A few things:
1. Some study in the Bay Area showed antibodies are widespread and there could be 85 people who have it for every one person who was tested - good news as it shows that its lethality is about the same as the flu.
2. Texas didn’t go far enough with their announcement on reopening.
3. Healthcare workers are getting laid off or are on reduced hours - checked two clinics yesterday and one was closed and one was half hours due to reduced number of patients during Corona. They flattened the curve so much that healthcare workers are getting laid off.
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The numbers are cooked. At least one Health Department admitted that it is counting “positive” cases two or even three times. That is, a person tests positive on a rapid test, it goes on the board. The same person is then tested with another test to confirm the rapid test, that result goes on the board as an additional case. Then the same person is followed up on two weeks later to see how he’s going, and tests positive again, it goes on the board a third time. Then all the rapid tests, which are not conclusive unless followed up on, they go on the board regardless. Worse, not all deaths attributed to the virus are tested, as Birx admitted publicly, and they are doing the same here.
What othe state or territory is doing the same? I am sure ALL OF THEM ARE!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3836351/posts
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On your point #1...not there yet...the Bay Area (Stanford) study showed a 2.49% to 4.16% prevalence (in a fairly dense urban environment), so extrapolated to the whole USA that would mean about 13,640,000 infected in the US (currently infected, recovered with few symptoms or deceased)(probably lower due to 80% of the US being more rural. But I will use the higher # due to this being a “FluBro” thread. With 37,175 fatalities in the US that yields a 0.27% fatality rate. The worst “reg. flu” year in the last 10 years yielded a 0.14% fatality rate. So COVID-19 running about 2x worse than “reg. flu” so far.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Texas is overrated...
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While we are all stuck in our basements and watching our livelihoods dwindle, I am thinking that if after we turn the economy back on and we a destitute, I am going to be looking for people to blame.
Maybe it is shortsighted and unfair but fairness means nothing if you cannot feed your family. Fairness doesn’t put food on the table. After all “I am alive.” However, maybe I would have been alive even without the shutdown.
Plus, this has been self-inflicted and I have little choice in the matter. Also, as more details trickle in and we may conclude the shutdown as instituted was unnecessary, I will not be happy.
Again and let me repeat — I will be looking for people to blame. Lets hope that for their sake, the economy is back running full speed in short order. Otherwise, heads will roll.
I posted this to FB this morning.
China, WHO, and CDC first said.”Don’t worry, it’s nothing to worry about “.
Then everyone called it the Wuhan flu or chinese flu. Then they called you racist if you called it the same.
Politicians said “come on down to Chinatown
San Francisco “, or Martigra. So we did.
Then the powers to be said okay, time to worry but DON’T WEAR MASKS. They don’t do anything (btw leave them for First responders).
Now we can’t leave home without them.
Then the said it wasn’t airborne. Then they said it was.
Then they said 6 feet distances, then 10, then 13.
Many in the medical field say HQ works, some dont.
Then they said 3 million will die even if we quarantine, then 200 thousand, then 100 thousand, now they project 60 thousand.
They said 2 weeks. That’s the incubation period. In two weeks, if we stay home, we can flatten the curve. We stayed inside for a month.
Then they said we may need 3 months, 6 months. Hell maybe next year.
Then they said we need millions of ventilators, yet now they don’t. We need ships for hospital beds. But they didn’t.
Well, we stayed home a month or more, most places did flatten. Most show a downward trajectory.
They have been wrong almost every single time.
Forgive me if we stopped believing them. You can go on sheltering in place. But if we don’t open up soon, the life you so desperately wanted won’t be worth living.
America is heading for a depression worse than 1929. A phased approach to opening up is exactly what we need to do. So while some of you will hunker down, the rest of us will slowly return to normal.
I , for one, am willing to trust my instincts. Cause at this point that’s all I have. That and prayers.
I can attest to that.
I work at a hospital in Northern California (aka The State of Jefferson). Our Lab and X-ray Dept. used to be staffed 24 hours a day. Now they operate on a Monday to Friday 8-4:30 schedule.
We have had no surgeries for a month. Our Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy cases are virtually non&existent. We spent tens of thousands of dollars re-opening a wing and repairing beds and equipment that had been mothballed. We have yet to use a single bed.
It's like a ghost town around here. I am a custodian and the only reason my hours haven't been cut is because most of our staff had found new jobs or quit to go back to school in the days and weeks before this all happened and now we can't find anybody who wants to work where they might come in contact with this flu.
Stop the tyranny! Fire the SOBs!
Fauci says coronavirus testing isn’t everything when it comes to reopening states
https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/fauci-says-critics-wrong-that-testing-is-everything-to-reopen/