The Coronavirus thread

Quote: RonC

We may be getting a little help "spiking" here in Texas...

Unlike the US and Europe, where most of the deaths are people in their late seventies and eighties, the virus is killing Mexicans at a younger age . Nearly half the deaths in Mexico are between 45 and 65

“Many of our middle-aged population develop health problems like diabetes far earlier, and that puts them at risk,” - Eduardo González-Pier, a former deputy health minster in Mexico, WSJ

Overall, 70 percent of Mexicans are overweight and 14 percent are diabetics.

Quote: Tanko

Overall, 70 percent of Mexicans are overweight and 14 percent are diabetics.

I watch travel street food videos
every day. In Mexico you can't
find low carb meals. They all
center around huge amounts
of carb. Corn based or wheat
based tortillas. All kinds of carb
loaded beans. 70% of Mexicans
being fat is no surprise, I'm
surprised it's not 90%.

Rand Paul says the lockdowns were a big mistake. Crippled the economy and haven’t done much to curb Covid-19.

Covid-19 killed nine-one hundred thousandths of one percent of the NYS population yesterday. 18 people out of 20,000,000.

In Florida yesterday, the virus killed seven ten-thousandths of one percent of the population. 140 out of 21,480,000

To date, less than one-half of one percent of the US population has died from Covid-19. 42% of the deaths were in nursing homes, thanks to five democrat governors who forced them to take in Covid patients.

Government response has left 47 million Americans jobless. 32% of households can’t pay their rents, 41% of businesses do not expect to re-open, the economy is expected to shrink 8%, and the only thing keeping people from starving are the trillions in government handouts.

The CBO is predicting a decade of economic pain, and The Conference Board says wage growth will be the slowest in history.

Quote: Tanko

Rand Paul says the lockdowns were a big mistake. Crippled the economy and haven’t done much to curb Covid-19.

Well yea, the USA sucked at this with no national policy and a President that did not take this virus seriously
Other countries shut down and are opening back up
Taiwan, unlike Trump, took this virus very seriously
Taiwan is playing baseball in front of fans

Fox News poll approval ratings of some swing state governors:

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PA Governor Tom Wolf
63% approve
33% disapprove

MN Governor Tim Walz
65% approve
30% disapprove

MI Governor Whitmer
64% approve
33% disapprove

Wasn’t it Duffman who said Gov. Whitmer was going to get voted out because of her tough coronavirus restrictions? lol

Quote: Tanko

Rand Paul says the lockdowns were a big mistake. Crippled the economy and haven’t done much to curb Covid-19.

Italy vs Sweden is the best comparison we have in Europe.
Italy got hit first in Europe and had large numbers of people get sick in April. Sweden had no lockdowns.

Percentage of population that got COVID-19 (eventually Sweden had nearly double the rate of Italy)
0.41% Italy
0.78% Sweden

Percentage of population that got COVID-19 and died (Sweden had more time to plan for treatment of the sick so death rate by cases was about half)
14.3% Italy
7.2% Sweden

Deaths per 100,000 people are nearly identical
58.1 Italy
56.4 Sweden (still dying in Sweden so it will almost certainly pass Italy by the end of the summer or end of year)

By the end of the year, Sweden may end up with the highest death rate in Europe except for miniscule countries. The lack of quarantines minimized the emotional impact, but ended up being far more deadly.

You cannot catch COVID while protesting - COVID knows who the protestors are versus who is grocery shopping
That's just science and if you don't believe it you are racist

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1286496707644186626?s=20

Quote: aceofspades

You cannot catch COVID while protesting

Well Yea
I've protested a ton in my life, never got Covid :-)

Quote: Pacomartin

The lack of quarantines minimized the emotional impact, but ended up being far more deadly.

I think that the economic impact in Sweden has likely been far less as well Paco. I also don't think we can say that it was far more deadly in Sweden because Covid is far from over and we have no idea yet whether lockdowns will reduce the final death counts by much if any. Remember the powers that be instituted lockdowns to flatten the curve and save the hospitals from being overloaded they have never said that it will reduce the final number of people who end up getting Covid. If by some miracle we get a vaccine in a reasonable time frame then we might reduce the total number who catch the disease by slowing its spread.

Brazilian president Bolsonaro shows negative results from Covid 19 after being positive since July 7th from taking HCQ.

https://youtu.be/fqHfxBKSZPQ