The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)
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sho
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Co-worker just came in my office about 20 minutes ago and said that a student had traveled to Italy earlier this year and has, of today, tested positive. She was upset because said student was in her child's class. Which of course means she's probably been exposed, as have I and my kids. Which, if that transitive property is true on how easy it is to spread the virus, Bellevue has now been exposed.
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DevoHusker
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The numbers have to be inflated :dunno ...this outbreak has been going on since the first of the year, and here are today's figures, from CNN:
knapplc
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Not only are the UNMC numbers NOT inflated, they're a best-case scenario.
480,000 deaths out of 96 million infected is about .5%, as they're saying.
The numbers you're posting here - 4,000 deaths out of 113,000 infected, are about 3%.
If we approach 3% deaths, that's upwards of 2 million people dead out of 96 million infected.
DevoHusker
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i get that your math is correct knapp...but did someone misplace a decimal point somewhere? how is UNMC getting to 96 MILLION cases in the US when there have only been 113 THOUSAND cases worldwide thus far...?
knapplc
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Because that's how pandemics spread. We have instituted zero safety controls, no travel restrictions - we aren't even testing people like other countries.
There are people with this virus among us right now. They're going to stores, using touch pad devices that others are using, touching door knobs, shaking hands. There are no controls over anything. You have to ask yourself, why wouldn't it spread? And if it's spreading, and we don't even have the ability to test people, why would those infected not keep going out in public, going to work, interacting with others?
The people putting these numbers out aren't trying to scare us, they're trying to educate. They're doing their best to mitigate the situation in spite of zero help from the feds.
This is likely to get way, way worse before it gets any better.
BIGREDIOWAN
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We just had several cases confirmed here in Iowa about 30 minutes ago. 8 right now with another 10 pending results and there are 22 Iowans on the cruise ship in Cali.
Mierin
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96 million is less than 1/3 of the population and this thing is just getting started and will increase exponentially, and we aren’t shutting down an entire region like China. Even if we were, what region would it be at this point? It’s in more than half of U.S. states now.
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DevoHusker
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96 million is just about 30% of the US population...
South Korea, which was the largest outbreak hit after China, is on the downhill slide. They have reported a total of 7,300 cases and 50 deaths.They have a population of 52 million. There are 350 million folks in the US, or seven times SKorea....so this pandemic is going to exponentially hit us here but not elsewhere?
South Korea, which was the largest outbreak hit after China, is on the downhill slide. They have reported a total of 7,300 cases and 50 deaths.They have a population of 52 million. There are 350 million folks in the US, or seven times SKorea....so this pandemic is going to exponentially hit us here but not elsewhere?
DevoHusker
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I think a LOT of this is being conflated to fit agendas, and incite panic. Why the hell do people need 70 multipack rolls of toilet paper from Costco? lots of businesses making lots of money as people go batsh*t crazy buying stuff for the forced quarantine to come
knapplc
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South Korea has millions of testing kits, they have instituted social controls to limit exposure, they even developed drive-thru testing to minimize the impact of infection on medical personnel.
We have done nothing.