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China dealing with a 2nd wave now...

"Beijing has shut down its schools as the city works to gain control of a coronavirus outbreak tied to its largest wholesale meat and vegetable market. Beijing largely kept Covid-19 in check during the first wave of infections that was centered in the Hubei province thanks to aggressive lockdown measures. After a 56-day streak with no locally-transmitted coronavirus cases, a new case that is now known to be linked to the market was discovered on Thursday. The city reported 36 new cases by Saturday and Sunday, but the outbreak is now feared to be much larger. Chinese government officials, scarred by the death toll of Wuhan’s outbreak, are extremely wary of letting infections spread unchecked. "
 
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Sea Ray said:
As we learn treatments for it such as this, we may very well reduce this virus to nothing worse than the flu
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True. And it is funny when people want to laugh about comparing this to the flu.

If we did a real apples to apples comparison....no flu vaccines and no human resistance...if the flu just appeared out of nowhere, that flu to covid comparison is probably the flu is much more devastating.
 
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MontyPython said:
China dealing with a 2nd wave now...

"Beijing has shut down its schools as the city works to gain control of a coronavirus outbreak tied to its largest wholesale meat and vegetable market. Beijing largely kept Covid-19 in check during the first wave of infections that was centered in the Hubei province thanks to aggressive lockdown measures. After a 56-day streak with no locally-transmitted coronavirus cases, a new case that is now known to be linked to the market was discovered on Thursday. The city reported 36 new cases by Saturday and Sunday, but the outbreak is now feared to be much larger. Chinese government officials, scarred by the death toll of Wuhan’s outbreak, are extremely wary of letting infections spread unchecked. "
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Nobody but the WHO believes anything China says .
 
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MontyPython said:
Yeah. No doubt. That they're having to close down schools is deja vu all over again.
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It’s only a second wave if you believe any of their numbers . Everyone else in the world is just dealing with Covid but China is dealing with its second wave because they fixed the problem the first time around by locking everybody down ? Yeah I’m not buying it .
 
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0nelilreb said:
Lol I’ll bet you’ve spent hundreds of $$$ hoarding up boxes of masks haven’t you ?
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Analysis on why masks work from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the noted hedge fund manager, mathematical/statistician --author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable." He anticipated the 2008 financial crisis (from which he profited mightily). This article outlines key flawed assumptions in not calling for masks to be worn by everyone from the beginning

 
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newarkvol said:
Analysis on why masks work from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the noted hedge fund manager, mathematical/statistician --author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable." He anticipated the 2008 financial crisis (from which he profited mightily). This article outlines key flawed assumptions in not calling for masks to be worn by everyone from the beginning

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Yep here it’s like bringing the condom to the baby shower .
 
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evillawyer said:


Yet our toddler-in-chief refuses to wear one. But he has no issue with wearing an orangutan scalp on his head.
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Masks Are Necessary along with other common sense preventive measures however this particular paper is just bad science and should have never seen the light of day. Please see thread explaining multiple flaws-- the simplest being correlation is not causation:

 
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MontyPython said:
Who is getting sick

A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sheds some light on the demographic breakdown of who is getting sick with the virus in the US and how they have fared.

CDC report offers detailed demographic breakdown of who is getting coronavirus

Of the 1,761,503 cases of coronavirus between January 22 and May 30, 14% were hospitalized, 2% were admitted to the intensive care unit and 5% died.

The latest figures confirm that older people, minorities and those with preexisting health conditions are at highest risk of death.

So much for the conspiracy theories here that COVID-19 is no worse than the common flu.
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Twice as many people died as were in ICU? That seems strange to me. Granted I wouldnt expect it to be exactly 1:1, but 2.5:1 seems crazy. Or maybe just weird, idk.

And as I always like to do, during that time frame (4 months) America typically loses 1,000,000. If we assume that ALL of the Covid deaths were extra deaths that's less than a 9% increase in deaths.
Or another way our typical death rate of .29% of the population all the way up to .32%. Within statistical variation of the typical, and within the typical death rate of Americans in this millenia.

Again why the eff did we shut down this country for 3 months?

The two weeks makes sense. I can see that argument. Something new, let us figure it out and then back to our regularly scheduled programming.

But dear God, do you remember how many dead bodies you stepped over in the street back in 2001? That's what it's like now. It's practically the wild west out there, just with slightly less VD.
 
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