madwx

Spain, France and a few other European countries are having a rough time again. They really took the foot off the gas for social distancing measures and are now paying the price.

The ride never ends

Come on guys. It’s not man made climate change, it’s just man made changes to the environment that are making things warmer

In addition, Chicago, Tampa, Miami, Harrisburg and a few dozen other cities have also had their warmest summer on record

>trying to forecast 240 hours out >not using ensembles pick one

That's the tough thing about this. There is no telltale symptom that everyone has so for a good portion of people, without getting testing you have no idea if you have/had it.

if you get a test and are negative you don't have to quarantine. How would you know if you never really were negative?

also seems like that would funnel all students together. You'd think if they wanted some distancing they would let kids enter and exit in different areas

looks like there is a linked article that has a more recent update

Florida with an expected dip in positive cases due to testing closures for the hurricane. Deaths still staying high. Interesting impact on total statistics since many of the people with minor symptoms who can't get tested won't even test positive by the time the sites open back up

Michigan was hit harder earlier on when there was much less testing, so tons of cases were missed. Probably close to 1 million people in Michigan have had it already.

80% of middle aged people had lasting cardiovascular damage, their average BMI was 25. We don't know if this damage will go away with time and viruses usually do cause some short term cardiovascular damage but the damage from Covid is lasting longer than other diseases.

Average BMI in that study was 25.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916 60% of middle aged people had cardiac inflammation after getting COVID. 20% with pericardial effusion. Average BMI 25. Fun. Fun fun fun.

of course a group of people online have taken this as sign of a massive conspiracy. This reminds me of early on when Oklahoma was reporting only a tiny amount of tests and a very high positive rate because all private labs were only reporting positives. It made Oklahoma look like it was testing an order of magnitude people less than every other state ETA: confirmation of our theory

Crazy, just like watching the doctors slowly kill themselves in the operating room day after day. Not to mention the mass deaths in Asian countries from mask wearing. Not a time to trust the "experts."

Mr. Covid’s Wild Ride never ends

there is no scientific reason why the virus will be more deadly for young people in the future. In fact most diseases become less deadly as time goes on since the less deadly strains are more likely to spread. The 1918 influenza was abnormal in the fact that it became more deadly with the second wave

Many Americans have been unhappy for years. With the leadership gap at the top and the pandemic putting more pressure on the lower and middle class this was inevitable unfortunately.

https://www.al.com/news/2020/05/montgomery-running-out-of-icu-beds-as-coronavirus-cases-double-in-may.html the virus is just withering in the heat

https://www.al.com/news/2020/05/montgomery-running-out-of-icu-beds-as-coronavirus-cases-double-in-may.html Summer won't save us if we don't keep up social distancing measures of no large gatherings and limited people in group indoor spaces.

Yeah, I've been doing calculations of how much of each state has been infected based on the fatalities and an assumed fatality rate of 0.7% and I have about 3.5% of people in Indiana infected right now which seems to match that data. Based on that only 4 states have had more than 10% of the population infected, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. And 15 states have had less than 1% of people infected.

Honestly this pandemic has been great motivation for me to get back in shape. With the lack of things to do/lack of places to eat out and the general fact that this hits people in poor health harder I’ve been working out more than I ever had. Lost 20 pounds since early March and hope to keep it going

I just got done with a good workout, I'm sitting out on the patio and I'm about to grill some dinner, I haven't been this chilled in awhile. I don't want to antagonize, we're all in this together and you have a lot of good points, but when I see incorrect information being used and I have the correct data, I have an obligation to spread the correct information. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ This site has more updated values (they scrape the data daily from each states websites), where you'll see that South Carolina is one of the laggards(along with a handful of midwestern states). Sure South Carolina is doing some good things, like loosening the lockdown, having a reasonable reopening strategy etc. but testing ain't one of those things, and until testing is an order of magnitude better, you (and a lot of other states) won't truly be in front of this