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COVID-19 Check-in 2.0

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  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,205 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I understand the frustration surrounding the situation. Its confusing and the logic is hard to follow if you aren't plugged in to every step along the way. Messaging has changed since the beginning of the pandemic and given high levels of mistrust for the government and The Academy in the US, its easy to believe there is some nefarious motive for these changes. Science isn't a set of facts but a process. As new evidence came forward minds were changed and so was public policy. This is what happened with public masking. New studies came out showing how effective masking was, so recommendations were updated.

  • PedroPedro Posts: 373 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Thanks Supra. These are the numbers I had seen updated. Pretty compelling and consistent across regions. Interesting the countries that bucked the trend.

  • PedroPedro Posts: 373 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Supra, I have found the economist and FT reliable sources of information and mostly fact based reporting. I subscribe to both so it must be where I got those numbers previously. Clearly Latin America has major issues related to underreporting. If there is herd immunity I suspect they may reach it before developed countries. Didn’t see the India numbers but I imagine mass underreporting there also.

    Anecdotally, there has been pretty aggressive spread in area of KC where I live. High schoolers and swim team parties have been a major source of spread. The area where I grew up in Florida has also seen major spread. While the spread has been aggressive the severity has not been. Both areas tend to skew healthier, but still below what I would expect.

    Also, while deaths have been increasing, I quite frankly expected heavier losses this past week given the cases and lag. Maybe some hope on death rates? Yale, denman, too early?

    As an aside some of the worst characteristics of human behavior are being exhibited. People who know they have been exposed and even awaiting test results willingly going out and exposing others. Regardless of your beliefs, personal freedoms shouldn’t extend to knowingly putting others at risk.

  • pocoyopocoyo Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Can't speak to all of Latin America but ,as far as Central America, only Costa Rica numbers have any validity. Wouldn't even bother looking at them. Nicaragua is hiding the real numbers to the extent that they will not even allow private doctors or hospitals to perform tests. Govt. releases numbers weekly but everyone knows that they're just "made up" numbers.

  • Mia_Dade06Mia_Dade06 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Pretty sure I got it . Body aches, slight fever, neck glands are swollen, dry cough kicking in. I got tested Friday so I’ll know in a few days if so. Started feeling bad the day after the test.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,205 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020
    1. All data being reported are being heavily scrutinized by the media especially at the local level. The media is investigating and reporting oddities to get answers. This demonstrates there is still a healthy level of accountability.
    2. How do we know that COVID-19 didn't contribute to the crash? It may have caused an acute medical issue that caused the crash.
    3. It could have been a mistake. Why does this one case equal a conspiracy from a state government whose governor has been downplaying COVID? If anything it fits a pattern of sloppiness and incompetence, but I'm not seeing widespread malfeasance.
    4. As mentioned earlier its hard to fake numbers of this size, and we are likely still underestimating deaths.
  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,205 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
  • Canedawg2140Canedawg2140 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Praying for you!!!

    Hopefully it will be a brief time of milder symptoms for you!

  • Denmen185Denmen185 Posts: 7,474 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Todayss numbers for yesterday Cases 12,478 with 70653 new people tested so 17.7% of them were positive. Hospitalizations 339 for a new total of 20971; Deaths (Residents only) 87 for 4982 to date.

    Source


  • ChicagoDawgChicagoDawg Posts: 438 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020

    Prayers for a quick recovery. Hang in there. One of my nieces had it. She had very similar symptoms, but she has fully recovered now.

  • flemingislanddawgflemingislanddawg Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The Governor is not telling people to go hog wild. He shut bars back down when they broke the rules. I know someone put out that the Department of Professional Regulation did it and not him but he told them to do it since they regulate bars. I see him wearing a mask right up until he gets to the podium like anyone else. As far as schools there are 3 different models to follow. Like you said with treating H1N1 like the flu there are things to do with this one. Why does the average person need to see the numbers posted in the media everyday other than to scare? We know it is bad wear a mask wash your hands keep your distance and when given the all clear go back to normal. If it wasn't necessary to post numbers everyday for other viruses like the Hong Kong Flu or H1N1 why is it needed now?

  • Mia_Dade06Mia_Dade06 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Yea started feeling a little weird yesterday but I went to the gym twice and had a good few workouts so I didn’t think anything of it. Last night started to get that achey and fatigue feeling. Then this morning started to feel that joint and body ache pain associated with flus and fevers. Took a pre workout and was gonna head to the gym and push through but I’m gonna wait for my results to come back. Not the worst feeling I’ve ever had but definitely not feeling great.

  • Denmen185Denmen185 Posts: 7,474 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Good luck. Interested in your recovery #1 but also how long it takes to the results. Some are claiming 2 weeks in SFL.

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