Posted on 03/29/2020 11:32:40 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
Hone your skills at detecting sarcasm.
I hear hospitals are busy.
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We shut down 90% of social interaction and dented R0 by about 0.5.
What is still open? How is this being spread? What did South Korea do differently?
Hospitals are still open. Many HCW’s(healthcare workers are spreaders by being asymptomatic and/or not taking care on carrying the virus from one place to another).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.23.20041913v1.full.pdf
South Korea figured the above out and implemented strict rules. HCW’s should be fired on the spot for violations as the numbers(R0, deaths, and new cases) are implicating them.
https://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=238705
Wildlife is already taking over our abandoned playgrounds. We saw two owls strutting about the basketball court last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU
Some comments:
For countries with large elderly populations, the death rate is very high at around 8 to 9%.
As of March 24, There were 8,961 confirmed cases in S. Korea.
111 patients had died.
3,166 patients fully recovered.
Out of about 9,000 confiremed cases, 20% showed no symptoms.
Asymptomatice person can still spread the virus.
Death rate for those over the age of 80, in S. Korea, is 11.6%.
For people in their 70s, the death rate is 6.3%.
1.5% for people in their 60s.
0.4% for those in their 50s.
One 40 yo died, and 1 30 yo died (0.1% for both).
No deaths in S. Korea below these age groups.
In S. Korea, 90% of those who died were over 60.
Yes, you can get reinfected after you've had the virus.
“...I think Trump’s first instinct, that this was a hoax meant to screw him over, was correct.....”
Yep. Keep in mind; he had more info than any of us before all this went down.
When this “virus BS” finally comes to a close, there should be the CoronaVirus Trials with a gallows immediately available outside the courtroom for instant use.
Good post. And I would add that state & county health departments have the final say on “lock-downs”/quarantines anyway...the Feds can declare an epidemic quarantine themselves if they want to but cannot “undo” a local/state one.
Agree 100%
New Orleans.
The biggest number of cases (according to USA Today liberal rag)
New York 59,746
New Jersey 13,386
Lousiana 3,540
Caliornia 6,349
Washington State 4,896
Illinois 4,596
Michigan 5,488
Massachusetts 4,955
As I’m posting this now
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