COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (5 Viewers)

[SaintRob]

I guess the question is did they lockdown NOLA in time and well enough for the rest of the state / region? I'm assuming probably not.

I would argue that the "lockdown" that has occurred is not nearly as extensive as theirs.

 

[bonnjer]

Gov. Cuomo says Covid patients are requiring ventilation for an average of 11 - 20 days.

Sounds to me like they need to start rigging those ventilators to handle multiple patients like we've seen in previous posts from around the world.

 

[bclemms]

This data set is amazing. It also shows how the outbreak traveled. Basically, The west coast got hit first by direct flights from Asia, and then the East Coast got hit from Europe, while also west coast travel started infecting the east coast and central parts.

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nextstrain.org

That's really cool but it's wrong due to testing bias.

I guarantee NYC and the West coast both had cases growing nearly simultaneously.

 

[bclemms]

It took the USA 1 month to go get to 50,000 cases. It took 3 days to get to 75,000 cases from 50k.

 

[bclemms]

Why are there still no recovered numbers showing for the US?

It's at 619 at the moment. It's showing on every data sight I'm looking at.

Recovery numbers aren't very important because they aren't accurate because we don't even have enough tests to test the sick, let alone the ones we think have recovered. So recovery numbers are a lot higher than the official numbers.

Thankfully media hasn't been showing death to recovery ratios to fear monger.

 

[Dago]

I believe he started breaking it down because on fox’s news they where pushing this narrative.

but the important thing is that nobody was pushing it on this site

 

[Eeyore]

I also want the US border to stay closed down - I don't want cases crossing the border from the States. Nobody else here does, either.

When the U.S. sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing viruses.

 

[Brennan77]

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So should I keep drinking gin and tonics or not?

 

[buzd]

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So should I keep drinking gin and tonics or not?

I already quit the tonic. Too much sugar. Need more gin though.

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

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So should I keep drinking gin and tonics or not?

Only if you're out of bourbon.

 

[Goatman Saint]

That's really cool but it's wrong due to testing bias.

I guarantee NYC and the West coast both had cases growing nearly simultaneously.

not so sure of that. New York is way more densely populated. Also, SF where this started in California had employers going remote for employees and they sheet down the SF bay region really quick. While NY was saying party on it’s not a worry the 5 counties were already locked down.

 

[DaveXA]

but the important thing is that nobody was pushing it on this site

I'm not gonna go back and dig it up because it's not really necessary, but this very subject has been discussed a bit already. Obviously, some of the related posts kinda disappeared for obvious reasons, heh.

 

[itztime]

I'll have to buy some Hormel products next time I place my Walmart grocery pickup order. I really like when companies do something like. It shows they're trying to make it not completely about money.

.......and Tito's Vodka for helping with the sanitizer .

 

[RazorOye]

to be honest, I didn't think that there was anything "petty" in what Silver was doing. And it certainly wasn't my intention.

I would hope that my participation in this thread would have made that more than clear.

I was responding to a post about breaking down data by region/state. And I came across that tweet and felt like it merited inclusion. It was my understanding that both of these dynamics had already taken place in this thread.

I'll elaborate.

First, the tweet broke down by geographic region.

South, NYC, West, Northeast, etc. We've been talking about that in this thread. State cases. NOLA cases. Washington. California. NYC.

What's the objection to the first tweet?

The second, I understand the objection a bit more - but I didn't see it as deliberately being inflammatory.

I didn't think that it was supposed to be a case of "Trump states are dumb and Clinton states are not."

I mean, he made it clear that NYC has the most cases and is increasing at an alarming amount. It's not as if he is hiding that fact or downplaying it. People like @HburgSaints made the comment as if he didn't make it clear that NYC was increasing in cases. He 100% was.

So I'm not sure why it was interpreted another way.

We've also talked in this thread about people who are more likely to brush off the dangers of the virus because they are buying into White House 'noise' versus what's coming from Fauci, for example.

That's been in this thread. Maybe it's been less explicit, but I've seen it - and I didn't see anyone objecting to it.

Now, I'm not going to defend the tweet as being necessary to the discussion if people really got rankled over it.

I'm fine taking the second one down.

I just didn't feel that it made the commentary that some people felt and, further, that it was somehow not in this thread prior.

 

[Dago]

I'm not gonna go back and dig it up because it's not really necessary, but this very subject has been discussed a bit already. Obviously, some of the related posts kinda disappeared for obvious reasons, heh.