The COVID Thread (1 Viewer)

[jamesurq]

Not everyone's a loser in this situation......

The World’s 25 Richest Billionaires Have Gained Nearly $255 Billion In Just Two Months

U.S. stock indices have been on a tear for the past two months despite the pandemic. That’s lifted the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest.

www.forbes.com

sickening really.... Besos fortune went up by $30B in 2 months.....

 

[Fort Knox]

I knew I should have invested more heavily in toilet paper when this all started.

 

[jamesurq]

Well, when the s*** hits the fan.....

 

[FJ Noob]

Why specifically is it “sickening”? At least as reported in this article, none of the increases in worth were due to illegal actions or price gouging associated with the current COVID situation. Do I personally feel like I need billions to be happy..no, but if somebody else does and they got them by hard work, risk taking, and smart decisions...good on them.

Not written in opposition to your post...legitimate question to try and understand a point of view that doesn’t come naturally to me.

 

[FJ Noob]

Can't make this sh@t up....

Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India

A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities said on Friday. The attack occurred this week when a laboratory technician was walking in the campus of a state-run medical college...

news.yahoo.com

 

[jamesurq]

Why specifically is it “sickening”? At least as reported in this article, none of the increases in worth were due to illegal actions or price gouging associated with the current COVID situation. Do I personally feel like I need billions to be happy..no, but if somebody else does and they got them by hard work, risk taking, and smart decisions...good on them.

Not written in opposition to your post...legitimate question to try and understand a point of view that doesn’t come naturally to me.

In a time where most small businesses were forced to close down and many are shuttering for good, the wealthiest of us added a huge pile of money to their already insanely large amount of money. I’m not against capitalism just oligarchs. I’m all for it and those that do well should be rewarded. Not saying anything should change just pointing it out. 146b is a sick amount of money.

 

[sentient schmoo]

Well said, James.

 

[sentient schmoo]

He makes his profits off the backs of employees that are treated terribly, too. I won't say that all billionaires are inherently evil, but... Bezos just might be.

 

[jamesurq]

And in REALLY REALLY good news::::

Tracking what's happening in states as they reopen

As states reopen, ABC News looked at whether cases are increasing.

abcnews.go.com

 

[sentient schmoo]

It made me sick to my stomach that Buncombe Co made a mandatory mask rule, slated to be in effect last Saturday - and then moved it to Tuesday and flooded our town with tourism. Overnight, reports of deaths and infection rates sky rocketing surfaced.

 

[sentient schmoo]

Part of that is due to better reporting, for sure. But to place value on tourism money over the lives of the people that live and work here left me disheartened.

 

[lt1fire]

Not everyone's a loser in this situation......

The World’s 25 Richest Billionaires Have Gained Nearly $255 Billion In Just Two Months

U.S. stock indices have been on a tear for the past two months despite the pandemic. That’s lifted the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest.

www.forbes.com

sickening really.... Besos fortune went up by $30B in 2 months.....

Not surprising considering every 3rd vehicle on the road right now is an amazon van. The amount of people ordering basic supplies through amazon right now is huge.
I'm.just glad Tue motor trend channel is now on prime video, its a nice distraction from work at lunch time lol.

 

[angerhater]

IMO. the WHO and CDC and TSA should have clamped down sooner.

Personally I don’t trust the numbers,

Or maybe this is all gods plan to Curb the spread of axholes before toilet paper goes extinct...

 

[jamesurq]

Oh you guys are still talking about this? I thought we’re all supposed to be on the next fear cycle?.....


Hey look, squirrel......

 

[jamesurq]

This is how we heal apparently. silly memes

 

[NCFJ]

Feels like a combination of Orwell's 1984 and the capital city in The Hunger Games. I am glad that I am 60 and not 20.

 

[stevezero]

Alanis Morrisette level irony would be if there was a massive spike in cases involving young people clad in a bunch of new clothes and shoes, gender and race neutral.

 

[JohnVee]

 

[sentient schmoo]

I wonder how numbers will increase after protests.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Friend,
Many of my constituents have told me they feel like there's a lot of bad information out there about the COVID situation - but we've also reached a point where people are tired of being told what to think. They're very skeptical about people - especially politicians - making bold claims about what the future holds.
So here's what I'm going to do: I’m just going to show you the key data points here in NC and let you see for yourself where things stand.
The biggest number that everyone follows is new daily cases. And that chart certainly looks discouraging.

BUT then you follow it with data about new daily testing, and you see that a lot of the increase in new daily cases seems to reflect the increase in testing.
It’s become a common observation that more testing leads to more (confirmed) cases, and that appears to be true in North Carolina.

You might say, "Well Jeff, both those charts look pretty messy. It's hard to tell if cases really are going up relative to testing."
Ok, but take a look at this chart that shows the overall percentage of tests that are coming back positive:

That should control for the increase in testing, and it’s been flat.
That’s good news. It means that even though we're testing more, we're not seeing a greater share of those tests come back positive.
BUT here’s the problem. If you look at the hospitalization number, you see a steady increase.

That’s not from an increase in testing. That’s more people getting sick.
I should note that there’s a question about this data. Now that people are going back to hospitals for routine procedures, they’re all being tested when they arrive. And some of those folks are testing positive. So now they're in the hospital with COVID. And it’s unclear to what extent they’re being included in this hospitalization number. In short, we need to make sure we are measuring people who are hospitalized for COVID, not with COVID. But it's unclear to what extent that explains this increase, if at all.
Then there’s the regional concern. If you zoom out and look at our surrounding states, their daily new cases are all going up (except Virginia, a striking counter-example). It's reasonable to assume there's more testing happening in each of these states, but at a minimum this picture shows us that community spread is ongoing throughout our region.

And if we zoom in on the hottest hot spot in North Carolina - Mecklenburg County, where I live - it shows a clear rebounding of hospitalization rates to their highest levels yet.

Compare that to what this chart looked like the day Phase 2 began on May 22 (where I put a red arrow). That's back when we saw a "sustained leveling" in hospitalization.
A similar, statewide trend of curve flattening is what made us comfortable enough to leave Phase 1 four weeks ago. That trend of hospitalization flattening appears to have been short-lived, assuming, again, accuracy of the underlying data.
In summary, when it comes to COVID growth, we wanted negative, we settled for flat, and it appears we got linear.
But we don't have exponential - at least not yet.

- Sen. Jeff Jackson


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