Almost half a million Americans contract COVID-19 in past week as infections surge

reuters.com ^ | October 27, 2020 | Lisa Shumaker, Maria Caspani

[Berlin_Freeper]

Nearly half a million people in the United States have contracted the novel coronavirus in the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally, as cases and hospitalizations set fresh records in hot spots in the Midwest.

More than 5,600 people died from the virus nationwide in the last week, with hospitalizations shooting up 13%, a Reuters analysis showed.

[backwoods-engineer]

Lies, damned lies, and false positives. And FReepers are making it worse by pumping this nonsense.

[moovova]

[Pollard]

A covid map looks a lot like a map of who voted for Hillary in 2016.

[CodeToad]

How about this is nothing special. People get the common cold (also a corona virus) and the flu by the millions every year. Those silly masks do nothing to stop it.

[butlerweave]

Why not 10 million a week just to screw with the Election the Dems are Losing Big Time

[rktman]

Yeah we have mixed it up a LOT since July. A LOT. Lucky? Casinos, big crowds.......

[timestax]

And Cray Cray, Crooked, Crab Apple , HidenBiden calls us CHUMPS.

[avital2]

did they test positive - or are they sick? there’s a big difference.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

And you know what the miracle cure will be? A Biden win in the election. All the sudden COVID will be magically cured.

[God luvs America]

mortality rate at 2.5% and dropping...

[rlmorel]

That graph at post #17 could be completely made up...but it reflects my impressions 100%.

I LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:

• If I get exposed to the virus, only two things can happen: I will get it, or I won't.
  
  
• If I don't, I have nothing to worry about.
  
  
• If I do get it, only two things can happen: I will get symptoms, or I won't.
  
  
• If I don't get symptoms, I have nothing to worry about.
  
  
• If I do get symptoms, only two things can happen: they will eventually get better, or they will eventually get worse.
  
  
• If they get better, I got nothing to worry about.
  
  
• If I do get worse, only two things can happen: I will live through it or I'll die.
  
  
• If I live through it, I got nothing to worry about.
  
  
• If I Die, I only got two things to worry about: I'll go to Heaven, or I'll go to Hell.
  
  
• If I go to Heaven, I got nothing to worry about.
  
  
• If I go to Hell, I only have two things to worry about: It will be run by Conservatives, or it will be run by Leftists.
  
  
• If Hell is run by Conservatives, I got nothing to worry about.
  
  
• If Hell is run by Leftists, I can count the time I have spent in New York City as training (and it really does have to be better down there than New York, and...all my deplorable Conservative friends will have been sent there by Leftists, and we will have a grand old time!

[wareagle7295]

They don’t realize the only people they are going to scare is themselves.

[SmokingJoe]

Very good.
Chuckle.

[EnquiringMind]

I saw several signs, on busy intersections in Palm Beach County, Florida, that said: FREE COVID-19 TESTING. WE WILL PAY FOR YOUR TIME AND TRANSPORTATION. CALL 954-(a Broward County number). THe signs were about the size of a political yard sign. Printed in large black letters on a white background. OH, HOW IS WISH I HAD TAKEN PICTURES!!!

Anyone wonder why there are so many cases, suspiciously a week or 2 before the election? Because Dems are paying people to get tested. Most of these people would never have gone for a test without free $$$ because they are ASYMPTOMATIC!!

Anyone wonder why there are so many new cases but the mortality rate is so low? Because they are ASYMPTOMATIC!

[timestax]

[rlmorel]

It’s a variant of an old joke, usually ending in “If I go to Hell, I’ll have such a good time with all my friends who are already there...”

:)

[timestax]

[ozarker]

They are ramping up the hysteria now hoping to scare aged republicans from voting in person. Be great if they scared their own base out of voting instead.

[RatRipper]

My wife has been sick. I know about 6 or 7 friends have been sick. Most of them, but not all, were co-workers with my wife and she knew them to be sick.

Regarding a co-worker of mine, her mother died last night from it. she was in her upper 80s. Another co-worker of mine has a husband who is 61, seemingly in pretty good shape, has been in ICU for 2 weeks with it.

I’m gonna test in the morning, but I have not been sick. My wife started showing symptoms Saturday night. I don’t fear this thing. I am 64, but in good physical shape even though Type ii and a 2017 bypass. Some folks are vulnerable to it for varying reasons. I have not missed a day of work this year from sickness, but I am now in quarantine.

Remember . . . the Commies did this to us. . . and probably the Rats, too.

[RatRipper]

So far, not a problem for my wife or me.