SomeguyfromTakomaPark
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Wow dude you’re off your rocker lol. I’m not worried about Bahrain bro. I’m worried about Montgomery county!!!
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How could counting the number of people who die from something not be relevant? If less people die, that’s good, more people die, that’s bad. That’s irrefutable.
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You’re in a bubble. Most people want to be safe. Finding more cases wouldn’t make the deaths go away. Swine flu never came close to this rate of deaths.
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So we aren’t allowed to look at testing data because it might be a snapshot in time of a week or two ago, we aren’t allowed to look at deaths because for some reason how many people dying isn’t relevant. So how are we supposed to analyze this?
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Yes, but for people to test positive, they have to have the virus. And every day we test 150k people we find 30k with the virus. That isn’t good.
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Those are how many people caught the virus at some point in the not too distant past which is a very relevant piece of information.
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That really sucks. Yeah, colleges are going to have to start thinking about the fall. Will kids be showing up moving it o dorms as usual? I’m also working tomorrow but one drink won’t affect that...
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Dang, nothing about overall testing capacity, ability to test symptomatic people, or contact tracing?
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Wow that’s impressive. I’ve gone out to the liquor store with gloves/mask and just make sure it’s not busy before I walk in.
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It’s actually cool enough to night justify a fire, and when there’s a fire I’m in the mood for whiskey. Ohhhh yes.
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Even if they’re from a week or two ago it’s still a problem. Eventually we need the number of new cases to go down or this doesn’t end.
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What’s the gating?
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It all depends. Somehow we’re still adding 700 cases a day. That needs to stop soon.
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Having to convert entire hospitals to ICUs is a major capacity problem and isn’t sustainable so I don’t see how you can say the hospital capacity concerns were unwarranted.
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As for the hospital capacity thing you are aware that most hospitals in nyc and surrounding areas have basically been converted entirely to ICUs?
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Also ventilators are basically a death sentence with covid and hospitals are moving away from using them and trying other techniques. The concerns over hospital capacity are/were very much warranted IMO.
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That’s a lot of 40-69 year olds dying!!
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The paying salaries indefinitely, 6 month closure, etc is a straw man. No one is advocating for these things.
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If we let knuckleheads seize the debate and force us to open things up too fast/widely we might be in big trouble. That’s the biggest possible way we fail IMO.
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6 months or anywhere’s near that is not feasible to stay fully locked down imo. I think if we are smart and careful and really ramp up testing/contact tracing we can open up in late spring. It’s gonna take some trial and error of course but I think it’s possible. There’s no way we’re staying on lockdown through the summer.
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I dunno why you’re so gung ho about “indefinitely” or “6 months”. If we are smart and the federal government does it’s just this can all happen much sooner. It’s our job to demand they do that.
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I don’t buy this. People can go on unemployment, people can get back to work, and hopefully the government can perhaps provide more help like other rich nations do. People can’t come back to life when they die of covid.
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This will be the least shocking thing in the history of mankind. Everyone wants to return to their routine ASAP. Of course people will.
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IMO the evidence does not point at all towards this ending up a degree or two off fromthe flu. Just look at this graph of nyc all cause mortality. Herd immunity is a moot point with this virus. It kills too many. No governor is going to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of their citizens to attain herd immunity.
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I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. Given that the incubation period + people getting tested can be quite a long time I don’t think 15 days would be enough. I also don’t think most of the places that extended until May 15 are planning to open May 15. I think they’re just adding 1 month increments on a wait and see basis.
