Geometric growth. doubling every few days. Wait until it really slams Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
I might feel different if WE ALL hadn't a been ignoring the million+ Americans who've died in this country since the century turned from Regular Flu.
Geometric growth. doubling every few days. Wait until it really slams Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
Some pigs are more equal than others. Didn't Orwell teach us that?
Frustrating thing is we just don't have good data. We don't know if "new deaths" are from today or two weeks ago (data lag). And we can't reliably track case rate growth without knowing how many tests were performed, i.e. if you test 10 thousand today for 1K positives (10 percent) and test 100K tomorrow for 5K positives (5 percent), the raw case count quintupled, but the actual progression of new cases dropped by half.
baghdad mid on queue
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I'm just saying we don't know how "alarmist" we should be. Panicking is also detrimental to this fight, and the constant headlines of 84364583 new dead!!!!! flashed in big red numbers on the news outlets are counterproductive.
If those headlines keep people inside, and self-isolating, slowing the speed of the spreading, that is, by definition, productive.
Yes, but we also don't want to increase the severity of symptoms from those suffering from illnesses like depression, OCD, anxiety, (which is A LOT of people) and such, which could lead to higher frequencies of suicides, substance abuse, and the like over this time frame.
that's the spin? we should err on the side of downplaying because we might cause stress?
Strawman. Who said anything about downplaying?
I'm saying reasoned analysis of the situation will go further than constantly flashing scary numbers on the screen in red. And stress doesn't kill people? The entire medical community disagrees with that.
Trying to Philo this
Stressing people out for 3 months. No biggie. It's just stress. It certainly won't exacerbate symptoms of heart disease, high blood pressure, substance abuse, etc. Oh no. That never happens. Just keeping flashing those numbers on the tv and show footage of tanks transporting the dead in Italy.
your posting over the last several days. there is certainly a range of models/predictions out there yet you invariably cite the less concerning figures/evidence only.
i'm not claiming any expertise on this, but you certainly have picked a "side"
covid is more deadly than stress, and i'd rather people understand the gravity of covid than be stress free for the next few months
Four days later.
US: 100,000 cases
1500 dead.
If rate holds up, tripling every four days.
4500 in four days.
13500 in eight days
40,500 in twelve days.
Trump's corona virus dead will exceed regular yearly flu load within 9 days.
You.
Stupid.
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I thought I was on your to [Ignore List]?
You just like to dish it.
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Not going to bother even trying to look. I'm sure it was something stupid.
Figures, you only like to dish it.
no, he's right.
you take your potshots at him but then ignore his responses
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Trying so hard. Sorry, not looking, and not going to bother any more, than ting on your OP every few days.
Yup.
How much effort shoudl I spend on an obvious troll, with nothing new or interesting to say?
He is as boring as koriwhat, albeit halfway literate.
And then in the next post you say Covid is more deadly than stress as if it's medical fact. How do you know this? Talking about picking sides.
As to the bolded, tell me how I've done this, Esquire? I think it's the other way around, with the doomsdayers constantly screaming "Italy" while considering ZERO variables and instead opting for simplistic 1 to 1 comparisons. Do you think this a rational way to evaluate the situation?
you dish it, but don't take it.
if you're going to ignore him, just ignore him, instead of taking drive by shots. forum etiquette, i guess
your railing about "alarmists" and "doomsdayers" is the same lingo you see from climate change skeptics.
mannyisgod picked up on that within the last few days as well
do random internet posters like hater blow things out of proportion all the time? sure. and if you're just trying to act as a balance to the "hater"s of the internet, fine.
but even among the spectrum of projections/figures that the experts are putting out, you invariably lean to one end of it
"more deadly" was probably the incorrect term. i'm not very educated as to the complications of stress vs covid (or how one would actually measure "cases" or "mortality rates" of the specific brand of stress caused by news reporting of covid), but comparing stress from news coverage to a global pandemic for which one of our cities is now the epicenter seems really off to me
i dont think media-caused stress is going to be crippling our healthcare system in the same way we are already seeing covid start to do here
Hmm. On thought, that seems fair. Ignore is ignore.
Thanks.
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