children are not immune to covid.
Yeah that is all types of wrong
Stop equating covid to the flu
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The title in that vid misleads horribly. It was a guideline similar to those on how reopening of the country. It’s in the administrator’s judgement to either comply or refuse their use. That said, this is wrong on a number of levels if that’s the case. This is very similar to the imputation rules that are issued for traffic safety deaths. If there are a number of factors that match to similar events, it’s ruled as a certain type of fatality. I am assuming it is the State DOH since they are responsible for vital records.
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I have an instant pot for that
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My guy, if you’re asymptomatic, people won’t know you had CoVid in the first place. You will not be labeled as a CoVid death.
There aren’t enough tests for asymptomatic people and it doesn’t even make sense to use them to do test random people until you get someone.
Based on symptoms and the severity of the situation. There just are not enough tests for everybody.
No one is telling docs to just tag random heart attacks as CoVid deaths, but there’s a lot of people around the world that are getting tagged with “died by generic respiratory failure” or whatever the english words are for it and they’re CoVid suspects.
you know trumpers trying to find scientific evidence on injesting lysol and being blasted by uv the same way they treat skin cancer. …
Like you know the line of defense. @Nancelius was here posting about how right trump was with hydrochlorquinine…now she just shadow liking ridiculous qanon bs
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No, both the number of cases and the deaths are important because when compared to one another, they determine the mortality rate of the virus. Which is the whole point of the lockdown: to prevent deaths. Let’s say everyone gets access to testing and we test the entire US. Tests come back and we find that 60% of the population are infected. That would be 210 million people. So when you compare that with the number of deaths (68,276) that would be 0.00003 which is several magnitudes less lethal than the flu.
A couple of weeks ago antibodies tests were done on a sample group in new york. What came back was that out of 3000 people 1 out of 5 people had antibodies. Meaning they were asymptomatic or recovered from the virus. When translated to the rest of the new york population that would mean the virus has a death rate of 0.5% which is still higher than the flu but it’s not the bubonic plague.
We have a novel viral infection. Regardless of fatality rate .1% to 100%, people act like it’s ok for people to die until that strikes your front door.
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20% of the population being asymptomatic carriers going around and infecting people is a quick way to turn NYC into Raccoon City. Do you not understand how quickly this virus spreads?
For all these numbers you pull, you don’t seem to understand how they work in real life.
The mortality rate is one thing, the number of people that need to go to the ICU and generally need medical attention is not the same as the mortality rate.
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In my line of work we propose these two questions to people:
What’s an acceptable number of people who die due to car crashes?
What’s an acceptable number of people in your family who die due to car crashes?
Guess which is 0?
Replace car crashes with COVID-19 and I am sure you’ll get the same response.
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i’m sorry you’re mad.
People salty that 2.5 million aren’t dead when there are almost 900k infected
America dumb af
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Did you watch the video of the senator? That’s exactly what he’s describing. Flu symptoms and covid symptoms have some overlap. So if I have the flu, thinking I have covid (not uncommon), go to the hospital and die with no testing available it’s within reason per protocol to mark me as a covid death. And with the coronavirus relief registration act it might behoove me to do so, as my hospital gets a 20% premium. Which it’ll probably need due to lost revenue from lagging hospital visitation since the pandemic hit.
Similar antibody testing in Santa Clara County found that between 2.5% and 4.2% of people in the county may have been exposed, which is 50 to 85 times greater than the number of cases being reported at the time, according to a previous Live Science report. Similarly, tests in Los Angeles found that up to 5.6% of people may have been infected with the coronavirus, according to the county’s Health Department. But experts previously told Live Science that those numbers are likely to be too high, because the antibody tests used in these surveys had a high false-positive rate, making their prevalence estimates likely very uncertain.
This is literally in one of the articles posted here as evidence. That would make at least two sources quoted here that do aren’t fully supporting arguments being used.
So I’m locking this nonsensical horse shit until it can get cleaned up.
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Now your posts originally started somewhere else with the crux of it being that the people protesting to reopen had reasons for it. This has been discussed here already: the Trump administration failed to take all the data from the situation in Wuhan and act accordingly. Everything we experienced here was on a month to two month lag time with the SEA countries and Wuhan.
All the people in the US are acting like this is something new. Wuhan and other Chinese provinces were having protests over the rent for their businesses around late february and mid march. There were already articles on restaurants and other businesses struggling without getting much help etc. The only difference is that the USA was in a position to do something about it and fucking didn’t.
This is intentionally misleading. The virus isn’t spread evenly across the whole country because this is a massive land mass. El Paso isn’t overwhelmed yet but cases are rising, deaths are slowly ticking up too.
Those TikTok videos are dumb as fuck and not helping any. that’s what the story should actually be: These fucking idiots are making people take a serious situation less so.
Now the problem with your line of thinking, or the immense clusterfuck you’ve dropped on this site is that you’ve chastized Maine on their lockdown. The problem is that their lockdown is to prevent the NYC situation. Everybody is reducing exposure precisely for all the reasons.
That Mail Online article on ventilators? Cool. If people aren’t doing the proper treatment in NYC and its leading to increase, why then would you be okay with actions that increase the likelihood of those outcomes in other places?
Taking the uncertainty in treatments and issue surrounding it doesn’t magically mean you reopen everything. The fact that overloaded health systems are creating situations where treatment is bad (which has been what a handful of us have tried ot warn people about here on SRK for a good while) is the reason why China has shut down immensely. But lets talk about some good ol’ chinese bullshit since you accidentally brought it up.
When CoVid blew up in China, China started doing exactly this. They were so overwhelmed by bodies that they couldn’t be fucked to actually figure out just what the shit was going on. So doctors started doing the opposite. Even though CoVid can cause Pneumonia, they just labeled it as Pneumonia to lower the severity of the situation. CoVid can also cause heart problems and issues with other organs. Hell early on there was a big report on testicular pain involving CoVid.
But hey, lets take the CCP attitude towards it and start fucking around with numbers. Because what you’re saying by stating this is that China was right early on in how they fudged numbers, so we should fudge numbers now to make things feel better for people. Then the W.H.O. can go to bat for the USA like they did with China.
What you’re asking is for a massive logistics issue, which is the amount of autopsies you’d have to do and the things that go with them, to be performed as numbers stack up. How many coroners are we going to keep around the clock so they can double check every single body that drops? China just tossed everybody into crematories and called it a day.
And you know what? Influenza is deadly much in the same way but people still attribute the deaths to the it. A regular adult can die of influenza. People with comorbidities, one of them being age, can get dropped hard by it. So this leads to serious and early vaccine drives on an early basis in as a preventative measure.
So if CoVid aggravates a situation that normally wouldn’t kill you, CoVid didn’t do shit. Because apaprently having a disease that spreads like wildfire and can aggravate the fuck out of anything you have isn’t that big of a deal. Much less of an issue is that it will dropkick people with weak immune systems (which can come from a host of things).
I’d go further point by point but fuck it. Not like you’re going to read this and change your mind. But hopefully everybody else learned something. Or at least took some time to understand the bigger issues going on with the this situation.
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Yeah that’s fine. You guys need to cut the memery too.
There’s a lot of news not posted here unless Ret and I do it. I don’t mind the memes but its still here for news and helpful videos:
You just dogged on other people in another thread for getting this one closed by being dumb, soon as it opens again you post a fucking Meme?
Christ bro.
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I laughed at it 
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