The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

[suh_fan93]

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

I'd like to welcome Jason Sitoke to the P&R forum. I've always found him to be a reasonable and often humorous poster. 

[RedDenver]

8 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

 

Fortunately the elderly population has had a chance to get vaccinated, so the fatality rate should continue to drop even if cases start rising. But the data in Texas shows that the lockdowns and mask mandates preceded the peak turning down back in July and reopening preceded the larger peak of Dec and Jan.

[Scarlet]

15 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

 

If I'm going to die a long, lonely, excruciating death it's not going to be from going to a baseball game.  Football, well maybe 

[Ulty]

22 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

If I'm going to die a long, lonely, excruciating death it's not going to be from going to a baseball game.  Football, well maybe 

That's exactly what football has been doing to us the last few years anyway, without the virus. 

[Scarlet]

Dude should be charged with criminally negligent homicide.  

 

Just so we don't get confused his supporters claim to be pro-life.  

 

However, pro-birth ≠ pro-life evidently

[Moiraine]

22 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

 

 

 

They weren't going off instinct, you f#&%ing dips#!t. And if you always overturned them, you own what happened.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Archy1221]

https://www.axios.com/covid-vaccine-passports-fauci-federal-government-ece3e53c-82a1-4a14-8e0a-a92b547fe68b.html

 

The federal government will not mandate the use of vaccine passports for travelers or businesses post-pandemic, President Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told the Politico Dispatch podcast Monday 

 

[Archy1221]

 

[RedDenver]

11 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

 

It's good that it's trending down, but April 4 was Easter Sunday, so it's just being under-reported. Nate Silver of all people should use something more statisitcally meaningful like the 7 day average.

[knapplc]

It's tragic we've reached herd immunity this way. Nearly 600,000 dead. Just unfathomable.

[Guy Chamberlin]

Yeah, if you've been tracking COVID deaths, the number always go way down over the weekend, which actually show up in Sunday and Monday numbers, then climb back up, often doubling, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Virtually every single week of the pandemic.

 

222 is good news indeed, but we've had a lot of low numbers followed by quadruple digit deaths. Including just last week. 

[DevoHusker]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/swedens-pandemic-experiment 

 

An interesting read about Sweden.

[Archy1221]

I don’t think anyone expected the Easter number to be the peak.  Posted it more cause if two notes...1) the low is a 1 year low which is noteworthy and the chart is a falling knife chart which is awesome when accounting for Covid daily deaths