with hurricane seasoning shaping up to be a little more active than usual, what are the chances this compounds the effects of COVID? I heard than India is having to move over 2 million people into shelters because of a typhoon. I guess that's better than being without a roof over your head, but can they test that many people? What if florida gets decimated by another hurricane and it wipes our infrastructure we're relying on just to keep this train on the tracks? Ventilators need power.
We are preparing for 6-12 disasters based on 3-4 hurricanes making landfall. It's a fucking nightmare. We are having to figure out literally everything from the ground up: how to do search and rescue, all the way up to how do we handle inspections and how much of a recovery operation can we effectively do at a distance. There's a very real and vivid concern that we are going to hit both peak COVID-19 at the same time as peak hurricane season. Also....we figured 100k confirmed dead by D-Day, seems we will get there by Memorial Day.
I'm just picturing like instead of Sharknado, it's a COVID-cane, with it spreading covid from densely populated areas like Miami to small towns and just fucks everything in between. Rampant power outages that follow this shit is gonna create hell for citizens and rescuers alike. Like do you rapid test someone for COVID before you airlift them off the top of their flooded house? "Hang on a sec, I know the water is a few inches from this roof we're standing on and the chopper is hovering overhead, but I gotta shove this q-tip up your nose."
If cases don't start rising because of all the reopening going on I will be stunned. The US is currently run by idiots for idiots.
Someone answer this for me, please- Cars kill more people every year than Corona by far. We don’t shutdown personal transportation because it’s just as unsustainable as shutting down the economy for an indeterminate amount of time. So why don’t we close the roads?
Corona has killed 92000 people since March 1. All accidental deaths in a full year are around 160,000. Thats cars, medical errors, everything. So....yes, that statement is full of shit...I said this a few pages back. This is as dangerous as cancer....like ALL cancers combined. And its contagious. Yes, shutting down is a fair response to a disease as fatal as heart attacks and cancer that is stupidly contagious while we figure out how to open back up safely.
There’s usually around fifty thousand automobile deaths a year, give or take. That will forever be considered collateral damage, when stacked against the alternative of getting around on the back of an animal.
yeah I don't see people NOT doing the "lockdown wasn't worth it, media hyped it all up" thing. Doesn't matter how many people die. Until someone they know and love dies from it, it won't seem worth the inconveniences they had to temporarily deal with. sadly, even though it continues to get worse, people's perception is that it seems to be getting better, and they get more brazen and careless. Snowball effect.
That's roughly where it peaked in the early 70's, but a lot of tech has been put into safety features since then, so even with more drivers we only average ~35,000 a year these days.
What does this even mean? There is no natural immunity for this, it's novel. It's not getting worse, it's doing exactly what it was always predicted to do, it was always a matter of timing. The whole flatten the curve schtick was spacing out deaths to avoid overwhelming the medical system, not stopping them. The data has already pointed to the fact that the hospitalization rate was overcooked as well. On second thought....That's not fair, in terms of predictions, in the beginning there was talk of every American being infected by the fall and death North of 2 million. So it's not fair to say it is doing what was predicted.
That was assuming no mitigations though. It's still killed just under 95,000 people in the US alone, and it won't stop with another 1.1m active cases, and 17k in critical condition.
You have to admire their commitment I guess. https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1263061764884893696
Remember how everyone was pointing to Sweden and their decision to NOT lock people down? Well, whaddayaknow... it's not working out all that well for them. Go figure! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ry-highest-coronavirus-death-rate-per-capita/
Article is partially paywalled so I don't know if they get into it, but I saw elsewhere that Sweden's immunity numbers aren't anywhere near what they were hoping for either. Only something like 7% of Stockholm has antibodies.