Texas response to Corona virus

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Originally Posted by tholdren

That wasn't suggesting anything other than there's no proof either way, yet some claim its science....the same people who claim science is irrefutable.... which obviously don't understand science

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Demanding replicated experiments so soon after the discovery of a novel pathogen is preposterous, though I agree that saying that science is irrefutable (who said this?) is inconsistent with the theory of scientific research.

There's not proof in science the way there is in math or geometry, falsifiability is the criterion of the domain. (Karl Popper) Irrefutables -- unfalsifiable theories -- belong to pre-science or pseudoscience.

For someone who sets such store by science you sure are stingy with your own data set. When are you going to lay your cards on the table? There are many questions from many posters pending.

"Published July 26, 2020
Updated July 27, 2020
HOUSTON — Elaine Roberts, a longtime bagger at a supermarket, tried to be so careful. She put on gloves and stopped riding the bus to work, instead relying on her father to drive her to keep their family safe. She wore masks — in space-themed fabrics stitched by her sister — as she stacked products on shelves, helped people to their cars and retrieved carts from the parking lot.

But many of the customers at the Randalls store in a Houston suburb did not wear them, she noticed, even as coronavirus cases in the state began rising in early June. Gov. Greg Abbott, who had pushed to reopen businesses in Texas, was refusing to make masks mandatory and for weeks had blocked local officials from enforcing any mask requirements. The grocery store only posted signs asking shoppers to wear them.

Ms. Roberts, 35, who has autism and lives with her parents, got sick first, sneezing and coughing. Then her father, Paul, and mother, Sheryl, who had been so cautious after the pandemic struck that their rare ventures out were mostly for bird-watching in a nearly empty park, were hospitalized with breathing problems.

Their cases were unusual: Sheryl Roberts, a sunny retired nurse, experienced severe psychiatric symptoms that made doctors fear she was suicidal, possibly an effect of the disease and medicines to treat it. She is recovering, but her husband is critically ill, on a ventilator, with failing kidneys and a mysterious paralysis that has afflicted about a dozen others at Houston Methodist Hospital....."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/u...ton-masks.html

Hook em

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According to UT-Austin’s dashboard, 172 faculty and staff members and 287 students have tested positive for the coronavirus since March.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/30/ut-austin-coronavirus-cases/

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too bad texans just didn't wear goggles like all the other countries in the world

Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that people wear goggles or face shields as an added measure of protection against contracting the coronavirus, according to a report.

“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” Fauci, 79, the top US infectious disease expert, told ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton on Wednesday

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Originally Posted by tholdren

too bad texans just didn't wear goggles like all the other countries in the world

Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that people wear goggles or face shields as an added measure of protection against contracting the coronavirus, according to a report.

“If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” Fauci, 79, the top US infectious disease expert, told ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton on Wednesday

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gossip

In San Antonio’s Largest School District,

2/3 of Parents Don’t Want Kids on Campus

About two-thirds of Northside Independent School District parents said they plan to keep their kids home when school starts, district officials reported at a Tuesday night school board meeting.

When asked the same question at the beginning of June, 38 percent of parents said the same.

San Antonio’s largest school district polled parents and staff on their feelings toward school reopening.

The results showed close to

three-quarters of both groups were very concerned about COVID-19 impacting their health or the health of someone in their household.

These concerns had grown significantly since the district surveyed parents at the beginning of June.

https://therivardreport.com/in-san-antonios-largest-school-district-2-3-of-parents-dont-want-kids-on-campus

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Originally Posted by pgardn

Who claims science is irrefutable?

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No science is irrefutable. Sort of baked in to the definition.

But

The only way you really refute evidence or a theory is with better evidence or better theories. Something dipshits have a hard time wrapping their pointy little anti-science brains around.

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Originally Posted by Splits

Ramp to 225 deaths/day by end July, continuing to escalate to a peak of around 450/day by latter part of August, plateauing there for who knows how long, at least several weeks. ~10k Texans dead by end-August.

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https://i.imgur.com/UVjRfIO.png

hate to see it

trending wrong...

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Originally Posted by Splits

https://i.imgur.com/UVjRfIO.png

hate to see it

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Splits

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Originally Posted by Splits

trending wrong...

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What should we expect for Florida, tbh?

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

What should we expect for Florida, tbh?

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Tracking Texas closely, just extrapolate.

Both will hit single-day highs of 500 in the next 30 days, both may peak and plateau at that range for a number of weeks.

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Originally Posted by Splits

Tracking Texas closely, just extrapolate.

Both will hit single-day highs of 500 in the next 30 days, both may peak and plateau at that range for a number of weeks.

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The X factor is how much the Trump administration is going to fudge the numbers now that the CDC is no longer getting the data. I’m worried Trump gets really desperate and starts publishing false numbers that show the curve flattening/going down.

Coronavirus infected scores of children and staff at Georgia sleep-away camp

The finding that children 'might play an important role in transmission’ is likely to fuel debates about whether to reopen schools.

children of all ages are susceptible to coronavirus infection and may also spread it to others — a finding likely to intensify an already fraught discussion about the risks of sending children back to school this fall.

an outbreak at a sleep-away camp in Georgia last month in which 260 children and staffers —

more than three-quarters of the 344 tested —

contracted the virus less than a week after spending time together in close quarters.

The children had a median age of 12.

The camp had required all 597 campers and staff members to provide documentation that they had tested negative for the virus before coming.

Staff were required to wear masks,

but children were not.

likely to add fuel to an already polarizing nationwide discussion about

whether sending children back to crowded school buildings is worth the risk,

in large part because so little data has been available about children’s vulnerability to the infection and their ability to transmit the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...ovid-outbreak/

Travis County is doing well relatively, #15 statewide as measured by cumulative caseload.

I see some folks wearing their masks wrong, but hardly any going around without a mask.

Sit down restaurants, whole 'nother thing.

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

The X factor is how much the Trump administration is going to fudge the numbers now that the CDC is no longer getting the data. I’m worried Trump gets really desperate and starts publishing false numbers that show the curve flattening/going down.

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Raw data still published at the local level... it's imprecise but at the same time dependable. If that number supply chain gets disrupted, then yeah... but so far nothing nefarious

:lmao

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

The X factor is how much the Trump administration is going to fudge the numbers now that the CDC is no longer getting the data. I’m worried Trump gets really desperate and starts publishing false numbers that show the curve flattening/going down.

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The CDC never stopped getting the data.

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Originally Posted by Will Hunting

What should we expect for Florida, tbh?

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This dude has been pretty dead on, but he only forecasts about two weeks ahead.

Note. Yes, Florida has already reported more than 190 deaths per hitting the 250 and above range, but his forecasts are for "actual" deaths, since reported deaths are invariably higher as they include backlogged deaths.

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

Coronavirus infected scores of children and staff at Georgia sleep-away camp

The finding that children 'might play an important role in transmission’ is likely to fuel debates about whether to reopen schools.

children of all ages are susceptible to coronavirus infection and may also spread it to others — a finding likely to intensify an already fraught discussion about the risks of sending children back to school this fall.

an outbreak at a sleep-away camp in Georgia last month in which 260 children and staffers —

more than three-quarters of the 344 tested —

contracted the virus less than a week after spending time together in close quarters.

The children had a median age of 12.

The camp had required all 597 campers and staff members to provide documentation that they had tested negative for the virus before coming.

Staff were required to wear masks,

but children were not.

likely to add fuel to an already polarizing nationwide discussion about

whether sending children back to crowded school buildings is worth the risk,

in large part because so little data has been available about children’s vulnerability to the infection and their ability to transmit the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...ovid-outbreak/

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NO IT'S OKAY CUZ SWEDEN

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Originally Posted by TSA

The CDC never stopped getting the data.

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You’re saying the CDC still gets it straight from hospitals? I don’t follow.

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Originally Posted by midnightpulp

This dude has been pretty dead on, but he only forecasts about two weeks ahead.

Note. Yes, Florida has already reported more than 190 deaths per hitting the 250 and above range, but his forecasts are for "actual" deaths, since reported deaths are invariably higher as they include backlogged deaths.

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this guy also said hospitals i n ca ny az tx fl would be over capacity if no lockdown..

He's low iq

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Originally Posted by Splits

Raw data still published at the local level... it's imprecise but at the same time dependable. If that number supply chain gets disrupted, then yeah... but so far nothing nefarious

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lol you are not good at math.

It is not reliable. Just stop

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Originally Posted by tholdren

this guy also said hospitals i n ca ny az tx fl would be over capacity if no lockdown..

He's low iq

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He's better than you.

And it kills you.