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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. 96Gatorcise

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  2. G8R8U2

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    You're old enough to have kids? :confused:
     
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  3. gators81

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    He didn’t say “his” kids, he said “the kids”.
     
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    I like to think I’m young at heart anyways
     
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  6. WC53

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    Interesting. I know scientists have been looking to understand super spreaders vs non spreaders.

    Could you try and link articles with mono syllabic words please. :)

    Go Gators
     
  7. ncargat1

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    Indeed would be interesting. I do not understand, and was listening to the former Director of Switzerland's CDC equivalent and he said the same thing, how can we be running all of these studies knowing full well how flawed the testing has been, and then draw conclusions. Especially the antibodies tests that have an accuracy variable that only increases when there has been known widespread community spread.
     
  8. oragator1

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    Overall deaths are down so far today. Arizona is the exception though, crushed their daily deaths previous high. Had been 117 and was their only other day over 100, 147 today.
     
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    It wasn't my analogy. The point is the circumstances now, with covid, are vastly different than the circumstances in a typical flu year. And you know that. But for some reason you must disagree with the obvious. Here's an analogy from me: You're looking at a red house, and someone says 'that's a red house', and you say, nope, that's a green house.
     
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  11. gator95

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    Good try, but you’re wrong again. Keep spinning!
     
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    Yep it was spot on. Good post.
     
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    Did you just pull a...

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  14. 96Gatorcise

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  15. AzCatFan

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    New study from S. Korea that shows kids under 10 spread the virus at a rate about 1/2 that of adults, but kids 10-19 show equal spread rates. Not conclusive, as it only studied kids who had symptoms, so asymptomatic spread may not take place. But at the same time, how frequent does a kid in class have a sniffle and it's nothing other than allergies or the end of a minor cold? And how would a teacher be able to discern the difference?
     
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  16. oragator1

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    813 deaths today so far after 741 last week. Consistent with most of this week, up 10 percent from last week.
     
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    according to worldometer there were 990,000 tests recorded today with 63,180 positive,frankly i was surprised the positive number was not higher,have had higher numbers the last 4 or 5 days with about 100,000-125,000 less daily tests.
     
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    Good heavens, our response in this country is beyond embarrassing. Was talking to a relative tonight in Nova Scotia, they haven’t had a case in 7 days, had a couple the week prior and they contact traced them right away and stopped the spread.
    When things started, they all shut down for two weeks and killed it. They put a bubble around the Maritime provinces so it couldn’t get in, and are already essentially back to normal And virus free.

    And then there’s us. Politicians should be in jail for malfeasance and involuntary manslaughter.
     
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  19. dangolegators

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    Meanwhile Trump is trying to remove spending on testing and contact tracing from a Senate bill the Republicans are working on.
     
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  20. duchen

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    They did this all over the world. Not in most of this country. They have fans at baseball games in South Korea. Fans at the PSG soccer game last week. Premier League, La Liga, Serie A playing. Travel on EU. Without spread. Without hospitals overwhelmed. The Trump policy has been they the “cure can’t be worse than the disease?” Looking at the rest of the world, he was wrong. And virology and epidemiology would have predicted. But, he calculated that the shut downs would hurt him more than disease spread, sickness, hospitalizations that overwhelm capacities, and increased death numbers. So they abandoned the world wide pandemic and want to Blame others. And now they want to suppress information and to eliminate support for testing that brings bad news. It isn’t just Trump’s stupidity that “tests are the cause of the problem, no tests, no problem.” It is their implementation of policies to promote disease spread, and to try to suppress information, they is so despicable. Because information is bad for Trump. Because it documents their failure. So, hide facts. The word for them is evil.
     
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