OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

People have been doing stupid things for a lot longer than we have been around, but that does not excuse the wreckless stupidity shown by trump. He is the leader and is suppose to lead, not be a sideshow Bob.

 

I love the Avalanches. Their original music is great and their Gimix mix of other people's music is amazing.

 

I realize that, but we are all taught, we are responsible for our own actions! At least that what I taught my kids....there were many times I would tell my son just because a bud says to do something or does something stupid doesn't me you have to. Exercise some common!

 

There is no sarcasm exception. We're banning you for telling people to free base antifreeze.

 

Well Trump and his task force is really the only ones saying it will weaken or go away when the weather gets warmer.

 

From Christmas Eve until New Years first my wife got seriously ill and after caring for her I got the bug.....it was brutal flu...we now wonder if it was connected to the west coast wave of virus or if our flu survival helps with our immunity now. Some think the numbers here on the west coast are because of our winter flu season

 

It just entered Myanmar which is brutally hot and humid this time of year and it's in hot humid parts of South America, Phillipines, etc....We know it lives in the tropics or sub tropics as well as colder regions...I read that an increase from 68 degrees to 98 degrees in a very short time period can kill it but that's the hair dryer theory....bleach killed SARS in Taiwan pretty much but not from injesting the stuff like Trump has recommended

 

to me, the problem with that take, other than it's weakly supported, is the math

if Covid has a .13% mortality rate, then with 53,000 dead, that would mean 41 million people in the US have had Covid. That's doesn't seem credible at all to me

 

Mine was December 10-24. I was seriously bad. Dry unproductive cough for 4 days straight, major headaches, body aches, fever and really lethargic.

 

I think the 5 current studies show the mortality rate is around 0.6-0.8% based on the antibodies studies.

 

tests per 1 million:

Iceland 134,716
Falkland Islands 101,437
UAE 79,875
Bahrain 64,869
Luxembourg 61,526
Lithuania 36,347
Estonia 35,680
Israel 34,971
Portugal 32,414
Norway 28,614
Italy 28,245
Qatar 27,665
Switzerland 27,182
Germany 24,738
Austria 24,549
Latvia 24,251
New Zealand 23,851
Denmark 23,607
Slovenia 23,175
Ireland 22,598
Singapore 20,815
Spain 19,896
Czechia 19,676
Hong Kong 19,426
Australia 19,383
Russia 18,649
Canada 17,741
Belgium 16,313
USA 15,624
Finland 14,041
Venezuela 13,860

c'mon trump...quit bragging about poor results and get back to work

 

now that is more credible mathematically

with 53,000 dead, that would put total covid cases around 7.6 million....looks reasonable

the other side of the coin is that the current numbers don't look credible either. With 53,000 dead among 940,000 cases, that's a 5.6% mortality rate. That's not believable.

 

Agreed. By the way. I am not trying to discount the seriousness of this pandemic. Just sharing all I get from all sides.

 

Trump has US right "up" there with Venezuela. I think Trump can overtake them.

 

I’m curious what our tests per million in NY, CA and NJ. I think this is an unfair metric because our population is so vast in comparison. India, Indonesia, and China would be in the same field. How are we compared to them?