic on my NFL message board. He’s a mod and has a PhD in microbiology. He worked in Big Pharma and university research he for decades. He agrees it’s deliberately misleading and alarmist, but did the math and says it’s closer to a 53% increase. Still a big number, still BS by the media to not present the full picture.

Either way, it’s just plain wrong.

[xu82]

This is a hell of a side effect from stay at home and unemployment. Hopefully this study is way off!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ns/3081706001/

Well.........THAT was cheery!

I’m ashamed to say how little this has affected me so far. I fully realize the deep impact of all this, but my life has changed because I can’t go out to lunch every day and I just walk instead of playing tennis. I guess hearing my wife work from home impacts me. Hell, the fact that she’s in the same city makes it different!

[Xville]

These past two months have been absolute hell for me and I know there are others in much worse situations than I am so I almost feel guilty for saying how shitty this has been.

Working from home with 3 year old twins is not possible yet company still expects the numbers (I'm in sales.) Its been absolutely miserable for me to basically be confined to.my home day after day after day...feel like I'm in groundhog day.

I will never understand people who like working from home, I absolutely hate it, even when the kids are in daycare.

[xu82]

These past two months have been absolute hell for me and I know there are others in much worse situations than I am so I almost feel guilty for saying how shitty this has been.

Working from home with 3 year old twins is not possible yet company still expects the numbers (I'm in sales.) Its been absolutely miserable for me to basically be confined to.my home day after day after day...feel like I'm in groundhog day.

I will never understand people who like working from home, I absolutely hate it, even when the kids are in daycare.

I enjoyed working from home, but I also enjoyed a little camaraderie at the office when I chose it. I had an ideal gig for me, and I miss it!

My wife is on calls and webex all day. She has ENORMOUS empathy for those who have kids at home. Brings it up several times a week. Good luck to you!

[Masterofreality]

1 sneeze= 200,000,000 virus particles.

So wear a F-ing mask!

I'm admittedly conservative, but have zero problem wearing one.

[boozehound]

So we will kill 150k people saving maybe a few thousand had we ended this lockdown a month ago when it became apparent it wasn’t nearly as bad as the model predicted. Way to see the big picture Fauci et al.

To be fair, that appears to be just an extrapolation based on the forecasted impact of a recession that we don't know the severity of. It's more 'fear porn' just aimed in a different direction. I believe there is absolutely a toll here, but 150K seems aggressive. Although their cover their bases be forecasting a huge range. It's just another model that is probably inaccurate, much like the ones that MOR has posted about 154,245,592 times.