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Mr Michael Levitt
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Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020
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^TeamAfraidofHealthyPeople
Mr Michael Levitt
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Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
I think the worst thing I hear from people, especially Conservative/Republican/Trumper coworkers, is that we should "just get it over with and get everybody sick, it has a 99% survival rate." They have zero concept of basic math and the sheer scale of 1% of the population. So I decided to do the math.
Total US Population (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/t...ate-total.html) 2019 Estimate: 328,239,523
1% of US Population = 3,282,395 (.23)
Now I could say "And that's more than the population of Chicago, Houston, or Phoenix" or even say "that's about the population of Utah" but that's no fun. You know what is fun? Wiping five states off the map. Population of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined is 3,581,014. That's the four least populous states wiped out and South Dakota left going "there's so much more room for activities..."
And mind you, that isn't even counting the likely huge number of people that would develop complications and die later. I just don''t think people can understand 3.2 million gone in a matter of weeks and affect that would have.
Total US Population (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/t...ate-total.html) 2019 Estimate: 328,239,523
1% of US Population = 3,282,395 (.23)
Now I could say "And that's more than the population of Chicago, Houston, or Phoenix" or even say "that's about the population of Utah" but that's no fun. You know what is fun? Wiping five states off the map. Population of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined is 3,581,014. That's the four least populous states wiped out and South Dakota left going "there's so much more room for activities..."
And mind you, that isn't even counting the likely huge number of people that would develop complications and die later. I just don''t think people can understand 3.2 million gone in a matter of weeks and affect that would have.
RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
That means nothing to the people that believe what you are stated.... They have no scale outside of their own lives.
These are the same people that live in the same po-dunk town their entire lives and spend maybe 2-3 months their entire lives outside of that 50-mile radius. "Perception is reality" is a major problem in this country.
I'm sure in Alaska, "rural" people think Anchorage itself is corrupt in the same manner that someone from downstate IL bemoans "S**t-cago".... Same deal.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
It ain’t called “Los Anchorage” for nothing. And mind you, these are people that live in Anchorage.
RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
Hrm... Its believed that Alaska is full of California Hippies... Good to know, ha ha!
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Funny thing is, in the actual rural areas of Alaska they’re not letting any outsiders into their villages (expect maybe to drop off supplies). Long memories of the Spanish Flu epidemic wiping out entire villages will do that.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Actually Los Anchorage is a reference to crime and traffic, both of which are really not that bad but white people living in methville must fear something.
Although Subarus are really popular here...
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Country mouse always thinks anywhere with indoor plumbing is a den of iniquity. It's always been the same. Go into urban homes and you see books. Go into rural homes and you see sectional couches with cupholders.
It's exacerbated because for the longest time national politics has been on the rural derps' tip -- IA and NH caucuses, fields of grain waving on ads. This in a country that is 80% urban. Nobody lives in that chocolate box BS myth anymore and even when they did it was it was a just a mentally and morally impoverished sewer of racism and ignorance. The pandering made sense in 1910 when we were 80% farmers. Now all that's out there is meth and ADM. But it's white, so it's useful shorthand for the silent narrative "gee, it would be paradise if we had no coloreds to worry about."
Most of the problems of this country stem from the national myth of Jeffersonian rural virtue. Voltaire was right: "the idiocy of the countryside." Kill the Senate and reduce their influence to their minuscule economic and non-existent cultural contribution.
Real America is cities. It has been since at least 1865, if not 1776.
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MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Those people on 9/12/2001: "I'll happily let TSA fondle me if it means stopping terrorists!"
Same people this week: "Wearing a mask is a violation of my constitutional rights!"
Let alone many other liberties that we now think is ok to give up for our "safety". I'm betting that we are seeing CBP at protest sites because they have very much expanded powers near borders.
I see dumpy is doubling down on his opinion that we should cut testing- as he somehow has concluded that it makes us look bad when we have 50M cases vs. 25M cases.
Seriously, he said that.
He somehow thinks that more testing leads to more infection. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...ting-look-bad/
Other than a serious face palm, I'm not sure how to react to that.
For this country's "leader" to think that, it's no wonder we are where we are. And that we should fully expect a LOT more pneumonia deaths, since more and more won't be tested for COVID.
And the worst sufferers are minorities- particularly Hispanics and African Americans. Both of which don't have a serious input to the government in the states where they have suffered worst.
Seriously, he said that.
He somehow thinks that more testing leads to more infection. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...ting-look-bad/
Other than a serious face palm, I'm not sure how to react to that.
For this country's "leader" to think that, it's no wonder we are where we are. And that we should fully expect a LOT more pneumonia deaths, since more and more won't be tested for COVID.
And the worst sufferers are minorities- particularly Hispanics and African Americans. Both of which don't have a serious input to the government in the states where they have suffered worst.
aparch
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You mean the 100 Mile Border Zone?
It has certainly worked well these past five months, you city fellers packing it in tight and all.
1% of the population is not going to die of Covid in any scenario. Speaking of math...
The death rate is based on those that have had it and those that have passed away.
you don’t take a death rate of 1% and apply it to the entire population. Good Grief. Not to mention there isn’t a chance in hell the death rate is anywhere close to 1%.
And that doesn’t even get into people dying “with Covid” and from it.
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IFR infection fertility rate. This would be the chance of dying if you had Covid.
5-9 years old .0016%
10-19 years old .00032%
20-49 years old .0092%
50-64 years old .14%
65 and older 5.6%
All ages .64%
Then you factor in half of all Covid deaths Have been in LTCF. The average stay of a LTCF patient is a year. So when someone who has been in a LTCF is over say 85 and was already very sick, passes away and is listed as a Covid death, that is disingenuous to say the least. 33% of all deaths have been people 85 or older.
The all age rate is probably around .5% if not lower.
If you wanted to measure anyone in the population dying because of Covid you would probably get laughed at because there zero statistical significance.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23...age-race-14863
5-9 years old .0016%
10-19 years old .00032%
20-49 years old .0092%
50-64 years old .14%
65 and older 5.6%
All ages .64%
Then you factor in half of all Covid deaths Have been in LTCF. The average stay of a LTCF patient is a year. So when someone who has been in a LTCF is over say 85 and was already very sick, passes away and is listed as a Covid death, that is disingenuous to say the least. 33% of all deaths have been people 85 or older.
The all age rate is probably around .5% if not lower.
If you wanted to measure anyone in the population dying because of Covid you would probably get laughed at because there zero statistical significance.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23...age-race-14863
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John Adams and others struggled with Jefferson's idea of natural virtue even then. Adams, at least, also understood that Jefferson would enjoy mythical status in this country.
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