Posted on 04/12/2020 2:56:22 PM PDT by absalom01
The bottomline is this. We are 100 times safer now than we were a month ago. President Trump and his pandemic response team did a fantastic job over the past few weeks limiting the number of COVID-19 deaths to around 55,000. We won the first battle. I feel sorry for the English, Dutch, and Swedish people though. Their responses weren’t as timely and appropriate as President Trump’s and it is now a mathematical certainty that a larger percentage of their population will die from COVID-19 by the time things settle in a couple of months.
Now we have a different battle to fight. We can’t lower our guard.
The total number of confirmed cases around the world is approaching 2 million. There are millions more that we weren’t able to identify. Anywhere from 20% to 50% of these unidentified COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. We shouldn’t let anyone into our country (including U.S. citizens) without a 14-day quarantine and a negative test result at the end of the quarantine period.
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There are more than 100 different companies working on a COVID-19 vaccine right now. It is very likely that at least one of those companies will succeed within a year.
These are probably the darkest days of this pandemic and I am certain you will be able to see what I am seeing right now in a couple of weeks.
We did well and saved millions of American lives. This is the most resilient virus we’ve come across over the last 100 years, but the American people proved to be more resilient than the coronavirus.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Turns out that we all may have already been exposed and have immunity... remember that flu that you had in November, December?
“President Trump and his pandemic response team did a fantastic job over the past few weeks “
Yahoooooo?
Well slap my arse and call me Sally!
Yahoo news gets something close to right.
100x safer?
I’m actually less safe at the moment as the peak sweeps over and around me and then I go to where the peak has yet to happen.
Now it could be that the Trump Pills provide 100x the likelihood of survival if it gets to the point of trying to take a nap in the hospital, but the exact numbers seem to be in the future, if ever.
“Yahoooooo?
Well slap my arse and call me Sally!
Yahoo news gets something close to right”.
I literally laughed out loud. Thanks for that.
It was not any one of the several flus going around. Cases are being extensively tracked, and negatives from tests in at least some states are more than ten to one as compared to positives. No great percentage of the population has been exposed.
Here’s one example of many. Compare negatives to positives, and you’ll see that the social distancing orders are working. It is about to become even more apparent with testing efforts ramping up.
That’s really why I posted this.
CNN, Yahoo, and get this, Newsweek are all disrupting their narrative.
Look out for the next one, but the ground is shifting under their feet.
This might be a better link for some.
https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/novel-coronavirus/results.php
A small sample space but interesting. I honestly wonder if it extrapolates to larger populations.
Clearly, it has been around long enough to achieve this kind of stat.
Wonder if Washington State and California exposure rates and people with antibodies will be higher.
How do you know the model was wrong, since we didn’t take the path of no mitigation. There is no control group.
Or will you will catch it when it returns in a couple of months.
Bad news with the good news. Fewer people were exposed to only to exposed to it later.
Pay me now or pay me later. Same or similar end.
It might be worth clicking through and reading the piece. The author doesn’t address the IHME model or Ferguson’s musings at IC London.
More of a fresh take.
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
I’m in.
Since the cat is out of the bag, then compare the model with real world data. A little too late to be useful if what I am hearing about the models is correct.
Me too. The “flu” swept through my family over Christmas. Everyone were very sick.
So a large percentage of the population have not been exposed? Do you not see this as a problem? That means that these vulnerable people will get sick when covid returns in a few months? The only thing that delay buys us is time to develop an immunization which will take years.
Bull Schiff
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