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Originally posted by Starlight View PostAm I right in thinking Nevada at #12 is the only Clinton-voting state in the top 19 worst-affected states? And that 18/19 worst-affected states are Trump states? Seems like what you said is false. Leftist states weren't the ones that got ravaged.
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Originally posted by seer View PostNYT: Experts Confident Pandemic To Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected, Trump Efforts ‘Working With Remarkable Efficiency’
A new report from The New York Times indicates that experts have “genuine confidence” that the coronavirus pandemic will end “far sooner” than originally expected and that President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — the administration’s efforts to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics — has been “working with remarkable efficiency.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-e...ble-efficiency
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/h...-optimism.htmlGlendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Postcool, now do deaths (the only numbers that actually matter).
Originally posted by Stoic View PostIf you sort it by deaths per 1 million people, the blue states look a lot worse. This is because some of the blue states had most of their cases early on, when the case fatality ratio was higher, and the medical facilities in the northeast were so swamped that they were unable to provide decent care for everyone.
- Demographic differences between states (Race, age, wealth)
- Improved drug treatments
- Overstressed healthcare system vs healthcare systems that have had time to prepare for this
- Time of year (People are just heathier in the summer? Or more vitamin D helps their immune system? Or the sunlight is killing the virus in the air and so when they catch it they're getting a lower dose?)
- Differences in how deaths are being counted (e.g. Trump's people are reporting politically-corrected death figures, and being far more stringent in their criteria with regard to whether someone died 'of covid')
- Improved protection of retirement homes
- They are more religious and God protects (or not, for those that die) by letting them catch it and get sick but stopping them actually dying
In the US, the deaths per cases has changed hugely over time. The new cases per day in June was twice that of April, but the number of deaths that resulted from those cases in June was only about half that of the cases in April. It's not clear to me what's causing this 4x difference over time given it's the same disease and the same population."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Searching on this topic, gave me this WaPo article fresh out today, which has every graph you can think of on the subject.
This graph caught my eye:
Covid.PNG"I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View Post
It would be nice to link it, but google doesn't provide a link it just shows the data and graph. If you follow the instructions I gave of googling US covid cases, google should display it for you. Google agrees with the data you cite with respect to deaths.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostIt's true that sorting it by deaths rather than cases makes blue states look worse. It's not clear to me why. Reasons could include:
- Demographic differences between states (Race, age, wealth)
- Improved drug treatments
- Overstressed healthcare system vs healthcare systems that have had time to prepare for this
- Time of year (People are just heathier in the summer? Or more vitamin D helps their immune system? Or the sunlight is killing the virus in the air and so when they catch it they're getting a lower dose?)
- Differences in how deaths are being counted (e.g. Trump's people are reporting politically-corrected death figures, and being far more stringent in their criteria with regard to whether someone died 'of covid')
- Improved protection of retirement homes
- They are more religious and God protects (or not, for those that die) by letting them catch it and get sick but stopping them actually dying
In the US, the deaths per cases has changed hugely over time. The new cases per day in June was twice that of April, but the number of deaths that resulted from those cases in June was only about half that of the cases in April. It's not clear to me what's causing this 4x difference over time given it's the same disease and the same population.
One factor that you didn't mention is that most people are wearing masks, so they are less likely to develop serious illness.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostIt's true that sorting it by deaths rather than cases makes blue states look worse. It's not clear to me why. [...]
Another possible factor is that when people travel to this country from abroad, they're more likely to want to land in a blue state first. Why head to Alabama when you've got New York and California to choose from?
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Originally posted by Whateverman View PostYou listed a number of plausible explanations, and I'm willing to bet the real answer includes most of them.
Another possible factor is that when people travel to this country from abroad, they're more likely to want to land in a blue state first."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Stoic View PostYou have to click on "Cases" to sort the states by the number of cases."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostI don't know why anybody is still pretending the WHO is a credible authority when they repeatedly contradict themselves."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by seer View PostNYT: Experts Confident Pandemic To Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected, Trump Efforts ‘Working With Remarkable Efficiency’
A new report from The New York Times indicates that experts have “genuine confidence” that the coronavirus pandemic will end “far sooner” than originally expected and that President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — the administration’s efforts to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics — has been “working with remarkable efficiency.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-e...ble-efficiency
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/h...-optimism.html
I expect liberals will just go hide, but some will keep shouting we are all doomed by the bad orange man and his China Virus defeat.
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Originally posted by Maranatha View PostIt will end in November, after the election.
M, the pandemic is real, and political attacks by the president on the science don't make the science political any more than religious attacks on the theory of evolution make the theory of evolution religious. It's a virus, it doesn't care about your politics. It doesn't care about your religion. It's a virus. It doesn't care. Period.
It can be measured and investigated like any other disease. It has been. Denying the science of epidemiology is tantamount to denying the theory of gravity. If you behave like it's not real, if you preach that it's not real, it will kill you, and it will kill those close to you.
The head of the White House security office is critically ill with Covid-19
.The security office head, Crede Bailey, whose office handles a number of duties, including approving certain security clearances, coordinating with the Secret Service and handling credentials for people to be able to come onto the White House grounds, was taken to the hospital in late September, the administration official said.
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On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced that Adm. Charles Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard, had tested positive. Admiral Ray also attended the White House reception, Defense Department officials said.
Nearly every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is now in quarantine in their homes or in other locations, officials said, after having contact with people who have tested positive.
This is not a time to play politics with science. This is a time to let science guide your politics.
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