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" An experiment using high-speed video found that hundreds of droplets ranging from 20 to 500 micrometers were generated when saying a simple phrase, but that nearly all these droplets were blocked when the mouth was covered by a damp washcloth."
Make sure to have a spray bottle with you at all times, so you can dampen your face mask. "Meh science, meh science, meh science!"
I saw an article today saying there could be 30% more fatalities from COVID due to lack of testing but they never mention that the survivability rate could be that much higher if not higher as well.
My info isn’t based off of “reading something” in regards to young patients. I’m going off direct info from workers there.
That doesn't change the fact you are talking about statistical outliers. It happens with influenza, too. Sometimes 18 year olds wind up in the hospital with pneumonia because of allergies to pollen. Florida doesn't give out as much info as Georgia, but the number of 18-21 year olds who have died in Georgia is ZERO.
Clearly cases are rising......
Is it true......when you factor in all ages.... if someone gets Covid 19.... chances of surviving are 97.5%......give or take a little?
But under 50 the odds of surviving are probably closer to 99.9%?
No one wants loss of life. No one.
Simple question.......is it worth saving a few thousand lives but possibly/likely destroying 10s of millions of lives?
That's essentially what we are talking about. Regardless of what everyone's different research says......isn't really that simple?
The only saving grace is that pretty much every country in the World is also destroying their citizens lives. Except for N Korea. Their people are still pretty much status quo.
The problem is that it's not that simple. 97.5% seems like a really good survival rate, but there are a ton of people in this country.
To reach a point where the virus will start to go away on its own, best case scenario is 50% of the population needs to be infected. That would be 164,000,000 x .025 = 4.1 million deaths.
Now hopefully the death rate is lower than 2.5% (I think most are pretty sure it is), but my point is that when you're making decisions for 330,000,000 people you can't just rely on common sense. That doesn't mean you have to shut everything down, but it does mean we need a plan.
I was saying how you post things without understanding them. This is yet another example.
Here are links so people can go read the articles for themselves.
Yep.....and all these protesters and liberals......not suggesting anyone on Dawgnation.....love all you guys
But those concerned about the wealthy having too much..... and want to share the wealth.....
Keep people from going to work.... or going to games.... restaurants......bars...
Then you'll see a huge redistribution of wealth....but it will be more to the wealthy....
Wealthy can purchase foreclosed or under valued properties. Buy good businesses that are going under.... tons of opportunities for the super wealthy when people are unemployed.
Put your head down, wear a mask, contribute to society, and stay home if you are sick.
Interesting that you didn't quote the part directly under that.
"But the strongest evidence in favor of masks come from studies of real-world scenarios. “The most important thing are the epidemiologic data,” said Rutherford. Because it would be unethical to assign people to not wear a mask during a pandemic, the epidemiological evidence has come from so-called “experiments of nature.”
A recent study published in Health Affairs, for example, compared the COVID-19 growth rate before and after mask mandates in 15 states and the District of Columbia. It found that mask mandates led to a slowdown in daily COVID-19 growth rate, which became more apparent over time. The first five days after a mandate, the daily growth rate slowed by 0.9 percentage-points compared to the five days prior to the mandate; at three weeks, the daily growth rate had slowed by 2 percentage-points.
Another study looked at coronavirus deaths across 198 countries and found that those with cultural norms or government policies favoring mask-wearing had lower death rates.
Two compelling case reports also suggest that masks can prevent transmission in high-risk scenarios, said Chin-Hong and Rutherford. In one case, a man flew from China to Toronto and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. He had a dry cough and wore a mask on the flight, and all 25 people closest to him on the flight tested negative for COVID-19. In another case, in late May, two hair stylists in Missouri had close contact with 140 clients while sick with COVID-19. Everyone wore a mask and none of the clients tested positive."
You keep relying on those straw man arguments.
That's my point.... there will be casualties....unavailable....but I think we all know it won't approach anywhere near 4.1 mill.
For this economy to work for everyone.....everyone has to work....every paying job is essential.
When 30% of industries aren't able to work.....eventually it will really hurt the other 70%.
It sucks....but there will be loss of life. But it doesn't make sense to shut things down to save thousands.......when doing so destroys millions.
Doing nothing but go on as normal also will cause 30 times more deaths than the number quoted in 2 years let alone in 20 years.
How do you know this?
Gut feeling?
Are these the people who we should expect to self monitor and self isolate to protect others?
Anyone going to the Georgia-Alabama game if fans are allowed?
Getting college kids on campus and away from home is probably the absolute best thing to do.
If they get covid.....they get covid......they'll be fine. And they won't be home to give it to parents or grandparents.
Put professors behind plexiglass shields. It's about time these professors faced some real life hardships anyway.... maybe they'll start having some real life views on things.