Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post

It looks more and more to me like Covid was a plot to ruin the Trump presidency and get a dem in the White House the Chinese can boss around.
What happened to the magic of Montana and you telling me I am full of it for suggesting cases in Montana are exploding?

https://www.google.com/search?source...cases+of+covid

Interesting graph.. definitely exponential in nature.
To reiterate, the tweets about deaths being fewer than previous years in the United States are, of course, complete bullshit. Mickey, once again, lost in space and misinforming people (I'd say lying, but who knows with him?).

My condolences to Montana. Hard to believe with that few people per square mile that they blew up like this. I'm sure there's a correlation between ignorance of protocols and case increases. Montana, North Carolina, and Tennessee are in bad shape. I live in Tennessee. We don't have a mask mandate here, of course, but if you're on a college campus, you must wear a mask. To put things in perspective, understand that North Carolina has about 10 million people, Tennessee has about seven million, and Montana has a million, give or take. Montana has about as many people as the Philadelphia suburbs, in other words, but in 150,000 square miles, give or take. How did they get so infected so fast? Must be a lot of partying in Montana.

It's gonna get worse, folks. Give it six weeks.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Corona...3d&FORM=COVIDR


And, just to clean up mickey's mind, the WHO recommendation against lockdowns RIGHT NOW (note the caps, mickey) is not the same as a recommendation against lockdowns SIX MONTHS AGO. There are multiple reasons for this. One is that lockdowns (as in New Zealand or South Korea) six months ago did their job. I'm talking about 60-90 day severe restrictions tamping down the virus spread. Those same lockdowns, instituted now, would have less effect once the virus has permeated populations (less upside) and would squeeze already damaged economies (more downside). So not recommending lockdowns NOW in no way undercuts the recommendations for MARCH/APRIL lockdowns for 60-90 days. Something else to consider. Since viral spread was INITIALLY fueled by superspreader events and restaurant spread and such, NOW virus spread is more of a within-family or micro social environment spread (family and friends). Lockdowns in MARCH/APRIL would have more of an effect on virus trajectory THEN than they would now in OCTOBER because statistically the way the virus is spread is now different.

To sum up, the efficacy of lockdowns is correlated with the nature of the spread. If superspreader events and restauraunt type spread because more common, lockdowns will undoubtedly be instituted despite the fact that because the economies have already suffered contractions, later lockdowns will cause more economic damage than the initial lockdowns. Also, what the U.S. did is not really lockdowns as implemented by Italy or Spain or South Korea or New Zealand. The U.S. implemented very mild measures compared to these other locations.

Mickey, you need to stop misinforming people. God knows, some Montana residents may follow you. I have to believe you do understand almost all of this, but you choose to mislead people anyway because of your political/religious commitments.
Comrade Dietz, did you hear the good news? Flu cases are down 95% this year and expected to continue that way. Wow! And here we were losing 56K Americans every year to it. All we had to do to save those lives was do a little locking down, wearing masks, and social distancing.

Damn, Dietz. Where were you to tell us that's all we had to do. All these years go by and not a peep out of you about it. You should feel ashamed of yourself for letting the American people down like that. If we look at the last 20 years that would be 1 million lives lost because you kept your mouth shut. I'm highly disappointed in you, red.