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[Wasted Memory]

Rachel Maddow Names And Shames The 7 States Not 'Doing Much At All' About Coronavirus

Corey, Shel. Welcome to the group.

[Cnasty]

Texans wouldn't listen anyways as they think they wrote the Constitution here

[GeorgesGoons]

Rachel Maddow Names And Shames The 7 States Not 'Doing Much At All' About Coronavirus

Corey, Shel. Welcome to the group.

Rachel Maddow is unbearable! She is tied for my least favorite person on a news station.

[shel311]

Rachel Maddow Names And Shames The 7 States Not 'Doing Much At All' About Coronavirus

Corey, Shel. Welcome to the group.

Those 7 states have 4 deaths total, with 5 of the states having 0 deaths.


Don't Mess With Texas!!!

[dakshdar]

Rachel Maddow Names And Shames The 7 States Not 'Doing Much At All' About Coronavirus

Corey, Shel. Welcome to the group.

Those 7 states have 4 deaths total, with 5 of the states having 0 deaths.


Don't Mess With Texas!!!

Well if you don't diagnose and test anyone, you can easily say there are no cases or deaths due to the Bat Virus.

[Cnasty]

Kung Flu, get it right.

[shel311]

China Virus....soooooooo racist!!!

[nick]

since ive been keeping track the death rate keeps going up. Spanish Flu was scary at 3.5% meanwhile Corona is over 4..

[shel311]

Is that total or for a specific country?

I'm seeing in the 1.5% range total and around the same as well for the US.

[nick]

total

[nick]

John Hopkins just updated their page from an hour ago.. added 1340 cases to the database bringing US to 10 755. Im sure you guys knew that but ya

[ReignOnU]

Is that total or for a specific country?

I'm seeing in the 1.5% range total and around the same as well for the US.

Correct, just over 4% for total. Roughly 1.5% for US.

Total potentially inflated by mishandling in China/Italy.
US understated due to how early we are in the cycle. As people's health degrade, it's likely to go up.

On a total level, as it spreads to less fortunate countries, I'd expect higher rates.

Then the obvious tricky part... how much will the availability of testing change the total # of cases. Ultimately, what's the estimate of infected & not confirmed? Most flu rates are conveyed with estimates of infection. Too tough to pin point right now for this.

[nick]

makes you wonder how many truly died from Spanish Flu when they had even shittier means of tech/communication in 1920.

[nick]

whenever people complain about these times i let them know we live in the best times ever and never to take for granted.. and when our kids grow up their times will be better etc etc. thank fucking god for the internet.

[Cnasty]

China is stating 0 new local cases consistently now.

I do not see how that is utterly possible at all unless every single thing is locked down completely with zero people in the community.

[nick]

China also essentially killed all the whistleblowers to this disease.

[ReignOnU]

Nick is right.

Well, just agreed with Nick, RIP everyone.

[dakshdar]

Is that total or for a specific country?

I'm seeing in the 1.5% range total and around the same as well for the US.

Correct, just over 4% for total. Roughly 1.5% for US.

Total potentially inflated by mishandling in China/Italy.
US understated due to how early we are in the cycle. As people's health degrade, it's likely to go up.

On a total level, as it spreads to less fortunate countries, I'd expect higher rates.

Then the obvious tricky part... how much will the availability of testing change the total # of cases. Ultimately, what's the estimate of infected & not confirmed? Most flu rates are conveyed with estimates of infection. Too tough to pin point right now for this.

1.5% what? Deaths/Total Cases?

That's very misleading at this point because most cases are still ongoing and people haven't been tested and cleared after testing positive the first time.

With "closed cases" you are at 10% deaths vs 90% recovered worldwide (with over 60% of all cases still open).

With the US you are 61% deaths vs 39% recovered (with over 97% of cases still open).

Yes, these numbers will eventually be much smaller, but there are too many open cases to tell what a reasonable endgame statistic will look like.

[GeorgesGoons]

And people wonder why most don't/can't believe the media

[shel311]

Dang, just yesterday i came across the news lady paddling the canoue while people walked right by her in ankle deep water, and the news guy fighting hurricane winds while people behind him walk totally normally...but I don't remember where I saw them now.