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Thereās no new information in this article, just some dipshit politician calling for an SEC investigation into unspecified crimes and a credulous reporter.
So where are these number from vs Covid tracking vs world meter. They all 3 have different totals for day.
This more than world more than covidtrack??
We probably reach one million cases in the US next week:
So did we just transition to slower exponential growth? Thatās great!
No, it means the growth is logistic, and yes that is welcome news.
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How could they be frustrated? I thought the Villagers thought the whole thing was an overblown hoax.
Not gonna read that, but I assume that their frustration notwithstanding, they still think Trump and DeSantis are great.
Sumter county has gone up like 30 cases all week, and like one death. jlawok.gif.
Correct, but this assumes that:
A) The numbers are accurate
B) We donāt do dumb things that might take us off that path
Iām not confident in either.
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The numbers are definitely wrong, but if theyāre systematically wrong, we can still learn things from them about hos the disease is progressing. Itās like sampling a group of people to do opinion polling.
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The SEC part isnāt the interesting part, itās the quote from the doctor participating in a study of Remdesivir that includes a control group. While anecdotal, that quote isnāt super promising.
Absolutely true, but Iām not confident in this either.
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Is the growth really logistic, or did we just hit testing capacity? Because in red states at least it kind of seems like the latter.
Yes and yes, probably.
If it was really exponential, we be following the orange line, which would mean weād have a billion cases at the end of next week, which obviously isnāt possible.
Yeah, I donāt believe those numbers, but Iām thinking if it were truly a bloodbath, the numbers in the lie would be higher.
If it turns out that the numbers are waaaaay off and we actually have 10ās of millions of cases right now, then that would suggest that itās much less lethal than we thought.
On a completely unrelated note, did you guys know that toxoplasmosis infects a third of the entire human population? Thatās pretty crazy, thatās like 3 billion people. I just learned about it the other day.
I learned today that 1/4 of the world population has tuberculosis. Thatās insane to me. I thought it was eradicated back with like polio and mumps. 90% that have it arenāt aware. But for that 10% that get sick, itās deadly. 1.5 million deaths in 2018.
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My dad caught tuberculosis when I was a kid, he came out okay, mom and I tested negative.
Boy, the tuberculosis wiki page is some nightmare fuel, right? Official WHO global health emergency since 1993. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis seems like something we should be worried about? I knew TB was still around from personal experience and my morbid interest in these kinds of things, but you could be forgiven for thinking that TB was only a problem back in the cowboy days.
But yeah, a lot of these diseases weāve been sleeping on in the first world have been going buck wild in Asia and Africa. Iāve told you guys about how measles is devastating the Congo and no one is talking about that. At some point we as a species need to get our shit together and realize that we canāt just wall ourselves off from these diseases and let the third world fester.
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