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21 minutes ago, DCTeacherman said:

I think they’re adding probable deaths from NYC that occurred over a long period of time.  Worldometer added them a few days ago. 

Yes and added them today. Over 1k deaths.

7700 new total cases which is an increase.

U.S has 30k cases today

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Interesting read about the Covid outbreak at the Smithfield plant in South Dakota: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877

Similar issues (hopefully not as grave) here on Delmarva with poultry processing, Allen-Harim is having growers "depopulate" 2 million birds due to workers out sick at their processing facilities.

https://www.wmdt.com/2020/04/nearly-two-million-delmarva-chickens-being-killed-not-processed-amidst-covid-19-staffing-shortage/

I imagine this is occurring through out rural areas and will be how outbreaks spread rapidly in low pop. states.

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3 hours ago, C.A.P.E. said:

For those who have not figured this out yet, Phin is a classic contrarian troll. He is also a pompous, condescending ass. Yet he is easily triggered, and will take his ball and go home after quickly tiring of playing nice in the sandbox with the "shitheads", only to return again. An interesting pathological study.

Wow, triggered much?

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11 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Statistics is a tough subject, I get it. 

The thing is we’ve had almost 40,000 deaths, most of which occurred in the last 2-3 weeks.  There’s no statistic you can concoct whether it be death rates, hospitalizations, comparisons to other diseases, etc, that can make that go away. It’s a tremendous amount of death and suffering people have had to absorb in a short period of time.  As much as you’d like to believe “nyc is fine” as you said last night, it isn’t. End of story. 

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1 minute ago, DCTeacherman said:

The thing is we’ve had almost 40,000 deaths, most of which occurred in the last 2-3 weeks.  There’s no statistic you can concoct whether it be death rates, hospitalizations, comparisons to other diseases, etc, that can make that go away. It’s a tremendous amount of death and suffering people have had to absorb in a short period of time.  As much as you’d like to believe “nyc is fine” as you said last night, it isn’t. End of story. 

It feels super raw right now, but in a few years we will look back on smoothed out annual and decadal death statistics and this will not even have budged the charts. Public health people and politicians need to think much bigger picture than death rates. Also, many of the deaths are in nursing homes. You can self isolate in your basement in a hazmat suit for years and not prevent that. This virus is going to kill people no matter what. Is 20k deaths way better than 30k somehow?

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