Well that was fast!
Now the whole state of California has been ordered to stay at home lol.
Well that was fast!
Now the whole state of California has been ordered to stay at home lol.
According to the way KewlJ would crunch the numbers it has a 64% death rate in US currently (gtfoh). 121 recovered/discharged, 218 deaths per worldometers.info. South Korea numbers likely the most accurate expectation on the whole, completely ignoring anything from China. Italy appears to be an outlier on high end of death rate, and Germany perhaps an outlier on low end with only 44 deaths in over 15k reported cases. US has reported over 5,000 new cases within last 24 hours, highest one day total reported of any country other than Italy. All that really shows is how badly we’ve lagged on testing. Over 5,700 of 14k total cases reported in US are in NY. NYC is in a bit of trouble.
Worldometers looks like a good site to get frequently updated numbers from different countries, click on US and it’s broken down by state. I know in my state you currently can’t even get a test unless you’re hospitalized, a health professional, or in a long term care facility. Doesn’t matter if you’re showing symptoms or have had contact with a confirmed case. I’m pretty sure they left out something about availability if you’re worth 10+mill.
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I'm just responding to the actual topic of this thread and the sensationalized bad math the OP presented. As to your off topic point, the other option is to focus on hygiene and social distancing and stay home if you're sick, but everyone else go to work. It would totally overwhelm our healthcare system for a couple of months and more people would die, but then it would be over quickly until next flu season or until we deploy a vaccine.
On one hand, more people die from the virus quickly and the economy recovers quicker. On the other hand, fewer people die from the virus and the healthcare system doesn't collapse, but maybe we have a long depression because everything is shut down. Pick your poison.
Will the # of non-Covid-19 deaths (dental infection,armed combat gun shot wound(s), suicide, unintentional overdoses, unarmed combat, panic car crashes etc.) as a result of the shutdown be less than the # of deaths from covid-19 resulting from if there had not been a shut down ? Apparently the experts believe that's the case. Either that, or they didn't think things through when they decided to shut down the entire fucking planet.
A much more pressing question than this is: How the fuck is Zenking going to make a living now that the casinos and everything else is shut down ?
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Perhaps this is off topic but its all about the numbers.
I would like to know how they are going to Police 40 Million People on Lock Down in the State of California?
Not only that but you know its coming for every state very soon.
They are literally going to have to use the Armed forces to Police 330 Million Citizens.
Are you on drugs Monet? You are amped up.
Honestly, the story was liberals were happy about this stuff because of Trump taking the hit but all these preppers got a hardon going now. The reason I even have 1k round of ammos is because a friend of mine is one of these guys and he tells me he is going to play a big order for super low price. So I divest my cash roll a bit into some ammo. lol
We'll be fine. Shutting down bars and so forth is not the same. People have to sit at home. Boo Hoo. Everyone has internet. Not like you can't walk around or anything crazy.
You should just make up a thread mdawg style. How there is looting and all sorts of random mayhem. Let your imagination go wild.
If you do start a new thread...put it in the appropriate fucking subsection please!
This is not just shutting down restaurants and bars.
I am not sure you see the big picture here or understand the repercussions of ordering a whole state to stay at home.
I have never really been political on these boards.
I like Trump but I could care less because I know they are all the same.
You must realize that every state is about to follow suit and they have to police the order.
This means that they will have to set up checkpoints to stop you if you are out and about.
California already listed the only reasons you can go out of your house and for now as a last resort they will ticket you.
However we are not far from being jailed for being out under these orders.
FEMA Camps anyone?
I am not really amped up but I can see a major problem with this and it has nothing to do about catching the virus.
We are talking about our civil liberties being stripped away from us.
I know some people don't care about that but I don't think you realize how dangerous that is.
Some of us have over 10 or 20 thousand rounds just because.
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"More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ
I remember when someone gave him $500 to play blackjack with professionally to troll all the other guys and that was his roll. Something like that. Tony would leave his suitcase in the woods with a 'god will smite you if you take this suitecase' type messages. I forget the details. That dude is resilient although I don't think he ever wants to go back to being straight homeless. I wonder where he'll end up hunkering down in. Mass transportation might be shutdown here shortly but I'd be surprised. It is considered essential. City should make it so people don't have to pay though.
Shit is going crazy with the mayor of NYC basically openly begging Trump to help him and this shit has just started. Here we go.... I might go buy another round of sardines and things of that nature. Rice. lol.
It might never strike as hard down in the South. We'll see..
Like you say all non-essential business are forced to close down.
Citizens are asked to stay at home.
Things are polite now but I wouldn't expect that to last.
This Governor thinks that the public will comply just because.
I remember the LA Riots.
I can't imagine people won't be out looting during this phase.
If they seriously are going to make people stay at home they are going to have to police/enforce it.
This is just phase 2 or 3.
You may think this is nothing but they just caught Senator Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler using inside information to make millions in a huge stock dump.
I am sure they are not the only two that have profited from this whole thing.
My point is I do not see how this whole mess gets resolved.
I suppose if it is some sort of a scam they will just come up with the miracle cure in a few weeks or so.
Whatever... time to go back to my bunker.
These would be the group of people (epidemiologists, security experts, psychologists) who advised the governor (Newsom) to order a state-level lockdown of California. I'm asking if this group did calculations on the projected # of non-Covid-19 deaths as a result of the lockdown and compared it to the projected # of covid-19 deaths if the state lockdown had not taken place. I would think that the governor would want to minimize overall deaths as opposed to minimizing only covid-19 deaths.
I actually misread your post and thought you were saying "apparently the experts believe they will be more...". Sarcasm retracted.
You realize that in the middle of a corona outbreak if you have a heart attack you're fucking triaged and shit? You have to wait around cuz you're no longer special and there isn't just an ICU bed sitting around. Not to mention any surgery for months unless absolutely needed. The medical staff is going to be severely stressed.
What are the deaths you are expecting here? Food production would be considered essential as would anything else needed that is essential? Maybe not Tesla cars but that makes sense to me. People can still move around and do business privately. This is basically where I figured it'd go. Now when they put up roadblocks and shit like that, but that is fantasy. Right now cops go around and if you have a large group, they threaten or give you a ticket. Oh well. Do it in private and they'd never know.
California and Washington are apparently fighting over who gets the Navy hospital ship sent to them! Newsom getting all hysterical to try and steal the ship that was likely headed for Washington! Personally I’d rather save Washington. It’s almost like this was inflicted on America to punish primarily extremely liberal states, 8k of 14k confirmed cases between NY/CA/WSH with New Jersey next.
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