It annoys me each day here in Florida when the agenda driven media begins their coverage with the blanket number of “new” cases by reporting it as a static number. If one digs into the full report posted on line one finds there is a stat called the percentage of positive tests. That percentage has been drifting down each day for almost ten days to now being 9.5%. IOW while there are new cases that number MUST be much lowier than before as the denominator is a big number going in. Furthermore we are still mostly testing people with some kind of symptom. ~1000 people have died in fl from this chink weapon. Tragic for them and their loved ones for sure but does that mean we need stay in our closets forever? For comparison two people were killed on Rte 95 near me. Does that infer I should stay off that road or only drive it in an abrams? The mask thing is really getting to me. Someone noted yesterday if jeans and undies cannot contain a fart how is a piece of material going to contain a virus.
Trump talked about that in the last day or two, the
declining number of positives...
We are fortunate to have a governor in Florida who stays on top of the situation and is not afraid to tell the health department bureaucrats at the state, county, and city level to get off their butts and give him meaningful numbers.
Florida is currently testing about 15,000 people per day. If 5,000 of those test results are from people who have NEVER been tested before and 1000 came back positive, then we have a big problem.
On the other hand, if 5,000 of those test results are from people who have NEVER been tested before and 100 came back positive, then we have a manageable problem.
When the heath bureaucrats mix the first time tests with the retests, we really do not know how big the problem is.
Good for our Governor DeSantis to shed some light on this problem and I am confident he will get it fixed pronto!!!!!
A good post, that elicits the following from me:
1) If the Media ISN’T annoying you, then something is wrong. ;)
2) Almost all of statistical analysis, or the reporting of it, is being done by those voted “best personality” or head cheer leader.
3) If the people killed on the road near you died because the road washed out, you would want it closed, and not forever, just until it was repaired and wasn’t unnecessarily dangerous.
Because a "fart" is gaseous, but the ejecta containing the virus are small liquid droplets. "If" a covid carrier and a vulnerable person are within 6ft, probability of contamination transmission is 90%. "If" the carrier has a mask, the probability of transmission drops to 3.5%. "If" BOTH have masks, the probability of transmission drops to 1%. WEAR THE DAMNED MASKS!!!!!