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Avery said:
Another high today for Utah. Good times.
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yep. Saturday for the last 2 months:

May
5/2: 189
5/9: 184
5/16: 155
5/23: 203
5/30: 269

June
6/6: 546
6/13: 404
6/20: 646

I expect us to have most days full of 500+ cases this week and topping 800 at least once. We’ll be hitting 1,000+ new cases daily in July.
 
Avery said:
Strolled out to Harmons today and purposefully counted masks vs. non masks. Was 6 masks to 26 non-masks.

Drove home and saw crammed splash pads, team sports, people closely dining, etc. Social distancing is effectively done-zo here.

It's just irritating. I hate wearing masks, but do it to protect myself and others. Hate not going to places to eat, but do so to protect myself and others. Problem is that people are effectively over it.

What's worrisome to me is that the positive % metric is a leading indicator of an outbreak. That number has effectively doubled recently.
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Wearing masks inside establishments is still mandatory in Rhode Island. To be at all as effective as possible, wearing a mask has to be an “all for one, one for all” proposition. I am wearing a mask to protect others, not myself, and others are wearing masks to protect others, including me. Hence, one for all, all for one. It does me little good to enter a supermarket wearing a mask, if half the people inside are not wearing masks. But it’s still mandatory here, and one is not allowed inside any establishment without a mask. For the most part, we have taken COVID-19 very seriously in RI, but we were sandwiched between states with the highest numbers of infections and deaths. And that fact will wake ya up quickly.
 
“These numbers are sobering. For three straight weeks now our cases have been increasing at a rate that isn’t sustainable. We are at risk for overwhelming our hospital capacity, which could result in Utahns not getting the medical care they need. The only explanation for this increase in cases is that we are experiencing a real and a dramatic rise in the spread of COVID-19 across our state,” Dr. Angela Dunn, epidemiologist with the state health department, said.
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https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/6...643-new-cases-no-new-deaths-hospital-capacity
 
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Another low today of 267. Lowest since March 23, three months ago. Again, you can say this is a weekend, but there have been 26 weekend days since then with none of them being that low. Tomorrow’s numbers will again be lower before ticking up a little bit Tuesday.

Obviously, one could appeal to the past few days having increased cases. However, the deaths have continued to steadily decline for the past two months, independent of the fact that incidence of new cases hasn’t dropped. While we’ve had higher numbers the past few days, we’ve also set daily records for the quantity of tests administered, and the US is testing more than anyone else is. True, our curve with relation to new cases looks worse than other countries’, but our death curves look the exact same as all those other countries.

But nobody’s talking about that.
 
infection said:
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Another low today of 267. Lowest since March 23, three months ago. Again, you can say this is a weekend, but there have been 26 weekend days since then with none of them being that low. Tomorrow’s numbers will again be lower before ticking up a little bit Tuesday.

Obviously, one could appeal to the past few days having increased cases. However, the deaths have continued to steadily decline for the past two months, independent of the fact that incidence of new cases hasn’t dropped. While we’ve had higher numbers the past few days, we’ve also set daily records for the quantity of tests administered, and the US is testing more than anyone else is. True, our curve with relation to new cases looks worse than other countries’, but our death curves look the exact same as all those other countries.

But nobody’s talking about that.
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Nobody's talking about that? Isn't that all you have been talking about?

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infection said:
Yes. Is this something you already been hearing elsewhere?
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Why do you think the deaths are going down? Has the virus mutated to be less lethal? Are we getting better at treating it? Or have the weakest serving in vulnerable positions already been killed?
 
The Thriller said:
Why do you think the deaths are going down? Has the virus mutated to be less lethal? Are we getting better at treating it? Or have the weakest serving in vulnerable positions already been killed?
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I'd have to look at case/death rates by age around the globe, but my first guess would be that I think what we were concerned would be a weakness might actually be a strength - we have most of our extremely elderly isolated from most of society.
 
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