COVID-19

[SlickAg]

There's policies and then there's behavior. CA got over-confident.

Pretty much. The whole idea is to learn from history (NY & NJ, PA, etc.) so as not to repeat it. Improved care has resulted in reduced deaths, but TX's new mask mandate (and AL's) is a clear admission they screwed it up.

Wolf has done a good job. The recent huge delay in getting testing results is nation-wide, due to the pool of testing ability (like Lab Corp) getting sucked up by the South and West states with uncontrolled outbreaks. And the states competing with each other for finite PPE resources.

When FL announces a record-setting number of cases, understand those numbers are for a week ago or more due to testing result delays.

PA just announced new restrictions last night due to rising numbers in PA (Pittsburgh), and due to the folks in the peeing section of the pool (South and West) screwing it up for everybody.

This never ceases to amaze me.

Did you read the rest of that teaser quote in my post, or that article? His whole point was that the media is overhyping what's happening in Texas specifically and the Sun Belt in general for political purpose.

Have you seen nothing about the dozens of labs in Florida who've been reporting 100% positive testing rates? Sure cases are going up, but why aren't the deaths following in a like manner? It's just sensationalism.

If there's only certain parts of the state being affected, why does your governor need to make mandates for the whole state? Can the county leaders not make decisions for the whole state based on the actions of "the peeing section" as you called them? If your governor is doing such a great job, why is the death per capita ratio of Pennsylvania 4.5 times worse than Texas? How come we haven't seen stories about how awful your state is doing?

 

[taxi1]

Sure cases are going up, but why aren't the deaths following in a like manner?

You are saying deaths aren't going up in AZ, FL, and TX (for example)? Can you back that up with statistics for those states?

If there's only certain parts of the state being affected, why does your governor need to make mandates for the whole state? Can the county leaders not make decisions for the whole state based on the actions of "the peeing section" as you called them?

<Face palm> Because people travel.<\face palm>
PA has broken the state into regions of red, yellow, and green based on status. This new restriction to green is evidence-based, acting on the data. Unlike FL and TX, the governor is not waiting until things get out of hand again. With the fubar'd national testing, we wouldn't know it until it is too late.

If your governor is doing such a great job, why is the death per capita ratio of Pennsylvania 4.5 times worse than Texas?

We were caught up in the beginning the pandemic. Duh.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

You are saying deaths aren't going up in AZ, FL, and TX (for example)? Can you back that up with statistics for those states?

<Face palm> Because people travel.<\face palm>
PA has broken the state into regions of red, yellow, and green based on status. This new restriction to green is evidence-based, acting on the data. Unlike FL and TX, the governor is not waiting until things get out of hand again. With the fubar'd national testing, we wouldn't know it until it is too late.

We were caught up in the beginning the pandemic. Duh.

Excuses, accusations, excuses, accusations. Excuses for blue states, accusations for red states. You have been consistently dead ass wrong on this thread, and absolutely consumed by partisanship. You have zero credibility, and your posts here are best read for comic relief.

 

[Deleted member 24525]

One of the more common theories (because it’s all still theory at this point) is that the reduced death rate is supposedly because of the higher amount of younger people contracting it, and it isn’t as deadly if you are in your 20s and 30s compared to someone in their 50s and 60s.

 

[HAL Pilot]

One of the more common theories (because it’s all still theory at this point) is that the reduced death rate is supposedly because of the higher amount of younger people contracting it, and it isn’t as deadly if you are in your 20s and 30s compared to someone in their 50s and 60s.

Or maybe it’s because they were always counting the number dying but only testing a few so they had no idea a lot more people had it than realized. I.e. it was never as deadly as they thought.

 

[SlickAg]

If you go skydiving and the parachute doesn’t open and you are positive for Covid, the cause of death listed on your death certificate will be Covid.

This is absolutely not true. You’re taking a satirical meme and turning it into a false reality.

I guess I should've used motorcycle accident instead of skydiving.

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Questions raised after fatal motorcycle crash listed as COVID-19 death

A person who died in a motorcycle accident was added to Florida’s COVID-19 death count, according to a state health official.

www.fox35orlando.com

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I guess I should've used motorcycle accident instead of skydiving.

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Questions raised after fatal motorcycle crash listed as COVID-19 death

A person who died in a motorcycle accident was added to Florida’s COVID-19 death count, according to a state health official.

www.fox35orlando.com

Or gunshot, they had a few of those in Washington until it was called out.

 

[Treetop Flyer]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer...direct=amp#click=[URL]https://t.co/QgXuxdEqqk

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Vaccines moving forward. Potentially approved in October

 

[SlickAg]

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, effected the imposition of personal protection measures in a large number of countries. The use of commercially available personal face masks was widely accepted as such a protective measure. Since the quality of the face masks scanned the spectrum from surgical to the home made fabric ones, it was considered appropriate to experimentally establish their effectiveness for stopping aerosol in entering the respiratory system of the bearer. Presently, the masks were tested with polydisperse indoor air. Their effectiveness was examined for aerosol of aerodynamic diameters of 0.006 μm to 10 μm. Of these masks, only two were effective for the whole range of aerosol. Cloth masks were found to be ineffective for the whole spectrum of aerosol particle sizes and especially in SARS-CoV-2 virus most abundant size range.

Aerosol filtering efficiency of respiratory face masks used during the COVID-19 pandemic

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, effected the imposition of personal protection measures in a large number of countries. The use of commercially available personal face masks was widely accepted as such a protective measure. Since the quality of the face masks scanned the spectrum from...

www.medrxiv.org

 

[SlickAg]

I guess I should've used motorcycle accident instead of skydiving.

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Questions raised after fatal motorcycle crash listed as COVID-19 death

A person who died in a motorcycle accident was added to Florida’s COVID-19 death count, according to a state health official.

www.fox35orlando.com

@Nasty Flyer just some data from the CDC. 3,721 death certificates with “intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events” listed as causes in addition to covid.

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics

Tabulated data on provisional COVID-19 deaths by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, and comorbidities. Also includes an index of state-level and county-level mortality data available for download.

www.cdc.gov

 

[HAL Pilot]

 

[taxi1]

...stopping aerosol in entering the respiratory system of the bearer

That is not their main purpose.

 

[SlickAg]

That is not their main purpose.

Oh of course, their sole purpose is to prevent the sick person from spreading the respiratory disease. Well let me ask you this, do you think that a mask that isn’t effective at keeping the particles out may not be the best at keeping particles in?

By the way, how’s the hospital bed situation in Houston these days?

Also, isn’t it about time for California to be winding down given the amount of time that’s they’ve had a mandatory mask order? Weird that it seems to be having the opposite effect.

California reports record daily increase in coronavirus cases as it becomes worst-hit state in the U.S., Newsom says

California reported more than 12,800 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the highest reported daily tally the state has recorded so far, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.

www.google.com

 

[taxi1]

Oh of course, their sole purpose is to prevent the sick person from spreading the respiratory disease. Well let me ask you this, do you think that a mask that isn’t effective at keeping the particles out may not be the best at keeping particles in?

Keeping the particles in isn't their main purpose either.

 

[taxi1]

Also, isn’t it about time for California to be winding down given the amount of time that’s they’ve had a mandatory mask order?

What's the rate of compliance with mask wearing in CA?