Yes, that’s the one.
Because he left his house due to the earthquake, breaking the confinement order?
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Sounds like a bloody Guy Ritchie film.
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Or a typical day in Croatia.
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That’s true if those numbers are correct, I just dont think they are. The amount of infected people not getting tested and not seeking medical attention is more than people think. This is somewhat anecdotal but last week we had a pretty nasty cold/flu infection go around at work. Over the course of a week we had 20+ guys out for atleast a day, myself included. Cough, fever, chills, muscle aches, we all had the same symptoms. Of the 20 only 1 went to the doctor and he tested negative for the flu. They didn’t test him for Corona because he hadnt left the country even though we are in logistics and distribution. People from all over the country, product from all over the world. Not that we had corona, but we wouldn’t know. Not many healthy people go to the doctor for stuff like that. They just ride it out for a few days and forget it.
1.5% death rate seems high. If you could somehow know about every infection it’s probably closer to .3%-.6%. I mean this could have been here since December and thousands of people had it and recovered. Theres no way to know. But I don’t agree with crippling the economy and pissing away 2 trillion dollars that in all likelyhood is going to be bonded and paid for by my kids.
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Even better. He was in self isolation for ten days already due to a potential contact, got a fever in the morning and called the health authorities to get himself tested. Drove to the hospital at 10 am and they put him in quarantine in a - wait for it - dilapidated building that once was a lunatic asylum, repurposed as a temporary quarantine for Covid-19 patients.
Waited until the small hours of the morning alone in what once was a cell in the asylum before the nurse told him that he’s positive and they’ll send him back to self isolation in the morning as he had mild symptoms.
Half an hour later the earthquake struck - the lights went out and to his horror he realized he was locked inside in the dark. During an earthquake. A large piece of plaster and brick fell from the ceiling almost knocking him out.
He cried for help and eventually someone opened the door and he stumbled to the hospital courtyard with a large gash on his forehead. In the courtyard they were evacuating the maternity ward with newborns and babies in incubators and the cops shouted at him to stay back as not to infect the babies and their mothers.
He was understandably shaken with the ordeal and didn’t heed their advice and continued stumbling forward, until one of the cops threatened to shoot him.
Oh yes, in the 16 odd hours he spent in the hospital the temperature plummeted from 20C/70F to freezing and it started snowing. And he was wearing a t-shirt. And socks.
So he spent the next two hours standing basically at gunpoint while non-covid patients got evacuated and only then did the hospital staff turn their attention to him and his new pneumonia. Mind you, the low temperatures did help stem the blood flowing from the gash on his head.
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Man, mine was intended as a joke (a pretty bad one at that I would have said too), never would I have imagined to have come that close.
This is the definition of reality going beyond fantasy.
I feel so bad for the guy. Sincerely.
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How’s the rate of death changing as more cases of Coronavirus are discovered?
Also: How’s that PATRIOT Act extension going?
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Unfortunately the case numbers I used were (rounded for simplicity) historical. As in, that’s what happened the last week, ending today. The current US mortality rate is 1.34%, rounded to 1.5 for simplicity as I was going to do some calculations but then decided against it.
The number of cases has grown 10x this past week. A 10x spread 3 weeks into the future is absolutely realistic if we do “business as usual”.
We agree, but this actually supports my argument rather than yours. Business as usual means unmitigated spread, which means all these cases have the ability to infect 10, 20, or more people. It is absolutely not a good idea.
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If under reporting is as prevalent as I think, then the spread isn’t that big an issue. Mild sickness had by a lot of healthy people becomes herd immunity. The way we deal with a lot of other viruses. If this was airborne aids or something to that effect id be singing a different tune. I just think the panic and hysteria is uncalled for.
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Herd immunity comes from vaccination.
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People are organizing to refuse paying rent
Don’t take cumshots from guys with AIDs, bro!
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It should continue to go down as more healthy people get confirmed.
The death rate of the coronavirus isn’t the reason places are shutting down.
I have no idea. I’m sure it will go just fine it has broad bipartisan support last I checked and is supported by the President. Including it in a bill that should be designed for financial protections for people is moronic:
That’s never been in question. The question is, how do you know the point at which we will reach herd immunity? And how can you predict, seeing what we’re already seeing (in NY especially with the Javits center being propped up as a treatment center), that we could reach herd immunity without tons of people dying simply due to a lack of care? The proposal to just open things up automatically nullifies any fatality statistics, ESPECIALLY since many of the people who are saying the fatality statistics are inflated as an argument against lockdown are suggesting a strategy that could balloon the current percentages tenfold.
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This is weird:
All “non-essential” workplaces in Ontario have been ordered closed effective 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for 14 days as the battle against COVID-19 reaches a critical stage.
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A government source said the LCBO, the Beer Store and the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) and its licensed private retailers are not expected to be included in the closure order.
LCBO is the liquor store
Wonder why the vast majority of medical professionals don’t agree with this? You should share your extensive doctoral work in the field with them.
Yeah I’m not saying I’m for it or anything but it’s not going anywhere. Like I said broad bipartisan support and the President supports it. They may disagree on the details of everything, but the broad scope of it most of them are for. It’s a good excuse for more defense spending which you can never have enough of for some people.
We will need to collect the all data so the space force can use it when aliens attack.
If you mean don’t agree with his suggested approach, then yes, but the herd immunity statement is just him defining herd immunity: “the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.”
So what he said is just a simplification of that definition. What the definition of herd immunity is not, is a justification for a strategy to force herd immunity home with no vaccinations and inadequate measures in an already strained healthcare system. We will definitely reach herd immunity if enough people die, but the question is, how many people died unnecessarily?
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