re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

GA numbers out for Apr 13

-4 of the last five days have seen day-over-day drops in percentage of positive results.

-3 straight days of positive % below 20%. For perspective, since I started tracking 21 days ago, we've yet to see even two consecutive days below 20%.

-Over the total of 21 days I have tracked, there's an overall positive percentage of 24%. We've now had five straight days below that mean.

Another important milestone was passed yesterday, 0.5% of the Georgia population has been tested and had their results released. One out of every 200 people in the state has been tested.

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As of now, I am glad the efforts of individual states overcame the weak leadership from our president.

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Hahaha!!! Comical.

furthermore, TWO idiot governors actually issued executive orders that put their citizens at grave risk of death, and yes, likely even caused a few unnecessary deaths

in Nevada & Michigan, the governors issued executive orders that forbade docs from prescribing hydroxychloroquine for Chinese Virus patients

why? because Trump said the pills might work

NEWSFLASH -- they pills DO work!

and the corrupt American media and many leftist progressives were actually pulling for more people to die so that Trump could be proven wrong!

idiot leftists talk about Trump policies causing deaths; yet implement policies that actually do cause deaths

kind of pathetic. really

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One of my late grandmother's brothers died of coronavirus in the Pruitt Grandview facility. He was 95 years old

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I am sorry for your loss, and I hope he lived a happy and fulfilling life

Question for the field:


Now that we've stockpiled PPE and ventilators, and tests, and emergency hospital space has been set up everywhere (even though it's not being used), can we go ahead and get busy working on spreading phase 2? We don't need to flatten the curve at this point. Hospitals won't be overwhelmed.

I understand the school year is shot for kids, but allow the private schools and daycares and summer camps to open back up and let a large segment of our population get back to work. Let some of these small businesses put that SBA money into inventory and wages instead of paying off debt or throwing it into a hole to "stay in business with no business".

Do it today.

Deaths lag infection by 2 weeks or so, they say.

So let's all go get infected for two weeks, and if deaths start to spike again, we can lock back down if needed.

Keep the nursing homes locked down in the meantime.

Something we can't do is simply stay locked down with no exit strategy.


If anyone disagrees with reopening, can you tell me what your exit strategy is?

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Those projections all assumed social distancing.

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Most of these projections included best case, worse case, and in between depending on the level of interventions done and other factors.

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Trump was the 1st western world leader to even take action;

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Conveniently after announcements by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines that they would suspend air service between the United States and China for several months, right? Good job trump!

And then he did a whole lot of wishing the problem away publicly, downplaying the severity of it...for weeks. What’s dangerous waste of time.

And then he waited to cut off European trips in mid March, which led to many of the problems in the northeast. Around that same time, he finally put in a massive order of PPE.

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We already know there is nothing that can convince you that the social distancing quarantine yourself at home strategies employed by the states worked at mitigating the spread.

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Of course people don’t catch infectious disease as quickly when they don’t leave the house. That’s not the real debate.