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...
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fj12ryder wrote:rltorpey wrote:One of the interesting stats is "Deaths/million people. The US is considerably lower than many other countries in that respect.
Those low testing numbers you refer to translate into almost 3 million tests which is more than any other nation in the world and more than the next two nations combined. You won't find any cases if you don't test for them.
Covid 19 Statistics
One thing in the article I didn't really understand is the assertion that testing lessens the number of infected. Not quite sure how that would work.
Once their able to rule out who has it and who doesn't, they can let the ones who had it(and are immune and can't transmit it) go back to work with the general public, in that they are not a danger to spread it. Those that haven't had it might be kept from work, but would be the first to get the vaccine when it becomes available. Testing is important for many reasons,a major one being not to waste vaccine on the already immune. The practical point of the shutdown is it did prevent millions from getting it. It bought the hospitals and government some time to ramp things up, get them a bit of a start on the vaccine, but this shutdown cannot go on too much longer. The virus is here and it always will be. We can't keep the country shut down till there's a vaccine. My own feeling is the end of May at the longest. For you guys that visit the Covid stat sites, this one is a good worlwide site.
