BuffaloWeather

Just in time to get to level 4 and the flu season starts in conjunction with COVID. My hope is that once we reopen everything, there is no way the country shuts down for a second time. Well unless the country wants to give another 5+ trillion in stimulus money. There is also a massive election in November. No way trump keeps things closed down for his rally's and the republican governors will listen to whatever he says in order to get re-elected. As the states control the openings I think the democratic governors will keep things locked down for a longer period of time to show Trump he was wrong wanting states to reopen. There will be a direct divide between blue and red states and cases of covid/deaths/etc...Going to be an insane end of 2020.

It's still quite dumb, they should have a target number to hit not a 3 day rolling average. Hospitalizations are down 43 in the last week. There are going to be many blips during the next few months, especially as we start to open up the state. We will have many 3 days in which go above average, especially as we get into the single digits of hospitalizations. What if 3 days we go from 99, 98, 97 to 100, 101, 102...We restart the 14 day countdown?

Erie county is never going to open. You have to have 14 day decline in hospitalizations. Now we have to restart at a much lower number which will make it even harder. It should be a percentage, not a set number. At this rate hospitalizations go up from 100 to 101 you have to wait another 2 weeks and resets the counter? That is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. So because 9 more people got hospitalized almost 1 million people have to wait another 2 weeks to open...?

Majority of Americans hear socialism and they think Communism like China/North Korea. They don't realize that there are thousands of socialists programs already in this country that they already love. The average American is just really dumb and misinformed.

Unfortunately I feel like this is going to be commonplace for quite awhile, possibly until a vaccine is found. Spain to impose 14-day quarantine for international arrivals https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spain-coronavirus-quarantine-travelers-intl-scli/index.html

Dr. Fauci says football is perfect environment to spread coronavirus https://www.newsweek.com/nfl-coronavirus-fauci-says-football-perfect-scenario-spread-1503110

Wuhan will test its entire population of 11 million after reporting new infections for the first time since its lockdown was lifted https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-11/china-s-wuhan-sees-first-new-virus-cases-since-lockdown-lifted

Russia is now the 2nd most COVID-19 infected country after United States https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-52629284

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-coronavirus-antibody-study-results-less-than-one-percent-of-participants-test-positive/amp/ MLB antibody study. Positive rate was 0.7 percent in mid April. 70 percent asymptomatic.

Early reports are he tripped and fell down his stairs, documented as Covid related death.

Looks like the Adirondack hikes are open. Thinking of taking a few weekend trips there to hit a few more of the 46 peaks.

Five down, two to go for WNY to reopen WNY meets two additional state benchmarks to reopen https://www.wkbw.com/news/coronavirus/five-down-two-to-go-for-wny-to-reopen?fbclid=IwAR3rOTasu6-v_iTY_JcuF7XF_xEPJmEHzELFCVllJVgdH2G_N6KEdEQhDvM

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul announces “control group” of local leaders will work together to reopen WNY https://www.wivb.com/news/lt-gov-kathy-hochul-announces-control-group-of-local-leaders-will-work-together-to-reopen-wny/?fbclid=IwAR3182pZLaOB7ee5HyZFHq41x5t7kvBcsoFKhn72PINBOcjjkUrbE-ZCMdw

Agree with you, doing a great job. I know the NYS pension fund is doing well, but his budget is always terrible.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3083599/france-had-covid-19-november-hospital-says-after-analysis-chest Study finds person who had the disease 10 weeks earlier than the country detected cases Contagion believed to have spread slowly until the end of February before accelerating rapidly

France found out that the virus was there in November. Hundreds of people from the USA travel to France on the daily. It would be safe to presume COVID has been in the USA since early December which means it ran unmitigated for 4 months?

He was already 6 billion in the negative before this all started.

Sorry, 50-80% are asymptomatic or have minor symptoms. 15% have severe symptoms, 5% need hospitalization. That Sweden post wasn't from reddit, from another forum.

Cuomo just interviewed begging for money from Trump. What if every state starts asking for 20-30 billion to balance their budget? I just don't see that happening.

The Flu season is usually only a few months in winter. We don't know how many people got affected by this yet. 50-80% of people are asymptomatic according to CDC. The virus was in the USA in Late Nov/Early Dec which meant it ran rampant for 4 months. How many people have really been hit by this? Probably tens of millions+. You're using 65 as as the age. Go look at the age from the flu season of 17-18 in the USA. 643 people died under 17 years old, we're not seeing that in this country from COVID. Did you read my posts from earlier in regards to Sweden, Herd immunity possibly being lower then thought and that the spanish flu of 1918 only affected 28% of Americans. We have to stop using the entire population as a dataset as people who are asymptomatic are going to be the majority of the population.

According to the CDC the flu in a normal season kills quite a bit more young people then covid does. (Depending on what age group you stop at) https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

My point is the majority of those older and more susceptible to the disease already stay at home. My grandma rarely left the house at all besides shopping for food, and now my aunt does that for her. We have to take certain measures to protect those vulnerable, but for the rest of us we have to open up the country before we destroy more lives then we help. Of course there are but the percentage is not enough to shut down the entire country for. We face HUGE risk everyday. I think driving our cars is unnecessary for most jobs. I've been in 2 life threatening car accidents where I thought I was going to die. Why don't we all work from home to prevent this from happening? School shootings have been going up and up each year, why don't we teach our kids from home to stop this threat? As soon as we walk out the door we face numerous risks to our life that are preventable from staying at home.

Herd immunity may only need 10-20 per cent of people to be infected https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/herd-immunity-may-only-need-a-10-per-cent-infection-rate The Spanish Flu of 1918 only infected 28% of America.