And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
Forum Discussion
wnjj wrote:At this point how do you know the shape of the curve?time2roll wrote:
Close to 2,000 died in the US each of the last two days. The trend seems to still be increasing and may drop soon but currently we are at a rate of 700,000 per year dying of CV-19.
Honest question for you: Are you trying to make an absurdity on purpose or do you not understand how “the curve” of a pandemic works? The area under the curve isn’t the peak height multiplied by the entire X axis. The instantaneous rate is meaningless as a per year number. Even the experts’ model is only predicting about 60k total by August, where it’s effectively over with.
I hope people don’t really think this is that bad.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
Yes all the data is junk until we have a year behind us. This is just to contrast the comparisons where we have years and years of data in other areas. For instance it is impossible to compare to other flu deaths. If you think the last two days are the peak that is great. I don't know that we will be double in 30 days or half. I don't know.
