Did you see where in Seattle they literally have walled off and occupied a section of the city, won't let cops or non-left-wing protesters in? And they've set up their own "armed peace force" (isn't that just another name for 'police'?)
We’re —-holes. You should know that by now. It’s also why none of us has died of COVID.
We don't live in a vacuum. The actions of people go hand in hand with the science of the virus. After all, the thread title IS "How long should the lock down last?".
And the answer is "until a white cop murders a black man in horrific fashion"
www.wsj.com
Can't read the whole thing. Can you post the article?Thoughts?
How New York’s Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse
The hasty expansion of medical facilities by state, city and hospital leaders led to grave mistakes, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. “We were grasping for every tool at our disposal to save as many lives as possible.”
...sending people with the virus to home when home is the nursing home. *oops*
Fair point.
That was a tough situation and I can't bring myself to really judge NYC about this.
I'm sure we'd have more thoughts if it wasn't behind a paywall...Thoughts?
How New York’s Coronavirus Response Made the Pandemic Worse
The hasty expansion of medical facilities by state, city and hospital leaders led to grave mistakes, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. “We were grasping for every tool at our disposal to save as many lives as possible.”
These states have been open for many weeks. The case increases have been going on for weeks. There is no uptick in the deaths. At all. In any of these states. Texas for example, shows an steady increase in "cases" for 2-3 months going back into March. There is no increases in daily deaths. Look up the other reopened states (GA, SC, FL, AZ, TX) with "increases" that I mentioned, here. The death increases just aren't there, and despite weeks of increases in reported cases they follow an almost identical pattern to Texas, as below.
CNN went hard against the anti-lockdown protesters. They went real, real soft on their favored protesters. While those stories don’t explicitly say, “Protest and don’t worry about COVID,” they are obvious puff-prices, in my opinion, that try hard to minimize the risks of the protesting and maximize the importance of these particular protests and these alone.
My opinion is it’s likely due to either increased testing, or increased prevalence of real but non-fatal infections, or both. I say that mainly because the ending of lockdowns and increased positive-test trend both started many incubation periods ago and long enough ago for infections to progress to death, at least in DNR nursing home patients which is half the deaths.
Over 1,000 health professionals sign a letter saying, Don't shut down protests using coronavirus concerns as an excuse | CNN
A group of health and medical colleagues has penned an open letter to express their concern that protests around the United States could be shut down under the guise of coronavirus health concerns. The letter -- which went on to draw more than 1,200 signatures -- focuses on techniques to...www.cnn.com
On a personal note, my county is seeing a massive spike in positive cases. A month ago, we were seeing no more than 1-10 positive tests per day. Last week we jumped to 50. Today, we’re at 100. That’s at least tenfold increase.
This thread is our CHAZ. You’re allowed in.
Hot off the virtual press! Go CNN!
Why a 2nd shutdown over coronavirus might be worse than the 1st -- and how to prevent it | CNN
Weeks after lifting stay-at-home orders, some states are seeing record numbers of hospitalizations from Covid-19. "We're going to have to face the harsh reality in some states that we may need to shut down again," one doctor says.www.cnn.com
I'm not sure it exists anymore. What I try to do is read all the sources and try to merge them into some sort of holographic representation of the most likely version of reality, which is usually somewhere along the spectrum in between them all. I'm not sure that works, but at a minimum I usually get a good laugh out of how different all the different versions of their realities are.
