Countdown: 6...5...4...3...2...1...0 day(s) until COVID-19 will "miraculously" disappear

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CZroe

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Jun 24, 2001
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Still waiting to see if there is a huge surge in Florida and Georgia from the beach goers. Proximity is the culprit not temperature. Flu naturally is higher during the winter since more people in doors in close proximity. Not that cold helps the spread of the flu and heat kills it.
Yes, warmth-seeking is one aspect, but southern states still have distinct flu seasons. Heck, I live in Georgia and had the flu back in November. ;)

Other aspects that still contribute in warmer latitudes:
Dry air leading to dry/cracked mucous membranes
Vitamin D deficiency from less intense sunlight and staying indoors
Limited/continued spread with a boost of imported cases from cooler regions
Maybe reduced UV-C from sunlight
 

HomerJS

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
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Start the ball dropping. I have to admit Trump was right all along. Remember when it was 15 and on it's way to zero? Why did I doubt the stable genius??

He knows his shit and is the greatest President of all time. Got my vote in Nov. Bigly
 

Steltek

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I can see it now - Donald the Hump's next argument at the end of this month:

Higher temperatures and higher humidity reduce transmission of the virus! I knew this! I knew climate change was a good, perfect thing! Maybe even more perfect than the letter! Lets everybody toddle on back to work now so we can get those stock indexes going back up so I can get re-elected!

BTW, if anybody needs it, Weather Underground's "WunderMap" is maintaining a coronavirus case map using prior day published numbers. It makes it is possible to go from state by state numbers to easily drill down to the county level to see the number of verified cases and deaths in your particular county (or in any county in any State).


Just click the Coronavirus box in featured data.
 
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Muse

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And again, one way may be protective masks and gloves when in public. FOR EVERYONE. On both sides.
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I wore them today, out in my back yard alone. Not really for the virus but because I was spraying Roundup. However, I'm in favor or everyone wearing them all the time when outside the house. If nothing else, it's an advertisement that we're in a crisis, that things are fucked up... badly.
Just a little over 11.5 hours to go and this national nightmare is over!
7.5. POTUS can go back to shaking hands with Putin, Xi and Kim.
 

HomerJS

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April is here. That was the quickest 15 to 0 in a few days back to disaster I've ever seen
 

ShookKnight

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Heeeeey.. what gives?!

People are still dying. Conservatives told us this was all a hoax. And, how all cases would drop down to zero!!

And as of yesterday, 200,000 deaths are considered to be a 'very good job'??

Wait a minute, were conservatives LYING to us?? Why would the side that claims to be of morals and 'telling it like it is', be lying??
 
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HomerJS

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Heeeeey.. what gives?!

People are still dying. Conservatives told us this was all a hoax. And, how all cases would drop down to zero!!

And as of yesterday, 200,000 deaths are considered to be a 'very good job'??

Wait a minute, were conservatives LYING to us?? Why would the side that claims to be of morals and 'telling it like it is', be lying??
goalposts moving faster then we can keep up
 
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ultimatebob

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Jul 1, 2001
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It's official... The US is the world's worst "curve flattener". 15 days into this "slow the spread" quarantine insanity, and that infection chart still looks like a damn hockey stick.
 

eelw

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It's official... The US is the world's worst "curve flattener". 15 days into this "slow the spread" quarantine insanity, and that infection chart still looks like a damn hockey stick.
I’d still consider Italy worse in its handling of this crisis. But it’s more the citizens that refused to obey restrictions over the government response.
 

soundforbjt

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I’d still consider Italy worse in its handling of this crisis. But it’s more the citizens that refused to obey restrictions over the government response.
Just like some States are doing here only worse, by not enacting restrictions fast enough. It should be a National Order though but Trump's too chicken to do that.
 

pmv

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But more than 500 a day. My guess (what a morbid bit of forecasting this is) would be for about 700-800 deaths for April 1 itself. Probably will reach 1000 a day within a few days of that.

Well, that was far too conservative a guess, I guess. In fact over 1000 today - and the 1st isn't even over yet.
 

sportage

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Feb 1, 2008
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I was humbly included in a video conference today. Not specific on the virus however the virus did come up. One professional hosting the event noted that China is now seeing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases after relaxing guidelines. And the need for burial urns has reached an unprecedented high.
This should tell people that China is lying about their numbers, and the virus is getting much worse over in Chine, not better.

I would guess that China leaders, as with our Trump, wanted workers to return to work for the sake of the economy. The only difference.... China can force their people back to work where as here in America we have the medical professionals with charts and graphs to keep Trump in line.

But, I'd keep my eye on this China thing, even though they lie like Donald Trump at one of his rallies.
 

Wreckem

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So about that 1000+ death daily on April 1. So far today we have had 1049 deaths.

Highest single daily death toll of ANY country*.

Don’t except it to go down. It’s expected to peak at around 2300 a day in the next two weeks. I think that’s overly optimistic. I bet it’s closer to 5k dead a day and more like end of April.

*is for China because who knows what their actual death toll or rates are.
 
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ultimatebob

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Remember...

12,000 deaths due to H1B1 = place Obama in prison!

100,000 to 200,000 deaths due to COVID19 = Trump did a great job.

And Obama pulled off that much lower number without destroying the economy, which is interesting because Trump is supposed to be the pro business president.
 

HomerJS

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And Obama pulled off that much lower number without destroying the economy, which is interesting because Trump is supposed to be the pro business president.
Republicans wanted Obama jailed for his number.

Based on that standard Trump would be executed by slow torture
 
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