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First of all these are stupid examples.. We do have speed limits and they do save lives. There has to be an optimum speed limit which balances the time vs loss of life. We do have "driver licenses" for stopping stupid people driving and killing others.
The opening of the economy is again a cost vs life issue. Each life and hospitalization is also a cost, not just the money lost in the restaurant or a factory. They will not open games to public but may do it with empty stadium. Or they may open construction but delay non-essential projects. "Believe it, the paradigm has changed" , a quote from my Chinese friend who lived there during SARs.
Fortwaynemobile saysThey should ban sodomy and promiscuity, would save millions of lives. Also ban getting fat, that’s 10+ million lives saved.
Why do you value stupidity over life!!!!
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The opening of the economy is again a cost vs life issue.
First of all these are stupid examples.. We do have speed limits and they do save lives. There has to be an optimum speed limit which balances the time vs loss of life. We do have "driver licenses" for stopping stupid people driving and killing others.
The opening of the economy is again a cost vs life issue. Each life and hospitalization is also a cost, not just the money lost in the restaurant or a factory. They will not open games to public but may do it with empty stadium. Or they may open construction but delay non-essential projects.
"Believe it, the paradigm has changed" , a quote from my Chinese friend who lived there during SARs.
lets keep everything closed for another half year and then we will have neither economy nor coronavirus left. Only cannibal anarchy, which is much better than corona cold.
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There's not going to be a quick return to normal.
if we were to go back to normal the epidemic would spike right back up
When you take that and herd immunity into account it's closer to 100k in a day at peak. Of course this is a possibility but not something we'll actually see because we'll keep interfering with it.
Prediction: There will indeed be a quick return to normal, except, hopefully, for some valuable lessons learned about why we should not continue to outsource to China.
Patrick saysBut vast swathes of the population have already had it
Nah, a very small proportion has had it overall. 3% maybe.
Maybe he was briefed by his globalist masters who didn't like his earlier cooperation with the Donald to prolong this as much as possible because orange! Man! Must! Look! Bad!
Joshua Gans
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Given that we have stuck almost everyone in households for a month, surely we only have to test one member if each household to release them. And we can do that going forward. Should cut tests by a third.
Joshua Gans
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Given that we have stuck almost everyone in households for a month, surely we only have to test one member if each household to release them. And we can do that going forward. Should cut tests by a third.
Do we know if they counted it?
ThreeBays saysPatrick saysBut vast swathes of the population have already had it
Nah, a very small proportion has had it overall. 3% maybe.
Source?
Patrick saysBut vast swathes of the population have already had it
Nah, a very small proportion has had it overall. 3% maybe.
100K deaths in a day would've happened some time in May if we carried on business as usual.
I'm not sure why you're so incredulous. We had around 2,500 deaths recorded today. One month ago we had 12, that's a 208x increase in one month. It's only a 40x increase from here to 100K.
I'm not sure why you're so incredulous. We had around 2,500 deaths recorded today. One month ago we had 12, that's a 208x increase in one month. It's only a 40x increase from here to 100K.
My prediction is we're not going to bottom out for quite a few months, and if we were to go back to normal the epidemic would spike right back up. It's a terrible catch-22.
WookieMan saysWe have 134k deaths WORLDWIDE as of this post. First known cases about early December 2019. Almost 5 fucking months deep. 80-90% of places didn't shut down after their first tested case. How in the flying fuck do you get to 100k in a day when we sat here opened up for MONTHS???
100K deaths in a day would've happened some time in May if we carried on business as usual.
I was talking about US now vs US one month ago. 12 daily deaths on March 15th. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
We can easily get an upper bound estimate on US infections. NYC has a population of 8.4M. If we say herd immunity is reached at 80%, then the upper bound on infected people in NYC is 6.7M. NYC makes up 40% of US covid deaths, so the upper bound of infected people in the US is 16.75M or 5% of the population. That's the UPPER BOUND.
We can easily get an upper bound estimate on US infections. NYC has a population of 8.4M. If we say herd immunity is reached at 80%, then the upper bound on infected people in NYC is 6.7M. NYC makes up 40% of US covid deaths, so the upper bound of infected people in the US is 16.75M or 5% of the population. That's the UPPER BOUND.
Pop density doesn't matter here, we're just talking about how many people are infected.
Demographics matter. Demographics wise, NYC has a younger population, and lower incidence of obesity than the nation.
Pop density doesn't matter here,
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