Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I explained why already. Perhaps you should ask the foolish protesters.

 

Scientists Say New, Lower CDC Estimates For Severity Of COVID-19 Are Optimistic

Politics may be infecting the cdc.

 

From the article:

 

if i read it right they said 500,000 deaths with no precautions taken, does that seem right?

 

Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

 

Does it assume we don't tighten things back down once we've reopened, even if infection rates go back up?

If so, that death total is what is being considered "optimistic"... seems like it could be seeing as we got to 100K pretty quickly with things locked down.

 

california almost ready to go to phase 3 of their re-opening. did not their govenor say he did not expect large gatherings for the rest of the year, now it looks like theme parks opening in june, what changed?

 

Knowledge

 

These are crazy numbers from PA. This is why we should be opening back up but still sheltering the sick and elderly.

 

if someone over the age of say, 75, wants to go out, are you going to put them under house arrest for their own good?

 

34 States Had Higher Death Rate From 2018 Flu Than Coronavirus

Really informative opinion piece that has facts and data to back it up.

The fact that 34 states had more deaths from the flu in 2018 and Covid19 will shock a lot of people.

 

but how could that be, we had to shelter in place, social distance, destroy our economy for this pandemic,people swore is was much worse than the flu, are theses numbers just pulled out of thin air?

 

Such is the mark of someone who has a lot of faith in his or her statements.

 

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So yeah, About that Stanford study...
A controversial study on coronavirus was partly funded by an airline founder who’s criticized lockdowns, according to a new investigation from BuzzFeed News

 

That's a very poorly-informed partisan piece with the outright purpose of indicting democratic governors. It's poorly-written and demonstrates a complete lack of any statistical validity. The "evidence" is pure cherry-picking. For example . . .

Claims a big reason with no evidence; just a hit job. Fails to mention that those seven states average 7.9 in population density ranking. Take Michigan out and it's top 6 in density. Why did Michigan have a huge outbreak? I'm not entirely sure, but part of it is likely due to the volume of flights from China/Wuhan to Detroit. It sure as hell is not because they have a democratic governor.

Michigan was among the first states to shut down (March 24). Earlier than Florida (April 3), Georgia (April 3), Missouri (April 6), North Carolina (March 30), Tennessee (March 31), Texas (April 2), etc.

When seeking accurate information about a pandemic, Clay Travis sports journalist will not be my primary source.

 

California and Virginia easily had new daily highs today. Partly driven by the weekend slowing reporting for sure but it means me and others here in VA ain’t gettin out anytime soon.
Tomorrow’s numbers will be interesting to see.

 

That sounds like a lot of backpedaling there. Data is in there. When you can’t combat facts you call it a hatchet job. That’s weak.

I see there is no arguing the data. It’s there for everyone to see.

 

This is typical conservative misinformation. For starters, you're comparing a full year for flu to 3 months for covid-19. And your numbers are for flu and pneumonia, not just flu. Let's see the numbers for flu only and for the worst 3 months of 2018 and it might be more comparable. But even then, the flu deaths are estimates, not confirmed cases. There is an actual person's name attached to every covid-19 death. For flu, it's just an educated guess.