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Holy Crap! Huge Jump in COVID Cases Today

marke said:
You are probably right. Mask-wearing is not about Trump so much as it is about vainly trying to keep old people from getting sick and dying.
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Ah, so you rather old people die sooner. No surprise there.
 
jpn said:
The nice thing about being a Democrat is that you don't have to make ridiculous and dangerous sh*t up:

"Trump says he thinks some Americans are wearing masks to show they disapprove of him and not as a preventive measure during the pandemic"
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A good friend of mine in our Austin, TX, high school regularly associated with a crowd of people who typically partied with Janis Joplin when she was in town. She was so young when she died due to very bad lifestyle choices. How sad. I thank God He saved me right after high school before I ended up dead from sin as well.
 
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Jonsa said:
So why do you think such idiotic distractions are effective in making people forget about a pandemic? You know all the societal problems you currently have? That great christian influence in America created the environment and has perpetuated a seriously screwed up status quo.

BTW. You should make the type used in your posts bigger to match the weight you place upon your partisan cynicism. Beware the coming of the evil godless democrats. truly laughable.
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Yes, dismantling police departments and emptying jails Is a dummass democrat proposal and dummass democrats seem unable to comprehend the fact that it is stupid.
 
calamity said:
Ah, so you rather old people die sooner. No surprise there.
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You got me. I have a choice, as presented by democrats, to either save the economy affecting tens of millions of Americans, or to trash the economy in order to cut down on the number of old people who will die from the virus. I admit it is not a choice without negative consequences, but I side with the tens of millions of American workers and their families who desperately need to be working in order to pay their bills.
 
marke said:
A good friend of mine in our Audtin, TX, high school regularly associated with a crowd of people who typically partied with Janis Joplin when she was in town. She was so young when she died due to very bad lifestyle choices. How sad. I thank God He saved me right after high school before I ended up dead from sin as well.
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Good for you. There are lots of dangers in our society and drugs is high on the list. Fortunately some of us can make good choices without appeal to the supernatural. But if that's what it took for you, then I'm glad you found it.
 
marke said:
Yes, dismantling police departments and emptying jails Is a dummass democrat proposal and dummass democrats seem unable to comprehend the fact that it is stupid.
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That's why so few Democrats are actually calling for that. What is "dummass" is adopting such a misleading slogan so bad-faith conservatives can pretend it's something that it's not.

What the great majority of Democrats want is police reform that is real. That includes shifting funds from the departments to other things like social work so trained non-law enforcement people can handle those issues, freeing police to focus on law enforcement--something police are always asking for anyway.

Also, stop the militarization of police. Take away their way-cool army sh*t.

Also, reduce their budgets. Crime has gone way down, but police employment hasn't. Why is that?

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maxparrish said:
In other words you have no interest the incident itself, as long as the "karen" is criminalized and punished for tossing her cart of groceries on the floor.

Gotcha.
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Please check with your ISP because, somehow, they managed to delete the

Yes, indeed, the young "lady" was acting in <SARC>a very mature and responsible manner</SARC>.

Quite frankly the store should be suing her for their losses in damaged goods and additional labour required to clean up after her <SARC>measured and appropriate</SARC> behaviour. She should consider herself lucky that the store owner didn't have her detained and arrested.
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bit from my post.

Since I have absolutely no doubt that you are very interested in living in a civilized society where people DO act in a mature and responsible manner (rather than like petulant children) I do have to conclude that it was all your ISP's fault since only a person who had no interest in living in a civilized society where people DO act in a mature and responsible manner (rather than like petulant children)might want to blot that bit out of their consciousness when responding.
 
Jack Hays said:
Climate, Etc. is hardly a quack website.
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Judith Curry = Whacky Quack


Actually, she is quite smart; profiting off of the gullibility of stupid people is the new American Dream. Ask Dr Oz.
 
calamity said:
Judith Curry = Whacky Quack


Actually, she is quite smart; profiting off of the gullibility of stupid people is the new American Dream. Ask Dr Oz.
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Get back to me when you're ready to take up the topic. The irony: I don't think you'd disagree with Nic Lewis's take.
 
NWRatCon said:
Isn't that a mask in her hand?
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I can't tell and it could possibly be a shopping list. If it is a mask, then I'd have to downgrade "petulant child" to "screaming infant".

NWRatCon said:
(Psst. It doesn't work that way: WASH your hands, WEAR the mask...)
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<SARC>You unregenate Fascist. Mandatory hand washing is the first sign on the implementation of a left-wing, liberal, socialist, pinko, commie Fascist **D*I*C*T*A*R*O*R*S*H*I*P**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And who first demanded that you wash your hands? Wasn't it your mother? And wasn't your mother one of them wimmin? Doesn't that prove that them wimmin have to be kept in their tradition Kirche, Küche und Kinder role? Don't you support the enlightened, biblically directed, aims of the Kirche, Küche und Kinder movement? Are you in favour of "Those People" taking over and ripping down the perfect society that the WHITE Founding Fathers created? Were there any "BLACK" Founding Fathers? Of course not, and that is because "Those People" aren't capable of governing themselves, let alone a WHITE society. Where there any "Founding Wimmin"? Of course not and that is because wimmin are INFERIOR ("The **B*I*B*L*E**" says so). I mean, would you want your daughter to marry one of them?</SARC>?
 
calamity said:
I'm not overly concerned with lily white Sweden. They have decent medical there. Now, India...holy crap! That looks bad.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 10,294,019 Cases and 505,459 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer
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6/28/2020 Cases Deaths

United States 2593169 127693 4.9%

New York 392539 24835 6.3%

New Jersey 171182 13121 7.7%

Massachusetts 108443 8041 7.4%

Illinois 141723 6888 4.9%

California 211243 5905 2.8%

Texas 148728 2393 1.6%

Florida 141075 3419 2.4%

Canada 103250 8522 8.3%
Great Britain 310250 43514 14.0%

WORLD 10154984 502048 4.9%

Coronavirus (COVID-19) live map tracker from Microsoft Bing
 
NWRatCon said:
I was just perusing the hospital and ICU bed capacity in Florida, and several counties - including Orange, home to Orlando - are at or below 20% capacity remaining. Orange only has 12% (two have 0 available beds). That's a crisis. In Houston, Texas Medical Center has exceeded its capacity, and is converting to "surge" - regular rooms being used to "surge ICU" beds. National Spotlight on Texas as Base ICU Hospital Bed Capacity Reaches 100% in Places. 39% of ALL of the available ICU beds in Texas (2200) are occupied by COVID patients (800), and there are only 160 total available as of today. They have established a 440 bed "surge" capacity statewide. Arizona, statewide, is at 87% capacity, with only 218 ICU beds available, out of 1700. Hospitals activate surge plans as Arizona case count climbs

This is the thing that "pooh-poohers" don't understand. Exceeding hospital bed capacity puts everyone's health at risk.
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In individual states there does appear to be a problem.

However, nationally,

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the best advice that I can give is

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Conservative said:
6/28/2020 Cases Deaths

United States 2593169 127693 4.9%

New York 392539 24835 6.3%

New Jersey 171182 13121 7.7%

Massachusetts 108443 8041 7.4%

Illinois 141723 6888 4.9%

California 211243 5905 2.8%

Texas 148728 2393 1.6%

Florida 141075 3419 2.4%

Canada 103250 8522 8.3%
Great Britain 310250 43514 14.0%

WORLD 10154984 502048 4.9%

Coronavirus (COVID-19) live map tracker from Microsoft Bing
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calamity said:
Ah, so you admit you would chuck food all over the WalMart instead of just leaving peacefully :doh
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You're assuming that wasn't max.... How gender-conformist of you....
 
calamity said:
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Awesome, none of which refutes the very low death to infection rate and nothing you post ever removes the reality that personal responsibility is with the individual not the federal, state, or local bureaucrats.

TX 2400 deaths, 1.6% but as usual you focus on infections, not recoveries and certainly not the death percentage. Think you are changing any minds here with your partisan blame placement
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
In individual states there does appear to be a problem.

However, nationally,


the best advice that I can give is
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Yesterday - a Sunday - was the fourth day in the week with over 40,000 new cases. My concern is that the number of new cases presages a rise in both hospitalizations and deaths over the next week. My HOPE is that new treatment methods with Remdesivir and Dexamethasone will reduce the fatality rate. The impact on hospitals around the country, and the costs to the medical system are staggering.
 
Conservative said:
Awesome, none of which refutes the very low death to infection rate and nothing you post ever removes the reality that personal responsibility is with the individual not the federal, state, or local bureaucrats.

TX 2400 deaths, 1.6% but as usual you focus on infections, not recoveries and certainly not the death percentage. Think you are changing any minds here with your partisan blame placement
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Deaths lag detected infections by ~3 weeks. Or do you think that people die instantaneously upon receiving a positive diagnosis.

Remember when the virus was exponentially growing back in March? The US death rate was about 1% after the deaths finally caught up it was 5-6% But you're right: one very stupid way to temporarily lower your mortality rate is to let the disease run wild and increase exponentially.

Btw.. thanks. Because of you and your neighbors poor decisions cases in my neighborhood are increasing and we've had to shut down. We know this because we do contact tracing and we've found that overwhelmingly the disease was brought from people visiting Texas, Florida, and Myrtle Beach.
 
There are alternative explanations to the sudden reduction in fatality rate in counterpoise to the sudden rise in cases: a) it is an artifact of the severe lag as an indicator; b) it is a result of the books being cooked; c) COVID-19 has suddenly become less deadly. Any other candidates?
 
Conservative said:
Awesome, none of which refutes the very low death to infection rate and nothing you post ever removes the reality that personal responsibility is with the individual not the federal, state, or local bureaucrats.

TX 2400 deaths, 1.6% but as usual you focus on infections, not recoveries and certainly not the death percentage. Think you are changing any minds here with your partisan blame placement
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You microscopic focus on one factor misses the myriad of factors that are implied. It is staggering in its myopia. IF the mortality rate were stable (it is not), THEN an increase of 100% in infections leads to....? Class? Anyone? Buehler?
 
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