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sirkickyass said:
Frankly your post was a lot of ways of "lying with numbers" but I couldn't get over this sentence, particularly because you are speaking with such faux authoritativeness to contradict people who have studied this their whole lives.

Do you believe that there are precisely 19 coronavirus strains and this one was named Covid-19 because they are numbered sequentially in order of discovery? Anxiously awaiting your expert reply.
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They come out every year, like Madden.
 


“But Thrill!

Donald couldn’t read intelligence reports because impeachment or something was distracting him!”
 
sirkickyass said:
Do you believe that there are precisely 19 coronavirus strains and this one was named Covid-19 because they are numbered sequentially in order of discovery?
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Covid-19 was named for it's being discovered as a SARS variant in December 2019, not for being discovered after an 18th virus. So I misspoke.

From NIH:
There are hundreds of coronaviruses, most of which circulate among animals including pigs, camels, bats and cats. Sometimes those viruses jump to humans—called a spillover event—and can cause disease. Seven coronaviruses are known to cause human disease, four of which are mild: viruses 229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1. Three of the coronaviruses can have more serious outcomes in people, and those diseases are SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) which emerged in late 2002 and disappeared by 2004; MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), which emerged in 2012 and remains in circulation in camels; and COVID-19, which emerged in December 2019 from China and a global effort is under way to contain its spread. COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2.

The figures I provided and will continue to provide are the official state figures from which policy decisions are being made. The infection rate in Utah continues to be very low, and the response of forcing businesses to close is likely to become excessive if it continues beyond another week or two.
 
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