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Coronavirus COVID-19 Thread
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Radegast74
Space Marshal
Great, now I'll have to go to CitCon in a full-body condom...
SoloFlyer
Grand Admiral
They're hosting the COVIDcon (CONVID?) that no one wants to wind up with tickets to
Full Body Condom Armor in April's Subscriber Flair!
Radegast74
Space Marshal
Do I get 2 if I subscribe at the Imperator level? Maybe they'll have a yellow one?
Starscribe
Grand Admiral
Typical. Just like the flares. Another single use item...
SoloFlyer
Grand Admiral
That's not very environmentally minded of you. They're like regular ones, you just turn em inside out and use em again right?....right?Typical. Just like the flares. Another single use item...
Never thought of it like this. Now instead of just telling your partner it just feels better to go bare you can say you're doing it for the environment. And who doesn't like saving the environment?
Radegast74
Space Marshal
Cool, now we have a great experiment...we can compare the outcomes of states that instituted preventive measures vs. those who didn't, on a large scale:
Nice. Now we know what the costs of doing something and nothing are and so with the next outbreak will have more case studies to go off of.
What an idiot!
“You simply cannot lock down our society with no end in sight,’’ he said at a teleconference from the governor’s office with only television reporters in attendance.
Oh yeah?
How is it every single other country in the world is doing that then?
I hate to say it, but the US is going to be the hardest hit along with India at this rate.
Radegast74
Space Marshal
Great information in this video...it is from March 23rd, so some numbers are a bit smaller:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J0d59dd-qM
Todays numbers from the UK.
It appears the reported figures have settled into the pattern of total cases from 9am this morning, total deaths from 5pm yesterday evening. I won't comment on the reported times now unless something changes.
25,150 in total have now been confirmed, with 1,789 total deaths:
And a closer look at the Orange Line reveals a sharp spike in fatalities:
I suppose the jump in the death rate was only to be expected with the gap between confirmed cases and death rate growing more and more over time, there was something of a debt there waiting to be paid with the highest number of victims losing their lives in one day.
The cautious optimism still seems to be there as the confirmed cases are still rising but not doubling, the growth rate is steady.
And a personal message: If anyone tomorrow April First tells you the measures have been redacted as an April Fools joke you are allowed to breach the two-meter social distancing rule to kick them as hard in the balls as you physically can.
It appears the reported figures have settled into the pattern of total cases from 9am this morning, total deaths from 5pm yesterday evening. I won't comment on the reported times now unless something changes.
25,150 in total have now been confirmed, with 1,789 total deaths:
And a closer look at the Orange Line reveals a sharp spike in fatalities:
I suppose the jump in the death rate was only to be expected with the gap between confirmed cases and death rate growing more and more over time, there was something of a debt there waiting to be paid with the highest number of victims losing their lives in one day.
The cautious optimism still seems to be there as the confirmed cases are still rising but not doubling, the growth rate is steady.
And a personal message: If anyone tomorrow April First tells you the measures have been redacted as an April Fools joke you are allowed to breach the two-meter social distancing rule to kick them as hard in the balls as you physically can.
There is some truth to the statement of you cannot lock down a society with no end in sight. There reaches a point were the safety of the few bankrupts the many.
The other point I was attempting to get at is from a scientific standpoint having a baseline metric where nothing is done allows us to clearly show how effective the social distancing and lockdowns were at preventing the spread of this virus and hopefully can be used in future pandemics. This allows for case studies on what was effective what didn't work and what we can try next time.
I guess my criticism is more along the lines that the "no end in sight" part is bullshit.
There is an end.
The end begins when you start seeing declining numbers of new cases, like Italy. There we have a very clear timeline of when drastic action was taken, to when the slope starts flattening.
How is it that government officials live in a different reality where these facts and figures from other countries are not available?
Radegast74
Space Marshal
I think some government officials #1 priority is not the safety of their people, but their re-election chances and/or interests of their top donors...
I think some are doing some political calculations along the lines of, "The dead aren't going to vote against me*, and the people who live probably will be happy that I didn't inconvenience them too much / the stock market didn't tank..."
*except of course Chicago
I would agree with you but the issue is for lots its that it is hard to wrap one's head around as its not a specific date but a triggered event. There has been lots of studies around people's and animal's reactions to the concept of specific time events vs ambiguity.
I wonder the same thing. I wonder if its the same thing that leads to upper-middle managers.
Taken out of context, still a blanket statement that has been sadly proven true over the past 23 years.
