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2020-05-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Coronaplague Roundup: Virus may never go away, per WHO; Dr. Fauci moves to background

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Posted by Fred 2020-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Surely, somebody else has figured out by now - the numbers will keep rising until everybody stops counting.

Start looking at the new cases, or the three-day percent change.

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-14 00:05|| 2020-05-14 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, if you got more test kits, you get more results. Doh.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-14 06:18|| 2020-05-14 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Lockdown is only there to DELAY infection...

The development of Herd immunity is slowed by a lockdown.

The best course of action is to solely quarantine the vulnerable.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-14 07:20|| 2020-05-14 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Quarantine means segregating the infected. Locking down "at risk" people who are not infected is at best protective custody and at worst a constitutional travesty.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-14 07:33|| 2020-05-14 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Since when are healthy people quarantined?

Posted by Clem 2020-05-14 07:33|| 2020-05-14 07:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Ain't it funny, you can legally drink and / or smoke yourself to death, you can illegally (though there is a faction trying to legalize) OD on a variety of dangerous drugs, but you are not allowed to take your chances with Chinavirus.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-14 07:35|| 2020-05-14 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Granted, alcoholism and opioid addiction are not contagions, but I hear ya, MM.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-14 07:39|| 2020-05-14 07:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Dr. FauxShe

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-14 08:53|| 2020-05-14 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Granted, alcoholism and opioid addiction are not contagions

Wrong, wrong, wrong. They are contagions in the sense they create abuser cultures and abuser economies. And the courts and LE are parts of that economy. And we are still in Afghanistan because of that economy. And many more have died of that contagion than have dies from Chinavirus. And masks don't help, and when AIDS was spreading, Dr. FauxShe wasn't helping either.

So, there's that...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-14 08:58|| 2020-05-14 08:58|| Front Page Top

#10 There's no money in any part of the health system (doctors, hospitals, insurers, gummint agencies) in Americans staying well. Only sickness pays. So a virus that will never go away is a dream come true for them. Ya know...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-14 10:02|| 2020-05-14 10:02|| Front Page Top

#11 From the Daily Mail article about Texas

In the two weeks since Texas lifted its coronavirus lockdown measures, daily infections have only dropped below 1,000 twice
So they're not "accelerating".

Republican Governor Greg Abbott started easing restrictions on some businesses and allowed the state's stay-at-home order to expire on May 1
Eased, not eliminated. Many restaurants will not open under the restrictions. All bars are still closed, schools closed, public gatherings, sports venues, concerts all closed.

Mobile data compiled by Google for Texas shows that 16 percent of residents are still staying home despite restrictions being lifted
I'd say, more than that, but I'm not Goo-goo.

A forecast model relied on by the White House is predicting that 3,092 people will die in Texas by August
That would be the Gates/IHME model.

Meanwhile, has the 'curve flattened'? Anybody remember that goal?

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-14 10:13|| 2020-05-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile, has the 'curve flattened'?

According to Worldometers the curve has flattened for the world and for the U.S.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-14 15:03|| 2020-05-14 15:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Consider those goalposts MOVED. LA Mayor Eric "Homeless drug addicts" Garcetti says no opening up til there's a cure

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-14 15:51|| 2020-05-14 15:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Is there a virus that doesn't come back every year?

Posted by Tom 2020-05-14 16:19|| 2020-05-14 16:19|| Front Page Top

#15 ..smallpox.

However, rest assured, there a top men working on bringing that back.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-14 16:25|| 2020-05-14 16:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Top Men - 顶级男士

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-14 16:40|| 2020-05-14 16:40|| Front Page Top

#17 When I see Dr. Fauci, I remember this:

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-05-14 20:30|| 2020-05-14 20:30|| Front Page Top

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