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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of personality disorder -- or mental illness -- is it that interprets these stay at home orders are doing on forever?  So many posts about it not being sustainable "FOREVER" and we can't stay inside FOREVER.

Is this how you approach reaching a goal -- you can't sustain hard work FOREVER, or you can't diet FOREVER?

It's not forever. Obviously. It's until it's safe to reopen. MoCo is a way more densely populated county that the ones that are opening. That's why it's not safe here yet. But let's not pretend you don't know that, OP.[/quote]

Have you actually looked at the metrics? They’re laughable. [/quote]

How so? (And please don't be the poster who says we have as much chance of dying in a car crash. If I have to read that one more time I'll jump off the roof -- and we all know how much THAT would bother you.)[/quote]

I posted it above, but I’ll paste it again here:

The metrics are both mathematically laughable and logistically impossible to attain:

— They want 5% testing capacity per month. That means doing an average of about 1,700 tests in MoCo per day. Statewide we are doing about 3,000 tests per day. No one knows how MoCo will get our testing capacity up to the point where we are doing 50% of what the entire state is doing.

— Amid all this increased testing, they want a 14-day decline in new cases.

— They want a 14-day decline—as calculated by rolling average—in deaths. We are now averaging 12.4 deaths per day. How can we attain a 14-day decline in a metric that is BELOW 14?

— They want a decline in hospitalizations, yet Gayles said last week that he doesn’t even know how many COVID patients we have in MoCo, and our hospitals haven’t been overwhelmed (with the exception of 2 Silver Spring ones).

That’s just 4 examples of the absurdity of these metrics.[/quote]

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