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Coronavirus (Stay on Topic)
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Snowflowxxl
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It’s exactly what you said though?
Rosie
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Comparing to 9/11?
pcbjr
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and in the meantime, Jacksonville is reopening the beaches today ... spring break redux ... ?
Dewpoint Dan
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I will be in Jacksonville next month. Can't wait. Ready to feel sand between my toes !
Yellow Snow
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Exactly - my point was why should NJ's C-19 deaths be compared to the death toll on 9/11 (a transitory event caused by a criminal act of terrorism)? Why not compare it to other events and/or causes of premature death?
It's a meaningless comparison, akin to saying "Deaths from heart disease so far this year in the US have now exceeded deaths at the Battle of Antietam"
Tornadocane
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New symptom of coronavirus includes feet lesions. Yes. I immediately checked my feet.
www.foxnews.com
Researchers discover new coronavirus symptoms: feet lesions
COVID-19, the disease that has caused the coronavirus pandemic, is a respiratory illness that has symptoms that can include fatigue, a persistent cough and fevers. However, researchers in Spain believe they have discovered another symptom —lesions on feet.
Brent
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Texas to begin reopening next week
I can't wait
I can't wait
The (in?)famous Washington model updated today. It has downgraded US deaths to 60k again.
Cad Wedge NC
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Why not Vietnam, The civil war, or WW2. I am sure the Civil War had more people dead.
pcbjr
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More than anyone I want to reopen ... robust business makes my clients money, and that trickles down to me as well ... but by damn this does not at all look like a reason to open beaches, restaurants and go back to normal quite yet ... I'll leave politics out of this, but politics and donations and not rational thinking seem to be guiding some hasty moves in the past 12 hours ...
Shaggy
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We really don't have a good playbook to even base decisions on. This virus throws not curveballs but knuckleballs. It's hard to predict. So we have a huge number of asymptomatic cases and that's great news. What if that changes with a subtle mutation and suddenly all of these unknown cases become moderate to severe? We really are guessing on the best course of action to a large degree.
Dewpoint Dan
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I dont get it. Over 2,000 dying per day. That would put us at over 60k before April 30.
pcbjr
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Only get one shot at this ... like a trial.
Never, ever ask a witness a question without knowing what the answer will be ...
Hell, at this point the question isn't even properly framed ... but we have "the answer"?
Shaggy
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Outside of hotspots things are calm and moving along but theres so many unknowns. I've read up on the mass seeding event at the Italy soccer game and I realized we dodged the biggest bullet by shutting down the NCAA tourny.
That would have set off an explosion we may not have recovered well from.
Read up on the soccer match and it will scare you but also show you how close we came!!!!
It has deaths trailing off pretty quickly. Likely too quickly, IMO, but hopefully not. It is also based on social distancing measures staying in place through the end of May, which is definitely not going to be the case nationwide at this point. I think it's probably too low personally, but I hope it's not too far off. Keeping deaths under 100k would certainly be a realistic goal to shoot for, although I suspect the actual toll will be higher given there are Covid-19 deaths that are probably being missed as we speak (and this is true worldwide, not just in the US).
pcbjr
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Just waiting for 60,000 students to return from hither and yonder, and then 90,000 rabid Gators to re-fill The Swamp ... 40.000 of them traveling here from points unknown ... Yes, it will be great again ... when the time is right ...
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