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How Can This Be Happening?
May 4, 2020 | Barnacle

Posted on 05/04/2020 9:01:38 PM PDT by Barnacle

Most of us have been in lockdown for about six weeks. The objective was to flatten the curve and reduce the total number of victims of COVID-19. Well, the curve has been flattened indeed, but how is it six-weeks later there are 25,375 new cases in a single day?

With all the laws and policies implemented to knock out this virus, I expected we’d be on the last leg of the downward curve by now. But, instead of a peak and decline, we’ve had three peaks and shallow valleys between them.

If people are staying at home, practicing social distancing, wearing masks in public, washing their hands and sanitizing everything in sight, how is it that COVID-19 continues to be transmitted from person to person?

A couple possibilities that occurred to me are that: 1) People flouting the laws, or 2) The virus is phenomenally virulent beyond anything ever seen before ( bio-weapon).

I was fully on board with the lockdown orders when they were issued. It was what we needed to do to beat this. However, we are at the point that the cure is becoming worse than the disease. In addition to what this virus has done to people directly, what about the collateral damage, such as long-term damage to our economy? For instance, consider the first two trillion dollar bail-out. Who pays for it? If you are among the approximate one-hundred-million US tax payers, you do. The federal government just signed your name to a $20,000 loan. Don’t think so? Do the math.

It would be particularly interesting to hear the stories of COVID-19 cases that you’ve heard of in the last couple weeks and theories of how they were exposed.

Should we just let this thing take an inevitable course, or should we double-down on lock-down?


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1 posted on 05/04/2020 9:01:38 PM PDT by Barnacle
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To: Barnacle

Maybe it’s yet another “change in the way we count cases.”


2 posted on 05/04/2020 9:04:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Barnacle

More tests being done, plus other illnesses being counted as COVID19.


3 posted on 05/04/2020 9:06:04 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Barnacle

“If people are staying at home, practicing social distancing, wearing masks in public, washing their hands and sanitizing everything in sight, how is it that COVID-19 continues to be transmitted from person to person?”

None of those things is happening in my town, best I can tell.

Went for a drive today. Some businesses are still taking “social distancing” measures, and some had not reopened, but things seemed pretty normal.


4 posted on 05/04/2020 9:07:41 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: EdnaMode

And again, no update on the more important statistics: the number of hospitalizations and mortalities. Are these also spiking up or are these flattening and declining? The overall mortality rate will show that there is no justification for this power grab by totalitarians.


5 posted on 05/04/2020 9:08:35 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Steely Tom

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-restaurant-defies-statewide-order-opens-for-dine-in-service/32349998

California restaurant defies statewide order, opens for dine-in service

R.


6 posted on 05/04/2020 9:11:23 PM PDT by Rabin (Trump, Trump, Trump.)
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To: Barnacle

The point is they’re NOT, at least in America.

1. They’re not wearing masks. That’s the number one way to to stop spreading the virus.

2. They’re not social distancing.

3. They’re not refraining from gathering in groups.

So the numbers will just get bigger and bigger as the idiots infect themselves and others.


7 posted on 05/04/2020 9:11:23 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Barnacle
It gets weirder. How did we go from over 60,000 deaths to only 38,576? This is from the CDC website and is current!
8 posted on 05/04/2020 9:11:56 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Barnacle
Here's my opinion.
9 posted on 05/04/2020 9:12:26 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: EdnaMode
More tests being done, plus other illnesses being counted as COVID19.

Your and Tom's points well taken. What I'd like to know is how new cases can be occurring after this duration of lock-downs.

If you quit feeding fuel to a fire, the fire goes out.

10 posted on 05/04/2020 9:12:40 PM PDT by Barnacle (Build the wall!)
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To: Steely Tom

It appears that more covid testing is available so we know actually who has it.
However, I’ve been watching the new daily death count which has been declining. Why don’t the media and “experts” that??


11 posted on 05/04/2020 9:13:05 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Barnacle

The media has conditioned too many people to be afraid to go out until there is zero cases or until Bill Gates can inject them with the miracle preventer.


12 posted on 05/04/2020 9:14:10 PM PDT by Old Yeller (The answer to 1984 is 1776.)
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To: JMS

And again, no update on the more important statistics: the number of hospitalizations and mortalities.

= = =

^ ^ THAT ^ ^

I can’t find any info on hospitalization numbers.


13 posted on 05/04/2020 9:14:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Barnacle
Grampa Dave: It’s not about your health!

“When the State tells you it’s safe to go to Home Depot to buy a sponge but dangerous to go and buy a flower, it’s not about your health.

When the State shuts down millions of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it’s not about your health.

When the State bans dentists because its unsafe, but deems an abortion visit is safe, it’s not about your health.

When the State prevents you from buying cucumber seeds because it’s dangerous, but allows personal lottery ticket sales, it’s not about your health.

When the State tells you it’s dangerous to go golf alone, fish alone or be in a motor boat alone, but the Governor can get his stage make-up done, and hair done for 5 TV appearances a week, it’s not about your health.

When the state puts you IN a jail cell for walking in a park with your child because it’s too dangerous but lets criminals OUT of jail cells for their health- It’s not about YOUR health!

When the state tells you it’s too dangerous to get treated by a doctor for chiropractic or physical therapy treatments yet deems a liquor store essential- It’s not about your health!

When the State lets you go to the grocery store or hardware store but is demanding mail-in voting, ITS NOT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.

WAKE UP PEOPLE — If you think this is all about your health you’re mistaken! Please open your eyes! Stop being lead like blind sheep.”It's the Wuhan Scam

14 posted on 05/04/2020 9:14:39 PM PDT by SanchoP (The sheeple cower as the HOAX continues.)
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To: Barnacle

The WHO and CDC now recommend everyone wear a blindfold to protect from seeing what’s really going on


15 posted on 05/04/2020 9:15:12 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Bommer

From your link...”data currently are lagged by an average of 1–2 weeks.”

If we are having 2000 deaths a day, and it’s lagged one week, that’s 14,000 deaths not counted. Two weeks would be 28,000 deaths.

That could account for the difference.


16 posted on 05/04/2020 9:16:09 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Barnacle

You forgot 3) lockdowns don’t work


17 posted on 05/04/2020 9:16:36 PM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Barnacle

We have no idea there are that many “new” cases, we are simply doing more and more testing. and the more people who have it the better, that means the sooner we will all have some protection. I hope I caught it at some point


18 posted on 05/04/2020 9:18:03 PM PDT by deanking
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To: Barnacle

You can choose to listen to the people who said Jeb Bush should be the GOP candidate in 2016 or realize you are being lied to.
The numbers say there are 1.1M infected people who have NOT recovered.
Where are they?

If they are home, how do they know they have NOT recovered.
If they are in the hospital, how come the hospitals are so empty.


19 posted on 05/04/2020 9:18:23 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Barnacle

Flattening the curve in no way is intended to reduce the number infected. Only to spread out the time of the infections. The virus still will run its course and as people interact there will be more infections.

The key is it is overwhelmingly non-fatal to otherwise healthy persons. Only elderly and already sick are at risk of death.

So if you are at high risk stay away from other people. If otherwise healthy get on with life.


20 posted on 05/04/2020 9:19:51 PM PDT by JParris
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