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Robbing the cradle, huh?
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I really think most people don’t get it. You aren’t getting just the students and teachers sick.
These people live with immunocompromised family members and the elderly who often have comorbidities. In the case of the Czech Republic, 15% of Czechs live in multigenerational households. Get one student sick and a lot of people get real sick real fast.
I can’t imagine them making in-person attendance compulsory. They probably will but they definitely shouldn’t. Second wave is gonna go up big time.
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I often think about how my life would be different if there was a way to get rid of allergies and how much I would pay for whatever gene therapy needed. It’s a big number. I think I get your point, but it’s kinda weird to see people say they’ll take a 1% shot at never being able to exercise again for $50k.
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Forsyth opened up schools today and kids were unmasked and crowded around each other at the bus stop.
My son is liking the virtual learning much better today than in the spring as he’s doing exact same schedule as in person, just using google meets for class instead. The structure is much better than logging on to 15 assignments each day.
As a county we are gonna be fucked tho. Forsyth, Cherokee, Paulding are gonna be the new hot spots.
The kids don’t wear masks and go spread it at school then bring it home to parents who don’t believe in the virus so they are the ones going to the bars and not wearing masks at the stores, etc so they’ll be sure to spread it all over the county.
And practically everyone in my neighborhood can afford to keep their kids at home if they were worried so it’s more likely they just don’t believe in it.
Some schools in our county had 77% choose virtual option, but not ours 
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They get it. They just don’t really care if a few dozen kids die (more die from [insert cause x]!), or an unlimited number of old people die (they were gonna die anyhow!) or an unlimited number of immunocompromised people die (they had underlying conditions!).
Everyone gets it. There is like, nobody left on earth, that doesn’t realize all of this stuff. They simply just do not care.
100k, 200k, 500k, 1m dead, the sad truth we’re finding is that fully half of the US would push a button and kill a million or two strangers rather than experience the inconvenience of a pandemic on their daily lives.
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Ethical Skeptic is on it!
So, I was reminded that we’re coming up on the 15-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1800+ people.
At the current deaths/day rate, the US will be right around 100x that when the anniversary rolls around.
We passed 200k excess deaths in early July…we are well past 100x
I know you are talking about official numbers as of now (since official numbers in a year or two will update to have 200k by early July)
True enough. I thought about which number to compare Katrina to but went with the “official” number for now since that’s the “scoreboard” most people are looking at.
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It’s actually a little late to be discussing this. One of the way the virus infects is through the eyes. I would absolutely get those
Some idiotic Sheriff making mask wearing against the rules for all staff and people visiting police station.
Reason…
Police hate and the need to know who they are talking to so cops are safe.
Who would have bet on using BLM as a reason cops can’t wear masks!
You shouldn’t give a fuck what you look like. The important thing is to be safe
My complex has a pool and I swim daily (I keep my firearm in a water proof freezer bag tucked inside my swim trunks). I hear swimming is a safe activity, but I wore my swim goggles to my dental cleaning appointment last week. People in the waiting room looked at me like I was nuts
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Who is coming to get you Cactus? What aren’t you telling us? Because yeah this post doesn’t come off like you probably think it does.
OK, that has to be a troll.
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Yeah I’ve been had I’m pretty sure.
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It was a joke. I lol’d.
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Even though most are still partial, here are the graphs so you can see them. SDI is not good and in a couple of the places is flat out alarming. The places that are 10+ below SDI right now will need widespread mask usage to avoid a Florida/Arizona type growth situation. I was wrong about Gwinnett County going down. They have some kind of reporting anomaly every other week, and this is the down reporting anomaly week. It’s still up from the previous two week dip. You can see that clearly on the graph.
All is not lost in Cherokee County yet, but they’re getting there if they drop even a little further in SDI. Based on what I’ve heard about masks, they’re stuck with the SDI that brought them. Big problems should start showing up in Cobb County by around 8/24. Fulton County should also be noticeably up by around 8/24. Gwinnett County is in severe SDI trouble, so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the reporting style keeps up to see them well above 3000 new cases in the next measurement period. Mask usage will not be enough to make up the SDI deficit to slow growth. Again, these effects should be presenting around 8/24. Fulton County is on the verge of wiping out all its ‘gains’ of the last month. They’ll probably be up in the full measurement period and SDI continues to slide for the third consecutive week now into dangerous territory. If there’s enough mask usage, it will just be slow growth for now. If not, larger effects should begin by around 8/24. I fear Gwinnett will be a horror show soon. Paulding’s significant effects should show up by around 8/17. Finally, Forsyth is already in big SDI trouble and Nicholas’s description of school start up is alarming. That county is already on the rise and is about to get a lot worse.
Right now, in the U.S. things are significantly worse than they appear even though the U.S. is definitely down from its previous peak. Arizona is working hard to get their tests way down and are testing at about 1/3 the rate they were at their peak. Their cases are going down, but not nearly as dramatically as it appears due to testing deficiencies. I’ve said it before but right now is worse than it appears and when things get really bad within the next two weeks people will think it’s worse then than it actually will be because of what’s happening right now. This is the problem when you play around with testing.
They basically did it in one week.
7/22-7/28: 433,352
7/29-8/4: 407,922
8/5-8/11: 204,015
The 8/5-8/11 number is with 56,052 tests reported on 8/7 and 47,797 on 8/10.
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Is that a firearm in a water proof freezer bag tucked inside your swim trunks, or are you just happy to see me?
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