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Hi Raf; You are absolutely correct! People once cared enough to create a yearly vaccine, but 2 issues come to mind. One, what are most people concerned about? Answer, the last risk they heard about. And second,
once there is a treatment and/or vaccine for a risk(disease) it goes
off peoples radar screen. Stat I saw was only 52% planned to get a flu shot for this past season.
Hi relic, No, not everybody will get it, but I'll keep taking my VASCEPA as an insurance policy! ;.)
Hi BioChica; More specifically, the rate of identifying new cases is
increasing because testing rate is getting better. We're not likely to test enough to get a good estimate of actual infection rate, but hopefully good enough to make better decisions.
Hi Raf; So if we had treated the COVID-19 virus like the "regular" flu,
because COVID-19 has ~10X the death rate we could expect 200,000 to 600,000 deaths per year! That's why it is being treated differently!
Hi raf; If 80% of infected are not identified and we have 100K infected identified(this week or next) that is still only 500K which is only
0.15% of our population. We have a long ways to go.
Hi Raf; Yes, it will continue to spread and a 2nd wave next winter;
so hoping for working anti-virals and vaccines by then!!
Hi Kev; That's mostly a semantics debate!
Hi kev; Ha,Ha! It does matter to those who care about our democracy!
Hi Kev; Yes we will see, but too late for many. Trump did not get most of the votes in 2016, do you really think he will in 2020?
Hi Kev; No anger implied or otherwise from me. I do not know if you qualify as Trumpkin(one who believes Trumps lies) but yes I know, we all know, you are "conservative". My intent is always to present facts and
correct mis-representations and some will see that as partisan if it does not agree with their world view. Sincere best wishes!!
Hi Kev; You missed part of my point. I do NOT see it as a one party problem. BUT the Republicans are very significantly worse than the democrats as can be seen in the following poll;
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816501871/poll-as-coronavirus-spreads-fewer-americans-see-pandemic-as-a-real-threat
That's the "politics" that will lead to more people dieing!
Hi Kev; If you only watch Fox you could miss the important stuff.
The intelligence community briefed him in Jan & Feb about it;
here's an example of an article that discusses the problem of
trying to present facts to the King! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-intel-agencies-warned-rising-risk-outbreak-coronavirus-n1144891
Hi Kev; That is correct! The Trumpkins that think this is an "over-reaction" will act in a manner that kills more people! Sad, but true!
Hi kev; The web sites with data are "misleading" to those who do not understand what data is being presented. We did/do NOT need to test "everybody" to determine the rate there is something in science called sampling; but at this point it's too late to have much of an impact. And yes it is partly the King's fault(he disregarded advise in Jan & Feb) that enough test kits were not available soon enough!
Hi Raf; How about just AMRN!
Hi Kev; Misleading! Confirmed cases go up due to testing mostly sick people but the current rate of virus spread is UNKNOWN because of insufficient testing!
Hi LB; So you want to overthrow our King!? ;.)
Hi always; Trump does not act like a president, he acts like a King!
Hi jasbg; Great,it may be ONLY 14 times deadlier than "regular" flu and not 20 to 30 times!
Hi raf; A reason to wear a mask, other than to not infect others, is
to minimize your touching your nose and mouth and infecting yourself.
Hi Lem; "Anti-vaxers" rely on "faith" not science so don't expect a change!
Hi Relic; Please stop spreading stupidity; it will "pass", but with great cost in lives and resources($)!
Hi biotech; Thank you, but u threw us a curve-ball when you said "over reaction"; without "over-reaction" we follow Italy's curve!
Hi biotech; Sorry u do not believe in science, but we are only 10 days behind Italy on the curve!
Circuit breakers kicked in immediately!
Hi Raf; Indexing LTCG to inflation sounds like reasonable modification!
Hi Raf; I'm still getting my $3k losses each year from 2008 loses, that's fine!
Hi stoneroad; YES, countries around the world are shutting down their economies to save lives! You are free to disagree!
Hi Raf; But your interests do not supersede the interests of OUR country!
Hi Raf; Good!
Hi mrm; Great educational article with simulations! Thank you!
Hi hayward; The King did not write it, but he IS responsible for it's
contents when he delivers it to us!
Hi Raf; You are wrong, documentation available. The definition of a Trumpkin is a person who believes our Kings lies!
Hi raf; Sorry, it calms the Trumpkins not the country!
Hi dtelford; You want to know about propaganda? Watch the documentary, The Great Hack!
Hi postes; Correct, nothing doubles "forever", but that is not the suggestion. The issue is will it double enough times to over whelm our health system, she suggests numbers that could, suggesting a doubling
every 6 days. I think we just had a doubling in TWO days(500 to now 1000),
now that testing has started! We'll know shortly(2 months?).
Hi JM; Panicking is ALWAYS dumb! ;.)
Hi JL; Thank you. The term "scam" is just to Trumpian! But I did not speculate, I said because it is new we have to wait to see how bad it is. Just the facts, not speculation!
Hi JL; NOT a "scam". It's real, it's here and because it's "new" we'll have to deal with it and only time will tell how bad it will be!
Hi postes; You are correct!! We are way behind in testing, the 600 is
just the number that have tested positive so far!!