US coronavirus cases top 10,000 and on the same or worse curve than Italy

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Wow, this is a gross mischaracterization of that argument. Gig workers, day laborers, waiters, house cleaners and such are “lives” too. A lot of folks on here are salaried, cushy workers who are very far removed from the carnage a prolonged shutdown will bring.

Are you one of the hourly workers? Otherwise, how do you know for a fact that they don't care about protecting their health too?

DP here. Hard to protect your health when you cannot afford food.

If you're so concerned, donate to and volunteer at your local food bank. Encourage your city government to source shelter meals from local restaurants. Order take out. Have you done these things?

Everything is under quarantine!! Good lord.

Also a stupid suggestion because it will do next to nothing to address the scale of the problem. You scored your “points” though 🙄

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Wow we added 14,550 new cases today which brings the total to be 38,757 and 400 deaths.

Now what's the population of the US?

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Wow we added 14,550 new cases today which brings the total to be 38,757 and 400 deaths.

Now what's the population of the US?

I literally said a week or two ago that WE will be the exception. We are doing a terrible job.

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As a percentage of number of people tested, do we have more positives than other countries? Anyone know if there are stats on this?

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Anonymous wrote:Zero Hedge includes both the article and a refutation by a biologist. There may be other takedowns, but the author was a Romney digital staffer which means he was probably behind Orca.

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria

Thanks for posting. I stopped right at the first sentence--13% of Americans think they have the virus right now. Good Lord. Only in the country of the worried well.

It gets worse when you click on the link; the percentage is 20% for millenials and young adults.

Good lord right back at you. My doctor suspects that I and my three children have it. I guess my doctor’s crazy, and you’re right. We certainly have an abundance of tests so we can clear this all up, and they’re not given very selectively to people on death’s door and jerkoff Republicans.

Mine was not a personal comment and you may well have good reason to believe you have it. I do hope you don't.

But 20% of millenials and young adults?

South Korea has tested more than any other country, but even they have tested only 5 people per thousand or 0.5% of their population. Of those tested, only 3% have been positive.

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Anonymous wrote:As a percentage of number of people tested, do we have more positives than other countries? Anyone know if there are stats on this?

Our stats would be worthless, since no one (who isn't a movie star, basketball player, Senator or deathly ill) is getting tested.

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Wow, this is a gross mischaracterization of that argument. Gig workers, day laborers, waiters, house cleaners and such are “lives” too. A lot of folks on here are salaried, cushy workers who are very far removed from the carnage a prolonged shutdown will bring.

Are you one of the hourly workers? Otherwise, how do you know for a fact that they don't care about protecting their health too?

DP here. Hard to protect your health when you cannot afford food.

If you're so concerned, donate to and volunteer at your local food bank. Encourage your city government to source shelter meals from local restaurants. Order take out. Have you done these things?

Everything is under quarantine!! Good lord.

Also a stupid suggestion because it will do next to nothing to address the scale of the problem. You scored your “points” though 🙄

US population is 330M. If just the wealthiest 1/3 donated $10 to a foodbank each, that's on the same order as WIC for a year. If they donated $100 each, that's more than SNAP for a year. No one's suggesting these things are a panacea, but if you're worried about low-wage workers starving to death, it's an easy thing to do...and far more useful than posting anonymously on DCUM.

If you can't bring yourself to actually donate money to feed these people you are supposedly so concerned about, call your Representative and Senators and tell them to pass a stimulus bill that will protect them. Because if you think that these jobs won't be affected if we just let things run their course without distancing measures, you're an idiot. At least half of Americans will be too afraid to go out, which will still depress the economy.

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Anonymous wrote:As a percentage of number of people tested, do we have more positives than other countries? Anyone know if there are stats on this?

I don't know if there are aggregate numbers, but the number reported for NY yesterday suggest 25% of those tested come back positive. I would expect us to have a very high positive rate, though, since we are prioritizing testing for people with symptoms and known contacts. In NY and California they are actually starting to ration tests to just those needing hospitalization. So, I wouldn't read too much into a high positive rate.

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Anonymous wrote:As a percentage of number of people tested, do we have more positives than other countries? Anyone know if there are stats on this?

According to this:

https://covidtracking.com/data/

we are getting 14% positive. South Korea is about 3%. Don't know about other countries--need to do more digging.

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Anonymous wrote:As a percentage of number of people tested, do we have more positives than other countries? Anyone know if there are stats on this?

According to this:

https://covidtracking.com/data/

we are getting 14% positive. South Korea is about 3%. Don't know about other countries--need to do more digging.

We are definitely going to have more shelter in places.

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Wow, this is a gross mischaracterization of that argument. Gig workers, day laborers, waiters, house cleaners and such are “lives” too. A lot of folks on here are salaried, cushy workers who are very far removed from the carnage a prolonged shutdown will bring.

Are you one of the hourly workers? Otherwise, how do you know for a fact that they don't care about protecting their health too?

DP here. Hard to protect your health when you cannot afford food.

If you're so concerned, donate to and volunteer at your local food bank. Encourage your city government to source shelter meals from local restaurants. Order take out. Have you done these things?

Everything is under quarantine!! Good lord.

Also a stupid suggestion because it will do next to nothing to address the scale of the problem. You scored your “points” though 🙄

US population is 330M. If just the wealthiest 1/3 donated $10 to a foodbank each, that's on the same order as WIC for a year. If they donated $100 each, that's more than SNAP for a year. No one's suggesting these things are a panacea, but if you're worried about low-wage workers starving to death, it's an easy thing to do...and far more useful than posting anonymously on DCUM.

If you can't bring yourself to actually donate money to feed these people you are supposedly so concerned about, call your Representative and Senators and tell them to pass a stimulus bill that will protect them. Because if you think that these jobs won't be affected if we just let things run their course without distancing measures, you're an idiot. At least half of Americans will be too afraid to go out, which will still depress the economy.

That's just the thing. That scale of people ain't donating right now. Stop being pedantic and argumentative just because people view the harm of this crisis through a different lens than you. Businesses are closing, NOW.

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As of March 19, 2020, 15:35 GMT, we have 10,767 cases and 160 deaths.

This is a massive failure by Trump.

He set the ban on travel from China before any other country. Just think what the number would be otherwise. A large percentage of the deaths are directly related to one nursing home in Washington. Others are directly related to travel.

I have a question, though. There is now a case in Fairfax County that was a result of travel in Iran. I thought there had long been a ban from travel to Iran. How did this happen?
Several cases in Fairfax are directly related to a Nile cruise. This is Trump's fault?

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/covid19/case-information

damn right!

they always blame trump first

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How accurate are these tests?

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Stay vigilant on the anecdotes everyone...

https://www.macombdaily.com/news/coronavirus/beaumont-doctor-apologizes-for-exaggerated-claims-during-covid--crisis/article_a0d185f4-6ba7-11ea-aa38-eb2545936cfe.html

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We added 10,000 cases and 130 deaths in a single day. We have the steepest curve.