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Rising Star
29 million people in the state. We’re doing fine.
Rising Star
Way ahead of you, OP. Don’t even have to wear masks. 😉
Rising Star
Or we can try our best to live our lives while using every tool available to us? Pretty sure it’s not either stay at home for 2 years vs. run around without a mask, go to a crowded bar, and lick some park benches. You can mask up, social distance, and wash up like you should. I have come to terms that neither the federal or state government has their act together enough to actually protect us or help us out of this. You can’t wait forever for a miracle for this to disappear and you can’t wait for the government to get their act together because it just will not happen. You have to watch out for yourself and use good judgement. So mask up, wash your hands... and unlike hydroxychloroquine or drinking bleach... you actually have nothing to lose by social distancing, masking up, and washing your hands.
Governments don’t seem to have any strategies on how to move forward in a safe way. And I feel like media has been dividing people even further by hyping up fear and creating this notion that a lockdown till vaccine is the best route forward (atleast all the news I get)
Chief
How many new tests vs prior days? You can manipulate data in any way to prove your point.
MCK your opinion that you’ve just shared has allowed millions of people to get sick. I can’t transmit a chimp killing me by going to the store & risk the lives exponentially of others. I worry about your understanding of what led us to this place if that’s your actual opinion.
Or we can just stay inside forever waiting for a cure that’s anywhere between 2 years to never coming...
Rising Star
Who hurt you OP?
If you’re worried then stay inside
@D2 No one is saying that the people at higher risk should not continue to stay in isolation, but that the healthy/lesser risk who do not live in the same household with that population should be able to go out. Even if it’s wearing face masks, etc.
Chief
Death data is more telling given the changes in testing capacity
I think this makes sense for a data point of view but not a “how many citizens will die” point of view. The analysis is great. The issue is when it’s your family member who is sick and can’t get tested, flooding of hospitals, rise in death rates due to flooding, no logging for post mortems (mentioned) due to being stretched...these things should encourage people to react conservatively to any data
Pro
Dude are you drunk 😂 ? did you just start a thread to lash out and throw hissy fits? It’s time for bed CD.
Pro
A note on perspective that struck a chord with me this week ... Maybe you’re not doing so bad, depending on how you look at it.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/IyvueHF
Chief
Fellow Texan here. Not concerned at all. Testing is up a lot. You realize our total tests have tripled in 3-4 weeks right?? Our test positivity rate is around 5% which shows we’re catching majority of the COVID cases that exist.
Also FYI the ‘case spikes’ are BS and not actual spikes as they align directly to the dates of higher processed tests this week:
Thursday 5/14 - 35.8k tests processed
Wednesday 5/13 - 49.2k tests processed
Tuesday 5/12 - 12.5k tests processed
Monday 5/11 - 24k tests processed
Number of cases means crap. Focus on hospitalization rates, deaths, and positivity rate of tests.
Also I recommend using the Texas Dept of Health or your local city dept of health website. Those sources are very informative and include far more data points than NYTimes.
https://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/hhs/2019-nCoV/COVID-19%20DCHHS%20Summary_051520.pdf
Chief
What I don’t understand is that testing volume aside — that’s still literally thousands of new cases a day. What am I missing here?
Is there an assumption that the earlier case count was underreported so “we’re fine now”? All this tells me is that there are a lot of new cases, and given how exponential growth works, I am still concerned about how Texas is going to contain the spread.
Chief
Maybe? No matter how big the state is, 2000 positive cases a day is 2000 new confirmed sources of the virus. Past death rate and past hospitalization rate doesn’t tell me anything useful about what is going to happen down the road - both are necessary but not sufficient to tell me that we are recovering apace. It just tells me that right now things seem to be ok.
Given that something like 80% of cases are asymptomatic idk what CD’s point is here.
Pro
Or akchually 130%
Rising Star
OP who hurt u