RyanDe680

The only reason that the national numbers have plateaued is because New York is in decline while the rest of the country seems to be stable to increasing. well. Excluding South Carolina of course.

Let’s try to get excited about a marginal threat tomorrow.

Interesting. Found this from a friend. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19-strategy/

South Carolina is #30 in terms of cases. They are also #29 in terms of testing out of 30. Maybe the state needs to test more.

LOL. Solid follow up

The problem is they no one really knows if this is seasonal or not.

yeah that was my question too. If a BMI of 30 is considered overweight, then a lot of the population has a 'pre-existing' condition.

You gotta wonder where else this might be going on. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/498142-colorado-lowers-coronavirus-death-count-from-more-than-1k-to-878 alcohol poisoning counted as Covid?

yeah that is what would be nice, if the sample represented state demographics....

How populated were the areas of the testing?

I wish IL would ramp up the antibody testing. I went for one, and it came back negative, but I wish more people would voluntarily go or have their physicians suggest such.

Meanwhile in IL, no idea as to what any of the data means: https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/should-we-believe-gov-pritzkers-coronavirus-testing-statistics This was telling: "On May 12, for example, according to Chicago's data, about 31 percent of about 102,000 individuals tested positive for COVID-19. The state's data for the same day shows about 23 percent of more than 140,000 testing encounters in Chicago were positive."

this is a great read: https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

True, but 2,400 positives with 20k tests means the same as 4,000 positives with 30k tests. Today was the worst day in terms of % positive.

IL with the daily chart topper. Very sad.

i know we are coming off a weekend, but lowest number of deaths and positive tests in 5 weeks for the country.

Interesting about this... ILI activity was very high in some areas in March - the harder hit areas. However now, this activity has really subsided. This doesn't only track the flu, but influenza like activity, which covid represents.... https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

As a side note, in IL, there have been a little over 11,000 cases in nursing homes (approx 15% of all cases) but yet have been responsible for nearly 33% of the deaths associated with this.

See, to say that covid isn’t the underlying cause of deaths to me is like saying that you lost money in the stock market in 2008 because stocks went down, not because of the underlying housing crisis. Cause and effect, no? if someone contracts the virus, ends up getting pneumonia and then passes away, would they have had pneumonia without the virus? (Underlying cause aside, because I know there are a decent amount of those)

interesting about the vitamin D. Would help depends the N vs S argument.

The problem is that that data may never be reported. if the suggestion that the antibodies last 10 weeks, we'll never know.

Ugh, not the artificial stock market crap again. The bottom line is that countries with the most wealth are typically not producing economies, they naturally become service oriented. It's supply and demand - if you could produce a glass for $5 here but another country makes the exact same glass for $3, as a business that is a no brainer. It's not the fault of the 'economy' but the fault of business if you want to place blame. The stock market is the way that the general population can value certain companies with no intermediary. We all individually have access to own these companies and during times of economic shock or stress, valuations never make sense. The common thread is that rationalization always plays out and fair valuation eventually comes out. The human psychology controls this, not an 'entity.'

As someone who manages money for a living, I wish everyone would think like that.

I think that the sad reality is that a strong amount of people do live beyond their means.

Meanwhile, IL reports the most cases in the country today....