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March 29th, 2020 at 4:09:13 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | I live in MI. 98.7% of covid cases are in the Detroit area. I live in W MI in a county that has 650,000 people. We have 53 reported cases and one death. Which is almost nothing. And we're only adding a couple new cases a day, even with round the clock testing. A NYC hospital doc said last night almost all covid is spread hand to mouth, not by air. He's 100% sure he'll never get it because he constantly washes his hands and NEVER touches his face. Most covid he said is spread to family members, not strangers. In Detroit you have, in the poor sections, 8-10-12 people living is a single house. Get some Millennial smart ass kid who doesn't care and he spreads it to everybody in the house. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 29th, 2020 at 4:12:16 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
The problem is we have no accuracy on the rates. It is almost guaranteed that a large percentage of the population are not getting ill enough to end up in a hospital and into the stats. I was reading a published letter from a NYC doctor who had 5 patients one night all in their 20's. All had coughs and thought they were having trouble breathing. He chest X-rayed them. 4 had clean X-rays and were sent home WITHOUT A COVID TEST. The fifth one had a bad chest X-ray and was admitted to hospital and ended up on a ventilator later that night. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
March 29th, 2020 at 4:46:58 PM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4157 |
Maybe how about we not think about it until we don't need to use dormitories as hospitals? Until we don't need to use a hallway as an ICU? Until we don't need to use a refrigerator truck as a makeshift morgue? At some point we will need to move on, and you are correct that the deaths that occur after we open up the economy will be highlighted by the media to excess. But please trust me, that time is not yet. Not even close. |
March 29th, 2020 at 5:15:45 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
Relevant to these numbers of flu deaths, Trump wants to extend social distancing time through April 30 in order to keep Covid-19 deaths below 100,000. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/president-trump-extends-national-social-distancing-guidelines-through-april-30.html Those flu deaths happened without such extreme social distancing measures as we are being told to follow now. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
March 30th, 2020 at 1:10:59 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18631 | Wondering if SOOPOO has heard any similar descriptions from colleagues on how Covid19 patients are dying. "Can appear to be stable, and then rather suddenly desaturate and die." I assume those are the ventilator patients. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 30th, 2020 at 2:00:26 AM permalink | |
RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 2452 |
Are these things accounted for in any of the numbers being used: --the number of flu deaths is not nearly what it could be per year based on the fact that a vaccine prevents many cases of it each year. --is every death that shows a positive Covad-19 test being shown as a death due to "complications of Covad-19"...in other words, are some deaths being wrongly attributed when other causes, not exacerbated by Covid-19, may have caused the death? There are still too many people dying, of course. I still see family outings to the grocery store. The more people who go from one family unit, the more chances of one of them being infected on the trip. My wife saw people out playing soccer yesterday...that isn't as close contact as basketball, but it does have a lot of close contact. They were also arriving in cars with 4-5 people appearing to be from different families in them. I don't think everyone truly gets "social distancing"... |
March 30th, 2020 at 2:49:57 AM permalink | |
Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 1964 | 98 dead in less than seven hours yesterday in NYC. Mortality rate 2.3%. |
March 30th, 2020 at 3:54:20 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 | Hillary Clinton under fire for joke about US leading in virus cases: Trump 'did promise America First' I said after the election the real reason not to vote for this woman is because she is an awful human being. She proves it once again. The President is a fink. |
March 30th, 2020 at 4:40:47 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12420 |
lol... when Donny tries to trigger the opposite side on Twitter the righties love it. When Hillary does the same thing.... well, just look at their reaction. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
March 30th, 2020 at 4:54:34 AM permalink | |
RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 2452 |
It was a poor joke. Why won't you admit it? What is she doing to help? |