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

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Bucklion said:
The problem is for families that have 2 parents that have to work, or single parents who have to work, what the hell can they/we do? There’s no ability to sit at home with kids who don’t go to school, and even if you can work from home, there’s no 3-4 hours available to teach the kids (mine is small, with older kids it could be different). Plus, bosses are already getting COVID fatigue, so the flexible schedules aren’t going to last forever either. It looks like most Ohio schools are going hybrid...which is going to fuck a lot of people.
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Thump said:
Hence why I said 100% in or 100% out as much as I hate to say it.
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Good points. I was thinking about high school aged kids, though. Which is my situation. The younger kids - well, I think you guys are right.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
20% of the population would not be sick at the same time, not to mention the article is over two months old. Hell, the article even postulates the US having 80% of the population having the virus simultaneously...no virus in the history of mankind has infected 80% of a massive, dispersed population at the same time.
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How can you know that with this very contagious bug 20% of the population wouldn't get sick at the same time? It's hitting the most populated states right now.
And even if it doesn't hit 20% it's still way more contagious than a flu and the simple math would tell you that the cost would be much higher. and 46 million Americans out of work increases the chance of a high percentage of people being sick.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
So many people try to trash the US's approach to COVID between comparing case and death rates with other countries, particularly those with significantly lower rates (EU in this instance), when it reality the EU may not be as successful as their suspicious reporting suggests.
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I'm saying that if we're going to raise our brow at others, doesn't that apply here too?
Not sure what your point about Florida is.
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Florida has been reported for months to be the polar opposite of the towns that may be overreporting covid. Withholding nursing home data (for awhile) and not reporting hospitalization data.

Now they allegedly fired someone who is claiming she was pressured to alter data. Even if it turns out she's lying and not "them" there's still a lot of gamesmanship with the data.


Meanwhile Houston appears to be maxing out in some spots :(
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-hospitals-hit-100-base-ICU-capacity-15372256.php?utm_campaign=CMS Sharing Tools (Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
 
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This past weekend I had to run to Home Depot (for a new hose so the kids can play with the sprinkler) and Kroger for more baby formula.

I cannot tell you how frustrated I get when people don't wear a mask. I know it's hot and itchy makes it stuffy to breathe.
But I miss sports so damn much my soul aches and if wearing a mask gets us a tiny bit closer to getting them back, wouldn't you do it?

Also, this:

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My wife wanted to go out to eat on her birthday, so we went to an outdoor cafe on the beach (Fort Lauderdale area). On the way to the restaurant, for the first time ever, we were part of the 1%. In this case it was the 1% who were wearing masks. It was a Friday evening and it was busier than most cities will ever get, but for a weekend evening on the beach in Fort Lauderdale it was... less crazy than it would otherwise be. That was over 2 weeks ago and still no symptoms... *knocks on wood*
 
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Bucklion said:
Plus, bosses are already getting COVID fatigue, so the flexible schedules aren’t going to last forever either.
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If there's anything that's become evident out of the working during Covid, then it's definitely dispensing with the notion that # hrs worked a week = productivity. People can and will be productive in shorter time spans when the incentives are correct. I work with some people that panty-bind as though salaried people should be conscientious of the time clock, and it's refreshing to see that they're argument has gone straight to the shitter.
 
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jwinslow said:
I'm saying that if we're going to raise our brow at others, doesn't that apply here too?
Florida has been reported for months to be the polar opposite of the towns that may be overreporting covid. Withholding nursing home data (for awhile) and not reporting hospitalization data.
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Obviously data should be reported as accurately as possible, period. But when entire nations, and not a county or two here are there, are blatantly publishing clearly bullshit data, pointing that out is not "raising our brows".
 
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Taosman said:
How can you know that with this very contagious bug 20% of the population wouldn't get sick at the same time? It's hitting the most populated states right now.
And even if it doesn't hit 20% it's still way more contagious than a flu and the simple math would tell you that the cost would be much higher. and 46 million Americans out of work increases the chance of a high percentage of people being sick.
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Even when the infection rate was at its absolute peak even in Italy, the infection rate was no where near 20% of the population. In fact, Italy has had a grand total of 240,436 cases (as of the time I'm typing this) out of a total population of over 60M...meaning that just over 0.4% of the population has had it over there course of four months. Even taking the absolute worst 7-day-average of 5,634 cases, and assuming the average infection lasts less than a week, Italy had no more than 40,000 active cases (0.067% of the national population) at any time. Yet, you reference an article the postulates an infection rate 300 times higher.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Even when the infection rate was at its absolute peak even in Italy, the infection rate was no where near 20% of the population. In fact, Italy has had a grand total of 240,436 cases (as of the time I'm typing this) out of a total population of over 60M...meaning that just over 0.4% of the population has had it over there course of four months. Even taking the absolute worst 7-day-average of 5,634 cases, and assuming the average infection lasts less than a week, Italy had no more than 40,000 active cases (0.067% of the national population) at any time. Yet, you reference an article the postulates an infection rate 300 times higher.
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Coronavirus: could it be burning out after 20% of a population is infected?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-could-burning-20-population-125914328.html


Interesting article suggesting that it may be flaming out around the 20% mark total.

Also noted that even among cruise / military ships testing was only finding 20% infection rates... coincidental? Maybe.

Either way, this thing is strange. Between the antibodies for those infected seemingly going away, the number of asymptotic, and what appears to be some limiting factor and the TCell response that some have which seems to be a pre-immunity... this is a very strange virus.
 
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