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Wes Mantooth said:
Jesus. Luxembourg has 602,000 people. 1,605 cases of Covid.

That ratio of cases per person is nearly twice as bad as Italy’s.
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Geography and business wise, Luxembourg is basically a part of Germany, France and Belgium. I.e difference not that visible for ordinary people. It is very well connected to all those countries. Similar to other tiny countries in Europe (San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorra). I guess that pre-Covid19 people might live in Luxembourg, but work in Germany, if both home and workplace are near the border.
 
magic said:
Are those people you see walking around old? Because that is excessive if they are not old.

And if you dont live in an urban city, then even for a an old person it's not that big of a deal.
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It doesn't matter whether you're old or not, you can be a spreader at any age.

Also doesn't matter if it's an urban city or not, you can go in a 7eleven and spread germs when you talk if you don't have a mask on.
 
Who could’ve foreseen this? I thought giving big corporations lots of money would’ve been just fine.

 
Wes Mantooth said:
Jesus. Luxembourg has 602,000 people. 1,605 cases of Covid.

That ratio of cases per person is nearly twice as bad as Italy’s.
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Keep in mind levels of testing skews a lot of those stats. The more you test the more people you will find. Luxembourg right now is second highest testing country in the world at around 2300 tests per 100000 people only behind Iceland. Just for comparison - the USA is at around 190 tests per 100000 and in Italy they are doing about 650 tests per 100000 people.
 
"Research suggests that the spread can be caused by asymptomatic carriers. Studies of patients from Wuhan and other Chinese cities who were diagnosed early in the outbreak suggest that asymptomatic carriers of the virus can infect those they have close contact with, such as family members."

Also read that China is not including asymptomatic persons in the count of infections they report. In other words, you test positve but show no symptoms China doesn't count you as infected. Some countries DO count positive test/asymptomatic persons.

Drawing conclusions from faulty data sets is problematic.
 
The Thriller said:
Is it just me or is the death rate ticking up? It’s .016 now.
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It's probably too early to draw conclusions based on those death numbers. A ton of sick people are not resolved yet(i.e. the illness hasn't had a chance to either go to recovery or death yet for huge majority of cases). It's possible it goes up. Think of it like this - the people that are dying now have been identified a week or two ago when the number was much smaller. The people that are being identified now are much bigger proportion of the cases(because the number goes up exponentially, until you break the exponential growth with measures or it infects a huge proportion of the population) and will be resolved in a week to several weeks time...
 
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