Posted on 04/05/2020 7:27:03 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
But the states that many experts are most concerned with are the ones that have been slow to clamp down on travel and nonessential businesses. “That’s alarming and scary because we know nobody is immune,” said Ali Mokdad, a health metrics expert at the University of Washington whose modeling has informed White House decisions and shows the peak of the pandemic in Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, among others, is still weeks away.
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Like wild and debauched New Orleans is the rural South, but there ya go!
I guess they want to overlook the gay party in Miami as well as spring break for the college students there. Not to mention Cuomo’s and De Blasio’s remarks back in January and early February. The media really thinks we are that stupid and forgetful.
We live in the part of Washington State where this thing caused the first deaths. My wife and I have been to the Life Care Center in Kirkland many times. The coronavirus started fizzling out here approximately two weeks ago, before the “stay at home order” could have had any effect at all.
TN is getting hit because Nashville is such a hot spot. This likely due to them getting tons of tourist/event travelers. The media has been trying to pump up Gov Beshear (D) in KY, lauding him for a great job, and comparing his performance vs. TN’s, when KY simply doesn’t have a town like Nashvegas that has so many out of town travelers constantly.
“... we know nobody is immune,” said Ali Mokdad, a health metrics expert ...”
Well, if Ali says it, it must be true. After all, Ali is an expert and so forth.
That’s great to hear.
...while New York is a disaster zone...but we don’t mention that because they all hate Trump.
And georgia has Atlanta and Virginia has DC
I live near Lebanon, OR. The state Veterans Home had early cases of Covid-19, a week before the Oregon precautions began. Sixteen residents have been infected to date. Thirteen have recovered and one is still “active”. I believe that all have been treated with hydroxychloroquine (sp?).
These 16 are all elderly with underlying conditions. At least one survivor is a WW2 veteran. Covid-19 is not a death sentence even for these people.
I find it to be alarming and scary that Ali Mokdad, a health metrics expert at the University of Washington, doesn’t make better models and instead seems determined to alarm and panic the whole world.
Everyone is showing their true colors, aren’t they?
I was in Seattle Feb. 28 - March 2, spending most of my time in the crowded Pike Place Market, riding the Link and not practicing any social distancing. I have not felt bad any day I was there or any day since. The west coast has a herd immunity by now.
When people and politicians are irresponsible this is what you get
Our local infections:
2 College students back from spring break
Social Worker/Home Health
Nurse
No rednecks yet
Your forgetting Memphis. A busy transport hub.
Ha!
“... shows the peak of the pandemic in Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, among others, is still weeks away.”
Racial disparities and reparations!
I read the article and there’s nothing anti-Christian about it. In fact it recognizes the assistance of Samaritan’s Purse.
They are probably having an outbreak because people partied at Mardis Gras and were infected, then went back to work, including in nursing homes.
This sounds like the heterosexual AIDS epidemic warnings. The epidemic that never happened.
This article leaves out some key facts. That cluster around Albany was because of one nursing home. So far, this epidemic has been mostly (not entirely) three Ns: New York, New Jersey, and nursing homes.
That may change, of course. I make no predictions. But it’s interesting that the experience of New York hasn’t been repeated anywhere else in terms of scale. Louisiana had 54 deaths on Tuesday and 39 yesterday. it’s been bouncing around, but no upward trend. It looked like Michigan would explode, but so far, no. It’s stayed fairly stable at about 60 deaths per day.
My question is if this epidemic is supposed to be going through a population with no immunity, why have we not seen more huge outbreaks? Is it a matter of timing and the epidemic hasn’t spread to some places yet but will? Or we do we need a place like New York City where everyone lives in high rises and presses the same elevator buttons for things to really get out of control? At this point, we don’t know.
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