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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.

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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?

Which is why universal basic income gives us the flexibility to shut it all down when needed every couple of decades.

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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.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:I get news directly from Italy. The guard is out because they fear people will riot. Restrictions are tighter. They may limit store hours to once a week.

In liberal western countries, rioting will be inevitable if you keep people locked up for too long. Unfortunate.

I agree. This is why South Korea could contain it.

The US, I can guarantee, will not learn its lesson. In fact, at this point, it's too late.

SK contained it (and it remains to be seen how they will respond to inevitable increases once business resumes) because they had widespread testing very early on. This enabled contact tracing and quarantining the sick. We don't even have the capacity to test everyone showing symptoms in the US...and we have explicitly given up on any kind of containment strategy.

I put this squarely on the Administration. They should have been ramping up testing and PPE production. In CA and NY, PPE rationing is part of the reason they aren't testing...they want to save PPE workers administering tests would need to use for hospital staff.

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Anonymous wrote:More and more analyses will be coming out. Here is a much more robust and sober statistical analysis than the rudimentary exponential growth formulas that have been presented in this thread.

https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894

Well, it's true that my analysis is not as robust as paid articles in Medium by viral influencers rather than virologists, but there are better analyses out there that aren't from the media and are from actual experts.

Taken on the merits, that analysis is actually pretty good, but as far as I can tell from the existing data, we have not begun to flatten the curve and we aren't going to in the next two weeks. Well see. I stand by my projection for the next two weeks, but I'll let you know if I see any change in the trajectory that improves the situation.

Please share these better analyses from the experts. A lot of so called experts have already come out looking silly during this fiasco. Thanks!

His isn’t even A+. Lot of issues pointed out in the comments. But also lots of lame appeals to authority and emotion. His analysis should, however, at least give people pause to start asking questions about this hysteria.

Also, it looks like our daily new cases and daily new deaths have started to flatten out. Still early days but great news if the trend continues!

San Fran has started to flatten, but it is too early to know if it is meaningful. We really won't know until about April 5th where we stand nationally, and the SPring Break mess in Florida really throws a wrench into anything because Florida didn't fully shut down.

Currently, the broad numbers suggest the US is on a much worse curve than Italy.

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2020/mar/21/douglas-county-covid-19-cases-now-at-3-after-tests-of-recent-travelers/

Douglas County’s other confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced Tuesday in a man in his 20s who had recently returned from Florida. That man was tested at a drive-through clinic in Shawnee County, the health department previously said, and he was in isolation but had not been hospitalized as of Tuesday.

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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.

I’m not sure, other than thoughts and prayers, why we’d just stop dying when every other country kept dying until they took preventative measures.

Yeah, that’s one of many issues with the article.

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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.

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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.

It's normal, well documented human behavior that occurs throughout the world. If you talk about a disease a lot, people will start to worry that they have it.

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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 don’t even see those numbers anywhere. New York has taken a big spike today though. I’m more worried about the number of deaths than the number of cases, because that will increase as more people get tested. I wish there was some gauge/metric on hospital capacity, but I guess we will have to do with anecdotes for now.

Those were the numbers earlier today. Apparently NY had a data entry error. US death toll is now 414.

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.

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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 don’t even see those numbers anywhere. New York has taken a big spike today though. I’m more worried about the number of deaths than the number of cases, because that will increase as more people get tested. I wish there was some gauge/metric on hospital capacity, but I guess we will have to do with anecdotes for now.

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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?

LOL, ZH was reporting about Wuhan since December