Posted on 03/24/2020 10:11:11 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #25 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827443/posts?page=1
“The worst will be a million dead in the US.
Most elderly.”
Do you even grasp the numbers here? What would a million dead, even useless eaters that still spend lots of money, do to our economy? We might get to a million dead, anyway, given the level of stupidity that is endemic among Deadly Disease Affirmative Action crowd. There goes the economy and the HCS.
Unless you are volunteering, you should sit down and shut up. Who are you to volunteer others to die for your convenience?
About half under 50.
Agreed.
But it is reality.
There was a lady on the local radio station (WTIC, Hartford, CT) begging with people to visit her store in downtown Middletown.
Apparently nobody would go to her store and she had to lay off her employees even though she was allowed to be open.
Her product—.....—ice cream.
That is part of why “opening the economy” isn’t as easy as it seems.
Folks were allowed to visit her and get their take-out ice cream, and they were having none of it...
OTOH I expect the case numbers to be decreasing, and the deaths to be levelling off- maybe decreasing.
So that will make people hopeful.
The tough part will be getting people to follow whatever additional rules they have in their lives.
It won’t be a clean restart.
No, actually, Agnes, thank you for defending me, but I was not baiting anyone. I was serious.
Although using the elderly is probably not a great idea, because if they become ill it is a catastrophe for health care, a volunteer program to take non-health tasks away from the health care workers might be a good idea. Someone suggested young people who test negative.
It could be a good idea not just in monetary terms but in terms of giving this country an outlet for their spirit of cooperation. We have become a tad selfish and mercenary but I know we still want to help others and help our country.
+1
I wonder when NY will start street spraying to disinfect?
The bottom graph represents ratio or percentage of new deaths to total deaths.
FL
Tampa Bay health officials confirmed the area’s first coronavirus-related death Tuesday, a 67-year-old Pinellas County man, marking another advance in the pandemic’s progression through Florida.
The news came after two errors in the past week, wherein state leaders announced disease-related deaths locally, then retracted the reports.
The man died Monday, according to health officials. The state did not note any relevant travel history or contact with another confirmed case. No other details were available, including underlying health issues. The death, along with another in Lee County, would bring Florida’s toll to 20.
We’ve been doing takeout every other night just because of this. Normally maybe we eat out couple times a month.
CA
2nd Coronavirus Death, 2 Infant Cases In San Diego County
A second San Diego County resident has died from COVID-19, county officials said. The county also announced two new cases involving infants.
By Kristina Houck, Patch Staff
Mar 24, 2020 3:04 pm PT | Updated Mar 24, 2020 3:24 pm PT
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA — A second San Diego County resident has died from COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, county officials announced Tuesday.
The person who died was in his or her late 70s and had “many” underlying conditions, according to Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer.
https://patch.com/california/san-diego/2nd-coronavirus-death-2-infant-cases-san-diego-county
I am expecting the death numbers to be steadily increasing right up to Easter.
I am not confident about exactly how far the curve will be bent by then—there is such a long lag time between getting the disease and dying (on average) that folks could be getting infected today and still die the day before Easter.
“Folks were allowed to visit her and get their take-out ice cream, and they were having none of it...”
And when the virus spreads too fast, and there are no hospital beds available, people aren’t going to work at Walmart anymore, either.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to the spray trucks in the big cities. An impressive sight.
CA
Bay Area Coronavirus Death Toll Up to 21
By Bay City News • Published 50 mins ago • Updated 47 mins ago
Getty Images
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Bay Area increased to 21 Tuesday.
Santa Clara County added additional deaths and infections from the novel coronavirus to its rising counts of each.
The updated numbers were 16 deaths and 375 infected by Tuesday morning, with 125 patients infected with the COVID-19 virus being hospitalized.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/bay-area-coronavirus-death-toll-up-to-21/2260757/
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COVID-19 in California by the Numbers:
As of March 23, 2020, 2 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, there are a total of 2,102 positive cases and 40 deaths (increase ocurred over a period of two days) in California (including one non-California resident).
531: Community-acquired cases
1,571: Cases acquired through person-to-person transmission, travel (including cruise ship passengers), repatriation, or under investigation.
This includes 31 health care workers
Ages of all confirmed positive cases:
Age 0-17: 28 cases
Age 18-49: 970 cases
Age 50-64: 493 cases
Age 65 and older: 449 cases
Unknown: 162 cases
Gender of all confirmed positive cases:
Female: 843 cases
Male: 1,081 cases
Unknown: 178 cases
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx
Everybody will do their own cost/benefit analysis for each type of activity, and that calculation will keep changing over time.
As you say, by Easter a lot of stuff that looks ok today will start looking a bit risky...
DE
Delaware:
Total Positive Cases 104
Total Deaths 0
Kent 10
New Castle 71
Sussex 23
https://coronavirus.delaware.gov/
Yeah, the death numbers may not have even flattened.
Though hoping treatments will be effective and they will.
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