Corona Virus

[ladypanther]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

Here is some American exceptionalism for you, the US has roughly 4.3% of the world's population yet 25.7% of the Rona worldwide deaths and 25.8% of the worldwide Rona cases.

Our great prez says we have too much testing.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

6 hours ago, SheepWearMasks said:

In Event 201 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation + The Johns Hopkins University, the simulated Pandemic Preparedness Exercise happens identical to what is currently happening ..

In Event 201, states open up too quickly and a second wave worse than the first ends up happening and things shut down again ..

Event 201 .. it was October 18th 2019 in NYC .. the same day the Military Games in Wuhan, China began

Event 201 ... isn't that a class at UNCC? Like where you learn how to throw a sophisticated pool party?

[RASTAN66]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

Here is some American exceptionalism for you, the US has roughly 4.3% of the world's population yet 25.7% of the Rona worldwide deaths and 25.8% of the worldwide Rona cases.

#FakeNews

[kungfoodude]

34 minutes ago, ladypanther said:

Our great prez says we have too much testing.

Head in the sand politics at it's finest.

[kungfoodude]

22 minutes ago, RASTAN66 said:

#FakeNews

If you don't believe in math, sure.

[RASTAN66]

23 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

If you don't believe in math, sure.

#FakeNews

[jfra78]

25 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

If you don't believe in math, sure.

Probably a flat earther

[LinvilleGorge]

Reality no longer matters. Only emotions and political leanings. We're fuged.

[4Corners]

Yankee republicans would rather protect the statues of civil war traitors than protect the lives of American citizens. 

[kungfoodude]

42 minutes ago, RASTAN66 said:

#FakeNews

I believe that you believe math is fake. That checks out.

[kungfoodude]

32 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Reality no longer matters. Only emotions and political leanings. We're fuged.

In fairness we have been fuged for a long time and much longer than you've been alive. Look at it this way, you might just get to tell people you saw the end of it.

[Xtreme]

6 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Here is some American exceptionalism for you, the US has roughly 4.3% of the world's population yet 25.7% of the Rona worldwide deaths and 25.8% of the worldwide Rona cases.

To be fair, I do believe we are testing more than most, and we still don't know what China's real death toll is. 

[stirs]

So many people take so many hard and fast stands that others are stupid by masking or stupid by not masking.  Bottom line is, nobody knows exactly what is driving numbers, so all your stands for or against should be tempered a bit by lagging data and changing dynamics.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/coronavirus/virus-fatality-picture-is-obscured-by-ultimate-lagging-indicator

[panthers55]

3 minutes ago, stirs said:

So many people take so many hard and fast stands that others are stupid by masking or stupid by not masking.  Bottom line is, nobody knows exactly what is driving numbers, so all your stands for or against should be tempered a bit by lagging data and changing dynamics.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/coronavirus/virus-fatality-picture-is-obscured-by-ultimate-lagging-indicator

It seems clear that while you can argue the numbers and get out of it what you are looking for, the bottom line is as long as the cases and number of hospitalizations  keeps rising so will people dying. Whether it ends up to be a death rate of 1% or lower isn't as important as keeping the hospitals from being overwhelmed like in New York which is what drove the death toll higher. Right now the ICU use rate for Arizona is 88% and going higher.

There is no rational argument you can make for not wearing masks and practicing social distancing.  No matter the number differences and let's be real here, this administration wants the country and the economy open to win reelection and they will fudge numbers and willingingly let people die to further their political agenda.  With politicians running the numbers instead of scientists my trust in the CDC and this government is nil. So we can either wait until we get overwhelmed again or do the responsible thing as we go. You would think we would learn from our mistakes instead of continuing to do it over and over  again.