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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
It has nothing to do with what kind of cloth rural America is cut from. It has everything to do with how many doctors (particularly e.r. doctors) hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators they have per capita as well as the distance from the average resident to one of those ICU beds, not to mention that resources on a macro level to do things like turn massive convention centers into impromptu emergency wards and anyone care to venture a guess on percentage of elderly.

Milli, however, does have a good point though on spacing, which will work in Rural America's favor.
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As of Wednesday afternoon, there were at least 490 confirmed coronavirus cases reported in Dougherty County and at least 29 coronavirus-related deaths, the Georgia Department of Public Health said.
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That's a 5.9% mortality rate. I'm willing to concede Milli's point about spacing contributing to a lower infection rate, but the lack of health resources relative to the cities is absolutely going to result in a higher mortality rate among those who contract.
 
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But they are being hampered: because some pharmaceutical companies are failing to share all of the data on potential candidate treatments that they hold. Like toilet roll profiteers, they are keeping it stashed in their digital attics and cellars where others cannot get at it, on the grounds that it is commercially confidential.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/02/coronavirus-vaccine-big-pharma-data

All of these companies (at least the American ones) operate under the umbrella of state and federal licensing. If they don't cooperate in a manner to find a vaccine in the quickest way possible, they should lose that licensing.
 
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That's almost ten times the number of claims (695K) that were filed in one week in 1982, which was the record number before the 3.28 million for the week ending March 21st. Unemployment will soon be at the highest level since the 1930s.

We'll soon be looking at programs like the WPA, the CCC, and the TVA - which were all part of the 'Alphabet Soup' of programs during the 1930s which FDR and Congress started in the Great Depression.
 
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BB73 said:
That's almost ten times the number of claims (695K) that were filed in one week in 1982, which was the record number before the 3.28 million for the week ending March 21st. Unemployment will soon be at the highest level since the 1930s.

We'll soon be looking at programs like the WPA, the CCC, and the TVA - which were all part of the 'Alphabet Soup' of programs during the 1930s which FDR and Congress started in the Great Depression.
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If only the latter were true.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
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That's a 5.9% mortality rate. I'm willing to concede Milli's point about spacing contributing to a lower infection rate, but the lack of health resources relative to the cities is absolutely going to result in a higher mortality rate among those who contract.
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Also age. In Colorado at least, the median age in some of the rural counties is over 50. In Denver, it and most other urban/suburban counties it's in the ball park of 35.
 
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I'm still waiting to hear an explanation of how businesses are going to manage workers and stay open when millions more start getting sick due to lack of mitigation.

Businesses will see a bump for a few weeks, and when everyone else start getting sick and then have to close again due to lack of workers and lack of revenue coming in, it'll be the exact same story once again. Only then it will take much longer for everything to peak and level out.
 
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