My response isn't any sort of challenge or chest-pounding; it comes off as strange that the entire page displayed is dealing with the reality of the numbers and how we deal with this new day to day life, then inevitably someone posts that things have probably already turned around and everything's fine and nothing to see here - I don't understand where these people are coming from, I know for certain what numbers I've seen in the press, what I've had to deal with at my job in person, how others are having difficulty in this time, but somehow there's a select group who feel it's best to just not prepare, that it would be easier to forward an educated guess about what the current statistics are and proceed from there with rose-colored glasses. I don't get it. I would ask you this question in person.
Has anyone tested? Any leads on where such a thing might be an option?
You currently are writing so unclearly compared to how you used to write, that I wonder if you are self medicating.
My posts, do in fact deal with the reality of the numbers.
The number of deaths are an indicator of where we were 7 to 21 days ago. ( I admit that is only an estimation on my part, based on some general information. It takes 3-14 days to show symptoms, (3-5 days to get test results) and then hours or days on a ventilator before one dies.) The age, and health condition, prior to contracting the virus also affects the outcome, and the duration of time prior to succumbing. Those people who die today, or yesterday, were walking dead 1-3 weeks ago.
Reporting the number of deaths, hopefully brings home to the general population how serious this disease is.
Reporting the number of positive tests, brings home how wide spread, and how rapidly it is spreading.
Unfortunately, if one does not understand geometric progression, one is not impacted by the significance until the numbers in his/her region are out of control.
Regarding: "there's a select group who feel it's best to just not prepare,"
If you are including me in this group, you are obviously just rambling.
Regarding " proceed from there with rose-colored glasses."
In 1929 during the stock market crash, people were so depressed that they were jumping to their deaths.
Orson Wells' "War of The Worlds" did too.
Where there is positive information to be shared, it should be shared.
Yesterday's report of New York's Governor Cuomo was solemn, but pointed to an indication that they have reached or are near the peak of the curve.
Today, NYC's mayor De Blasio indicated that three days in a row, the numbers are improving.
Three states, Wisconsin, Washington, and California, either sent ventilators directly to NY or returned them to the Feds for dissemination as needed.
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