What is a good metric? What is your solution? I just want to know what passes the litmus test for you. Feel free to link me to a previous post where you already stated this. Honestly, I'm not going to go back pages and pages of arguments, so if you don't want to share, I'll assume you don't have any suggestions and are just caught up in the moment.
There are a lot of people out there like that lady in red. All you gotta do is read the comments on news station Facebook post. Stay at home order is making people dumber.
lol. They asked an official why masks weren't mandatory to begin with and they said they thought people would take the initiative to wear them. Yeah... right. These are the same people Caesar's was having to entice with $20 to wear a mask. New Jersey got hit by this crap hard and they kind of know better, I guess : https://journaltimes.com/news/natio...cle_b6cd93a2-7cff-594c-b879-beb373c7014b.html “If any visitor refuses to comply with these simple safeguards, you will be escorted out of the casino,” the governor said. “We are not going to tolerate any knuckleheads trying to ruin it for those who want to enjoy themselves responsibly and those who need to get back to work, especially if those knuckleheads could be spreading Covid.”
**** me. Society flattened the curve then decided Mission Accomplished. And a HUGE **** You to every conspiracy spewing piece of **** who are too emotionally and intellectually deficient to comprehend what we are facing.
A very concerning issue isn’t necessarily the number of infections as we didn’t have as many people getting tested so a comparison is tough (well that is concerning to me) but the percentage of positive tests To overall tests which has spiked. In early May the Houston average positives per test was 10% but this week it is closer to 35%. That scares me.
There are people like in every city in the US. Every small town. On this message board, even reading this very comment. They don’t realize they are incapable of critical thinking. I really don’t feel that sorry for them either. Most people have the availability to learn new skills, read a book or studies. They just choose not to. Dat Facebook news, MSNBC, Foxnews, Breitbart etc are just so easy to consume.
Revisiting this from about 10 days ago....if anyone thinks that this virus is going away after it's gained this strong of a foothold then they are mistaken. People are still in denial about it. The virus is endemic. The chances of a vaccine don't seem to be great considering that antibody study out of China, but we will wait for more info. I hope someone can throw these words in my face in the future. The reality is we have to live with this and change our lifestyles to be more healthy and proactive with cleanliness and masks or whatever is effective. Treat yourself well. Exercise and good diet are still the best treatments for anything in life. Get your vitamin D levels checked. 1000-4000 IU/day is probably ok to take even if you don't have them checked, but more might be needed if you are at risk and older. We have already seen that vitamin D deficiency is related to severity of covid and other respiratory infections among many other things. This isn't new and should already be promoted by the govt. I will keep talking about this until I am blue in the face. The other thing we have to remember is that this virus is more dangerous than the flu but we don't need to freak ourselves out and treat this like smallpox. There might be other long term complications like some have mentioned, but we are still waiting to find those out. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v2.full.pdf Objective To estimate the infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from data of seroprevalence studies. Methods Population studies with sample size of at least 500 and published as peer-reviewed papers or preprints as of June 7, 2020 were retrieved from PubMed, preprint servers, and communications with experts. Studies on blood donors were included, but studies on healthcare workers were excluded. The studies were assessed for design features and seroprevalence estimates. Infection fatality rate was estimated from each study dividing the number of COVID-19 deaths at a relevant time point by the number of estimated people infected in each relevant region. Correction was also attempted accounting for the types of antibodies assessed. Results 23 studies were identified with usable data to enter into calculations. Seroprevalence estimates ranged from 0.1% to 47%. Infection fatality rates ranged from 0.02% to 0.86% (median 0.26%) and corrected values ranged from 0.02% to 0.78% (median 0.25%). Among people <70 years old, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.26% with median of 0.05% (corrected, 0.00-0.23% with median of 0.04%). Most studies were done in pandemic epicenters and the few studies done in locations with more modest death burden also suggested lower infection fatality rates. Conclusions The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 can vary substantially across different locations and this may reflect differences in population age structure and case-mix of infected and deceased patients as well as multiple other factors. Estimates of infection fatality rates inferred from seroprevalence studies tend to be much lower than original speculations made in the early days of the pandemic.
EXCUSE ME MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITH A DECADE OF SCHOOL! I am going to arrest you! NO MASK FOR ME! Okay?! She can get it though. *not referring to Covid19*
as long as the death rate isn't rising, having this spread through the low-risk population during the summer is probably good for herd immunity
