(06-22-2020, 04:24 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: [ -> ]I think that the media hype (both traditional and social) regarding numbers is extremely misleading. Yes there may be more positive cases of the Wuhan, China virus because there has been a lot more testing available and done. As far as the President's comment about "slowing down testing", that was a "tongue in cheek" comment.
"Wuhan, China virus"
Good to see that raging case of delivery boy virus hasn't settled down at all.
(06-23-2020, 11:48 AM)MalabarJag Wrote: [ -> ] (06-23-2020, 10:22 AM)mikesez Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the gratuitous insults!
Why, in your opinion, would there be twice as many deaths reported in the week ending 5/30, compared to the week ending 6/13?
Twice zero is zero, so that statement is meaningless in itself. Do you have a link with numbers?
You're looking at the wrong column, I guess. The numbers I see are 53% and 99%, and 99% is about double 53%...
Ever since George Floyd dies of Coronavirus the world has been on fire.
I guess the markets are shifting based on people caring about COVID-19 again. It is fascinating how the MSM narrative controls financial markets.
(06-24-2020, 03:55 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: [ -> ]I guess the markets are shifting based on people caring about COVID-19 again. It is fascinating how the MSM narrative controls financial markets.
Not really. End of month and more specifically end of quarter coming up. Most investors are re-balancing and shifting investments. I did so a couple of days ago with selling a few stocks to secure profit and buying the dip today. The China virus won't really impact the markets that much unless we see a bunch of major shutdowns again.
While reported positive cases might be up in the state, there is certainly no spike in hospitalizations, people on ventilators, etc..
It would be interesting to see how many new "positive" cases are people that are asymptomatic.
(06-24-2020, 04:43 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: [ -> ] (06-24-2020, 03:55 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: [ -> ]I guess the markets are shifting based on people caring about COVID-19 again. It is fascinating how the MSM narrative controls financial markets.
Not really. End of month and more specifically end of quarter coming up. Most investors are re-balancing and shifting investments. I did so a couple of days ago with selling a few stocks to secure profit and buying the dip today. The China virus won't really impact the markets that much unless we see a bunch of major shutdowns again.
While reported positive cases might be up in the state, there is certainly no spike in hospitalizations, people on ventilators, etc..
It would be interesting to see how many new "positive" cases are people that are asymptomatic.
And retesting the same people.
This doesn't surprise me. I would need to look at that graph and the information sources more closely, but this was an inevitable problem with handling the virus nationally. I don't think we should have closed the whole country down at once, because I am pretty sure the virus didn't get a chance to spread everywhere. It was almost inevitable that unless the virus was eradicated, it would continue to spread once lockdown ended. I don't know why people can't wrap their head around the actual size of the US. We are a giant country geographically and also have a huge population.
Hindsight is 20/20, but we should have never shut down the economy nationally (or did it only until testing was readily available). Only the people most at risk should have been self-quarantined, which in this case was the elderly and immunocompromised. People should have worn masks and social distanced to limit the spread to help flatten the curve, and states should have entered lockdown on an individual basis, if and only if R > 1. I think some business could have been shut down like bars, entertainment, and theme parks. This would have allowed the virus to distribute more evenly around the US and cause our curve to look more like other nations. I advocated for most of these restrictions early on, and based it off the S. Korea and Thailand models. However, I think the US is too big to follow their lead for the reason mentioned above.
I also don't understand how people came to believe that we need a vaccine to beat this virus. It would be awesome if that's how medicine worked, but it's not. Waiting in your house for a vaccine is unsustainable.
(06-25-2020, 09:10 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: [ -> ]This doesn't surprise me. I would need to look at that graph and the information sources more closely, but this was an inevitable problem with handling the virus nationally. I don't think we should have closed the whole country down at once, because I am pretty sure the virus didn't get a chance to spread everywhere. It was almost inevitable that unless the virus was eradicated, it would continue to spread once lockdown ended. I don't know why people can't wrap their head around the actual size of the US. We are a giant country geographically and also have a huge population.
Hindsight is 20/20, but we should have never shut down the economy nationally (or did it only until testing was readily available). Only the people most at risk should have been self-quarantined, which in this case was the elderly and immunocompromised. People should have worn masks and social distanced to limit the spread to help flatten the curve, and states should have entered lockdown on an individual basis, if and only if R > 1. I think some business could have been shut down like bars, entertainment, and theme parks. This would have allowed the virus to distribute more evenly around the US and cause our curve to look more like other nations. I advocated for most of these restrictions early on, and based it off the S. Korea and Thailand models. However, I think the US is too big to follow their lead for the reason mentioned above.
I also don't understand how people came to believe that we need a vaccine to beat this virus. It would be awesome if that's how medicine worked, but it's not. Waiting in your house for a vaccine is unsustainable.
The main problem is the false reporting that contracting the virus is a death sentence. People are being terrorized for no reason except that fear begats control.
Huh.... where have I seen that before?
(06-25-2020, 10:02 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: [ -> ]Huh.... where have I seen that before?
My posts since about St Patrick's Day?
