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    The "enemy of the people" are pissed about Trump's polling numbers.
    Btw these things are getting massive ratings. His approval is going up though so the biased media has to try hide Trump like Biden. They are really showing their ass. Although they've been doing that for years now.
    ... [TV]ratings... approval [ratings]... "Big Bad Media" myth is the lie they use to keep you in the cult. Bad information is obviously made up. That is what cults do.

    What you have here is simply a flaw in your thinking.

    Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or strengthens one's prior personal beliefs or hypotheses.[1] It is a type of cognitive bias. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for desired outcomes, for emotionally charged issues, and for deeply-entrenched beliefs.
    Of course these things are getting massive ratings. It is a national emergency. Trumps idiocy is on full display, just like is priorities for the triad, and every other question where paying attention and knowing how do to the job is required. He never fails to fail.

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    Man, I'm going to have some long ass hair when this is all over.
    I'm already getting close to 2005 Manu hair length, just sub in dirty blonde Aryan color.

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    Still not sure why this comforts you. Can you unpack your reasoning here?
    Because if testing exponentially grows faster than case rate it'll skew the graph and make it look like there was a case explosion when there was really an explosion in testing.

    Ex. If I test 10K people today and get 1K positive results and then test 100K tomorrow and get 5K positive results, plotting this on the graph would make it seem like there was a quintupling of cases. But there wasn't. If we scale it to the initial 10K test amount, the graph would actually look like this:

    https://imgur.com/a/EupYT4u

    The "true" case amount actually fell by half, even though the raw case amount quintupled.

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    It's a pandemic with a novel virus. Dense populations will get hammered, unfortunately.
    80% of the US population lives in urban areas.

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    My wife wants to cut mine. Disaster looms.

    Maybe I'll just shave it all off.
    Clippers with multi-gards are cheap. Men's haircuts are pretty easy.

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    You seem to be very invested in particular conclusions before the studies have been done.

    Why is that?
    So do you.

    Why is that? Do you take the Imperial study as gospel. Yes or no?

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    Trump isn’t doing press conferences, he’s doing campaign speeches. He gets a legimate question to clear something up and all he does is say “that’s a nasty question” or “
    You’re a terrible reporter”. the d- bag. Let him and Fox news jerk each other off on air.
    Eyup. He doesn't answer questions with cogent answers, lies about everything, and clearly is in over his head.

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    Because if testing exponentially grows faster than case rate it'll skew the graph and make it look like there was a case explosion when there was really an explosion in testing.

    Ex. If I test 10K people today and get 1K positive results and then test 100K tomorrow and get 5K positive results, plotting this on the graph would make it seem like there was a quintupling of cases. But there wasn't. If we scale it to the initial 10K test amount, the graph would actually look like this:

    https://imgur.com/a/EupYT4u

    The "true" case amount actually fell by half, even though the raw case amount quintupled.
    Not much of a consolation to Milan, Spain or NYC, sadly.

    But I can see it makes you feel better, and that it makes you feel you have the correct surmise. Being correct before the studies are done is very important -- if you're vain or ideologically invested in particular outcomes.

    Which is it here? Masking ideology or the always being right disease?

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    I'd be more comforted if it were 1%. See where I'm going?

    But the fact that they're only testing highly suspect and symptomatic people and only getting 10% positive means that 90% of people with cough, fever, etc. probably have common cold or flu.
    I guess. Tests per capita number is still absolute dog except for a couple states and like you said only symptomatic people are getting tested which omits the utility of random tests. Full horror has not been reached basically anywhere yet and some pockets urban and rubelandia could be in for some real trouble. Time is really standing still waiting for useful numbers.

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    Clippers with multi-gards are cheap. Men's haircuts are pretty easy.
    My wife would put it on one level and I'll end up looking like a chia pet.

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    evidence of low transmissibility.



    According to one study, Louisiana, with more than 2,300 cases as of Thursday afternoon, is experiencing the fastest growth in new cases in the world;

    Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Tuesday that the current trajectory of case growth in Louisiana was similar to those in Spain and Italy.

    The situation in and around New Orleans is particularly acute, with the city reporting 997 confirmed cases as of Thursday afternoon, more than the total number of cases in all but 13 states.

    there is a rising su ion among medical experts that the crisis may have been accelerated by Mardi Gras — the weekslong citywide celebration that unfolds in crowded living rooms, ballrooms and city streets

    “I think it all boils down to Mardi Gras,”

    “The greatest free party in the world was a perfect incubator at the perfect time.”




    But their array of unusual symptoms had troubled doctors.

    “They just had a sense that something wasn’t right,” Dr. Avegno said. “It became clear pretty quickly that there was community spread, that

    the cases were not directly linked to each other.”

    As testing ramped up, the number of cases in Louisiana surged.

    The growth rate of new infections in Louisiana was the fastest in the world when comparing areas during the two weeks that followed their first confirmed diagnosis

    Governor Edwards said that

    projected hospitalizations would exceed the state’s capacity by April 4,

    and that the state had begun contracting to “build out hotels” to provide additional hospital beds.

    Three state parks have also been outfitted with trailers to house more than 300 patients.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/coronavirus-louisiana-new-orleans.html

    evidence of low transmissibility.




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    I'm already getting close to 2005 Manu hair length, just sub in dirty blonde Aryan color.
    Prime Manu was the best Manu.

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    So do you.

    Why is that? Do you take the Imperial study as gospel. Yes or no?
    Nope. I'm not convinced by what anyone surmises.

    It's too soon to say. Not enough info yet.

    You haven't conceded once that the outcomes might not.conform to your surmises. You seem very stuck on your own assumptions based on very spotty and very undeveloped evidence regarding a pandemic that isn't over and a novel virus we don't know a lot about. And stubbornly refusing to admit you could be wrong about COVID-19.

    Which is ok. We all have our intellectual weaknesses.
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    Boutons. 1.7 million people go to Mardi Gras.

    "The coronavirus is magical, tho."

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    Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is now in charge of the effort to manufacture ventilators




    has taken it upon himself

    to lead the federal government’s efforts to manufacture new ventilators after months of inaction

    Trump administration’s own projection in a simulation last year that
    millions of people could be hospitalized,”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-son-in-law-jared-kushner-is-now-in-charge-of-the-effort-to-manufacture-ventilators-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29


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    I guess. Tests per capita number is still absolute dog except for a couple states and like you said only symptomatic people are getting tested which omits the utility of random tests. Full horror has not been reached basically anywhere yet and some pockets urban and rubelandia could be in for some real trouble. Time is really standing still waiting for useful numbers.

    We probably won't be able to make much sense of the data until there's large scale randomized testing, including antibody tests.

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    Kushner reminds me of littlefinger from Game of Thrones

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    Not much of a consolation to Milan, Spain or NYC, sadly.

    But I can see it makes you feel better, and that it makes you feel you have the correct surmise. Being correct before the studies are done is very important -- if you're vain or ideologically invested in particular outcomes.

    Which is it here? Masking ideology or the always being right disease?
    Holy in' you're being dense. There's no "always being right disease" or "ideologically motivated thing." It's simple math. If you test ten times the people tomorrow as today, but the percentage of positive tests decline by half despite the raw number going up, that would represent an exponential decline, and would be something all of us should applaud.

    What's Milan and New York have to do with you not understand simple math?

    Darrin's point is that appealing to raw case count day after day doesn't give a complete picture of growth/decline because we have no idea how many tests are being performed. Can you grasp this in' fact or not?

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    Kushner reminds me of littlefinger from Game of Thrones

    Lol, I could never watch him in that and not think of him in The Wire.

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    Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is now in charge of the effort to manufacture ventilators




    has taken it upon himself

    to lead the federal government’s efforts to manufacture new ventilators after months of inaction

    Trump administration’s own projection in a simulation last year that
    millions of people could be hospitalized,”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-son-in-law-jared-kushner-is-now-in-charge-of-the-effort-to-manufacture-ventilators-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

    Jared calls shotgun after Ford showed everyone how easy it would be for them to make ventilators.

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    80% of the US population lives in urban areas.

    Some of those urban areas are VERY spread out.

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    Clippers with multi-gards are cheap. Men's haircuts are pretty easy.
    I’m actually looking forward to it now that I have a good reason to try. It literally takes less than 10 minutes when I go get it done. She barely even uses the scissors. $20 for 10 minutes.

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    Boutons. 1.7 million people go to Mardi Gras.

    "The coronavirus is magical, tho."
    in your magical wishfulness, you have no idea of how many infected people at MG infected how many people, many of whom were out-of-towners

    why would American covid-19 be low transmissible when EVIDENCE from several other countries shows it has HIGH transmissibility?

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    Well , my brother just went into ICU with a fever 103.1. he is severely immunocompromised having continually battled Guillain-Barre syndrome for the last 10 years. His kidneys are gone and he's on dialysis so if this is Corona it might be a real problem for him.

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    Coronavirus could kill 81,000 in U.S., subside in June

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...2F+Top+News%29

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