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"No greater love hath Trump than to lay down your life for his reelection.

Only a once-in-a-century leader has the guts to say out loud what the worst among us are really thinking: everyone other than me is expendable."

(I did not see the pandemic coming in election season 2016. But, I most definetly felt that, if elected, this is the type of amoral leader we would see emerge at some point. The very reason, on so many occasions, in so many words, I said : "you guys know this is a demagogue, right, right"?? I've been "accused" of being on a near 4 year "quest" to focus on this man child's many faults/flaws. Well, duh, ya think?):

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ald-trump-coronavirus-response-richard-wolffe
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Trump, the narcissistic POS he is, sadly lives another day. Just have to hope he gets the virus and Big Macs aren’t the cure.
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at this point, yeah, it’s obvious that he’s exacerbating this problem. He needs to go.
 
RandyForRubio said:
Is there anybody who is assuming China is being accurate? I think we all know they aren't.

Anyways, based on our population, it was a given the US was going to have the highest numbers. Pretty poor way for people to frame it, imo.
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Why based on our population? China is way not dense and populated.

It's not like USA has accurate numbers either. I think South Korea is probably closest to the most accurate.
 
The Thriller said:
We’re so ****ed

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I think you'll agree, with statements like the above, so detached from any Earth bound reality, questions like this, regardless of how much Trump fans will protest, are bound to be asked:

Is Donald Trump letting New Yorkers die because it's a Democratic state?:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/arti...kers-die-covid-19-because-its-democratic.html

"Trump has a history of acting vengefully toward New York, which he’s become particularly displeased with since taking office..."
 
Red said:
I think you'll agree, with statements like the above, so detached from any Earth bound reality, questions like this, regardless of how much Trump fans will protest, are bound to be asked:

Is Donald Trump letting New Yorkers die because it's a Democratic state?:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/arti...kers-die-covid-19-because-its-democratic.html

"Trump has a history of acting vengefully toward New York, which he’s become particularly displeased with since taking office..."
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I'm really starting to doubt that a planned vacation in June is going to happen. My guess is this peaks in April, starts to flatten/erode in May but the directive to isolate/cancel large events/travel continues into the summer to limit a second wind.

We've got to find a way to develop a vaccine in less than 12-18 months. If Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and a crack team of oil drillers can hop aboard a spaceship and nuke an asteroid the size of Texas in 18 days, by golly we'll need to do better.
 
Scat said:
@JimLes @One Brow @Gameface You all need to read the entire article. It explains why engineers are better at predicting models than physicians. This person has helped create models in Liberia to quell ebola outbreaks. He did postdoctoral work at the the Center of Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at Yale University’s school of public health. He has quite a bit of experience in the field.


Sounds like is more than qualified to speak on the subject.
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Not sure why I was brought into this, but since you did I'll offer my thought.

I work for the Washington University School of Medicine. As one of the leading medical research institutions in the country, I can assure you that we are very much into modeling to predict the course of disease, whether it is trying to detect sepsis early on, or the spread of disease in population health. Doctors who spend their time studying population health models bring all the expertise of engineers who study population health models, but the additional knowledge of physicians. Similarly, the WHO are staffed with physicians who also do modeling, as is the CDC.

As for the article, it was high on opinion, low on real fact. The US population is not as socially isolated as Dr. Yamin seems to think it is. We'll exceed a 50% infection rate. But, even at 50%, with a 2% hospitalization rate, that's 3,500,000 people in hospital being in a country with less than a million beds and no decrease in the prevalence of other diseases. If we have a fatality rate of 0.5% (which is a very low estimate), that's 875,000 people who died directly of this virus, and more who will have died from lack of access to hospital beds if the spread of the disease is not slowed.
 
RandyForRubio said:
Is there anybody who is assuming China is being accurate? I think we all know they aren't.

Anyways, based on our population, it was a given the US was going to have the highest numbers. Pretty poor way for people to frame it, imo.
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Doesn't China have like way more people than the US?

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