Whatever the outcome is, Covid has reduced the earth population. We all see this kinda stuff on the movies and never thought it could ever happen.
Yeah, and it's ridiculous how many people think they're going to see Zombies.
Whatever the outcome is, Covid has reduced the earth population. We all see this kinda stuff on the movies and never thought it could ever happen.
I made fun of those people, too. But turns out they were right, the Zombies are here - they come out at night in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and a few other leftist-ruled cities.Yeah, and it's ridiculous how many people think they're going to see Zombies.
Do we?
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Inflating the positive count causes deaths, too, by squandering resources on healthy people, creating unnecessary panic and economic hardship, and prolonging the delay of normal health assessments, diagnoses, and treatments. Of course on the positive side, it helps certain political aspirants and boosts TV news ratings.At least the error is false positive rather than false negative. When dealing with something that is highly contagious and has high potential to kill it’s better to err on the side of caution and improve from there than the other way around.
(The UK had a disastrous start with testing.)
Inflating the positive count causes deaths, too, by squandering resources on healthy people, creating unnecessary panic and economic hardship, and prolonging the delay of normal health assessments, diagnoses, and treatments. Of course on the positive side, it helps certain political aspirants and boosts TV news ratings.
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One thing that people overlook with testing is that if someone tests negative you would want the means to ensure that they stay that way. What effen good is getting tested negative and then going out 2 weeks later and getting infected?
Well I guess if you're negative it's the other sob that should have been staying at home!
Yes I do know many who have had COVID, each with varying degrees of symptoms/severity. Regarding deaths, not "many" but several, yes. But I also doubt participants here (in this forum let alone in this thread) are a representative sample of the global population. Nor are experiences representative at such small sample sizes. I used to live and work in Europe. So I know a lot of people that met this 'early on'. (No doubt if I had lived in, say, Milan I'd know more.) Also, despite having grown up in a small town in a rural community, I've lived in dense urban environments for most of the last 40 years - including Auckland, Sydney, Hong Kong, NYC, Moscow, London and, now, Miami. If you live (and only circulate with people who also live) in a rural environment without many people no doubt the pandemic can feel more remote.
Thankfully the first wave is easing here in South Florida and the death toll has benefited greatly from lessons learned abroad and in the NE. Online schooling was a complete and unmitigated disaster here last week (and continues this week) mostly due to poor infrastructure and poor planning but also because parents aren't well equipped to be teacher substitutes. Basically I got no work done last week - another cost of COVID. Hopefully kids will be back in the classroom soon. Then we'll see how the northern states fare in the winter.
BTW a really interesting article in today's FT entitled "What bats can teach us about developing immunity to COVID 19." It's free to read and worth it.
I am not some kinda conspiracy theorist but i think this may be a test run, The numbers are still counting. Pray it comes to a quick end.Reduced it by 0.012% so far. Not the kind of stuff scary movies are made about.
Consider that the world population increases annually by 100 times that amount.
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“It goes through air, Bob, that’s always tougher than the touch,” “The air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed.”
The crazy thing about it is everyone with half a brain knew that anyway.“It goes through air, Bob, that’s always tougher than the touch,” “The air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed.”
“It goes through air, Bob, that’s always tougher than the touch,” “The air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed.”
"Test run"? Listen, here's my rule: Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be ascribed either to natural forces or to human deficiency.I am not some kinda conspiracy theorist but i think this may be a test run, The numbers are still counting. Pray it comes to a quick end.
Horror indeed. How do you get up in the morning knowing 1700 per day die from heart disease in the US, 1600 per day from cancer, 450 from accidents, 200 from drug overdoses? And those numbers aren't ever going to go down much if at all.I want this virus over with, we have a body count of a thousand a day.
I remember the horror of 100-200 Americans dying a week in Vietnam in the 60’s.