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I cited one and bwarb cited one, both recent.  If you're just going to ignore our posts, stop goading me.

I am not even going to pretend to have “ the answers here. 

Being in Florida as the number of cases rises exponentially absolutely scares me and absolutely concerns me. 

Every where I go- people are in masks- but the spread has largely avoided where I am.  How long can that hold true?

I am flying out of Palm Beach to Detroit Friday to go back to Michigan for an out door wedding/ and to see my two daughters who I have not seen since Feb. 

All along my instincts have said that the initial goal of not overwhelming the hospitals was the right thing- and finding the balance between the economic catastrophe and the medical catastrophe was the difficult but correct high wire act.  Many said it is just a matter of time before a high % of us will get it- and the best thing we could do was protect those most susceptible. 

So, as we sit here today the fact that so many new cases are younger people who seem to be handling it better, and with few exceptions the medical system is not overwhelmed - that part gives me hope bordering on optimism. And while many businesses around me have closed forever ( my cleaners and hair cutting place for example) most others are hanging in there and some are even doing well.

Other than being as vigilant as I can, I don’t know what if anything I would change. 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/cdc-says-us-has-way-too-much-virus-to-control-pandemic-as-cases-surge-across-country.html?recirc=taboolainternal



The earlier buzzword was "mitigation".  I think now it's more "survival if possible".

I have seen papers saying it has mutated, and others claiming it isn't mutating.  I've seen work that hydroxychloroquine works, and others saying it doesn't.

I liken this to the three blind men describing an elephant.

This is another example where science in the public domain often gets misunderstood and overly hyped and mischaracterized by the media and politicians.

Yeah, we THINK because it is the younger folks getting it of course.  It still can be a difficult sickness.

Anyway, the horse has left the barn.

It's good to sift and winnow. It's also good to know people who know something.

The level of seriousness in cases is coming down. First hand knowledge.

Yeah, we THINK because it is the younger folks getting it of course.  It still can be a difficult sickness.

Anyway, the horse has left the barn.

I also think that with the much higher knowledge about COVID-19 symptoms, and the much better test availability, we're probably catching a lot of cases sooner, before they've developed into serious complications. 

In addition, a lot of tests are due to contact tracing, which will catch mild or asymptomatic cases that would never have resulted in a test before, so it looks like the severity comes down as a product of increased numbers. 

That said, in many of the areas that are seeing spiking case numbers, we're starting to see the results in hospitalizations and ICU usage. 

This is what you said:



Nobody said "that couldn't be", which is where this issue is coming from. You are misrepresenting our position.

Maybe that was just intended as hyperbole, but as one of the people who basically is waiting for evidence, i.e. researchers sequencing the genome of the virus as it spreads and can detect mutation, I take umbrage to the idea that I've said "that just couldn't be". I've said no such thing.

ok you did it

the horse is dead already