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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4578 on: June 01, 2020, 06:35:49 PM »
Huh?

Cases increase as testing increases, and vice versa.  One tracks directly with the other.  The percent positive percentage has dropped steadily week over week since the peak on April 5th.  Hospitalizations and deaths fluctuate but the rolling averages are trending slightly down.

Comparing absolute numbers to Pennsylvania is silly, since Texas has more than double the population.
Until they run out of tests, which was the situation in the NE until relatively recently.

Our test positive rate is in the single digits these days, and they are able to do contact tracing again.

We are nearly clear of this thing.

Yinz Texicans better not mess this up...

What is your positive test rate?

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4579 on: June 01, 2020, 06:36:41 PM »
I don't even know how we could start a war with China if we wanted, other than a preemptive massive nuclear strike.
China doesn't have to strike us - were doing it ourselves
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4580 on: June 01, 2020, 06:39:19 PM »
Really interesting article about the potential mechanisms by which COVID-19 works, which might explain some of the weirdness of this disease:

https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2
About 3 weeks back I mentioned this a doctor had been treating his patients with blood thinners and statins one lady rallied for a week before passing.But she had stage 4 cancer and diabetes
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4581 on: June 01, 2020, 06:45:39 PM »
Contact tracing.

Yup.  Like I said, it's being done.  At least, it's being done HERE.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4582 on: June 01, 2020, 06:51:25 PM »
Until they run out of tests, which was the situation in the NE until relatively recently.

Our test positive rate is in the single digits these days, and they are able to do contact tracing again.

We are nearly clear of this thing.

Yinz Texicans better not mess this up...

What is your positive test rate?
Test availability continues to increase here.  But the outbreak also clearly isn't anywhere near as bad, here. 

Positive rate is 5.6% currently. It hit its peak at 11.4% on 4/5, and has been below 10% since 4/19.

I won't be surprised with some slight increases though, as a result of "opening up."  It's to be expected, and as long as we don't overwhelm the hospitals, it's something we're going to have to learn to live with.

Heck, I might even have it, right now.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4583 on: June 01, 2020, 07:10:25 PM »
Test availability continues to increase here.  But the outbreak also clearly isn't anywhere near as bad, here. 

Positive rate is 5.6% currently. It hit its peak at 11.4% on 4/5, and has been below 10% since 4/19.

I won't be surprised with some slight increases though, as a result of "opening up."  It's to be expected, and as long as we don't overwhelm the hospitals, it's something we're going to have to learn to live with.

Heck, I might even have it, right now.

Sadly, I believe you are correct.

Not sure what this means to my business, as I sell to schools, but I'll adapt.

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4584 on: June 01, 2020, 07:19:11 PM »
Sadly, I believe you are correct.

Not sure what this means to my business, as I sell to schools, but I'll adapt.
Hang in there bud, I sincerely hope all is well.  Adaptation will be key for sure, at least for the time being.

Like I keep saying, ultimately I expect "the new normal" to look pretty much like "the old normal."  But it's going to take us a while to get there.

For what it's worth, schools down here are almost certain to reopen in the Fall, in person.  Looks like many (most, all?) of them are going to adopt an early-approach-- open a week or two earlier than planned in August, run straight through to Thanksgiving, and then shut down from T-day through mid-January.  The idea is that all of the "mingling and mixing" that will occur on Tday as kids are released, and as the normal Fall/Winter flu/illness season kicks in, will give the virus a chance to run its course over a 6-8 week period, so that when school starts back up in January, there will be less chance of transmission.

Not sure how that will work out, because I honestly believe we'll be in a "slow burn" from now through then, and beyond.  But maybe it'll help...


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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4585 on: June 01, 2020, 07:21:50 PM »
unless the Chinese bombed Pearl Harbor
Not even then.  We are not the same people we were on 7 Dec 1941.
In some ways, that's for the better.  We don't quarantine American citizens who happen to have different color of skin.  We don't have a legally segregated society or a segregated military.
But I am very skeptical of our ability to respond to a foreign military threat the way we did after Pearl Harbor.  I'm skeptical of our ability to respond to a threat like the 9/11 attacks.
And we certainly aren't united on what to do--if anything--about the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4586 on: June 01, 2020, 08:01:41 PM »
sadly, I agree

I also think in many ways the world is a better place
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4587 on: June 01, 2020, 09:13:55 PM »
Hang in there bud, I sincerely hope all is well.  Adaptation will be key for sure, at least for the time being.

Like I keep saying, ultimately I expect "the new normal" to look pretty much like "the old normal."  But it's going to take us a while to get there.

For what it's worth, schools down here are almost certain to reopen in the Fall, in person.  Looks like many (most, all?) of them are going to adopt an early-approach-- open a week or two earlier than planned in August, run straight through to Thanksgiving, and then shut down from T-day through mid-January.  The idea is that all of the "mingling and mixing" that will occur on Tday as kids are released, and as the normal Fall/Winter flu/illness season kicks in, will give the virus a chance to run its course over a 6-8 week period, so that when school starts back up in January, there will be less chance of transmission.

Not sure how that will work out, because I honestly believe we'll be in a "slow burn" from now through then, and beyond.  But maybe it'll help...


Eh.  I'll be alright.  Gives me more time to spend on CFN.  haha

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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4588 on: June 02, 2020, 12:08:08 AM »
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4589 on: June 02, 2020, 01:05:53 AM »
For anyone who thought that the warm weather would cause this to diminish, you can just look at California, Texas, and Florida for evidence the opposite direction.
But someone assured us that the warm weather would matter!  I can't say his name, because apparently I'm full of hate and unjustly blame him for things.
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4590 on: June 02, 2020, 01:07:54 AM »
How did they know how to contact you
Because they're always watching...
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Re: Coronavirus discussion and Quarantine ideas
« Reply #4591 on: June 02, 2020, 07:11:45 AM »
But someone assured us that the warm weather would matter!  
That was probably me, after I heard on the news that this virus does not like heat and/or humidity.

Florida's % positive is now at 5.5, which I take as good news, since the state began opening a month ago.
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