Any chance if numbers are ridiculously good in August Hogan will override Smith?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Numbers won't look "ridiculously good." MD is doing a great job but with the rest of the US doing so poorly our numbers will go up. People will start venturing out more and our numbers will go up. School will be totally DL by November. We are in a for a rough year.

But.. they aren't. The rest of the country has been doing badly for weeks (because they opened from memorial day) and yet MDs numbers are still going down.

[Anonymous]

Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

Because number of positives is going up.

Test positivity is influenced by people getting tested to return to colleges or camp or before an operation.

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/maryland-coronavirus-cases.html

Cases are rising in all counties in MD

[Anonymous]

I’ll amend that. Most counties. Not Garrett and a few others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

Because number of positives is going up.

Test positivity is influenced by people getting tested to return to colleges or camp or before an operation.

They are not going up. I don't think you know how statistics work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

And right now some counties have low enough spread that they could try a limited opening of camps and schools, as in Belgium: a fraction of students only one or two days per week. Most distance learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/maryland-coronavirus-cases.html

Cases are rising in all counties in MD

This doesn't show what you think it shows. It shows a decline in cases.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

And right now some counties have low enough spread that they could try a limited opening of camps and schools, as in Belgium: a fraction of students only one or two days per week. Most distance learning.

I was specifically referring to moco. The 4% positivity rate is for moco and that's really all that's relevant to moco county schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

Because number of positives is going up.

Test positivity is influenced by people getting tested to return to colleges or camp or before an operation.

DP. You are an idiot. Of course the number of positives will go up as you increase testing. If you do no testing, your number of positives will be zero. Positivity percentage gives you the true picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

Because number of positives is going up.

Test positivity is influenced by people getting tested to return to colleges or camp or before an operation.

They are not going up. I don't think you know how statistics work.

Are you the person who is supposed to find me a country that reopened schools just fine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

Because number of positives is going up.

Test positivity is influenced by people getting tested to return to colleges or camp or before an operation.

DP. You are an idiot. Of course the number of positives will go up as you increase testing. If you do no testing, your number of positives will be zero. Positivity percentage gives you the true picture.

4% test positivity means of all tests done 4% are positive.

If you’re only testing people who are sick with symptoms, of course that number will be very high. Right now we’re at a stage where a lot of people are getting the test because they need to prove they don’t have Covid. For example they’re about to undergo surgery, or they are a high school or college football player hoping to go back to practice. These aren’t people who think they are ill. The more healthy people who are taking the test, the more you’d hope the positivity rate drops! However the number of positives can still be increasing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

And right now some counties have low enough spread that they could try a limited opening of camps and schools, as in Belgium: a fraction of students only one or two days per week. Most distance learning.

I was specifically referring to moco. The 4% positivity rate is for moco and that's really all that's relevant to moco county schools.

What about MOCO new cases per million per day? Is it at 20, which was the rate Belgium open up schools for a fe kids? Or is it at 3-8 which is the rate in European countries now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test positivity down again today to 4%! Tell me again how MD is doing so poorly that we can't open schools?

Because number of positives is going up.

Test positivity is influenced by people getting tested to return to colleges or camp or before an operation.

DP. You are an idiot. Of course the number of positives will go up as you increase testing. If you do no testing, your number of positives will be zero. Positivity percentage gives you the true picture.

4% test positivity means of all tests done 4% are positive.

If you’re only testing people who are sick with symptoms, of course that number will be very high. Right now we’re at a stage where a lot of people are getting the test because they need to prove they don’t have Covid. For example they’re about to undergo surgery, or they are a high school or college football player hoping to go back to practice. These aren’t people who think they are ill. The more healthy people who are taking the test, the more you’d hope the positivity rate drops! However the number of positives can still be increasing.

Newsflash: they are also testing the people with symptoms as well. And no our cases aren't going up. The average is staying pretty stable. I swear you people just want things to get worse and will make up your own data to support it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/maryland-coronavirus-cases.html

Cases are rising in all counties in MD

This doesn't show what you think it shows. It shows a decline in cases.

Not in the past two weeks.