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Tex, I get that you're frustrated. We all are. The whole world is. But not one school district. Not one state is paying attention to what is posted on this forum. Nor is the NBA, MLB, NFL, CFB, etc.
Just as an aside. I remember when "playing doctor" had a much more positive meaning. 😎
True enough.....and from all the DVs I'm getting....a lot of other people have stopped following this thread as well......
Oh well.....I guess the "qualified experts" can have it
“The doctor I choose to believe is more right than the doctor you choose to believe...”
On Florida FYI - The deaths reported for the last 7 days total 859.
The deaths by date show (remember 1 day lag)
7/20 - 93
7/21 - 82
7/22 - 68
7/23 - 54
7/24 - 22
7/25 -18
7/26 - 7
Total for the 7 days - 344.
Based on seeing the prior days increasing on a daily basis the assumption is that 515 of the deaths this past week relate to prior weeks. Does that mean that the admin delays accounted for the death count reported 7/20 (->7/19) were low by 515. How many deaths are we behind today. Maybe my projection is closer than the actual. That would explain in effect an additional 4+ day lag between Case and Reported (not actual) death!
BTW - This doesn't include the allegation that they only include confirmed deaths from Covid whereas they should include presumed Covid deaths also. With a NEW posivtivity rate close to 20% this could be significant.
I’ve been at Sinclair since Thursday. Spent a day with a physician who owns the house next door. The first thing he asked rhetorically when he pulled up was, “you guys aren’t wearing your masks?” He then went on to say that masks are pointless and this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. I have yet to speak to an actual doctor who is worried about COVID. Strange.
A person under the age of 65 is far more likely to die by suicide than Covid19 (especially if her last name is Maxwell and her first name is hard to pronounce but starts with a "G").
I have lost two acquaintances to suicide since June. I am convinced that one (who I was closer to) was precipitated by isolation. I think about two sweet children that lost a parent (and all the baggage that goes with it) every day. I understand that Covid19 is serious but I also understand that it's not serious to the exclusion of everything else.
Whenever we, as a society, decide to take off our masks the numbers for viral infections will spike. I'm less afraid of that than I am of an antisocial world of antibacterial baths every time i get in or out of my car. I'm exhausted of Facebook MD's posting data from selected web sources projecting where this virus is headed.
Well I work around a few Doctors, PA's and CFNP's and they are worried....
My cousin penned this about my grandmother:
2020 has been a tough year. It might be good to put things in perspective. This photo is of the wedding of my grandparents. My grandmother was born March 3, 1900
Imagine if you were also born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts. As a young bride, you send off your husband to the war. It ends when you are 18 with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet and now you have four sons overseas in the war.
Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war. The Holocaust kills six million.
At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Now it is your grandchildren overseas fighting in a war.
Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that?
As kid in 1975, I didn’t think my 75 year old grandmother understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents relied on grit and faith to survive through everything listed above. They remained faithful to God and country and built the greatest nation on earth.
2020 has been tough, but it is not so bad when viewed through a little perspective. We got this.
But the answer according to some is to completely isolate anyone over 65 and/or that live with someone in that range and/or have preexisting conditions for months if not years. Wont that lead to millions more committing suicide versus shutting down for 4 weeks with financial protection.
No.
My wife is a PA, she’s not worried...Neither are the doctors she works with, her uncle, one of the finest physicians in the entire southeast, my best friend the ER physician, and his wife who owns her own emergency medicine practice, nor any of my commercial physician clients that I’ve spoken to about COVID...
So indefinite isolation doesn't cause suicide? In June most all states were open to an extent and none to my knowledge were in lock-down. In fact I don't think any state has been in lock-down ever. Airlines never were restricted other than international travel which remains prohibited by other countries due to the US not getting Covid under control. Cruise lines are shut down but US tourists are banned in the Bahamas for the same reason and are likely not to be allowed until the virus is tamed. What other businesses are closed?
My plan was always shut down (really shut down) protect the individuals financially and tame the beast. For 90% of the people a job is the means not the end and if financially protected would gladly take a short sabbatical to see light at the end of the tunnel. and get back to a semblance of normal.
What are you suggesting is the way forward?
That was an eye opener. One thing kept circling in my head as I read it was through every one of those crisis', with the exception of the Vietnam war, the American people came together as one. During this crisis we are fighting and politicizing something as simple as wearing a mask.
What difference does my opinion make? Somebody will just post a pie chart or bar graph that demonstrates that I’m an idiot.
Google has made “confirmation bias” a simple pastime. I’m well aware that my perspective will matter a great deal to those that agree with me and amount to rubbish to those who don’t and wont do a thing to bridge the gap between the two.