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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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sparcboxbuck said:
Thanks for the reply. I've _seen_ plenty of articles as well, but nothing from sources that read much beyond click-baiting-headlines. To that end, while yeah, I've seen mention, but nothing that I would consider to be reliable sources.
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You see the same discrepancies in scientific articles, at least for now. There’s not much of a consensus in the research community yet either.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
Would you not consider it newsworthy?
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It most certainly would be. And there are, surprisingly, a number of anecdotal stories out there — even in some of the mainstream media.

It is curious that there hasn’t been more press around them. It could be, to my earlier point, a matter of reliability / confidence in the information. But then, that’s never stopped them from click-baiting in the past.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
As I've been saying, the next week or so will tell the tale on whether or not the recent jump in cases will result in a similar jump in deaths. Based on how the rate of decline in the death rate over the last three weeks has decreased (i.e., deaths aren't dropping quite as quickly), I'd say we'll see a flattening of the rate even as the case rate increases somewhat.

Amid Percentage Of Deaths Having Declined, CDC Admits Coronavirus On Verge Of Non-Epidemic Status
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It would be great if Covid did exceed the "threshold" of an epidemic. A technicality. Fewer deaths would be great. But this from the article.........".Mortality attributed to COVID-19 decreased compared to last week and is currently at the epidemic threshold but will likely INCREASE as additional death certificates are processed.” So I think it's probably too early to declare "victory". And I doubt the hospital staffs in Florida, Texas and Arizona would agree with the CDC's assessment . But keep telling us how wonderful everything is going. We all need a little Koolaide.

"Texas health officials reported 10,028 new COVID-19 cases, 9,286 hospitalizations and 60 deaths Tuesday, all records for the state."

Texas Department of State Health Services warned that Texas would see an increase in new cases Tuesday after fewer cases were reported on Sunday and Monday. Many jurisdictions did not report new cases during the holiday weekend, an agency spokesman said.

Still, hospitalizations continued to rise over the week

https://www.statesman.com/news/2020...coronavirus-cases-hospitalizations-and-deaths


"The health department reported 380 new hospitalizations and 63 new deaths. There have been 3,841 total deaths in Florida residents and 102 non-resident deaths. A total of 16,425 Floridians have been hospitalized since the beginning of the pandemic."

"The percent positivity for new cases – the number of people who tested positive for the first time divided by all the people tested that day – was 16.27% on Monday– a record high."https://www.wfla.com/community/heal...r-7k-new-casesrecord-high-percent-positivity/
 
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Taosman said:
It would be great if Covid did exceed the "threshold" of an epidemic. A technicality. Fewer deaths would be great. But this from the article.........".Mortality attributed to COVID-19 decreased compared to last week and is currently at the epidemic threshold but will likely INCREASE as additional death certificates are processed.” So I think it's probably too early to declare "victory".
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The numbers of deaths may or may not increase in step with the increase in cases...it's the mortality rate that we should be more concerned. And no one is declaring any "victory", so stop with the word-twisting.

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And I doubt the hospital staffs in Florida, Texas and Arizona would agree with the CDC's assessment .
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Keep right on cherry-picking the worst case states to make a point. If the CDC was saying otherwise, you'd be citing them as proof. By the way, the death rates in Arizona, Florida, and Texas have increased no where near what the case rates have since the "spike" started in mid-June, and in fact the seven-day-moving-average for deaths in Arizona was exactly the same yesterday as it was two weeks ago (June 24th).

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But keep telling us how wonderful everything is going. We all need a little Koolaide.
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Yet again with word-twisting. If posting stats and trend analysis is my calling everything "wonderful", and everything that is not disastrously doom-and-gloom is "koolaid", well then your life is even more pitiful than I thought.


EDIT: I see you completely edited your initial post during the time I was responding to it.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
gotta hand it to kyle. in the whole stupid history of twitter, this might be the dumbest fucking tweet of them all. quite an accomplishment.


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