You gettin' jiggy wid it Global Citizen!
Posted on 06/22/2020 4:16:24 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
We have seen that Sunday has the lowest Corona deaths for any week, for whatever reason. Nonetheless, 267 deaths yesterday is still the lowest death count we have seen since March. Cases are at an all time high even though deaths are at a 3 month low. This is because many healthy people are getting tested and they have asymptomatic Corona.
Yet people and politicians in Southern Republican states are starting to freak out a bit. They need to calm down and stop trying to protect people from this. People will protect themselves. No hospitals are even close to getting overrun.
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Flubros have consistently been sending messages about vitamin D. Everyone here likely knows about it but new people can google it and see how important it is to fight any virus.
Number of cases up and number of deaths down. I have a theory about things that may be causing this disconnect:
1. They are being more careful about determining what is a CV19 death and what is a death from something else and the corpse just happens to test positive for the virus.
2. More people are taking the HCQ and other treatments, causing a “case” to not become a “death”.
3. They are testing a lot more people.
4. A Case remains a case long after the person has recovered and gone about their business.
I’ve said for months that the case count is irrelevant and the death count is what matters - and that a lot of these deaths aer not CV19 deaths. The only person I personally know that was a CV19 death was 62, died of pneumonia and bronchitis - which he acquired before CV19 even became a thing - but tested positive for CV19.
I look at the numbers and consider this thing over. Even the “reckless” events where people did not social distance didn’t cause any spike in deaths.
If you don’t live in NY or NJ, this thing was never a thing, but we shut down the economy anyway and caused huge rioting.
And we are in the eye of the storm, followed by the economic side. It’s gonna get bumpy.
Many say masks are risky...they also say that social distancing is a bad idea...are ‘they’ just trying to make the situation worse? Wouldn’t surprise me.
I also believe that masks are risky and that social distancing is a bad idea.
Might pick up one of those pulse oximeters for grins and giggles just to see if mask wearers are being deprived of oxygen as some claim.
Oh, yeah. That would be a rude awakening finding Kozak’s head where the sun don’t shine! You be careful!
I suppose a lot has to do with the finesse of the person doing the swabbing. This guy was good, but I had a feeling the whold time that I was being scammed for some reason — quite the production.
Like the nurse who put in my IV line. I’ve had that done often since 1958, and this month it was brutal. No finesse at all, and my arm looks like a semi ran over it.
Another factor is the “chrysalis” effect.
New cases of COVID are the “butterfly” that emerges.
Millions of people, hunkered down and protecting themselves thru isolation and masks.
Society re-opens (chrysalis) and a new creature emerges (butterfly).
That creature being “new” positives.
These folks were never exposed and begin mingling with the COVID positive.
You are correct.
How many “new” deaths are resulting from this “second wave”?
Normally you recieve small doses.of a virus over time that your body can easily over come building immunity. Social distancing tends to reduce that. The theroy is that when you do get exposed to a large dose it is from familial contact that tends to be much longer and close.
The fear is that might be a sudden large onset of virus and much harder to recover from.
Social distancing increases the ratio of symptomatic vs asymptomatic cases and is therefore more dangerous to people.
The virus will eventually spread throughout society once it breaks out of quarantine.
Y’all have made my morning!
Kozak is a polyp!
Or, is it that his empty head makes for a festering diverticulitis?
It’s science.
You gettin' jiggy wid it Global Citizen!
The measures we should see:
1. % positive
2. % hospitalized
3. % dead
In Arkansas we tested everyone working in a chicken plant. Well over 400 tested positive. Almost all of them were asymptomatic.
Positive cases has been a useless measure since early April and shouldn’t have been used once we started testing people with no symptoms.
121,766 US fatalities vs a total population of 330M is 0.037%. The week-over-week fatality rate in the US has been dropping since a 4-20-20 peak.
The 121K lives lost is neighbors, loved ones, fellow Americans. I’m not minimizing that. My point is that fatalities is the measure that matters most, and we are not witnessing the exponential growth Mr. Fauci suggested. Persons at a higher risk should take precautions.
And I was the perfect patient. I didn't want to have to do this AND self-quarantine again if the sample was unreliable.
Meanwhile, from the not-so-hot idea file, there's this..
Minnesota doctors try stopping the discomfort with COVID-19 tests
Discomfort really is an issue, but if it's a choice, I'd rather a more reliable sample.
And it is important to note that when you remove New York and New Jersey, you wipe out over half of those deaths. Kentucky is not New York just like The US is not Sudan.
Dang Kojak, why the hostility?
I’ve read about the ‘second wave,’ consensus says it’s still the first wave. We knew this would happen when healthy people were quarantined and released.
“Kick My...?”
Again locally Yakima County is exploding, exporting hospitalizations to King County because the local hospitals are overwhelmed. Obviously serious, but again I think first wave.
I think the whole thing stands for “Kick My Hairless Wimpy Ass”.
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