Corona Virus Peak Watch Thread

PoliTalker said:
Hello Darth,



160,000 dead Americans is not what winning looks like.

Calling that 'winning' is what self-fooling and blind allegiance looks like.

Taiwan and Florida have roughly the same population. Each with cities and metro areas in the millions. Taiwan was right in the cross-hairs with thousands of daily commuters back and forth to Wuhan. They immediately shut that down, didn't wait. Huge impact, but it was worth it. Then they required every traveler coming in to quarantine for 2 weeks, gave them 14 masks, required them to record their temperature several times per day and report it. Each quarantined person was monitored to ensure compliance with the rules. Drastic times call for drastic measures. Taiwan has 7 deaths total compared to 6500 in Florida. Taiwan does have the advantage of being an island, but most travel is by air, similar to Florida. Florida is a peninsula, which could easily create checkpoints at the mainland border. DeSantis is a Trump lackey sycophant apologist. He failed to take the needed decisive action and paid the price. His approval is way down, just like DT. Both could very likely end up being one-term wonders because they screwed this up so badly.
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Yet you insist this isn’t political lol.

How many large states does Taiwan border? Can people drive from a global epicenter [NYC] to Taiwan in a day or day and half? Does Taiwan have illegal immigrants entering the country with COVID and then getting lost in their population?

If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
 
Hello Darth,

Darth Omar said:
Yet you insist this isn’t political lol.

How many large states does Taiwan border? Can people drive from a global epicenter [NYC] to Taiwan in a day or day and half? Does Taiwan have illegal immigrants entering the country with COVID and then getting lost in their population?

If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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If talking about epicenters, one cannot ignore the obvious. Thousands would normally commute by sea and air from Wuhan to Taiwan. The government there shut that down. Said no, can't do it. Florida took no such action. DeSantis said each has the individual freedom to self-quarantine, with no enforcement. That was BS, not enough. Florida paid the price in deaths and a huge explosion of the virus. Taiwan kept it at bay, under control. It is out of control in Florida.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Darth,



If talking about epicenters, one cannot ignore the obvious. Thousands would normally commute by sea and air from Wuhan to Taiwan. The government there shut that down. Said no, can't do it. Florida took no such action. DeSantis said each has the individual freedom to self-quarantine, with no enforcement. That was BS, not enough. Florida paid the price in deaths and a huge explosion of the virus. Taiwan kept it at bay, under control. It is out of control in Florida.
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Was.
 
Darth Omar said:
Yet you insist this isn’t political lol.

How many large states does Taiwan border? Can people drive from a global epicenter [NYC] to Taiwan in a day or day and half? Does Taiwan have illegal immigrants entering the country with COVID and then getting lost in their population?

If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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An apt analogy you prove every day.

There is the matter of apples-to-apples and also scale. Taiwan has a population 300M less than the US and is smaller than West Virginia. In addition, without the rights and privileges of the US Constitution, it's easier to force people to stay in their homes albeit they are paid and protected by the government for it. The standard result of an authoritarian utopia: all your needs are cared for but you have to give up your freedom. More freedom also means more people die. Evolution in action.

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Dutch Uncle said:
An apt analogy you prove every day.

There is the matter of apples-to-apples and also scale. Taiwan has a population 300M less than the US and is smaller than West Virginia. In addition, without the rights and privileges of the US Constitution, it's easier to force people to stay in their homes albeit they are paid and protected by the government for it. The standard result of an authoritarian utopia: all your needs are cared for but you have to give up your freedom. More freedom also means more people die. Evolution in action.

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Authoritarian governments might also report their numbers ‘differently’.

I’m skeptical that Taiwan only had 7 deaths.
 
Hello Darth,

Darth Omar said:
Was.
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Florida had over 5000 new cases yesterday and 245 deaths. That is not 'under control.'

Yes, it is less than the surge experienced in the weeks following the July 4th guidelines ignorance, but spreading at a rate of over 5000 new cases per day is definitely NOT 'under control' by any stretch of the imagination.

If Hillary was president, and Gillum was the Florida governor, there is no way on this planet you would call these numbers being 'under control.'
 
Yesterday, Texas added over 11,000 new cases and 200+ deaths.

It was the 5th day in the last 7 days where deaths have exceeded 200.

The fact that they're back to 11K cases a day would seem to indicate that the lagging daily death toll indicator will continue to exceed 200 for most of the next couple weeks.

Texas is going backwards, not forwards.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Darth,



Florida had over 5000 new cases yesterday and 245 deaths. That is not 'under control.'

Yes, it is less than the surge experienced in the weeks following the July 4th guidelines ignorance, but spreading at a rate of over 5000 new cases per day is definitely NOT 'under control' by any stretch of the imagination.

If Hillary was president, and Gillum was the Florida governor, there is no way on this planet you would call these numbers being 'under control.'
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Yup, and Texas had over 11,000 new cases and 205 deaths.

It was the fifth day in the last week that the death toll has exceeded 200 in Texas.

The 11K cases a day in Texas all but guarantees more days of 200+ dead for at least the next two weeks.
 
Get those kids back into schools ! There will be no tomorrow for corporate America if the cycle of conditioning is broken !

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Hello moon,

moon said:
Get those kids back into schools ! There will be no tomorrow for corporate America if the cycle of conditioning is broken !

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OK, sitting a classroom with 30+ people for 6 hours, hmmm. Kinda hard to figure how to do that while avoiding transmission of a deadly airborne disease.

OK, that's one thing.

Then there's the buses. Anybody thought about how to get the kids to school and home? How can they all sit on a bus together and avoid transmission?

OK, that one's a bit harder to picture than the classroom, but wait.

What about class change in middle and high school? You wanna talk impossible to do social distancing, there ya go.

No way they can do class change and social distancing.
 
We have fluctuations.

The total number of Active Cases may finally be reaching a peak!

The figure has stopped rising steadily.

It's bouncing around.

Are we finally reaching a peak?

If so, can we sustain it?

DT finally endorsed mask wearing, although not very emphatically.

Many of his minions remain unconvinced.

Time will tell, but for now, we are seeing the total Active Cases maybe beginning to level off at last.

We hope...
 
On a sadder note, the daily Death Rate remains seriously high.

Another 1300+ dead Americans yesterday.

We are creeping steadily toward 500 deaths per million people in the USA.
 
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USA

Total Cases 4,973,568

New Cases +55,148

Total Deaths 161,601

New Deaths +1,311

Total Recovered 2,540,137

Active Cases 2,271,830

Serious, Critical 18,424

Tot Cases/1M pop 15,017

Deaths/1M pop 488

Total Tests 62,381,295

Tests/1M pop 188,353
 
DT said the warm weather would make it go away.

JK said by July the economy would be rocking.

Teetering would be a better term...
 
Oh well. Looks like we're still on the way up.

Big spike in Active Cases yesterday.

And another 1200 dead.

Too bad we have such poor leadership.
 
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