Posted on 06/24/2020 4:03:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
Thanks for doing this every day.
I have been posting for several days that 90% of the increase in Florida cases is among the less than age 65 population.
Today I dug deeper into the numbers.
Florida reported 5437 new cases yesterday.
The age group 15 to 34 accounted for 2,564 of those new cases.
To put that into perspective, since the beginning of the China virus infections in Florida, exactly 8% of the 15 to 34 age group have been hospitalized and exactly 1% of the 15 to 34 age group have died.
What we are witnessing in Florida is a surge in cases among the younger population. The younger population has grown weary of the ‘stay at home’ mandates are back to a normal lifestyle.
All this being said, it still makes sense for the elderly and those with underlying conditions to stay at home while the virus spreads through the younger folks.
Another day of terrible numbers, crawling up to nearly 40K new infections.
All states coming over 1K outside of California (classify as you will) are in the Sun belt.
Apparently in Arizona they are diddling with the numbers.
Thank you Blank Lies Matter protesters
“Thank you Blank Lies Matter protesters”
WOW!
What a witty and devastating comment!
You got me by the shorties, lady.
I surrender to your obvious superior wit and intellect — just please — don’t hurt me!
lol
And yet deaths continue to trend downward. This equals
1. Overtesting
2. Attenuating virus
3. Virus that was not that bad to begin with
•Blue line represents projected death totals.
•Yellow line is actual death totals based on WorldofMeters.info data.
•Purple line is actual case numbers offset by 14 days.
•Red line represents projected daily deaths.
•Black extension lines are trend lines.
Agree with you 100% on points 1 & 2. We’ll disagree on point 3. The testing is up, the numbers are up. There is a spike in cases, but it is among a younger slice of the demographic. To which I say “Good.” Should have happened two months ago. Let the young get it and get over it, so we can get to herd immunity. On this daily thread, I always look at three figures: New positive tests, active hospitalizations, and deaths. The new positive cases are up, but the hospitalizations remain the same and the deaths are dropping.
As far as the virus not being that bad to begin with, my 97 year old aunt would disagree with you. But she can’t.
She died from it six weeks ago.
First of all, I am so sorry for your lose, it is horrible no matter what the condition. I think one of the things that I have learned in medicine is that the elderly are vulnerable to just about anything.
I am so sad that your beloved aunt passed, and we need to do literally everything we can to protect the elderly vulnerable while getting on with life with those who are quite literally at no risk
I will keep you in my prayers and wish you all the best.
78 grandpop on the other side of the family succumbed too. None of his kids or grandkids could attend the funeral. was in the middle of April. RIP pop pop bd, he was a good man.
I pretty much agree. Two things come to mind though. These
folks are not wearing masks. They are also carriers. They
go out and bring things back into the home. Some of the
folks at home are vulnerable.
Yeah, I don’t like the direction of this either.
The sad things is, we went through all that lock-down, and
it was working. Then as soon as folks were allowed to go
back out it was to heck with the distancing and the masks.
So here we are. Brillian! All that work for nothing.
If people would have been careful, we wouldn’t be facing
anything like what we are right now. > IMO
Thank you for your work-up there.
There’s only one thing I mind about elevated testing.
Test all you want, but if you uncover twice as many positives
by testing twice as much as usual, be sure to disclose that.
Don’t blame it on the spread of the disease.
If you find elevated positive testing percentages, be sure
to disclose that as well.
If we look back at the immediate skyrocketing of the
disease up until we sheltered in place, it’s crystal
clear the sheltering in place really slowed the disease.
I had hoped we would see folks be careful about taking
precautions after us all having to be in the home for
several months. Then the braintrusts got out there
and refused to social distance and wear masks.
Well, here we are. Most of the benefits of sheltering
in place are going to be unraveled now in short order.
I also expected some increase in the disease after we
opened up, but we’re headed toward doubling the numbers
in about a week and a half.
You almost have to work at it to do that much damage.
Sorry to hear of your family losses.
If I missed anyone else, same goes for you.
Sorry to see good people lost.
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