And Texas Caves In

[DallasSteve]

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 was once a great state.

[dodge_guy]

pitch wrote:
You guys are freakin amazing. Two months ago you were all economists or constitutional scholars. 45 short days later you all are infectious disease experts. How do ya do it?

Just goes to show how easy it is to become one! No college needed!!!!

[wnjj]

jdc1 wrote:
Here's the math for the non-believers:
1 person infects three people while camping. Those three people each infect three others. Those 9 people each infect three others. Those 27 people each infect three others. Those 81 people each infect three others. Those 243 people each infect three others. Those 729 people each infect three others. Those 2,187 people each infect three others. That's 6,561 people infected in 8 days because one guy doesn't want to follow simple rules.

Oh. Out of the 6,562 infected people.....66 (1%) end up dying because the rules didn't suit him. Are you going to be one of the 66 dead people?

That makes a nice theoretical story but fortunately that rate of spread and death rate don't match reality. If you really believe it does, no wonder some of you are so outraged at those who would question authority.

[ford_truck_guy]

fj12ryder wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:
From Johns Hopkins -
NY:
city - 76,876 cases - 4009 deaths
Long Island - 16,610 cases - 500 deaths
West Chester - 14,804 cases- 283 deaths

Totals for NY - 93,760 confirmed - 4792 deaths... 5%


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Honestly you need to quit posting percentages as they are meaningless unless you can quote the number of infected. Actual numbers of infected, not the numbers tested.

honestly, click on the attachment, I won't do your work for you. that click has everything you need... And if you don't like my posts, don't read them

[jdc1]

Here's the math for the non-believers:
1 person infects three people while camping. Those three people each infect three others. Those 9 people each infect three others. Those 27 people each infect three others. Those 81 people each infect three others. Those 243 people each infect three others. Those 729 people each infect three others. Those 2,187 people each infect three others. That's 6,561 people infected in 8 days because one guy doesn't want to follow simple rules.

Oh. Out of the 6,562 infected people.....66 (1%) end up dying because the rules didn't suit him. Are you going to be one of the 66 dead people?

[wnjj]

Tvov wrote:

wnjj wrote:
....

Here's some interesting reading. There's even a section on NY:

https://www.professorhinkley.com/blog/why-is-oregon-still-on-lock-down

Careful! As I said earlier, an "internet pandemic"... I looked up "Professor Hinkley", didn't see anyone connected to Oregon health system, but... did find this thread on Reddit (yes, more internet stuff), talking about a link with "wildly inaccurate information":

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/fw3ews/a_blog_post_with_some_wildly_incorrect/

From that link:

"I'm a doctor and saw a very concerning blog post making the rounds on social media. I won't be posting a link to the original blog post (it was removed from Medium because it had false information but has been re-posted elsewhere on the internet), but if you really want to find it, look for a post by "Professor Hinkley". As far as I can tell, "Professor Hinkley" has no background in medicine, epidemiology, or public health."

So, I have no idea what is true....

Just to be perfectly clear. I don't have to trust one single thing he personally wrote. He did a nice job of collating information from reputable sources and included links to all. The "internet" can be used appropriately for information.

Professor Hinkley is from Gilligan's Island, so is nothing more than a screen name. He could be a nut-job or a legit professor or medical professional who wouldn't dare go public if his opinion didn't match group-think.

It's just one set of data among many others.

[fj12ryder]

ford truck guy wrote:
From Johns Hopkins -
NY:
city - 76,876 cases - 4009 deaths
Long Island - 16,610 cases - 500 deaths
West Chester - 14,804 cases- 283 deaths

Totals for NY - 93,760 confirmed - 4792 deaths... 5%


click

Honestly you need to quit posting percentages as they are meaningless unless you can quote the number of infected. Actual numbers of infected, not the numbers tested.

[Tvov]

wnjj wrote:
....

Here's some interesting reading. There's even a section on NY:

https://www.professorhinkley.com/blog/why-is-oregon-still-on-lock-down

Careful! As I said earlier, an "internet pandemic"... I looked up "Professor Hinkley", didn't see anyone connected to Oregon health system, but... did find this thread on Reddit (yes, more internet stuff), talking about a link with "wildly inaccurate information":

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/fw3ews/a_blog_post_with_some_wildly_incorrect/

From that link:

"I'm a doctor and saw a very concerning blog post making the rounds on social media. I won't be posting a link to the original blog post (it was removed from Medium because it had false information but has been re-posted elsewhere on the internet), but if you really want to find it, look for a post by "Professor Hinkley". As far as I can tell, "Professor Hinkley" has no background in medicine, epidemiology, or public health."

So, I have no idea what is true....

[pitch]

pasusan wrote:

Cloud Dancer wrote:
It occurred to me that whenever ignorance speaks it sounds good to a whole lot of people.

Oh man - are you right. We see it every day.

Yep as of late every evening on Fox and the three networks.

[pasusan]

Cloud Dancer wrote:
It occurred to me that whenever ignorance speaks it sounds good to a whole lot of people.

Oh man - are you right. We see it every day.

[Crowe]

CBS just showed a guy who died, not from the virus, but because of his heart, after his elective heart surgery was canceled. If we hadn't reacted so strongly to the virus, he might be alive now instead.

People forget about 'the law of unintended consequences.'

Take anything CBS reports on this with a grain of salt. They just ran a story a few days ago about some nurse that supposedly quit due to hospital conditions related to COVID-19. CBS never vetted the story and it turns out she hasn't worked there in a year because she is bi-polar and has other psychological issues. That said if waiting for the surgery truly caused his death then it wasn't elective surgery, it was necessary. He MIGHT still be alive but there's no way to know-it's possible he could have died from the virus itself had he contracted it or spread it to someone who may have died. There are always unintended consequences but I question the decision to postpone if he died from the issue.

[Cloud_Dancer]

It occurred to me that whenever ignorance speaks it sounds good to a whole lot of people.

[TomG2]

way2roll wrote:
Well the good news is, a bunch of RV'ers are on the case. 🙂

People who cannot even agree on how toilet paper should hang are now opining on national health care. 🙂

With a couple of trillion $2,000,000,000,000 in borrowed money to pump up the stock market, all will be well for the investors.

[ford_truck_guy]

From Johns Hopkins -
NY:
city - 76,876 CONFIRMED POSITIVE cases - 4009 deaths
Long Island - 16,610 CONFIRMED POSITIVE cases- 500 deaths
West Chester - 14,804 CONFIRMED POSITIVE cases- 283 deaths

Totals for NY - 93,760 confirmed - 4792 deaths... 5%


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[Charlie_D_]

removed

[way2roll]

Well the good news is, a bunch of RV'ers are on the case. 🙂