Covfefe-19 The 11th Part: Suck It Up And Die Grandpa I Need A Manicure!!

[Handyman]

I don't think there is anything alleged about the death rate dropping. It is not sneaking up on anyone with a functioning brain anymore. March and April we were woefully unprepared. Now those most vulnerable are doing a better job protecting themselves, and long term care facilities are more prepared/being more careful. It is no less deadly, just affecting a less fragile part of the population right now. Jeb likes to throw out the avg age of those that have died, I'd love to see that by week. Are the lower deaths we're seeing now also lower ages? If anything that would make it worse, not better. Throwing allegedly in there just takes away from an otherwise good point. Not that anyone here doesn't either already agree or will never agree anyway....

We will know more in a couple of weeks. Plus I wont speak in absolutes when we know that Flo(R)ida at least (along with Texas and Arizona if the rumors are true) are flat out lying about how many are dying.

That said the death tolls are smaller even with that but that was why I used "allegedly" because we wont know for a while how bad they fudged the numbers.

[Slap Shot]

That ICU capacity might always normally run at near capacity ignores the fact ICUs are currently, "under-utilized" from situations that would normally occur were society 100% open. Open everything up and boom...

[Jeb2020]

At least we can rest assured that the “science” behind the methods of case counting, death statistics, ect is “settled” by the bureaucrats run amok.

https://mobile.twitter.com/phiroc/st...99525524512768

Florida

https://mobile.twitter.com/tlowdon/s...05448815521793

[Kepler]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1280524823576395779

"Breaking News: President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has tested positive for the coronavirus after months of dismissing its seriousness. More than 65,000 Brazilians have died."

First evidence of a benevolent supreme being since 1969.

[Handyman]

One student and one employee at my grad school Bemidji State tested positive...

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Texas scrambling to kiss the ring hours after trump says schools must open.

schools in Texas must offer in person classes or they get no funding. Parents can choose remote learning option but schools have to provide in person learning

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...-receive-state

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Trump loves veterans

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulRieck...36804492902402

[burd]

Texas scrambling to kiss the ring hours after trump says schools must open.

schools in Texas must offer in person classes or they get no funding. Parents can choose remote learning option but schools have to provide in person learning

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...-receive-state

There will be no science classes, of course.

[Handyman]

Or Math and Social Studies...

[RaceBoarder]

When it comes to TX, I think the most telling move will be what's done with Football... Not joking... If they really don't give a rat's ***, Kickoff will be 7:30pm on Friday with any and all welcome...

[LynahFan]

I wonder if a single person who goes around shouting, “but ICUs always run at 90% capacity!” have ever stopped to consider that there’s a REASON that ICUs are generally full. Namely, that a lot of people have non-Corona illnesses. Did all those other needs just magically go away so that we can now devote all of the capacity to Coronavirus patients? Or are people who could normally have benefited from an ICU bed now being kept in lower care level beds to keep some capacity open? Utilization can’t, by definition, go higher than 100%, so when thousands are dying in the streets and hallways, I imagine them still going around shouting, “but ICU utilization is only up by 10% above the typical 90%!”

[rufus]

Either today's numbers are including a lot of cases that didn't get counted over the July 4th weekend, or whalers' favorite 'gotcha' claim that deaths are falling is about to go the way of all whalers' covfefe pronouncements.

[Jeb2020]

I wonder if a single person who goes around shouting, “but ICUs always run at 90% capacity!” have ever stopped to consider that there’s a REASON that ICUs are generally full. Namely, that a lot of people have non-Corona illnesses. Did all those other needs just magically go away so that we can now devote all of the capacity to Coronavirus patients? Or are people who could normally have benefited from an ICU bed now being kept in lower care level beds to keep some capacity open? Utilization can’t, by definition, go higher than 100%, so when thousands are dying in the streets and hallways, I imagine them still going around shouting, “but ICU utilization is only up by 10% above the typical 90%!”

They operate near capacity because it is expensive to have ICU beds just sitting around. Read into it, all the info it is right there. You can even find plenty of it prior to Covid.

and yes they actually can go over 100%. It comes down to how much more capacity they can add which they are accustomed to doing. Again it’s all there look into it.

[Handyman]

I am guessing it is a bit of both. The 50k cases we are adding a day though and the hospitals filling up is not a good sign though.

[Handyman]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1280676500656852993

"Navarro urges FDA to reconsider hydroxychloroquine as treatment for coronavirus"