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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Coronavirus cases exceed 14 million, with deaths at more than 600,000 |
| 2020-07-19 |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #19 It's better. It's a flu-wax AND a dessert topping! (apologies to Saturday Night Live) |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-07-19 12:51 |
| #18 Y'all are obviously frustrated with life changes, the fall of civilization as we know it, and the dearth of accurate or even consistent information from all/any government agency that is media reporting. Better to adapt than stamp your tiny feet in anguish, because this is not Burger King. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-19 10:13 |
| #17 fantasy here Exactly the point I'm trying to make. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 10:13 |
| #16 The Dems are so f'ed up, if COVID-19 could be legislated away (fantasy here) by a bill sponsored by the GOP, the Dems would fight it, just 'cuz. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-19 10:09 |
| #15 Have it your way. All else failing - you can always have the two houses - which will be Republican after November, outlaw Covid 19 and ban it from USA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 09:47 |
| #14 When you use crappy data and crappy numbers, you may use scientific methodologies but its GIGO all the way. That is pseudo-science. You might as well blame the witch for the cow dying. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-19 09:15 |
| #13 Double the infected number and slash the deaths by half and I think you have a more realistic view of the totals. Far more people are asymptomatic or very mild symptoms and far fewer people have died than the inflated state numbers. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-07-19 09:14 |
| #12 pseudo-scientific community You mean like people who told us that the virus doesn't attack anyone below 80 no 70, no 65, no anyone without underlying condition*? Or, maybe, the people who told us that for every symptomatic case there are a 1000 asymptomatic ones - so, herd immunity is just over the corner. Or, the people who tell us now that the kids are naturally immune and can't transmit - despite Israeli experience? *What kind of an idiot believes that Covid 19 only attacks old people when Chinese - who created it, and therefore know what it can and can't do - locked down 150 million of their own people? social-economic chemotherapy Comrade Stalin had the same problem with people who disagreed with his favorite "geneticist" Lysenko. Don't think he called it "chemotherapy". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 08:59 |
| #11 Meanwhile, the media prevaricates: Texas reports deadliest month for COVID-19 as 85 infants test positive Certainly sounds like all 85 infant cases were discovered in one month, not "since mid-March". |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-07-19 08:58 |
| #10 Some related reports, from a local paper - Corpus Christi Nueces County Public Health Director Annette Rodriguez said during a Friday public health update that the 85 infants who tested positive are each younger than 1. She encouraged residents to stay home and when in public, to wear face masks and employ social distancing measures. A county judge later clarified that Nueces County did not have a sudden surge in infant cases, KIII reports. The number referred to those who have tested positive since mid-March. “Some people may say 85 doesn’t sound like a lot... It’s all how you look at it. Are these your children?” said Rodriguez in an interview. “These children are not 2 yet. They are under 1. They cannot wear a mask, and so, they are unprotected.” One child under the age of 1 in the county died after testing positive for the virus, according to KIII. The child was brought to the hospital with unrelated symptoms and later died at home from sudden infant death syndrome. An autopsy is being conducted to determine the exact cause of death and whether the coronavirus contributed. Inquiring minds want to know - how did they catch the virus? Protests? In bars? At the beach? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-07-19 08:53 |
| #9 My point is isolating how and where it is transmitted which seems to evade the political and pseudo-scientific community. Seems social-economic chemotherapy the only bludgeon tool available. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-19 08:28 |
| #8 It's better. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 07:47 |
| #7 Kids can get it and bring it home just like the flu. But, oh wait, this isn't a flu.... |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-19 07:46 |
| #6 ^No you missed the point - the point is: kids can get it. Which should affect the current "reopening school" policy/tactics - but won't until there are casualties. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 07:39 |
| #5 You missed the point g(r)om, which is who gets tagged with the death count. If you contract it and then are moved to another state for treatment, the state where you die gets tagged with the death. It has nothing to do with what they do or don't do in the state vis a vis means of transmission. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-19 07:18 |
| #4 Ref #2: ..how many of those were from across the border? If there we no borders, this wouldn't be an issue. And there you have it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-07-19 06:53 |
| #3 ^Not different species - happened to them, can happen to you. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-07-19 06:49 |
| #2 ..how many of those were from across the border? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-19 04:31 |
| #1 Texas coronavirus cases include more than 80 infants But, but, but, weren't we told by the best of Science (or, at least, most attention hungry) that children cannot be infected by Covid-19? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 04:11 |