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

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Fungo Squiggly said:
Ohhhh.....can we give them the Ned Ryerson treatment?
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Taosman said:
The Covid 19 water has been "muddied" intentionally by some(Florida? Georgia.etc). And some people like Mili with an agenda. And that makes it prone to conspiracy theories. I am not hiding under some bed. I will continue to provide information and let the people decide it's worth/truth.
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Taosman said:
some people like Mili with an agenda
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What's your "agenda" if I might ask
 
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Taosman said:
The Covid 19 water has been "muddied" intentionally by some(Florida? Georgia.etc). And some people like Mili with an agenda. And that makes it prone to conspiracy theories. I am not hiding under some bed. I will continue to provide information and let the people decide it's worth/truth.
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If you think that what you are doing is providing people with unbiased and quality information as a service for them to make good decisions, you’re a Covidiot.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
:lol: Explain what my "agenda" is, tin-foil man...
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I would guess it's promoting the Fox News point of view, as usual.

Back on topic, I'm a bit encouraged by the fact that deaths aren't tracking upward at the same rate cases are. And the case count can be a bit deceiving. But we're still in the midst of a seriously dangerous, contagious pandemic. And I'd love to see college football this autumn, but I don't see a cohesive plan right now that would allow it to happen safely. Hope that changes.
 
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MaxBuck said:
I would guess it's promoting the Fox News point of view, as usual.
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Wrong, as usual. By the way, here's a non-Fox post for ya:

Study says actual number of Covid-19 cases is far greater than thought

MaxBuck said:
Back on topic, I'm a bit encouraged by the fact that deaths aren't tracking upward at the same rate cases are. And the case count can be a bit deceiving. But we're still in the midst of a seriously dangerous, contagious pandemic. And I'd love to see college football this autumn, but I don't see a cohesive plan right now that would allow it to happen safely. Hope that changes.
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I'm fairly sure I mentioned a while back that if we opened up and cases rose, the death rate would not rise nearly to the same degree simply because most of the folks going out after the "re-opening" would be younger folks, as thus less likely to be fatalities. I will admit, though, that the death rate has gone up more than I had guessed.
 
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Comparison of the slopes of increase for cases and deaths since the SDMA started its increase around Jun 12 (I started the slope for the death rate from the point it started increasing, around Jul 6).

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desert_buckeye said:
What's your "agenda" if I might ask
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I have been clear my priority is to stop the spread. That means more "patience" in a shutdown. We see what happened when states "skipped" through the CDC "process" . "Daily deaths" don't tell us the whole story and are misleading as the virus even effects babies. Stopping the spread of the virus is "job #1". The long term damage to peoples lives, going back to work will be impossible if the spread is left unchecked. There will be no "herd immunity: That's a lie. Everything (work, football, sports)depends on stopping the virus.
 
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It's great that "Daily Deaths" trended down till now but look at the "upturn" in Mili's chart. That is not good. Hopefully that will "level off" but when will that happen? How many will die before any leveling?
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Well, once we stop worrying about COVID, we can start worrying about TB:

Tuberculosis is a global pandemic, killing someone approximately every 21 seconds — about 1.5 million in 2018 alone.
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I mean....yeah, we should. If we want to pretend like we care about people in other countries.

In the US in 2017, a total of 515 people died from it for the whole year. So given the current daily deaths from COVID, that's about 12 hours of COVID deaths....so maybe its understandable that the US isn't particularly worried about it on a grand scale? Not to mention that there is a vaccine available for those that may be at risk or exposed. All of Europe in 2016 had 26,000 deaths from TB versus the ~200,000 Europeans or so that have died from COVID in the past 6 months.
 
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