Jump to content

SomeguyfromTakomaPark

Members
  • Posts

    5,749
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by SomeguyfromTakomaPark

  1. Makes sense, I’d be interested to know how old the average adult made it to.
  2. Yeah I know humanity has registered pandemics, but this one is largely killing people who would’ve otherwise been dead in the year 1,000. How long did people live back then, 50?
  3. Yeah I’m really wondering about the fall now. I teach in a school with 1,500 ish students total plus well over 100 staff. I wonder if we’ll be going to back to business as usual in the fall.
  4. Yeah I have a 1 and 4 year old and no playgrounds, friends, cousins, etc really limits what we can do on a day to day basis.
  5. A very interesting question indeed. Had this spread in the year 1,000 would they even have noticed? I never thought about that. My guess is they wouldn’t have noticed given the multitude of other, worse health issues they had to deal with.
  6. This makes sense to me. I saw one estimate from Bowser’s office that up to 20% of currently closed businesses in DC may not return, that’s a huge hit not just to those businesses but to the city’s revenue stream and everything that depends on it.
  7. There is an interesting debate to be had about putting dollar values on human life. When cuomo says “you can’t put a value on life”, that’s just not true. We do all the time. One argument I’ve heard along these lines is if we value human life infinitely why isn’t the speed limit 15 mph on all roads? You could pretty much eliminate all traffic fatalities (30-40k per year). The price of those 30-40k lives is the convenience and economic benefits of driving fast.
  8. hahaha I tried to read it and get some main ideas but it was too much.
  9. Makes sense, but seeing as how this specific pathogen kills mostly old people those genes are already passed on.
  10. Initially I was considering responding to this, but I don’t have it in me lol. There’s too much wrong and it’s too incoherent to dissect.
  11. These are not good analogies imo. Why would controlling this pandemic make the next one worse? There will be new vulnerable populations by the time the next one comes. It’s not like a forest fire that wipes out all the fuel and can’t come back right away.
  12. Nice pics. Denis Potvin is the GOAT though.
  13. Also places that lost staff maybe can't just staff back up at the drop of a hat.
  14. Agree, someone has to be first and as long as they are doing it in a measured approach it will be a good test.
  15. Yeah it’s just a guess I see a lot of experts putting out there 10:1 undetected to detected.
  16. The crazy part is in reality we probably have something like 10 million cases total.
  17. It looks like they changed to currently hospitalized also which is a more relevant count.
  18. Man where was this BN temps and AN precip pattern 3 months ago???
  19. Yeah wow, that is the exact opposite of what every public health expert in the world thinks.
  20. It’s interesting that PG county has a lot more cases than montco but montco has more deaths. I wonder if that’s cause the drive thru testing at fedex was the first of those and the case counts are actually similar.
  21. Couple more days of this and we can confidently say we’re on the downswing.
  22. Maryland only 900 new cases on over 8,000 tests. Good news.
  23. Last Sunday was 1570 deaths and we’re well below that, hopefully tomorrow will be less than last Monday and so on, and then we can say for sure we’re on the downswing.
×
×
  • Create New...