Posted on 03/11/2020 8:06:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
Time to stay calm and continue on....
Yesterday's thread is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3823193/posts
“Breathing is a more effective method of transmission, absolutely no doubt about that...Touching is a less effective method, but since we touch so many surfaces that increases the likelihood of getting it from surfaces.”
I agree...it just seemed like everyone thought they had it figured out, when it was pretty obvious that they were missing the elephant in the living room.
By the way, my Asian sources tell me that the air is much, much, cleaner there. Finally!
No house parties or meet-ups at the bar.
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Any good data from the US out today? Lots of cancellation talk and the like, but, anything on the number and locale of sick people?
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Didn’t the CDC sit the Kirkland nursing home fireman’s test off until it expired?
I predict that the WeHo perv parties will continue unabated. Might even accelerate as the “excitement” of spreading another disease generates participation.
This source has data for all US states, and tells you the date and time of their update in the column to the right..
If you really want to geek out, there is another tab that gives you the relevant web site for each state...
No one has the guts to keep a "cured" person in quarantine another 5 weeks. Much like Ebola lives in semen and other body fluids for 6 months and forever.
Thanks.
Few pages back there are some state by state posts, but the biggest numbers come 4-4:30 pm when all the health departments update.
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BREAKING: Italy reports 2,651 new cases of coronavirus and 189 new deaths, raising total to 15,113 cases and 1,016 dead https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
I didn’t hear that.
Hmmm...
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“ I’ll tell her to quit. If she refuses, I’ll disable the vehicle.”
On the phone this morning, my wife agreed to goin and tell them she is not coming in for now, that she will follow up with them next week. But, I don’t see on the Ring camera that she came back home. And she didn’t answer my call. I’m thinking they talked her into staying.
I am away from the house until tonight.
If you want to go ahead and start 15, I won’t mind. Just put it in chat, and copy the current thread. Send a note to Null and good for his ping list.
No pride of authorship here!
more silver linings
I hope you're right that in 30 days we will all be back to normal and the stock market races back to the top again and life is back to normal.
But that will only happen if the kinds of measures that are currently being put in place continue to be.
I am not an epidemiologist, but I have studied epidemiology, preventive medicine, and statistics at the graduate level at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and have a Master's Degree in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University. I have worked with medical and epidemiological data at multiple world renowned organizations for over 30 years. Let me assure you that the time to implement preventive measures is ALWAYS when action seems like overreaction.
We are late to the game as it is. In just the last 7 days, the number of confirmed cases in the United States has increased by 7.4 fold. Not 7.4%, mind you, but 7.4 fold. In other words, there are 7.4 times as many confirmed cases in the U.S. today than there were just 7 days ago. Let that sink in, and do the math. As I write this, there are 1,322 confirmed cases in the U.S. Multiply that by 7.4, and that is how many confirmed cases we can expect next Wednesday evening. Do it again, and that's how many we can expect by March 25. Do it again.... the numbers get really big really, really fast.
The time to institute known successful preventive measures is now, before the hospitals are overwhelmed. If we don't, then we can expect to become like China, Italy, Iran, and Seattle within a few short weeks. With a 7.4 fold increase each week, we can expect almost 4,000,000 confirmed cases within a month. That's the simple math. Still preventable, but only if we implement all the social distancing measures right now.
But, of course, if everything goes back to normal relatively quickly, you will be one of the ones who says it was all hype, rather than one of those who acknowledges that the public health strategies that are known to work did, in fact, work. It kind of reminds me of those who thought Y2K was overblown because nothing major happened. They are people who literally don't know what they are talking about.
The normalcy bias is strong in you. It is preventing you from recognizing when things are decidedly abnormal.
Don't expect me to respond to any comments of yours. I give Flu Bros one comment, and then you're on your own, because you don't listen, anyway.
North Dakota reported its first case...
Now down to seven states reporting zero cases.
(Reminder: Gloom and doomer cgbg predicted Reagan/Mondale landslide by CV = only one state remaining—by cob tomorrow. This could be a nailbiter...stay tuned...)
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