https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-guidance-healthy-people-wear-masks-around-coronavirus-patients I shouldn't be surprised that idiots share this without even reading the article, just the headline.
At first I was shocked I hadn’t seen any of the deep state libertarian truthers call the Minny riots a false flag to distract from the coronavirus but then I remembered they think the virus is a hoax Bill Gates is using to get rich from a vaccine
I love the “65 year old man worth $110 billion who was pledged to give it all away comes up with scheme to make more money” theory.
if I'm understanding this correctly, less people overall are dying than in a normal year. Primarily due to traffic deaths being so significantly reduced because of shut down orders
This is from the CDC’s website and shows all cause mortality excess deaths. Doesn’t seem to agree with the text of the tweet.
It’s such a bad message. WHO makes a distinction between face coverings and “medical masks”. They’re talking about medical masks. But reds gonna red and use this as a new talking point.
I guess the CDC had to prevent a rush on masks at the beginning, and there still aren't enough masks available. It's ridiculous and contrary to public health to advise anything but universal use now (w exceptions for things like being outside).
It's not that I don't want it to be true, that this pandemic is over, it's just that anyone who labels themselves as an Ethical Skeptic™ and plays to Enlightened Centrists© and talks Out of Their Ass® all day just isn't a trustworthy source.
It was sent to me by someone I know and I was curious if anyone else had insight into the actual content of the message. I had not seen anything consistent with what was posted, but either the data is accurate or it isn't. I could care less about the source of the data.
I don’t disagree with any of these points. The COVID outbreak was real, had a massive wave of mass casualties and social distancing and closures has slowed cases and deaths, and reopening slowly and judiciously is appropriate on a region by region basis. Numbers prove that nationally the trend is better. important to remember that this is because of the unprecedented restrictions and not because it was “just the flu”. I don’t think we’ll see any meteoric rise in the summer, but skeptical on how the fall second surge will go. people underestimate social distancing and lower population density as lowering the R0 value when people aren’t airline traveling and attending mass gatherings/indoor events. That all changes when we go “back to normal”, so I guess we’ll see how the fall shakes out. summer should be Reasonably fine, although regional/local outbreaks will absolutely still occur
does the someone you know know who that person on Twitter actually is? I mean you can take the time to fact check anonymous accounts, but that sort of work can be endless
i also think we won't see people going back to normal. airline travel, especially for big companies on the east coasts, will continue to be blocked for the foreseeable future.
Dozens of companies that received multimillion-dollar coronavirus bailouts paid no taxes last year businessinsider.com/exclus... That makes them smart - POTUS
The CDC publishes excess death statistics. You can check them yourself whenever you want. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
I haven't asked. The friend of mine has shared this account a couple times and I have mostly ignored it. I was curious if we had managed to reduce fatalities to a number below the CDC average YTD for the past few years as that would be a monumentous achomplishment, and honestly would be something to show that the "lockdowns" were indeed productive beyond the Covid situation. Please understand I do not read this message to show that we should open up, but the opposite, that the shutdowns were effective to the point of driving fatalities lower than most years.
it may be correct once you subtract out auto fatalities or something. I can't quite follow the methodology used.
Auto fatality rates appear to be steady or even worse year over year; even though there is a lot less traffic and total accidents are down, enough people are driving faster/dumber such that serious crashes haven’t gotten any better.
I think the majority of worldwide population will also be hesitant/nervous about vacationing/travel as well. Not everyone, but enough to slow spread
That headline is pretty stupid. A company that was super profitable and paying taxes isn’t going to need government assistance. They’ve actually done a pretty good job of keeping the second round of money limited to actual small businesses.
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Quite the pickle seeing how much Trump ripped the WHO, said they worked for China and "they called every shot wrong". Now the sheep are gonna cite to the WHO to avoid the injustice of a mask, smdh.
I started driving around a few times per week because my first few trips out of the house after not leaving for 3-4 weeks were shaky at best. I definitely remember telling my wife “That was actually scary. I think I forgot how to drive.”
It's really wild what an interesting adventure just leaving your house is when you haven't gone anywhere for the better part of a week.
FYI...Forsyth county, NC (Winston-Salem) with it's highest number of new cases with 97 yesterday. Rural areas around are also starting to see an increase as well.
This started out in metro areas and a few other random locations by chance. Feels like we're moving into the phase where rural more covid truther friendly areas will see an uptiick..
what's gonna be weird for me is the next time I ride in the front passenger seat of a car. I guarantee you I'll get this weird sensation in my stomach within 30 seconds of the vehicle moving like I'm on a rollercoaster or something because it will have been sooooo long since I did so
Getting antibody tested as part of a study of regional healthcare workers in 2 hours, Fingers crossed I have immunity super powers. Should know in 24 hrs (not getting my hopes up).
The downside of finding out you have antibodies is the dread of wondering how many people to whom you may have passed the virus.
pulmanologist here treating covid patients for last 3 months tested negative for antibodies this week. good luck.
It's happening where I live...is it a uncontrolled wildfire NYC style, no (variables aren't the same), but the numbers are increasing nonetheless.
Yeah I’ll be negative. I had one of those nasty viral infections at the end of February that everyone claims means they had Covid before it was even here, but I’m sure I’ll be negative. I’ve had very few direct face to face Covid interactions.
Did you move most of your stuff to video conference or were you able to maintain appointments pretty regularly? I’m not even totally sure what our region did in that regard. I’m also assuming that even if you could maintain in-person, that many appointments were cancelled.