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Quote:Originally Posted by EbaySellerBut by this same argument then shouldn't a moratality rate also include the hundreds that die of secondary causes that were inflamed by the virus and went undiagnosed as well?With an overwhelmed medical system I am fairly certain there are elderly people who are dying that are assumed natural or secondary causes and are never checked either. |
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| re: face mask Why pleated? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town That is true. My friends mom was swabbed after she deceased as the internist suspected she had the virus. It came back positive and her family members wound up with it. Had he not swabbed, she never would have been counted as a virus death. No doubt the number is much higher than reported. |
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| Yeah, it should be understood that the stats are based on reporting. post-analysis will take months, if not years, to determine the "real" figures. So just making up numbers, like 5% serves no purpose. We're now being told that up to 50% are asymptomatic, so should we just make-up a number for that too? Wouldn't that drive down mortality rate? Absolutely, but we don't have those numbers. I'm not into conjecture on something that has, quite literally, no basis in known facts. These are unknown quantities. Based on the actual data, available right now, we've hit 3.2%. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by etapi65 update on this since we have 3 days of reported numbers April 5 2020 1210 (close to lower boundary) april 6 2020 1160 (below lower boundary) april 7 2020 1943 (near middle line estimate) We're running, consistently, below the most-likely scenario. This could be a matter of timing (trying to actually time a death), or, this could be real progress in treatment, or it could be that treatment is extending life and therefore we're going to have some monster days.... |
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Quote:Originally Posted by etapi65 I don’t see anything about “seeming to recover” in the article. He was always in intensive care through out and was stablized, but then took a turn. Nevertheless there have been reports of people seemingly on the path to recovery, then taking a sudden turn for the worse and dying hours later. As if the body makes one last All-or-nothing effort to rid itself, only to run out of steam and become overwhelmed in the end. Terrible. |
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| His wife had just posted to social media that he was recovered and being released, maybe two days ago? But, you're right, I definitely did not state that accurately. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Gaard To form fit to the contour of the face better and for a better seal would be my guess. |
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| Himalayans visible for the first time in 30 years as pollution levels in India drops. Before:  After:  |
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| Makes you wonder if we are the virus | ||
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| Today the DOD started requiring masks for people working on DOD property who can't social distance (heard about through my company, doesn't directly apply to me). NJ is also going to mandate masks in public starting Friday. On the other hand, WHO is saying you don't need one if you're healthy. The CDC is obviously still on the masks-for-everyone train. I wonder why the WHO is the odd man out. | ||
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| I was informed today our Corp big-wigs are giving us a 10% pay increase during the duration of the "Stay Home" order. That makes leaving the house a bit easier. Hopefully more businesses are doing this. Obviously they see our future being busier than previous forecasts suggested- an unfortunate result of current events. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by SiggyI read an article that sounds like this today. It was written by a Domino’s driver. They pointed out that Domino’s is booming with stock up 30%. The workers that have to work there aren’t as lucky. 🤦♂️. Call pizza chains whatever you want as far as importance but the people are clearly putting themselves in harms way. |
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| It's from Wisconsin, but it's still funny. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by HeinzDad Yeah, the importance of pizza and the like is tricky. The government can't really pick one to stay open and tell the rest to close, so there's the risk of spreading the virus to every customer. We make X-Ray film for digital imagers, and I suspect our customers are using up their inventory like never before. We just hope it doesn't turn out that we're making it for ourselves and our families as a result of continued operation. |
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| I totally got ya, that’s why I like to refer to the following word in quotations any time I use it, “essential”. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by HeinzDad My son is autistic and he only eats Papa Johns thin crust cheese pizza or McDonalds fries. Been fighting him for 10 years over it and will never change or he will starve to death and become lethargic. Not everything is as it seems to most people. Just saying. |
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| Here are four selected paragraphs in a NY Times article on food banks and hunger in America right now. "In Omaha, a food pantry that typically serves as few as 100 people saw 900 show up on a single day. In Jonesboro, Ark., after a powerful tornado struck, a food bank received less than half the donations it expected because nervous families held on to what they had. And in Washington State and Louisiana, the National Guard has been called in to help pack food boxes and ensure that the distributions run smoothly. Demand for food assistance is rising at an extraordinary rate, just as the nation’s food banks are being struck by shortages of both donated food and volunteer workers. … At exactly the moment that more Americans find themselves turning to food charities, the charities are facing shortages of their own. They rely on a volunteer labor force, one that skews heavily toward retirees. Across the country, older volunteers are sheltering at home for their own health and safety — sometimes by choice, and sometimes at the government’s direction. Perhaps more alarmingly, many of the organizations that typically donate large volumes of food have themselves shut down. Restaurants, hotels and casinos have closed across the country. And grocery stores, which ordinarily share unsold inventory that is approaching its best-by date, have less to donate because their worried customers have been stripping so many shelves bare." |
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Quote:Originally Posted by kaptainmyke Fixed. |
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| Yeah I said that. I thought I was pretty clear in my interpretation of their importance. I guess not. | ||
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| Todd McFarlane has an Interview in FORBES about the current (or lack of current) state of comics:clickable text ‘We Can’t Just Sit Here And Do Nothing!’ |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Drogio Update   So what I can say after 6 days is outlook is slightly better, trending in the right direction. By my charts the peak deaths will be 3000 (average over 3 days) on or about 4/17 and about 40,000 total at that point (vice 3500 & 50k before). Mid May is 80k deaths (vice 90k) and 90k by end of May (vice 100k). So I’d expect if the bending trending (ha, that rhymes!) continues it’ll get better, but we’re still talking triple the deaths we have now by end of May. Still boggles the mind and reason not to rush back. Still 2 weeks out from Italy it appears...watch what they do closely as far as returning to “normal.” Their peak was 2 weeks ago (900 deaths) and they’re still seeing over 500. |
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My greatest concern for fellow citizens ...as my wife and I follow our own council which may differ from the drummer others queue up behind... is that the country will open for business too early and we’ll see a second wave of Covid-19 infections with an even higher mortality rate. The good news is that we seem to be making headway through social distancing and stay at home orders.   It’s understandable that concerned economists and businesses desperately want to open the country back up in an effort to reverse the recessionary trend. However, if the cure for business woes reverses the progress our medical community has made flattening the curve of hospitalized cases, we’ll be in for a much longer, deadlier pandemic and an even worse economy. Right now, the most important thing ...from my perspective... is listening to sound advice from trusted medical professionals. Everything else is white noise. |
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| And even worse, this virus may return each cold season much like the flu unless a vaccine is found or we eventually acquire a herd immunity sufficient to stop it | ||
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| Stimulus checks on the way - Forbes article. Tldr - If you did electronic deposits on your tax returns and are eligible, or receive social security benefits electronically, you should get your check by April 17th. They started sending them today. |
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| Bring on the comic grails...oops I meant stimulus checks | ||
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