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I've been encouraged that at least here in Utah, social distancing is being practiced by most individuals. Grabbed a drink at the gas station (that's a chore now), but everyone in line was a good 5-6 feet from each other stretching back about six deep.

Bought a game at Gamestop and even though you have to place an order online, call the store when you get there and they peek out the door and hand you your merchandise quickly likely you're buying black tar heroin, it does limit exposure.

Can't say the same for all states though - I fear the south is going to only get worse since many individuals couldn't be bothered to act differently. Louisiana is going to end up worse than NY on a per capita basis.
 
Last month: "We must do everything possible to protect the sanctity of life. Human life is sacred, holy, and precious, Human life starts at conception. Stopping a fertilized egg from multiplying is the same as murder"

Today: "You know, it's totally okay to sacrifice a few tens of thousands of old or sick people, if it means a stronger economy for the survivors. There is a very real trade-off between life and prosperity"

Who among us is going to transform from Mother Theresa to Hitler?

Anyone who says "heck, let them die" will have a hard time boomeranging back to the "you can't place a dollar value on human life" crowd.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
That’s only because we’re 10-12 days behind them. We are going to destroy their deaths.
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I doubt it.

You have to assume that we have a lot more cases that are unidentified. So it's probably transmitting more than we realize, yet still killing less than expected. It's early, but it's a positive sign.
 
Scat said:
Take it for what it is worth.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...s-right-about-covid-19-who-is-wrong-1.8691031
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Thanks for posting. I think we can all agree that more people have it than are tested - what that number is will never truly be known.

In the end, who is right and wrong won't really matter. Thousands and thousands of people will have died, economies will have tanked and more crippling debt will be added to our ledger.

There are no winners or losers - we've all lost.
 
RandyForRubio said:
I doubt it.

You have to assume that we have a lot more cases that are unidentified. So it's probably transmitting more than we realize, yet still killing less than expected. It's early, but it's a positive sign.
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It’s a foregone conclusion.

We had 13,000 new cases yesterday. We have 12,600+ already today.

We went from 819 deaths yesterday at 1:45pm to 1,100 today. That’s a 34% increase which isn’t an anomaly.


At a 22% increase each day, we’ll be at 1,158,742 deaths come May 1.

The rate won’t stay that high for five weeks but it very well could for 3+ before starting to come down.
 
I’m guessing when we’re all said and done we finish with over 500,000 deaths. One million is a definite possibility.
 
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