Posted on 04/04/2020 6:58:35 PM PDT by david1292
Dr. Deborah Birx said Saturday that Americans should especially focus on social distancing guidelines in the next two weeks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe,” she said.
Birx noted that Pennsylvania, Colorado, and the Washington, DC, metro area were starting to have an increasing number of cases.
“We’re hoping and believing that if people mitigate strongly, the work that they did over the last two weeks will blunt that curve,” she said.
She pointed to really bad hotspots in New Jersey and New York, where cases of the virus and deaths were still going up.
“The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,” she said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci also said three or four hotspots were continuing to rise, but that certain areas could flatten the curve by social distancing.
“Just make sure everybody does the at least minimal amount of that physical separation, because the virus has no place to go if you’re physically separating,” Fauci said.
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Wow.
A hockeystick graph.
Mann has moved on from gore bull warming.
You can only keep Americans penned up for so long. If this continues, it will not end well...
...and it won’t be due to any virus.
When the milk or other things I need run out I'll be going again no matter what this lady says. (when the powdered milk is restocked then I won't have to go for that again)
Why would I do that?
I go to work, complete each day’s job, and buy my food at the grocery store.
I say I’m going to go into the stores every other day but chicken out. I have been having pretty good luck with Walmart pickups, tho.
” I guess I will have to eat my cat’s food”
The cat tastes better
We have 4 cases in our Town and it's a tiny little cluster in a Town of 45,000 people.
Fauci is nuts....he knows a lot. Regardless, everything he promotes is still just his opinion. He doesn't care about the people....he cares about his "studies"....people are just numbers to him.
Cases are going up because the only people that are getting tested already have it. They are MAKING the numbers.
Many people work at grocery stories and pharmacies. They have to go to those places every single day.
So what is Dr Birx advice to those people? Quit?
That graph is fraudulent.
Just compare the mortality rates for the U.S. per the CDC in the last few years and that graph does not match up to reality.
I bought two gallons through aldi delivery....froze one after taking some out to leave room for expansion.
Eat rice and beans. You’ll live.
Hey, how about saying "this is the moment to not be going into the NYC subway system"
You just seem very beholden to the government.
From Wikipedia: “ Birx lives with her parents, husband, and one of her daughter’s family in a multi-generational home“.
So essentially, Dr. Birx doesn’t even remotely social distance in her own home.
Between 8:10 AM EDT yesterday and 7:47 AM today, the number of worldwide cases jumped by 101,085, for a total of 1,131,713 cases. So far, fewer than a quarter of those infected have recovered, and the death rate has crept up to 5.29%. The number of cases is doubling roughly every 6-7 days.
There is nothing reassuring about this situation.
Agreed. This is why we see panic buying, because the next thing to close will be the grocery stores. Welcome to North Korea!
It’s week by week, Pox.
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