I thought we were making progress, +2,238 deaths thus far today, probably going to hit 3,500.
Here’s what I think. The anti-body tests they are running are crap, there are even serious epidemiologists saying they’re practically random, they don’t work. As much as we think we’re almost through it it’s only beginning. There ARE NOT tons of people running around out there that have already had it and showed no symptoms. COVID-19 is a way of life now, it will never leave, always be a very real and present danger. It has and will have effectively changed life on this planet forever.
This winter the death toll is going to skyrocket. At this point I am thinking this was man-made, release perhaps by accident, nonetheless, it’s not business as usual nor is it ever going to be again.
We are a species that has f’d up the planet for us now. I think the future is robotics, as in robotic grocery store stockers, produce pickers, everything, machines will have to do the work we no longer can.
We will look back on this “we’re almost over COVID-19” feeling as the blunder of a millennium ...
COVID-19 is a way of life now, it will never leave, always be a very real and present danger. It has and will have effectively changed life on this planet forever.
What a hysterical statement. You want want to get another hobby.
We’re going to hit 2500, maybe 2600, but nowhere near 3500. It’s a bad day, but we are still peaking at about 2,000/day. Don’t dwell on single days, or even 2 or 3. It will go down.
“There ARE NOT tons of people running around out there that have already had it and showed no symptoms.”
I know, I agree. I suspect that virtually EVERYONE had some degree of exposure (and that was true probably by mid-Feb). If it was a very low exposure (the vast majority of exposures back then), their immune system quietly fought it off and left a few antibodies, but it doesn’t mean they’re now immune, or even close.
So how about a test? Send the some of the FluBros who haven’t been sick, but test positive for the antibodies into a Coronavirus ward and have them hang out there for an hour or so with severely infected people, and WITHOUT any PPE.
We all know what the result would be of that test - the FluBros will RUN FOR THE HILLS and refuse to get near infected people.
“The anti-body tests they are running are crap, there are even serious epidemiologists saying they’re practically random, they don’t work.”
Yep.
There is a FReeper that likes to post feel-good stories to disguise the fact that he is a FluBro. Every so often he’ll try to slip in some FluBro propaganda. The reports about there being 40 to 50 times as many cases as we thought there were was one such. It was based on one study using a flawed antibody test that was only 90% accurate, but also gave positives for other corona viruses, many of which were mild and resulted in symptoms on par with the common cold (also a corona virus).
So everybody that took the test now thinks they had COVID-19 even if all they had was some other, lesser bug. Great. Wonder who that chaos will benefit.
The links to the study don’t work now. It has been taken down. Clearly it was terribly flawed. Some people will use any garbage they can to advance their agenda, no matter who they put at risk.
“There ARE NOT tons of people running around out there that have already had it and showed no symptoms.”
That’s right. We know the breakdown of case severities from the Diamond Princess where everybody was tested multiple times (or at least until they tested positive). The numbers from DP have been reported from other places, close enough to confirm the distribution. At this point, people trying to claim there is anything approaching herd immunity is verging on delusional. Given the number of confirmed cases there are, at most, 16-17 million infected, 3/4 of whom are still incubating. That’s on the no-mitigation curve, so with all the mitigation, and in spite of the FluBros, that number should really be much, much lower.
There is no herd of immunes.