Cmon rail, yes the chinese didn;t help, but NY's high population density, along with mass transit that almost everyone uses, is the primary reason.Its because they have tons of chinese and an abudance of other unclean immigrants in high density, stress amd weak lungs from chain smoking
There's a story about a group of people in KY who haled a "Coronavirus party", one of them just tested positive, wish I could have seen the looks on the faces of the other party goers when they found out one of them got it
Cmon rail, yes the chinese didn;t help, but NY's high population density, along with mass transit that almost everyone uses, is the primary reason.
For those very reasons, other areas of the country will not get that bad, low density, no mass transit - very few exposures.
First cut at scoring, please check for correctness. I'm using the Johns Hopkins stat map:
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In big cites like NY, people just going about their normal lives indirectly come in contact with thousands of others(walking the same sidewalks/hallways/elevators, touching handrails, passing each other everywhere). In smaller less dense cities, especially where people drive themselves, people contact far less people indirectly, and most importantly they tend to come in contact with the same people(not many new ones). that makes all the difference.Rail's a moron. If we could have gone back in time a couple months and knew the pandemic was coming, and we all had to guess which state(s) would get the worst of it, how many here would have guessed NY? 60%? 70%? 100%? Of course it has nothing to do with how many Chinese live there or how much NYers smoke
Worldwide now 2.5 months in and we are at 17k deaths, which includes countries with inferior healthcare like Italy. So worldwide in 2.5 months we are at about half the amount of US deaths from flu in an average year.
Not really, getting young people infected is a good thing, in 2 weeks they're past it, the system is not overwhelmed right now almost everywhere, every non serious infection right now is good.There are a lot of COVIDIOTS out there in red neck country
Not really, getting young people infected is a good thing, in 2 weeks they're past it, the system is not overwhelmed right now almost everywhere, every non serious infection right now is good.
The same number of people will get this virus no matter what we do.
is flu growing exponentially?
is flu gonna hit the hospitals all at once and kill nurses and doctors?
amazing how people can't read a simple graph
It's not about the flu or a graph. It's about the fear the media has pushed.
Italy has inferior healthcare?
when then why the hell do you keep bringing up the flu
and why do you continue to not understand that we are seeing exponential growth that will kill our doctors and nurses?
our president said we were in a war.
would you want us to send our soldiers into war without enough weapons and equipment? would you tell all the tactical support and supply chains that the war was just hype?
let's just listen to the CDC and experts for a bit and let them interpret the data in light of what the know and don't know about the virus.
When our deaths peak, likely sometime in may(several thousand a day), we should be a good 2 weeks past peak infections. So the worst day we have will really be a time for celebration.The flu is a reference point. Right or wrong, we as a country seem to accept the fact 35k or so die from flu. The flu never shut down the country.
The flu is a reference point. Right or wrong, we as a country seem to accept the fact 35k or so die from flu. The flu never shut down the country.
Only give masks to doctors under 50yoa reminder of the numbers of our most technical soldiers on the battle field
2016 United States Physicians
953,695
Under 30- 16,519 1.9%
30-39 -184,120 21.7%
40-49 -214,595 25.2%
50-59 -215,541 22.5%
60-69 -138,815 16.3%
70+ -75,627 8.9%
In big cites like NY, people just going about their normal lives indirectly come in contact with thousands of others(walking the same sidewalks/hallways/elevators, touching handrails, passing each other everywhere). In smaller less dense cities, especially where people drive themselves, people contact far less people indirectly, and most importantly they tend to come in contact with the same people(not many new ones). that makes all the difference.
before the virus. here's the situation for an aging and fat and sick nation
The United States will see a shortage of nearly 122,000 physicians in both primary and specialty care by 2032, according to 2019 data published by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges). Doctor shortages could limit or delay access to healthcare, which would pose a real risk to patients.Jul 24, 2019
So Rail and Raiders, and now myself, state we don't believe we approach the death numbers the media and many are projected. Maybe we will be wrong.
I don't think that will be the case.
Huh, you dont believe the numbers, or that they will get bad?So Rail and Raiders, and now myself, state we don't believe we approach the death numbers the media and many are projected. Maybe we will be wrong.
I don't think that will be the case.
In may alone, which will hopefully be the peak month, i would expect between 50-100K deaths in the US. And it could be 2-3 times that.If no cure in the next 3 months or so... we will fly past 50K with "ease"
Its not even a big number in the land of 350 million
nah, 3 weeks ago we were saying uh oh we just had another 15 infections, today we'll have another 200+ death day along with maybe 11,000 infections,. You get used to it.Hope not, cause the country would melt down then
We cant stop it, the mn gov shut us down today, he showed a bunch of charts, etc, but he said outright no matter if we do nothing, or do everything, the same number of infections will occur. We are only attempting to spread them out.I dont know we if we can "write off" 3k deaths per day.
Probably somewhat, the drugs may cut deaths as well, and the virus may mutate to be less deadly, all those things likely will happen. it's still going to be ugly for at least 2 more months.as the weather warms up this should start to kill off some of the virus.
saw some claims that the virus can stay active for 17 days.Probably somewhat, the drugs may cut deaths as well, and the virus may mutate to be less deadly, all those things likely will happen. it's still going to be ugly for at least 2 more months.
a reminder of the numbers of our most technical soldiers on the battle field
2016 United States Physicians
953,695
Under 30- 16,519 1.9%
30-39 -184,120 21.7%
40-49 -214,595 25.2%
50-59 -215,541 22.5%
60-69 -138,815 16.3%
70+ -75,627 8.9%
How many from NY?Cresting 1000 mortalities . . .
UNITED STATES
68,203 CONFIRMED CASES
1,027 DEATHS