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Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
The number of positive cases is not skewed since that was being accurately reported. The number of negative tests was not being reported. The number of negative test has absolutely no effect on the number of positive tests. It is the total number of positive tests that is the cause for concern. If Florida was testing every citizen every day, the increase in the number of positives is still a concern.
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Stretch (07-14-2020)
the rate of infection = the percentage of positive tests is what is being reported as well as the raw numbers.
don't be a dishonest hack . there is a huge difference is 82% positive vs. 8.2 % positive (ex.)
The first looks like a spike of the entire population, not a spike in just the raw numbers
Stretch (07-14-2020)
I'm glad our local Fox affiliate does not follow the Fox News Faux News theme.
We are not crazytown here!
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Florida is reporting the results from over 950 labs doing testing. No one is looking at the percentages from individual labs other than wonks and news services trying to make a story out of nothing. The important number is the number of new cases.
An 82% positive test rate at a lab doesn't look like a spike in the population at all since there are so many other labs. All it says is that that lab had a large number of positive tests. Without other information it says nothing. The lab could have been only sent tests from one hospital that is only testing people on ventilators. Or as in these cases the lab hasn't been reporting negative tests. It has been known for at least a couple of weeks that testing labs haven't been consistently reporting negative test results. The CDC has issued guidelines to try to get them to be more consistent.
The most important figure is the number of new cases per day. That is what shows the trend. When the number of cases per day doubles from last week and is 3 times what it was 3 weeks ago that shows a pretty obvious trend. By not reporting the negative cases the labs are actually doing more to hide the trend since failing to report the negatives they are only showing that the number of cases is increasing because the number of tests is increasing.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
ThatOwlWoman (07-14-2020)
The news just keeps getting worse.
"The long-term effects of COVID-19, even on people who suffered a mild infection, could be far worse than was originally anticipated, according to researchers and doctors in northern Italy.
"Psychosis, insomnia, kidney disease, spinal infections, strokes, chronic tiredness and mobility issues are being identified in former coronavirus patients in Lombardy, the worst-affected region in the country.
"The doctors warn that some victims may never recover from the illness and that all age groups are vulnerable."
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...ought-12027348
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
They are large when put in the perspective of other states. The most new cases per day in NY was under 12,000 so when Florida is seeing 15,000 new cases in a day, that is "large." Florida has a similar population size to NY. Some of the increase over NY numbers could be because Florida is doing more daily testing than NY. Even if Florida is testing at 3 times the rate NY was that would still be similar to 5,000 new cases a day in NY which is high no matter how you try to twist it. You also have to remember that a negative test today doesn't prevent that person from becoming infected tomorrow.
If Florida continues gaining cases at over 10,000 per day it will surpass the number of cases in NY by the end of July. Even if the death rate is 1/3 of NY that would still mean over 10,000 deaths by the end of August. With over 130 deaths today in Florida, they could easily have 6,000 deaths in 45 days.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
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