Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

"The ones that use "fun starting and ending dates" to make their hypothesis looks good. Only biased or ignorant people believe that garbage."

Data window (to study a state mandate that began on July 3 and a county-level mandate in addition that started on July 15):

July 8, 2020-August 12, 2020

So are you ignorant or biased?

 

Mask mandates are not going to work very well to minimize the spread, illness or death from covid if people dont follow the mandate. One doesn’t need a study to know that.

 

Did Texas cases jump up immediately after end date?

 

Case totals in Texas were in a dramatic increase in the weeks leading up to July 8, then were falling rapidly after August 12. So if the "before" period included the week before and the after dates included another week or two at the end, the results would have shown more effect. I mean, it is still a garbage research design, but that is just factually true. Why do you suppose that they chose to have a "before" period that started after the statewide mandate was implemented?

 

Email the study authors. I'm sure they will get back to you quickly Skippy.

 

Haha, let me know when the denial subsides, sport. But you didn't answer my question based on your own claims: ignorance or bias on your part in posting it? I am just wondering.

 

I'm so happy that this thread has become a strictly gator95 vs. the world thing again. It's so tiresome.

 

Agree. Some people just won't quit.

 

The mods have the power to ban a single user from a thread, that would greatly improve this thread.

 

He hasn't really done anything ban worthy though.

 

Why would you want to ban someone or censor someone? If you don’t like something just scroll on by.

 

That's what I thought the first couple dozen times he bulldogged his point until everyone stopped trying to correct his incorrect statements. I'm kind of tired of it.

 

Because he is upset I called him out on the BS article he posted. That's all.

 

Just because he isn’t violating any rules doesn’t mean he isn’t trolling. And frankly, IMO, he’s ruining the condensed COVID thread. Maybe we should be able to start other threads on COVID so his trolling doesn’t dominate the conversation every day? Just an idea.

We could all simultaneously agree to ignore him. That might be the way to go.

I’ll start. Bye bye sport.

 

I used to feel this way too but at this point it's as much on the people responding as it is on 95.

 

He has good contributions on other subjects, I don't know why this particular topic is such a blindspot for him.

 

you?

 

where were you 6 months ago for me???????

 

Child Covid-19 Cases Rise in States Where Schools Opened Earliest

The recent spread of the highly contagious Delta variant has thrown back-to-school plans into disarray, temporarily driving tens of thousands of students back to virtual learning or pausing instruction altogether.

Since the school year kicked off in late July, at least 1,000 schools across 31 states have closed because of Covid-19, according to Burbio, a Pelham, N.Y., data service that is monitoring school closures at 1,200 districts nationwide, including the 200 largest.

The shutdowns are hitting classrooms especially hard in the Deep South, where most schools were among the first to open, a possible warning of what’s to come as the rest of the nation’s students start school this month.

In Mississippi, 13,715 students have tested positive for Covid-19 since most schools inaugurated the new academic year in early August, sending more than 20,000 students into quarantine for each of the past three weeks, as of Aug. 31, according to the state health department. In New Mexico, nearly 10% of the state’s 317,000 students have spent time in quarantine, state data show. And in Georgia, more than half of the state’s outbreaks for the week ended Aug. 27 were linked to schools, according to the state health department.

 

I don’t think it’s ban worthy, but there definitely needs to be more moderation of posts. Just like starting a thread requires commentary, posting charts and articles should also require explanations followed by answering reasonable questions. You cannot continue to post things and do nothing more than tell everyone how stupid they are because you disagree with their interpretation. You can’t refuse to discuss the things you post on a discussion board. Kind of defeats the purpose.