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« Reply #150 on: May 24, 2020, 05:46:24 PM »
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« Reply #151 on: May 24, 2020, 05:57:19 PM »
Referring to today's numbers:
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« Reply #153 on: May 25, 2020, 03:47:48 PM »


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« Reply #158 on: May 27, 2020, 07:46:44 AM »
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« Reply #159 on: May 28, 2020, 03:44:49 PM »


In any other administration, Democratic or Republican, this would be a scandal.  In this one, it's barely noise.
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« Reply #160 on: May 29, 2020, 08:04:21 AM »
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Georgia’s recent spike in new COVID-19 cases likely indicates the virus is spreading and cannot be solely attributed to a surge in testing, a prominent public health expert said Thursday.
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More diagnostic testing was certainly turning up more new cases, but the partial end of the state’s shelter-in-place order, allowing most Georgians to move about, is a key reason behind a 26% percent rise in cases between the weeks of May 11 and May 18, Del Rio said.

https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/spike-georgia-covid-cases-partly-from-virus-spread-expert-says/ScJKBSS7S4UMhVG60iALxL/
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« Reply #161 on: May 29, 2020, 06:57:30 PM »
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« Reply #162 on: May 30, 2020, 07:31:12 AM »
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« Reply #163 on: May 30, 2020, 03:19:31 PM »
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Just from the numbers we have as of now, today is gearing up to be a terrible day in terms of new cases. This probably is due to a combination of increased testing, and a possible mini spike from reopenings. If the second is true, cases will continue to look worse than they were 7 days ago throughout next week.

Just a comment on the second part, definitely not directed at you specifically.  But there seems to be a sense of surprise in some quarters that cases are ticking back up following reopening in some areas.  How could anyone not have expected that to happen?  The level of interpersonal contact is increasing while the population is just as susceptible as ever, except perhaps in a few places like NYC that may have achieved a limited degree of herd immunity.  Did some people expect the virus to give us credit for good behavior the past several weeks and become less infectious?
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« Reply #164 on: May 30, 2020, 06:50:09 PM »
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The riots are outdoors, where it’s very difficult for covid to spread. I doubt it will affect much.

You're reversing cause and effect.  The virus generally is less likely to spread less outdoors because people tend to stay farther apart when they're outdoors than indoors.  But if people are packed together outdoors, you lose the distance benefit.
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« Reply #165 on: May 31, 2020, 08:22:20 PM »
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« Reply #166 on: June 01, 2020, 01:29:57 PM »
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« Reply #167 on: June 02, 2020, 12:28:50 PM »
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Quote from: emailking on June 02, 2020, 08:28:17 AM
Think that's the first day since early in part 1 where we haven't pushed a new page in this thread.

The nation has moved on past the virus

"Moved on" implies that the virus is behind us, which is not the case.  I think it would be more accurate to say that (a) the situation has stabilized, and (b) people are used to it by now. 
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« Reply #168 on: June 05, 2020, 08:51:32 AM »
The jobs report probably ends any likelihood of another stimulus bill.
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« Reply #169 on: June 06, 2020, 08:10:59 AM »
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I hope we can all agree that doing 500,000 tests and finding 25,000 cases is better than the days when we were doing only 80,000 tests and finding 35,000 cases.

The decline in cases since 2 months ago is pretty unambiguous.

The decline is certainly unambiguous.  That's good news.

We're still at 20-25K cases and 800-1000 deaths per day.  That's bad news.

We're on a good track but it's way too soon to declare victory. I'm fine with continuing a gradual reopening and proceeding based on results.  But it's not yet time to throw everything open.  Here in Georgia, we've already seen cases start to tick back up (even controlling for the number of tests) since things began to reopen.
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« Reply #170 on: June 06, 2020, 12:30:27 PM »

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« Reply #172 on: June 06, 2020, 06:25:36 PM »
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Quote from: Calthrina950 on June 06, 2020, 05:55:17 PM
At my job today, I had a maskless customer who told us that employees should not be wearing masks anymore, as a return to normalcy.

I think a lot of people out there consider masking to be a reminder of how bad things were, and they want to put it behind them.

In other words, they're snowflakes.  It's reprehensible to be against other people choosing not to risk their health just because they don't want to be reminded of the virus.  It's not over!
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« Reply #173 on: June 07, 2020, 08:21:33 AM »
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« Reply #174 on: June 07, 2020, 01:01:50 PM »
Just did the weekly shopping (which is pretty much the only thing that gets me out of my neighborhood these days) and noticed the percentage of mask-wearing shoppers is way down from previous weeks, perhaps 20-25% of them were masked.
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