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Praying for everyone!!
Don't have a Swiss Chalet?
LOL - a quarter of the stimulus went to Pornhub?
nope...I think I've hit everything restaurant wise...i'm probably missing something though
Juicy Lucy?
That’s only a thing in the twin cities unfortunately 😔
Seems like there are some positive signs out there right now. Cases/deaths been down the last couple days. I'm so impatient for something good to share I'm posting this after only 3 days. Totally possible it all jumps up again today/tomorrow, but i'm choosing optimism.
Hoping you and your are staying safe. I know things are tough, but this won't last forever
I'm with you @Kasey ...an N of 1 is either a new trend or an outlier in absence of more data so trying to pump the brakes on the US death # the past few days - particularly since it was a holiday weekend and there may have been a lag in reporting in some states - but with many of the big/hot zone states having reported already today, I'm cautiously optimistic that even the revised 60K projection may come down a bit more in the coming days.
Per the IMHE model updated on April 10:
4/11 - 1,907 projected v 1,830 actuals
4/12 - 1,910 projected v 1,528 actuals
4/13 - 1,895 projected v 1,357 actuals*
*1,357 = majority of states which have already published so far today - if one were to keep the 14 unreported states flat vs their reported counts from yesterday, this would add another 32 to the total (new total would be 1,389...23% lower than projected).
Nowhere close to being out of the woods yet but certainly a glimmer of hope.
Still hanging tight and healthy here. Still only 3 confirmed cases in our county. Traded a roll of TP for a full tank of gas, still have 2 half rolls behind the seat of of the truck. Hated to tap into my "out back" supply....but what the hey.....get to cruise the deserted streets.....😜
jk about the tp and cruising.....
Caution - I think it's likely that many hospitals and nursing homes didn't report updated numbers over the Easter weekend.
Today and tomorrow may have an element of catch-up.
silver lining, is new case number is dropping (albeit only 3 days so far)
No silver linings allowed. We must stay somber lest we be deemed irrational.
I fear you are right :(
I know it's difficult to imagine a return to normalcy given these daily death totals but I learned two things today that will likely make us need to make some very difficult decisions in the coming weeks and months. They are:
In short - ahead of Q4'21, our best hope is that one of the various antivirals in clinical trials currently prove effective to keep as many patients from progressing to the severe/critical stage.
All that to say: if a vaccine isn't available until Q4'21, are you prepared to shelter in-place for the next year and a half? Or are we best served isolating the most vulnerable to the best of our ability and ripping off the band-aid so to speak (?).
not sure that will work. I think we need to slowly re-open america starting May 1 and monitor the situation closely. it's just not financially feasible to keep going like this for too much longer. people are just going to need their hair cut.
in all seriousness, if things are plateauing or flattening for the remainder of April, we are just going to have to get out of the house and back to work and dam the torpedoes so to speak.
This will certainly spark some discussion...