Dr. Fauci did not recommend no trick or treating. He did state that it would be safer if the kids wore a mask and hand-sanitized between candy grabs. More likely individual families made their own risk assessments, which is as it should be.
Half of all scientists are below average
You can't get on TV everyday as Dr. Glum and Debbie Downer telling everyone the world is ending and not have a negative effect on everything. Especially when the media laps it up like a starving dog, 24/7.
) that more than 40% of total covid deaths come from nursing homes. Can this be true? And if so, how hard would it be to lock down nursing homes? Would this thread even exist if only 138,000 deaths had occurred at this point in the year, with 99% survival (if that's accurate?)?I think the next few weeks will be telling as to whether the warnings of a grim winter that Drs. Fauci and Birx (and all other experienced epidemiologists I have seen) are currently giving are valid. If we continue to mimic Europe lagged by a few weeks we may see cases well over 100K per day and deaths approaching if not exceeding the levels of the spring. Certainly the models the White House relies on are predicting that as well. Let's hope all are wrong.
It would be interesting to see the media, medical professionals and everyone else get equally as passionate about some of the more statistically significant ways we meet our demise here in the USA. Data seems to suggest that our penchant for unhealthy food and drink kills a whole lot more Americans than Covid. Is it just the way we spread it that makes it worthy of our attention and public policy?
The WHO reports 2.8Million people die from obesity (and related complications?) each year, globally. We're not even half way there yet with Covid-19 with only 2 months to go. As someone who tries to avoid media as much as humanly possible these days I do struggle to rationalize our response to Covid against the fact that Burger King and McDonalds are for more deadly to me and my kids.
And an honest question - what does it mean that "things are getting crazy"? What really drove me away from the media earlier this year was a story about Detroit "running out of places" to put dead bodies. As a country we deal with 57,000 new dead bodies every single week. That we could sensationalize 10 +/- bodies in Detroit in temporary storage of some kind...that seemed like a new low for reporting integrity, at least to me.
I read somewhere (so it must be true
Look at it this way. In the spring, we have zero idea how many cases there where. We could be doing way better for all we know. But cases are a crappy indicator -- they give you hints, but nothing firm with this virus because too much depends on who has the case. Deaths is a lagging number, but does in some sense tell you what is going on. In the spring, the virus was concentrated in the northeast -- mainly NY, NJ, etc. We where averaging just over 2000 deaths/day for a couple of week. Now this thing has spread thru the county. Cases may be better or worse than the spring, we really have zero idea. But deaths are in the 800s/day. But that is throughout the entire country. So are we really doing worse? Are we really facing Armageddon? Does everything have to be doom and gloom?
I look at it like this: The doctors some love to hate, unlike all the politicians involved, have nothing to lose or gain in this except for their reputations and they care about that. They may also be motivated by genuine desires to protect the health of patients, as doctors should. So, I take the now almost universal warnings of danger ahead from experienced professionals more seriously than the statements of anyone holding or seeking political office.
5.5 acres between our house and the neighbors, we never get a one here
They never did any early treatment studies on Hydroxy or anything else like vitamin D, zinc, etc. Everything was after hospitalization. Admittedly, it would be hard to do "prove" it works since 90 some pct. of people don't go to the hospital. You would need a really large sample size, I think.
Early treatments have certainly been studied and numerous more are in progress. Here's one of many done on Hydroxychloroquine:
Ooh, an exclamation point, some douche nozzlery for sure. Where is the 'this guy is crazier than two damns and a bygod' emoji.
Seriously?
You need to get out some paper and pencil....
Both you guys need to lighten up... and you have no excuse fan you should be in Florida
