Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

#54,080
#54,080
FLVOL_79 said:
Just wanted to say teleworking is my favorite thing in the world now.
Click to expand...
I imagine it's like retirement, sleep late, take a shower every 3 days or so, shave every once in a while, take naps on a comfortable couch instead of an office chair. Did I leave anything out?
 
  • Like
Reactions: FLVOL_79
#54,086
#54,086
k-town_king said:
Typical racist thinking.

The guy who said the racist thing isn't the racist. The "real racists" are the ones who got insulted by it and the ones who call it out.

I got ya
Click to expand...

What ya "got" is a case of the goofy.
China began blaming the U.S. for the pandemic, after they kept the world in the dark for weeks while Chinese travelers infected the globe. Trump retaliated by reminding the world where the virus came from and how China screwed the world. This was nothing more than a continuation of that. Even Fauci and Birx have moved from their position that the China data can be trusted, after saying in late March that they did.

Reporter Jiang's removing her mask to paint it as a racist, anti-Chinese remark is ludicrous. He'd have said the same thing if she was black, Indian, or caucasian In fact, the crying "racist!" tactic is exactly how the CCP countered Trump's pushback of their allegations and, of course, the American left carried their water just as Jiang is doing. She's also the reporter who made the "kung flu" accusation but never backed it up.

Jiang chose to make this about her, willingly or unwittingly spread CCP propaganda, and still has the nerve to pose as a journalist
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Wireless1
#54,087
#54,087
utvolpj said:
again creating a huge canyon for those who can't afford it. Not sure you've quite thought this out
Click to expand...

So what this goes back to is people having kids that they can't afford. Then the government makes the situation worse by burdening these same people with taxes. In the end some of this tax revenue is pumped into a government school system that generally fails to educate their kids.

As for the bolded, I did receive a government education, so maybe you're right.
 
  • Like
Reactions: allvol123
#54,092
#54,092
GVF said:
Just read where NYC is training Contact Tracers. Does that mean this army of busy bodies will be invading the privacy of thousands of New Yorkers by being a gov't snitch.
Click to expand...
Wonder how this would go over if New Yorkers found out that Cuomo would hire have the tracers and Trump were hiring the other half.
 
  • Like
Reactions: allvol123
#54,093
#54,093
Pepe_Silvia said:
Good teachers could still teach at private schools. A free market system would weed out the teachers just collecting a paycheck.
Click to expand...
My private high school paid less than the local public schools. Several teachers came in thinking it would be better, but aside from the lack of fights every other problem was there, and they would leave in about 2 or 3 years.

I would say private schooling is only a step above public, not 2 or 3. And that's mostly because they can be selective on the students that public schools cant be.
 
#54,094
#54,094
LouderVol said:
My private high school paid less than the local public schools. Several teachers came in thinking it would be better, but aside from the lack of fights every other problem was there, and they would leave in about 2 or 3 years.

I would say private schooling is only a step above public, not 2 or 3. And that's mostly because they can be selective on the students that public schools cant be.
Click to expand...

How many years did you attend public high school?
 
#54,095
#54,095
allvol123 said:
Yes.
Click to expand...

Sure - I don't know how much that is the case, but it is undeniable that it is the case to some degree (and perhaps not just a small degree given the age and risk demographics of those who have died).

However, making that argument is of course very different from an argument of death inflation or faking numbers.
 
#54,096
#54,096
TennTradition said:
Sure - I don't know how much that is the case, but it is undeniable that it is the case to some degree (and perhaps not just a small degree given the age and risk demographics of those who have died).

However, making that argument is of course very different from an argument of death inflation or faking numbers.
Click to expand...

Well I agree with this. Though I do still believe some deaths are being counted as Covid that shouldnt be. But that is a different argument.

There is a stat, I want to say Years Lived Lost, that isnt quite the term. I think it is something else similar.

It would be an interesting term to look at with this illness.
 
#54,097
#54,097
TennTradition said:
I think it makes sense. When you consider the exponential growth of viruses early in their spread and the effect of population density, every week makes a huge difference. So if you think about the time it takes to get from 4% to 16% - that's the same as the time to get from 1% to 4% (if you aren't mitigating the spread and there is no push back on rate of infection growth from herd immunity yet - which I don't think there would be yet at these percentages). So let's just assume the real numbers doubled once every week. We noticed the spread because the cities were ahead of the other areas due to their population density and some quirks such as outbreak clusters. But everyone shut down on a similar timetable. The result was very different infected (and now immunized) populations based on how far they were down the epidemic curve by the time we realized it was getting out of control. It takes around 10 days to wind up in the hospital, so you could move from 4% of population with it to over 10% before you even see the people show up at the hospital that were infected when rates were still down around 4%. It blows up in a hurry once you get to decent percentages. That's why you were hearing "we have a few weeks to act". Those weeks really start adding up. If we had shut down just a few weeks earlier in NY, we'd probably be looking at less than 5,000 dead rather than 25,000.
Click to expand...
I get the offset. Personally I will be watching GAs trend closely the end of this week and the start of the next. That will be 14 days from the reopening.
 
#54,100
#54,100
allvol123 said:
Well I agree with this. Though I do still believe some deaths are being counted as Covid that shouldnt be.

There is a stat, I want to say Years Lived Lost, that isnt quite the term. I think it is something else similar.

It would be an interesting term to look at with this illness.
Click to expand...

I agree some are being counted that shouldn't be.

The distinction is whether or not it matters.

Through my analysis, I've determined (to satisfy myself at least) that there won't be enough of them to warp the data and that the speed is more valuable than a precise count as long as the count you get is still meaningful.

But, I'm also watching. If the rise in COVID deaths starts to test the rise in excess deaths such that we actually see fewer "other" deaths, then I'm going to start being concerned we are warping the data.
 
  • Like
Reactions: allvol123
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top