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The raw numbers look good until you realize they only have a little over half a million people in the entire state and they've only tested about 800 people. And if you do get sick and need a hospital, you're gonna be in a Wyoming hospital. LOL!

New cases per day is probably a pretty poor tracker right now considering our lack of testing and the very specific symptoms you have to have to qualify for testing. Hospitalizations is probably the better barometer. The overall percentage of people requiring hospitalization is probably fairly stable. The problem with that metric is it's like looking into a crystal ball into the past because most people don't end up in the hospital until 10-12 days after exposure and then the average incubation period is 4-5 days.

There's probably a strong overlap between these people and the people who stopped drinking Corona beer.

dumbass people will do dumbass things

Agreed. There's gonna be serious backlash against China and likely serious repercussions following this. I feel for the Chinese people who will likely bear the brunt of the suffering from it, but yeah... fug their government.

My point was that if the warned poster doesn't make it known, then you'll never know. I guess that went over your head.

FYI, warnings aren't publicly visible. Unless the poster comes back publicly whining, no one knows it happened.

Something I found very interesting is that the data that Colorado is using for their models is accounting for 82% asymptomatic under the age of 30, 53% asymptomatic between the ages of 30-59, and 21% asymptomatic age 70+. Iceland has the highest percentage of testing in the world and they're finding that overall 50% of the cases are asymptomatic which if you do the math for the Colorado modeling, it probably averages out to accounting for an overall roughly 50% asymptomatic rate. While an overall 50% asymptomatic rate seems like a positive thing for the individual since you have 50/50 odds of not experiencing any symptoms if you contract this disease, from a pandemic control standpoint it's an absolute nightmare. The idea of only isolating the sick gets tossed right out the window. Widespread testing or stay at home protocols become the only real control mechanisms. Given that we don't have the capability of widespread testing, that only leaves one option. The 82% asymptomatic rate in people under 30 is highly likely why the first step virtually everywhere has been shutting down schools. Young people aren't just possible asymptomatic carriers, but likely asymptomatic carriers.

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Who we elect honestly doesn't matter. Our votes matter on election day and that's it. Our votes are largely driven by who the large donors decide to back because those are the only candidates who can afford to run a campaign that can have a chance to end in getting elected. Once they're in office, all those favors they had to give to get those campaign funds get called in and lobbyists do the rest. Our politicians are just rubber stamps for the people and organizations that put them in office and keep them in office. That's just the sad reality.

Yeah, the problem with the "no clear data" statement is that in terms of drug efficacy, that data normally takes years to accumulate. We won't have that data until this pandemic is over with. We'll be able to look in the rearview and make a determination but at that point it won't matter anymore.

In all fairness, Dr. Oz has never shied away from quackery. I think there's enough evidence out there that there is likely something to the benefit of this drug for treating COVID-19, but Dr. Oz stumping for it doesn't do anything for me.

They specifically said it was because they wanted to keep the supply for their own use. They very recently lifted the outright ban, stating they'll allow exportation based on availability of supply.

Yeah, I think Trump needs to stop beating the drum on it. It's not helping. India provides roughly half of our supply and they banned the exportation of it a couple of days ago. So, now we have demand surging and the supply just got cut in half.

Holy poo, an insurance company doing something decent? Honestly never thought I'd see the day. What a pleasant surprise.

I like this model. Let's hope the folks at the University of Washington are right. https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections The good news is that they're predicting that it's basically over by June. The bad news is that they're still predicting over 80k dead Americans.

I don't doubt it. As much as my wife and kid and I are driving each other crazy, I'm sure glad to have them around. This isolation would be much tougher to deal with alone.

Yes, let's hope that NY has peaked and is beginning to decline. Let's also hope that most other areas implemented social distancing protocols early enough to avoid massive outbreaks. The next two weeks are going to be rough regardless, but let's hope we took enough action soon enough to end up with a situation that's far short of the worst case scenario. Things are bad, but there are glimmers of hope.

I'll admit that I have no idea how to moderate idiocy and ridiculous whataboutism that has nothing to do with the current crisis we face.

I'm morbidly curious, what do you think that link is actually saying in regard to what you were attempting to say, because I honestly have no idea how to interpret that beating you gave the English language in that post I initially quoted with only "what?" as the reply. The "what?" simply referred to your English being unintelligible.

I've ran completely out of patience with idiots on this matter. Sorry, not sorry.

I literally have a good friend who is a professor at Johns Hopkins specializing in infectious disease. I don't think you understand how lost you are. Hint: coronaviruses are a family of viruses. They're not one in the same.

It's amazing how everything in today's society gets politicized. Virtually every contagious disease expert out there says we've done a terrible job handling this, yet a politician says we did a great job and that's who we believe. We're fuged and it has nothing to do with a virus.