Is that what they mean by novel?

You really need a dictionary. And a sedative.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is a disgrace. All the models have been completely wrong. To call them "science" is laughable. They are nothing more than spitballs. To blow up families' livelihoods over these guesses is shameful. We need to get back to work.

Disgrace! You know whose favorite word that is!

I'm no Trumper. I went door to door for Obama endlessly thanks. Calling anyone a Trumper who has a different take on information is not helpful to our society right now. It is disgraceful to destroy livelihoods based on numbers that are just totally random guesses (the "models"). If you owned a restaurant, your family would be losing everything right now. I don't own a restaurant, but I'm a compassionate person capable of empathy, unlike you, I guess.

You can't possibly not understand that the models and the blowing up families livelihoods are the REASON the curve looks the way it does now, right? The models weren't wrong, they got us to do what we needed to do to arrive at the model we're in now, which is flatter, but still not flat enough.

We are close.

Yes, I agree. We should continue waiting two weeks until all that is left of our society is charred rubble. I'm sure you are a government employee enjoying the downtime. For others, this is a terrifying end to their families livlihoods.

“Don’t speculate what I am!” [Stamps foot.] “But I can speculate what YOU are!”

Hypocrite.

Np. I'd like to see what your opinion would be if you were one of those whose livelihood has been affected. Dh and I have both had pay cuts and he's an essential worker who still has to risk his (and our family's) health every day. Assuming the pay cuts are the worst financial blow and we don't get sick, we can continue to pay our bills for maybe 6 months. There is no way we can do this much longer.

It's not like the choice is between social distancing and a robust economy. If we "open up" too early, the drastic increase in illness and deaths will have an even WORSE effect on the economy. And consumers aren't going to go out to spend money at restaurants/bowling alleys if they don't have confidence in our public health systems -- that means a strong national testing/tracing infrastructure, hospitals with the capacity to treat all the patients as necessary, and data that shows a sustained decline in spread. We don't have any of those yet. Focus your energy on getting that in place, if you really want to speed things up.

So there *is* currently no option that allows us to restart the economy. Anyone telling you different is lying.

You don't know anything more than anyone else, including the government and the "experts". I have been 2 weeked to death.

Right - no one knows. This is a brand new virus. We have no previous data. So models and predictions are going to change as we get more data. Of COURSE we're being "two weeked". That's how it's supposed to work.

Just 2 more weeks, you prole! It'll be huge, you'll see, PROLE!

And no, this is not a "brand new virus". It's SARS 2 and very similar if not identical in some ways to SARS 1. It rises fast, peaks and plateaus a bit, declines and disappears, just like every respiratory disease ever on the planet. People will (hopefully) be so ashamed of themselves when this has blown over just like every other disease every time, and then they realize their hysteria and the government (not the virus!) demolished the economy. But that's the point anyway - a controlled demolition of the economy.

People in 2000: Y2K is going to kill us all!
in 2001: Anthrax
in 2002: West Nile Virus
in 2003: Weapons of Mass Destruction
in 2004: SARS
in 2005: Bird Flu
in 2006: E. Coli
in 2007: Vaccines
in 2008: The Bad Economy
in 2009: Swine Flu
in 2010: BP Oil (Deepwater Horizon)
in 2011: Obamacare
in 2012: End of the World!
in 2013: North Korea
in 2014: Ebola
in 2015: Zika, Ebola
in 2016: Zika, Ebola
in 2017: Influenza
in 2018: Influenza
in 2019: Measles

And the hits keep coming...

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Anonymous wrote:Because the emphasis has been only on testing people showing symptoms. We need to start testing everybody, and it's up to Bowser to make that happen. If she can make a big push to make sure everyone votes absentee in the primary this year -- I just got my ballot in the mail yesterday -- she can come up with a system in which more people get tested. Go door to door. Create some sort of social-media campaign advertising all the free testing sites. Assign people a day and tell them to go then. Something, anything other than "stay home and hope for the best," which seems to be her plan now.

Bowser is a clown and a lightweight but I really don't see how this is any of her fault. We don't have any senators or congressmen to grease the wheels, governors are more powerful and more savvy than our mayors, and DC got shafted like it always does in the coronavirus stimulus spending for states.

The testing issue is really dependent on a functioning federal government (i.e. White House) that really cares about a massive rollout and increase in testing to get accomplished. Of course the White House is interfering with this at every opportunity so no surprise it isn't happening.

The Federal Government has NOTHING to do with why DC is not testing more than a paltry 700 cases a day. DC claims it has the capacity to test 3500 a day. The federal government is not preventing them. THe President is not preventing Bowser from implementing a coherent COVID plan.

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We would be so much better if DC just rejoined Maryland or at least followed everything Gov Hogan does. Bowser is a bozo.

The Baltimore power establishment will never allow retrocession of the District.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the emphasis has been only on testing people showing symptoms. We need to start testing everybody, and it's up to Bowser to make that happen. If she can make a big push to make sure everyone votes absentee in the primary this year -- I just got my ballot in the mail yesterday -- she can come up with a system in which more people get tested. Go door to door. Create some sort of social-media campaign advertising all the free testing sites. Assign people a day and tell them to go then. Something, anything other than "stay home and hope for the best," which seems to be her plan now.

Bowser is a clown and a lightweight but I really don't see how this is any of her fault. We don't have any senators or congressmen to grease the wheels, governors are more powerful and more savvy than our mayors, and DC got shafted like it always does in the coronavirus stimulus spending for states.

The testing issue is really dependent on a functioning federal government (i.e. White House) that really cares about a massive rollout and increase in testing to get accomplished. Of course the White House is interfering with this at every opportunity so no surprise it isn't happening.

We would be so much better if DC just rejoined Maryland or at least followed everything Gov Hogan does. Bowser is a bozo.

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I would not be surprised to see stay at home enacted for the rest of the summer. We're still expecting the peak in early June and based on being out and about on 14th St today, the spine of the DC's #1 hotspot, no one is taking this seriously. Proper mask usage by 30% of the people on the street.

Oops, I meant peak in early July, sorry