raggie33
*the raggedier*
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- Aug 11, 2003
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What did you do on the tour?
nothing i was jokeing. but i do love la guns but i wish they would go back to original lineup
What did you do on the tour?
ive got a strange sence of humor. ps i love ya avatar check out her in the steel panther videoThat's cool, man.
We're all taking it seriously but it's hard to not say numbers are skewed when tests are coming back positive on fruit/goat meat/ random objects.
Also several states have counted the number of positives for every time the same person tested. That's bad.
???? Have you not heard or read about the Abbott tests, that's not old news that's every day news. Places are still using them knowing they are junk because they have nothing else
I understand less & less about this fixation with "infections" or "cases". :shakehead Cases are confirmed cases only, that is: people who have been tested, and tested positive. Infections are unknown, estimates based on # of cases + a guestimate of how many more infections there are for each confirmed case. :thinking: Or (better) based on sampling a small subset of the population. Usually not random sampling, which makes results less useful for statistical purposes (I've read that for this purpose, they're even testing sewage for virus RNA). Not to mention how many tests are actually done. Or how it's decided who gets tested or not.I'm cautioning you all to take this seriously. It's very real. It's suppressing other, non c-19, people from getting healthcare.
And it's growing exponentially. Don't believe me? Go look at the total US infections. It's growing at just under 2% a day, doubling about once a month in total numbers infected and daily increases.
Yes, there is some number of people infected that did NOT get tested. That's largely irrelevant... a full ICU is a full ICU. PPE is still in short supply. Testing reagents are in a nationwide shortage. Etc.
Fear is a great weapon that is used to control people and large numbers is useful to those who are ignorant of statistics and percentages and relevance to the world we live in. Instead of the media and politicians saying 6000 people were infected in a state of 4 million they say only 0.15% of the state was infected today they use the largest numbers possible to instill fear in those who don't relate them. People seem to forget we have 330 million people in the US and 150 thousand people dying is only 0.045% of the population has died so far from this virus
I laughed WAY too much at this!
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As of yesterday in LA County; 172,325 cases of COVID-19 and 4,351 deaths (not to mention the thousands whose lives will never be the same due to serious health ramifications of the disease). Consider that the actual number is probably 10 times higher with undetected infected asymptomatic carriers still at work and among us.
No indoor dining or movie theaters, etc. anywhere while the virus is out-of-control. With almost 80% of the recent cases under age 50 (majority of those under 30) the reopening has been a disaster. Reopening bars resulted in a breeding ground and it appears another shutdown is imminent. Meanwhile public protests and rioting further the crisis...
It actually looks pretty good. I'd buy one if it wasn't bright yellow and had the logo removed.
I received a 10 pack of the hanes white cotton masks. Dyed them red with clothes dye. Washed thoroughly. Then they turned all my socks pink.
I hear you. So if the point was to say why percentages are not used I get it. Math/science literacy is low. Average US citizen reads at 8th grade level also.
I'm reminding you that the healthcare system can only service so many people at a time. C-19 is squeezing out other critical needs. When beds are needed for c-19, they are needed for long periods of time, not just a 1-2 day stay.
Going back to the infection numbers. They are a representation of our actions. So as long as they follow a certain pattern and we don't adjust our actions then we can see where numbers will end up. And it's not good.
XKCD says it well.
https://xkcd.com/2278/
Our mayor mandated masks and a week later 200 extra hospital beds mysteriously opened.... I"m sure we have 2-300 more beds we could come up with if needed around here but hey.... gotta get attention so maybe you can run for senator when Inhoff retires one day here.
As for the numbers..... masks aren't going to defeat human behavior. People are tired of doing nothing a lot of folks aren't professional couch potatoes. People seem to think that we can shut down this virus... I think it would take putting everyone from about 16-35 in a coma for 6 months to halt it.