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To: Hojczyk

Actually, it is working.

If the virus were spreading at its initial rate of growth, there would now be around 26.4 million cases worldwide. The actual number of cases is 3.6 million. That means that actual cases are 86% below what would have happened without social distancing policies.

I have a more difficult time predicting what would have happened in the US without social distancing, because I do not have early numbers for the US, and cases in the US result from multiple introductions of virus into the country. This skews the data terribly. That said, I still see a significant drop in the spread of US cases. If this trend continues, we will eliminate Covid-19 in the US.


24 posted on 05/05/2020 6:24:00 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: exDemMom

Can you show your math work on this?


29 posted on 05/05/2020 6:29:57 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: exDemMom

I would expect cases to increase as the lockdown ends and social distancing ends....


44 posted on 05/05/2020 8:09:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: exDemMom

“That means that actual cases are 86% below what would have happened without social distancing policies.”

We don’t know this to be true, it is conjecture based on the same “modelers” who claim global warming is a disaster in the making.


48 posted on 05/05/2020 8:24:17 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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