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Maybe I gota talk in code. Haha
Your already talking in Bullshit.
Maybe just not talking at all for awhile might be best.
Maybe I gota talk in code. Haha
Similar to the freedoms we permanently lost with the Patriot Act, government will use this to get more control.
Iceland and Norway also have very strong testing regimes, particularly toward the beginning of the outbreak.
Of course, we are a long way from having anything close to that. In part because the government (the trump administration) screwed it up so much. Some of it was bad luck, much of it was bad planning.
Regardless of how this all happened, The US is way behind on testing even now. More tests than any other country doesn't mean shit as far as public health goes. What matters is testing as a percentage of population and testing as a percent of the size of the epidemic.
The US is not testing people enough people to know the size and scope of the epidemic. They are not testing enough to reopen the economy. They are only testing people who have a strong chance of being positive. They aren't testing well enough to find asymptomatic carriers.
What doesn't work is having backlogs at testing facilities that take 7 days to process a test.
Ultimatately - testing should not be an issue for anyone to hang their hat on. Testing is nearly irrelevant. Everyone should assume contagious - 80% of people who actually develop symptoms should stay home and self quarantine (just like they normally would if they had a flu. You shouldn't need a test to tell you that (unless you're a celebrity).
The US, on a per capita basis, has tested more than France, UK, Iran, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland...the only countries that are testing on a higher per capita are countries who were hit harder earlier (Spain, Italy) or very wealthy nations with very small populations (Iceland, Israel, UAE, Luxembourg, Ireland, etc).
If we assume that everyone has it, we don't reopen any portion of the economy.
If we assume that everyone has it, we don't reopen any portion of the economy.
The US, on a per capita basis, has tested more than France, UK, Iran, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland...the only countries that are testing on a higher per capita are countries who were hit harder earlier (Spain, Italy) or very wealthy nations with very small populations (Iceland, Israel, UAE, Luxembourg, Ireland, etc).
If you use a tiered approach; IE isolate the vulnerable 20% (which handicap, social security for medical, and over 65 represent...and i'm making this up...probably less than 1% of the workforce)...you can open up 99% of the workforce/economy. You could do this today. Some countries are already doing it with same sort of numbers we have here.
I don't think you understand, or maybe don't believe what all the science about this disease says.
Yes - Norway, meant Sweden - 5 million per capita. Same difference for the point being made.
If you use a tiered approach; IE isolate the vulnerable 20% (which handicap, social security for medical, and over 65 represent...and i'm making this up...probably less than 1% of the workforce)...you can open up 99% of the workforce/economy. You could do this today. .
Steven Miller's daily email blast.
I don't see how that is possible. And people under 65 are very vulnerable. They make up about half of hospitalizations as things are now.
I don't think you understand, or maybe don't believe what all the science about this disease says.
Oh my.
If you use a tiered approach; IE isolate the vulnerable 20% (which handicap, social security for medical, and over 65 represent...and i'm making this up...
Which other countries are working with over 500K infected? I don't know man. You've been pretty informative but today your posts look like hot takes from Steven Miller's daily email blast. Can you give sources for your claims?
Anybody else see these Facebook posts:
Yeah 25,000 dead.... but 35,500 recovered!
How come the news media isn't reporting this?
Well I dunno maybe because that's a shitty depressing number?
What is that like 30% more recover than die?
Doesn't sound too promising to me.
Careful man, you're stepping into conspiracy theory territory with this, there's just no value in it.
Anybody else see these Facebook posts:
Yeah 25,000 dead.... but 35,500 recovered!
How come the news media isn't reporting this?
Well I dunno maybe because that's a shitty depressing number?
What is that like 30% more recover than die?
Doesn't sound too promising to me.
Here's a list of countries that have tested more than the US per capita, justify it however you want but it's still better than just stating some rando happy feel fact.
Faeroe Islands/Iceland/UAE/Luxembourg/Gibraltar/Malta/Bahrain/Falkland Islands/San Marino/Isle of Man/Liechtenstein/Norway/Brunei/Estonia/Switzerland/Andorra/Channel Islands/Portugal/Qatar/Italy/Slovenia/Austria/Greenland/Germany/Latvia/Lithuania/Cyprus/Ireland/Australia/Israel/New Zealand/Hong Kong/Spain/Denmark/Singapore/Czechia/Canada/Aruba/S. Korea/New Caledonia/Russia
Which other countries are working with over 500K infected? I don't know man. You've been pretty informative but today your posts look like hot takes from Steven Miller's daily email blast. Can you give sources for your claims?