Covid-19

[Lloyd Braun]

That’s another problem with the fear mongering. People are scared to go to the doctor or the hospital so instead if really sick might die. The whole thing from the get go is a cluster fuck that hasn’t done much good. Hopefully we learn not to overreact in the future and weigh the pros and cons of an entire nation vs the minority.

Perhaps the current plan for reopening will pan out, but I was under the impression that we would develop a certain plan going forward so that businesses would stay open once open. It seems like this current plan in Ohio is a “let’s see how it goes” approach versus a definitive fool-proof plan. As a nation we are 3+ months into this, why haven’t we developed a rapid home test or something similar that can be mass produced? If you’re sick, stay home. If you’re not sick, go to work with precautions. It just seems that we missed a giant opportunity to nip this in the bud.

[Masterofreality]

Numbers can be spun in any direction. For example, as of today, which country has the highest rate of new deaths normalized by population? It’s Sweden, averaging 6.8 deaths/day per million people over the last 7 days.

Not saying I side with this article, but for every op-Ed or slanted article posted, there is always a reasonable counterpoint.

Fair. What you post is true. But, of course, the article was written from a UK perspective, where the Deaths per million is 501, vs Sweden's 361. And the models that projected Sweden's cases, the Imperial model, has been shown to be horribly inaccurate at best.

Meanwhile, while the "National Leaders" (I'll un-name to protect the Innocent) are under fire here in the US, America's death rate per million is only 263.
It would be a helluva lot lower too, if those "lauded" governors in the Northeast wouldn't have screwed up by sending 5,400 elderly to their deaths by ordering at risk folks back into the nursing homes and reduced the subway schedules to force more people to pack onto less trains. Nice nursing home decision by New Jersey too where over half the deaths are from the Nursing Home population.

[Juice]

Here is a new one, the city of Boston has to stay locked down because not enough people have been exposed to covid 19.

Boston’s mayor has put his plans for reopening the city on ice after a new study revealed that nearly 90% of residents haven’t been exposed to the coronavirus.

Mayor Marty Walsh had intended to gradually lift Boston’s lockdown starting Monday but changed his mind when he learned of the findings. Other parts of Massachusetts, however, are beginning to restart their economies.

“We can draw two preliminary conclusions from the results of this study,” Walsh said at a news conference Friday. “First, that the actions we took early on in this pandemic made a real difference in slowing the spread and, second, that the majority of our population still have not been exposed to the virus. This underscores what we already know, that we have to move cautiously and stay focused on what got us this far.”

https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/boston...ium=SocialFlow

Our government "leaders" are making up new shit as they go. It's also worth mentioning that Marty Walsh is one step above Tony Soprano.

[X Factor]

Here's what liberals truly believe...can't wait until they find a vaccine.

[xudash]

Here's what liberals truly believe...can't wait until they find a vaccine.

Biden just found his running mate for VP.

She is even more off her rocker then he is off his.

[Masterofreality]

Here's what liberals truly believe...can't wait until they find a vaccine.

Glad that she's advocating getting rid of herself. #Jeezuz

[Muskie in dayton]

Here’s some positive news about long-term immunity. It also may explain how so many infections are asymptomatic.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...term-immunity#

[JTG]

I'm 70, and 9-10 weeks into this, I still don't know of anyone who has had Covid 19. The article about T cells is very interesting. People in my age group mostly all had measles, chicken pox, and mumps as children. Could there be some lifetime T cell based immunity some of us developed ? I just find it strange that of all the people in their 60s and 70s I know, no one is ill. This includes 100 or so volunteers at the Hospital where I volunteered or the 40 or so people I played pickleball with every day.

[xavierj]

I'm 70, and 9-10 weeks into this, I still don't know of anyone who has had Covid 19. The article about T cells is very interesting. People in my age group mostly all had measles, chicken pox, and mumps as children. Could there be some lifetime T cell based immunity some of us developed ? I just find it strange that of all the people in their 60s and 70s I know, no one is ill. This includes 100 or so volunteers at the Hospital where I volunteered or the 40 or so people I played pickleball with every day.

I am in my late forty’s and have been working the whole time and I don’t know anyone either. None of my family or friends know anyone who has got it either. Really strange to be honest for something that is supposed to be super contagious. I have been to the Hone Depot a lot lately and the place is always packed yet where I live it just isn’t happening. Maybe we all developed some kind of immunity to it.

[bjf123]

.....Really strange to be honest for something that is supposed to be super contagious.....

That’s a question I’d love to have someone ask Fauci, Acton, any of the medical professionals we keep hearing from. If this is so contagious, it’s probably safe to assume there are millions, maybe tens of millions, of people infected who are either asymptomatic, or recovered on their own. If that’s true, then the disease is nowhere near as fatal as we’ve been lead to believe. The fatality rate would be fractions of a percent.

If that’s not the case, then it’s not as contagious as we’ve been told. Again, that makes it not as fatal as we’ve been lead to believe. Yes, I know that social distancing is having an impact on the spread of the disease. Still, it seems to be not nearly as serious of a problem as we’ve been told.


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