Corona Virus Update

Discussion in 'Coronavirus (COVID-19) News' started by HereWeGoAgain, Mar 12, 2020.

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  1. truth and justice

    truth and justice Well-Known Member

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    The UK is effectively locked down down. The deaths come mainly from those who contracted the disease more than a week ago. We should see the effect of the lockdown in about two weeks time
     
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    Once the numbers in Sweden begin to rise exponentially, as they have begun, we will see how Sweden will respond. The idea that any society can have a high percentage of its population ill or dying, without that itself torpedoing any economic activity, is absurd but some people are kind of stuck with absurdities.

    With respect to Sweden, it took them a long time to join the "1,000" club, namely those countries with a 1,000 confirmed cases. That happened only recently a couple of weeks ago. In the past 2 weeks, they have now close to 5,000 cases and 239 deaths. By next week, they will be reporting many more cases and deaths (overall their numbers will have more than doubled in a week) and once the death toll reaches above 1,000 (given their relatively small population, that would become very noticeable to them), you will see Sweden forced to react. And Sweden will likely reach 1,000 total deaths by around next week. By then, with the genie totally out of the box, the ultimate toll on Sweden will prove far worse than it would have been if they had followed another path. When all is said and done, Sweden will not only pay a higher economic price, but will find itself several times more affected in deaths than it would have been if it had instituted more stringent social distancing measures.

    The silver lining in all of this is as follows: at some point, the exponential growth of the virus will stop. Warmer weather, herd immunity, and social distancing measures, will indeed show their effect. That point for some countries, especially those hardest hit early, is beginning already. For others, such as the US and the UK, that point will come too and it will come sooner than for Sweden.
     
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    I would settle for a depression if it means that those close to me will still be here this time next year
     
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    Yea, I should have included "early on." The UK did flirt with the notion of pursuing a herd immunity plan at the beginning.
     
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    For sure.

    The next 2 weeks will be key.
     
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    Do you have anything better than to pray and mean it? What do you suggest?
     
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    What do you suggest?
     
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  9. Louisiana75

    Louisiana75 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Other than your end of the world, we're all gonna die, doom and gloom predictions?
     
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    Trump seems to be wetting his pants proclaiming "I'm #1 on Facebook".

    If he cared as much about the Virus as he cared about his status on Facebook, maybe he wouldn't have sat on his hands (at the beginning of the outbreak) to make himself responsible for even more unnecessary deaths.
     
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    The count in Louisiana is about to surpass Washington, where the outbreak started.

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    It is EXPLODING.

    It is going to be WORSE than Italy.

    Why did Trump sit on his hands (and NOT take the Virus seriously) at the beginning of the outbreak?

    Thanks alot, Trump!:smh:

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    And if you used accurate up to date sources, you'd know they already have surpassed Washington. Still not getting with the program I see? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
     
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    Trump is talking about Cheap Gas (99 cents a gallon) in terms that shows that he doesn't understand that the ONLY Reason that Gas is so cheap is that there is NO Place To Go (with everything shut down).

    (The Saudi/Russia Feud is responsible for some of the dip, maybe to 1.99 (but not .99))

    As soon as the guidelines go off, Gas will Skyrocket.

    Trump is so CLUELESS, that it is Embarrassing. :smh:

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    It updates at a different time. Cut the crap.

    YOU said that LA was slowing down. You were wrong and don't even have enough credibility to admit it. You have zero credibiltiy. Go buzz in someone else's ear before I swat you like a bug.
     
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    Just announced in New South Wales (most populated Aussie State) that Police believe lockdown will last 90 days.
     
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    Okay ... doubling every four days.
     
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    HereWeGoAgain Banned

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    Jim Acosta put it well: "Trump has been scared straight."

    It only took the threat of 2 million dead Americans to finally get his attention.

    I say well and good, but a zebra doesn't change its stripes just because it gets caught. You can't change his basic nature. He will default to stupidity at the drop of a hat.
     
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    No economy can recover from being shut down for 3 months.
     
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    Trump said that he would accept a phone call from Biden to Discuss the Virus.
     
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    Here's a scary example. A choir in Lynnwood, WA, with 60 members, had a practice early in the month. Someone there was infected. 45 of 60 came down with the virus and so far two have died.
     
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    Religious Services MUST be Disallowed.

    They are a (literal) Petri Dish for SPREADING the Virus.
     
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    I prefer "Novel Coronavirus" and figure you're a Trumper. Better that you spend your time convincing the Orange Oaf to push the second largest industrial economy in the world to make masks and other protective equipment. Push hard.
     
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    They aren't allowing gatherings of ten or more...maybe 6. But apparently this occurred before the Governor put restrictions in place. I think he shut down the schools a week earlier. I know they were quick to shut down schools and acted quickly generally, which has prevented an exponential rise in cases. That is why they are the definitive example of how to do this correctly according to trump's own people.
     
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    Tell that to my wife who has had pulmonary embolisms.
     
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