Coronavirus

[SCEMan]

I know a slew of parents right now who would probably be ok if little Johnnie or Jane went back to school right now.

Probably not those whose grandparents watch their kids while they work (like me).

 

[bykfixer]

I was lucky to have that option SCE. But my kids still socialized with neighbor kids, ate dirt, drank from water hoses and left skin on asphalt. Yet they always liked school too. I see your point though. Took me a few ticks, but I understand what you mean and agree.

Flashy, the three tier thing sounds pretty reasonable. I hope they can come up with enough quick tests to let folks go back to visiting loved ones in rest homes soon. My heart sank when they said those folks will be quarentined for in many cases the rest of their lives.

They talked about influenza a bit too. And my gosh Lousianna sure got a grip quickly on the covid thing. But flu looks like it was really bad there this year. (red line)

Mrs Fixer did up some rub on hard hat stickers for me to pass out at work.

 

[RedLED]

COVID-19 emergency in the US starting to wind down.

Some good news on testing remdesevir. Study from Chicago.

I tried to find a story about this but google news refuses to provide any.

Caught a whiff of this by trying to track down why stock-market futures up after market close today.

But also federal government issuing new guidelines allowing states to open up in a phased way (3 phases, provided certain milestones in terms of declining cases/deaths are passed, and moves between phases allowed provided no backtracking).

Important state-by-state map shown indicating significant drops in cases in most states, of course some hot-spots persist.

The map shown in this forum earlier on per-capita cases by Chauncey Gardiner clearly shows how much better the US has done relative to almost all other countries. And medical care has also been superior here, in my opinion.

The famous NHS (national health service) in the UK, that everyone tells us how much better it is than our US health care system, has one ventilator for every five we have here per person. Their typical way of treating people is to ignore them (I have relatives there and they are almost never able to be admitted or even be seen and treated whenever they have a problem, admittedly they are young and haven't had huge trouble, but sometimes they did have serious trouble).

And one other thing about the map showing many more cases in the US. Well, please add up all those cases in individual countries in Europe, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK.,... The US is a continental country, you need to compare it with the total of Europe (US about 330m people, Europe perhaps 400 m depending on definition).

A few of the bigger European countries alone total more cases than the US, and way more deaths.

Really, those of us living in this country, the US, sometimes forget how lucky we are, and I speak as someone who has lived and traveled in many countries around the world.

Flashy,

I agree with you that while it is nice to see the world, wheels down in the USA is a good feeling every time no matter how many times you return.

 

[bykfixer]

Saw these characters practicing social distancing at work today.

But I think they had more on their minds than covid-19

Datz some brave hombres there.

 

[Bullzeyebill]

Social distancing. I love that post Lol.

bill

 

[StarHalo]

(COVID-19CasesPerCapita.jpg)

This chart is an excellent indicator of population density; for example, if you were to generate a chart of Number of Gas Stations Per Capita, the US would rank quite low, because the population is spread out over a massive area. Number of Candy Bars Per Capita, US is low again. Etc. Whoever made this chart is having a chuckle at a few peoples' expense..

A few of the bigger European countries alone total more cases than the US, and way more deaths.

Which countries are those? This would be so much easier to track if someone would just post a chart of the number of daily confirmed cases in the ten most affected countries..

 

[SCEMan]

Saw these characters practicing social distancing at work today.
But I think they had more on their minds than covid-19
Datz some brave hombres there.

I've been noticing a lot of linemen in my area lately too. Definitely an essential job.
Brave for sure. One of the few jobs my former employer didn't try to outsource/offshore.

 

[nbp]

USA has a gas station for every 2972 people and we eat 22 lbs of candy per person per year, the equivalent of 227 Hershey bars. We are awesome!!

 

[Deleted member 4455]

There is a lot of politics and money involved in the New Orleans stats. There is BIG money to be made on Covid-19. Outsiders don't understand the depth of depravity and corruption in NOLA.

 

[RedLED]

Nightshade,

Could you elaborate on this?

 

[markr6]

USA has a gas station for every 2972 people and we eat 22 lbs of candy per person per year, the equivalent of 227 Hershey bars. We are awesome!!

22lbs. I eat that much in Good & Plenty alone. Need to pump those numbers up!

 

[BVH]

............................ This would be so much easier to track if someone would just post a chart of the number of daily confirmed cases in the ten most affected countries..

Ask and yee shall receive...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

 

[ledbetter]

22lbs. I eat that much in Good & Plenty alone. Need to pump those numbers up!

Obesity is now identified as one of the top three comorbities along with diabetes and heart disease that lead to complications and possible death from Kung Flu. That’s the literal meaning of “thinning the herd.”

 

[scout24]

BVH- Thank you for that link. Bookmarked! I found the cases per capita line of the chart particularly telling.

 

[StarHalo]

Ask and yee shall receive...

Well played, sir. I was joking though, I post the Johns Hopkins ten day chart here almost daily, just not a lot of acceptance of those numbers here though. If you add up the cases for countries 2, 3, 4, and 5, that's still not as many cases as the US.

 

[SCEMan]

Well played, sir. I was joking though, I post the Johns Hopkins ten day chart here almost daily, just not a lot of acceptance of those numbers here though. If you add up the cases for countries 2, 3, 4, and 5, that's still not as many cases as the US.

That's due to the fact that those numbers are a raw count, not parsed with the total country population to provide a percentage per capita for perspective.

 

[StarHalo]

That's due to the fact that those numbers are a raw count, not parsed with the total country population to provide a percentage per capita for perspective.

It's due to the fact that the infrastructure intended to deal with a pandemic was dismantled beforehand, that warnings of a pandemic were ignored, that the pandemic was regarded as a hoax, that sufficient testing was not and is not available, that lack of national leadership caused many thousands more deaths that could have been prevented.

It should be a red flag if you're trying to "smooth over" 32,000+ deaths.

 

[scout24]

Per capita, the U.S. is doing better than a bunch of countries. This is despite having an incredibly diverse population and arguably the most open immigration in the world. We have 17 states with a combined TOTAL 200+/- deaths. The areas with the highest concentrations of cases and deaths encompass a tiny portion of the country in square miles. You cannot possibly dispute that. Or maybe you can... :shrug:

I cannot fathom hating the pilot enough to hope that your plane crashes but to each their own.

Source for your allegations, please? Without a source, as has been asked for here before in this thread, (not just from you.) it 's just your opinion. And we all know about opinions...

 

[Johnnyh]

Source for your allegations, please?

I’m guessing MSNBC...[emoji56]

 

[scout24]

Johnnyh- I added to my post you quoted, if you want to re-copy it... :nana: