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#63,026
evillawyer said:
Nothing too severe yet from my sister. Has had a low-grade fever for a week and a persistent cough. But she has started to complain of being winded and not being able to get a good deep breath. She's in a good demographic though (based on age sex and no pre-existing conditions), so I think she'll be fine, but she's still scared.
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If it's getting worse, even if it isnt "bad", I would get tested or go see a doctor and get their thoughts.

Again that's what my PCP told me. Only get tested if things get worse from the original symptoms.
 
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evillawyer said:
Nothing too severe yet from my sister. Has had a low-grade fever for a week and a persistent cough. But she has started to complain of being winded and not being able to get a good deep breath. She's in a good demographic though (based on age sex and no pre-existing conditions), so I think she'll be fine, but she's still scared.
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The energy it zaps from you is incredible. All I wanted to do was sleep . Not eat or drink , just sleep . It took about three weeks for that to stop being so pronounced .
 
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evillawyer said:
Don't know how accurate, but this show median age of COVID positives is going up. This would be consistent with the disease working itself up from the young to the middle aged. And we know who comes next.

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What comes next EL? What, just wait 2 more weeks? Just like they told us with memorial day and all the protest? What comes next?
 
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LouderVol said:
If it's getting worse, even if it isnt "bad", I would get tested or go see a doctor and get their thoughts.

Again that's what my PCP told me. Only get tested if things get worse from the original symptoms.
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She got the test yesterday. That's when she was told 7-10 days. Kinda renders the test useless. You're either gonna be better or in a hospital by the time the results come.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Breitbart "analysis," lol. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics (Disraeli).

Even your posted article says:



The lower RATE of death, compared to infections, is primarily the result of the trend towards younger population. But, what that does not account for are: 1) The broader infection of young people in the last two weeks will yield a spike in infections of older people in the near future; 2) even if the death rate as a percentage of cases goes down, if the number of cases skyrockets, you still end up with more deaths.

On top of that, they cherry picked July 5 -- a Sunday on a holiday weekend, which is notoriously underreporting. Sunday, or example, 200 deaths were reported; whereas on Monday 325 were. By your logic, that's over a 50 % increase in one day!! (which is not an accurate measure, but shows you the lengths to which Trumpsters will manipulate the facts and the numbers to give false appearances).

These kinds of headlines by Breitbart, etc., are designed to get their misinformed base to ignore the actual reality, instead going around and reinforcing to each other that things are getting "better" when in reality they are getting worse, much worse.
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It specifically said the 7 day average was down:

Breitbart News analysis of the seven-day average of fatalities showed
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And they listed the sources:

As of Monday, the seven-day average of deaths in the United States continued to plunge, according to data maintained by the COVID-Tracking Project, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, USAFacts.org, Worldometer, and even the New York Times.
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As for the Sunday numbers, yeah, they will tend to be lower, therefore it's significant because it was the lowest number of any day of the week since late March:

Last Sunday (July 5), the U.S. recorded a historically low single-day number of fatalities (over 200), below any other day since late March, data from the COVID-Tracking Project showed, echoing figures by Worldometer.
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This is a poor case to use to illustrate a problem with Breitbart
 
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evillawyer said:
Don't know how accurate, but this show median age of COVID positives is going up. This would be consistent with the disease working itself up from the young to the middle aged. And we know who comes next.

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No, we don't know that the avg age will continue to climb. We really don't know where it'll peak.
 
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evillawyer said:
She got the test yesterday. That's when she was told 7-10 days. Kinda renders the test useless. You're either gonna be better or in a hospital by the time the results come.
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That's how H1N1 was for me. By the time I was told the results, positive, I had already suffered thru the worst illness I can remember. I probably should have been in the hospital but was young and dumb in college.

At least 5 days of doing nothing but literally waking up, going to the bathroom, drinking a big glass of water taking whatever OTC I had and going right back to bed. My room mates freaked out because I didnt eat anything during the whole thing.
 
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Persian Vol said:
I understand your train of thought. But COVID is the cause of death and a preexisting chronic condition is a risk factor for increased mortality. You are implying that diabetes (for example) is the cause of death, and COVID attributed to death due to diabetes. That simply isn’t how it works.
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Ok, why does the entire country of Taiwan have fewer deaths than Knox co.?

WHY?
therapeutics?
We now have hundreds of thousands with antibodies. Where is the plasma network?
 
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Roustabout said:
Ok, why does the entire country of Taiwan have fewer deaths than Knox co.?

WHY?
therapeutics?
We now have hundreds of thousands with antibodies. Where is the plasma network?
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I don't think we know but you ask a great question. Assuming we're getting good numbers out of Taiwan, one theory is that Asians have a better immunity to it than white people.
 
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#63,048
lawgator1 said:
Jesus Christ, don't you get it !? The 4th grader who gets it will be fine. But his parents may not. His grandmother definitely not.

The risk is not just to the initial family member who get it. Why is this so hard for virus deniers to grasp?
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Oh, you failed to see the studies that show kids dont transfer to adults?
 
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lawgator1 said:
Jesus Christ, don't you get it !? The 4th grader who gets it will be fine. But his parents may not. His grandmother definitely not.

The risk is not just to the initial family member who get it. Why is this so hard for virus deniers to grasp?
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Guess what genius, you don't have to send your child to school. You can opt out for 100% distance learning, also genius, children are 10 times less likely to contract the virus.

Jesus christ, don't you get it?
 
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#63,050
lawgator1 said:
Jesus Christ, don't you get it !? The 4th grader who gets it will be fine. But his parents may not. His grandmother definitely not.

The risk is not just to the initial family member who get it. Why is this so hard for virus deniers to grasp?
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The risk isn't worth cancelling school/forced remote learning nationwide.
 
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