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antibiotics are only effective against bacteria not viruses
astronut97 saysantibiotics are only effective against bacteria not viruses
@astronut97 Normally you'd be right, but it turns out that azithromycin happens to have anti-viral activity as well, though the mechanism is unclear.
Not sure why. If we were ready like Korea and Germany, we could have avoided a disaster in deaths and economy..
And also pneumonia is usually caused by opportunistic bacteria which absolutely are affected by antibiotics.
At each point you and fellow Trump supporters have tried to minimize the death rate. COVID-19 has been a serious threat continuously downplayed by the entire right wing causing serious inaction. Not sure why. If we were ready like Korea and Germany, we could have avoided a disaster in deaths and economy..
See how the Ebola crisis was handled by Fox
https://patrick.net/post/1330788/2020-03-15-obama-and-trump-response-to-pandemics
It's wild to politicize the response, when the whole architecture of WHO, CDC, US media, and politicians (barring a few, like Trump) actively downplayed the dangers of COVID. This lasted all January and most of Feb. "Don't panic the plebs" was the order of the day -- by both parties. Trump, to his credit, shut down flights from China to widespread "xenophobic!" wails.
goofus saysIt's wild to politicize the response, when the whole architecture of WHO, CDC, US media, and politicians (barring a few, like Trump) actively downplayed the dangers of COVID. This lasted all January and most of Feb. "Don't panic the plebs" was the order of the day -- by both parties. Trump, to his credit, shut down flights from China to widespread "xenophobic!" wails.
This X1000.
Are our Trump hating Democrat friends really this clueless about what all of the Democrats, National Media and international health agencies were saying about the virus just a few weeks ago?
Or are they just dishonest hacks?
When pandemics are declared, all hospitals and medical institutions treating more than 10 patients in a 24hr period should be shut down or at least stop taking new patients.
It makes zero sense to flatten the curve in order to fit more people into hospital capacities, when the hospitals are killing people!
You're mixing assumptions. The US models project 0.9% fatality, and you're using 0.1%. You've got to be consistent.
If we pass 10K deaths then your 0.1% assumption is too low.
Reality saysWhen pandemics are declared, all hospitals and medical institutions treating more than 10 patients in a 24hr period should be shut down or at least stop taking new patients.
It makes zero sense to flatten the curve in order to fit more people into hospital capacities, when the hospitals are killing people!
That's right, when people need intubation and oxygen because COVID destroys their lung capacity, close the hospitals! There's a rallying cry.
as silly as in believing that bad economy would bring down a sitting president no matter what . . . not realizing that a national crisis would actually galvanize support for a sitting president
The left's linear thinking is destroying themselves.
We don't usually lock most people at home for 2 months in flu seasons.
Reality saysThe left's linear thinking is destroying themselves.
I'm not sure if the 'left' has any thinking at all.
In trading, we all understand the expression ... "priced into the market". That was the pivotal year of 2017, where for the most part, the left and its media wonks, slammed Trump of being a perma-trash talking douchebag.
So by mid-2018, much of society got used to the idea that yeah ... the commander in chief talks trash (think Imus but for politics, not sports) and at the same time, minimizes foreign wars, advocates border security, and tries to limit the phenomena of offshoring which has plagued the nation since the 1990s/2000s.
So in reality, the public has realized that this person is a sort of a political moderate, who despite having a loudmouth, isn't as bad as the left likes to portray him. This is the issue because by 2019, it's become somewhat clea...
Covid-19 seems to kill more in the old, and in men than women. Not great for Republicans.
We should treat corona like global warming. Do nothing and let future generations figure out how to create a magic fix for it.
We should fix China Virus like Global Warming - insist on a China Virus offset market and levy huge taxes on medical equipment and quinine drugs.
Patrick saysAlso, where did you come up with "less than half of 2018 flu"?
It is one of your earlier posts which said something like this " I bet the number of deaths would be less than the 2017 or 2018 flu deaths"
What's
PANIC!
Wait, 3 percent of 1 percent?
The covid death toll has been very small so far, but viruses expand exponentially. Humans are very bad at understanding exponential growth.
We don't know how far we're along the growth curve we are. The death toll could easily rise to over a million, or it could stop in the tens of thousands. We don't know, and the only tool we have to fight it right now is social distancing.
Yes, the economy would be better off if the virus were to run its course quickly, but that comes at the cost of many more lives lost.
irrelevant. One person received more votes than the other. How those votes were distributed across the states means nothing if you're claiming "the people" rejected the one who received the most votes.
There's a pretty good chance that the severity of Covid-19 & dying is related to viral load and how you get the virus. If you get it in aerosol form at a church or choir it can go directly deep in your lungs. If you get it via touching your mouth or nose, it's a much longer process to invade the lungs.
The covid death toll has been very small so far, but viruses expand exponentially.
Patrick saysThe graphs for Italy are no longer exponential at all.
Yep, suppression orders have flattened the growth. It's not clear if it's hit an apex or not yet though.
Patrick saysThe graphs for Italy are no longer exponential at all.
Right, suddenly a sharp drop down
Speak of yourself. It's actually not an exponential curve but the left side of a Gaussian curve,
The second part of the sentence is simply wrong. More lives are lost as a result of a lock-down policy.
think that models that actually use epidemiological insights like the one from Neil Ferguson, Imperial College are better.
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Wait, 3 percent of 1 percent?
Yes, 100 times smaller than 3 percent.
Say 100,000 die out of 300M people (actually, the population is even larger than that). That's 0.0003.
So, since 0.0086 of the US dies every year on average, this could bump up the US death rate by 3 / 86 = 3.5% this year.
Except not it wouldn't even be that much, because a large fraction of those who die weren't going to make it through a normal 2020 anyway.
It's still not at all clear that this was worth imploding the economy for. Remember that 81,000 died of the flu in 2018 and no one even blinked.