Posted on 03/16/2020 7:36:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Hey I wonder if the stars and leaders who have this virus would be able to give casual and pleasant twitter updates if this was, say, A REAL KILLER.
“Hi, I have ebola and YES that is blood coming out of my eyes, ears and other places i’d rather not mention.. I’ll be dead in six minutes but i just wanted to tell you all not to worry”
:)
Italy has 1\6 as many people as the United States and a much higher percentage of recent Chinese immigrants both legal and illegal.
One thing is for sure, the information is uncertain enough to guarantee panic.
“When you look at the projections, there’s every chance that we could be Italy.”
F’N MORON! Fear-mongering moron! We are not Italy and neither has anyone else been “Italy”. Italy is the fault of Italy.
Sick of Chicken Littles shutting everything down. FWIW, I flew twice last week. Still living. OMG!
You are aware that the Surgeon General is well liked by the President, and supports the President.
You are aware Trump handpicked the Surgeon General?
Or is he also the big bad Deep State lookin’ to bring down Trump with false Wuhan Virus information?
+100! That’s true and that is why you must consider all factors before making extrapolations.
Can’t we quarantine articles from The AP?
I was just about to point out the flimsiness of this article’s reportage when I noticed the source.
“We are at a critical inflection point in this country, people. We are where Italy was two weeks ago in terms of our numbers,” U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams told Fox News. “When you look at the projections, there’s every chance that we could be Italy.”
This seems a wee bit irresponsible thing to say.
Shouldn’t these comparisons be done on a per-capita basis? The US’s population is 6 times that of Italy. Also, the Italian cases have been concentrated in a fairly small region. The US’s have been more geographically distributed. So I don’t think you can really say that the US is where Italy was 2 weeks ago.
Our population is an order of magnitude greater than that of Italy, ergo, we are only one-tenth today of where Italy was two weeks ago.
I don’t think that absolute numbers are the correct metric for this.
Italy also has a much older general population and a larger percentage of heavy smokers than we have here.
What exactly does a Surgeon General do? Besides spew speculation?
Great. Another mad run on grocery stores in a week or two
Does anyone believe the AP?
The whole 1:1 analogy thing is just weird to me. As if zero variables exist.
Italy “numbers” =/= Italy problems.
It’s like the anti-gun people saying that if guns exist anywhere, that means mass-shootings are a guarantee.
Keep in mind the number of Refugees in that country and the poor sanitation, older population, and this explains a lot of their deaths.
They also have a higher percentage of people sharing small living spaces.
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