SomeguyfromTakomaPark
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This is why not making liability protection for companies a number 1 priority is a good idea. If you remove the liability of having safe work environments employers will have no motivation to deal with situations like this.
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I do agree schools will probably make some changes and unions will probably push for protections. I’m guessing you’re against that?
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Why would nothing have changed? I can think of a lot of reasons why the risk could be lower in August. Continued impact of social distancing, possible effects of warmers temperatures, more widespread testing and contact tracing.
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It’s also possible the strain on NY’s healthcare system explains some of the difference as compared to CA. Since NY’s hospitals we near or over capacity it’s possible the care, on average, wasn’t as good.
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Correct. Hey we actually agree on something!
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Those are case fatality rates with the Spanish flu, so if you wanna compare that you need to compare it to case fatality rates of covid, which are also quite high. I’m not sure how instructive the comparison is though because of how much medical care has changed over the last 100 years. ETA: current case fatality for covid is 5.7%
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Only 14% percent positive in Maryland, good sign, also the hospitalizations are down again!
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Those are deaths...
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This graph illustrates our problem very clearly. Unless you’re China (data caveat) you don’t come off the plateau very quickly.
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I don’t really have a dog in this fight tbh. If we open up soon, I’m game for that. If we stay closed for a while longer to be cautious, fine by me.
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Hahahaha you still waiting for the Larry hogan covid swat team to carry you off in the middle of the night?
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It’s hard to even follow what his argument is anymore. It’s basically an amalgamation of all the worst takes tied up in one bundle.
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Hahaha I really actually do think this is funny. I hope you keep worrying about this a lot cause it’s great from an entertainment standpoint.
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It’s cute. Go ahead and keep worrying that Larry Hogan’s secret old bay gestapo is gonna pull you from your home and send you to a fever center. Hahaha I crack up just thinking about it.
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Hahah I love that you think the governors (!!) are going to parlay a public health emergency into an excuse to play authoritarian. Larry Hogan is gonna start locking us up for no reason lol.
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It is known that the virus spreads through close contact. I saw dozens of protestors in close proximity in the Michigan statehouse screaming with no masks on. If you know of some basic science that suggests that this wouldn’t spread the disease you should share it. But you don’t because that science doesn’t exist, you’re just spinning everything to fit your agenda.
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It’s actually an interesting question. We don’t value human life infinitely. One example I came across was that if we valued human life infinitely the speed limit would be 10 mph everywhere because that would eliminate 30-40k traffic accident deaths per year. But we don’t. The price of those lives is the convenience and economic benefit of driving fast. There are more examples like this of course.
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I don’t buy this. Your whole argument is framed incorrectly. You’re comparing the current economy to the pre pandemic economy. The pre pandemic economy would’ve been gone by now with or without policy decisions like stay at home orders. The idea that the economy would be humming along and all those under 40 year olds would be doing great without stay at home orders is pure unadulterated fantasy of the highest order.
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You’re right it does seem like you are pretty confused about all this.
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I agree with this. It’s hard to imagine that beaches kept at a reasonable capacity would be any worse than the hiking trails, bike trails, etc, which all have been packed lately.
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Well, if the outbreak was increasing it would mean that down the road the hospitalizations would go up. Of course it’s debatable as to whether or not we are testing enough to know which way the outbreak is going. In the future when we theoretically get this under control and have constant widespread testing the positive case numbers will be very important.
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They are also testing everyone that needs to be admitted to a hospital for any reason as well. I know because I have a family member getting surgery today and she had to be tested so they could put her in the non covid part of the hospital.
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Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how much our mitigation is working and how many people we test daily.
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If the testing is constant yes you would see the % increase. My only point was that the testing wasn’t constant, we got 6,600 results back which presumably means we tested a lot more people somewhat recently. The % of positives was still over 25%.
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% positive shouldn’t rise!!!! # of positives should rise!!!
