Bucky
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I can only speak for the area I live in, but the covid virus is spreading like a California wildfire. Deaths are up 22% in the last two weeks and positive tests are up 36%. Joe Biden nor any other person is going to make this go away anytime soon. As far as I can tell people are for the most part wearing their masks and social distancing as much as possible.
The statistics I quoted are from one week to the next week a 7 day period. Negative tests are up 44% actual testing has varied from 300+ 4 weeks ago to a low 190 the week ending 10/16/20. I live in a county with a population of 34,000 +people 1544 has tested positive and 29 deaths with 18 people on ventilators and 31 hospitalize. I have lost two cousins in the last week, one was 80 yrs old in an assisted care facility and one was 62 and good health who had a job, tested positive for the virus, and lived about 4 weeks.“Deaths up 22% and positive tests up 36%.” An example of meaningless statistics. Deaths up 22% from what, for what time frame? What constitutes a Covid death? Positive tests up 36% from what, in what time frame? How many more tests have been administered? How much are negative tests up?... The numbers are meaningless without any context...
What is exactly spreading like wildfire? Positive tests with no symptoms? And, If Covid is “spreading like wildfire” even though everyone is masking and distancing, then why bother? It’s just a clusterfuck of nonsense statistics and nonsense rules.
Have you personally witnessed a wildfire spread of disease, or do you get your information from the news?
I’m sorry for your loses. RIP.The statistics I quoted are from one week to the next week a 7 day period. Negative tests are up 44% actual testing has varied from 300+ 4 weeks ago to a low 190 the week ending 10/16/20. I live in a county with a population of 34,000 +people 1544 has tested positive and 29 deaths with 18 people on ventilators and 31 hospitalize. I have lost two cousins in the last week, one was 80 yrs old in an assisted care facility and one was 62 and good health who had a job, tested positive for the virus, and lived about 4 weeks.
I get my information straight from our local hospital website which is updated every day. I am at the mercy of getting my information just like everyone else from the health care system.
Thank you, Freethinker. I just want all our posters to take this virus more seriously than it appears because it is a vicious illness for senior citizens especially. You don't have to lock yourself in the house but just be careful doing everyday things.I’m sorry for your loses. RIP.
You better believe Walmart and other box store retailers lobbied governments hard to stay open during the March to April shutdown. Walmart at least in Ontario stayed open even if the store had limited grocery services and they were the only clothing and hardware retailer open during this period.
It was very apparent early on that one of the key ancillary effects of covid (whether intended or unintended) was the caste system in the restaurant and retail industries. Big box chains got to continue operations status quo while the mom and pops had to jump through draconian hoops to get by leading to bankruptcies etc
and now these same chains who got a free pass have the absolute audacity to ask to support other chains with bs tweets like this
Look up the movie "Songbird" coming out in 2021 about corona virus. This crap is what they call predictive programming.
Why the world doesn't want you to see. Sweden never locked down and it's one of the few countries living normal life in 2020. Way to go Sweden. The World needs to wake up and learn from you. Stop this madness.
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=AAU1W4NGSU9X
How interesting Biden "wins" the election and Pfizer has trial where a Corona Virus vaccine seems to be 90 percent effective against the vaccine and could roll out in within a 4 months according to the Canadian PM......https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/cana...unnel/ar-BB1aQo10?li=AAggNb9&ocid=mailsignout
Sweden has a population of roughly 10 mill with 6,000 deaths. Neighboring countries of Finland and Norway have a population of roughly under 11 million combined with a total of 650 deaths combined. From the Swedish prime minister last week "The trends are quickly going in the wrong direction. More are infected. More are dying. This is a serious situation."And as far as I know Sweden has a lower death rate than any other European country, probably excluding the murders committed by the "refugees". Belarus never locked down either and i think it also has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, death rates in Europe.
Remember at the beginning they tried to panic people by showing guys (Chinese crisis actors) merrily traipsing along in Wuhan, China and then abruptly falling down dead?