OT: Daily COVID thread — 9/11

[Richie O]

Hey everybody we are going to try something new. Instead of having the one big COVID thread, we are going to start a new daily COVID thread every single day and lock it every night around midnight with a new one starting shortly after.

We will be a little lax on the board rules in this thread about political postings as long as it pertains to COVID. However the rest of the board rules are still in full effect, there will be no fighting, no name calling, etc. There are also no warnings in this thread, if you step out of line here or attack others for no reason, a ban will immediately follow.

With that being said, post away.

 

[Knight Shift]

How Orwellian of LinkedIn:

 

[bac2therac]

 

[bac2therac]

 

[bac2therac]

zero hospitalizations....26K college positives

Brown U. epidemiologist finds zero hospitalizations from 26,000 positive COVID tests for college students | The College Fix

It would make sense for colleges to treat their students like prisoners if those on campus were a demonstrable public health risk. Yet the data so far show the exact opposite.

www.thecollegefix.com

 

[T2Kplus10]

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+1
The flu is more dangerous to the school age demo than corona (as per the data).

 

[RUforJERSEY]

Covid sucks.

 

[King of S]

zero hospitalizations....26K college positives

Brown U. epidemiologist finds zero hospitalizations from 26,000 positive COVID tests for college students | The College Fix

It would make sense for colleges to treat their students like prisoners if those on campus were a demonstrable public health risk. Yet the data so far show the exact opposite.

www.thecollegefix.com

Exactly! Same at Iowa St. and most other colleges- zero hospitalizations! Does that mean virus has weakened or mutated down? Probably so but no officials will tell you that, yet.

 

[King of S]

+1
The flu is more dangerous to the school age demo than corona (as per the data).

Paranoia has taken over.

 

[Plum Street]

Today’s update .
Still no cure or vaccine .
Check back tomorrow

 

[superfan01]

Today’s update .
Still no cure or vaccine .
Check back tomorrow

Isn’t this the October 11 covid thread. Maybe we are suppose to speculate if we have a vaccine.

 

[Caliknight]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

 

[Knight Shift]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

Trump should have acted sooner.

 

[RU Cheese]

Isn’t this the October 11 covid thread. Maybe we are suppose to speculate if we have a vaccine.

Good catch. Surprisingly cool weather for early to mid October, no?

 

[RU Cheese]

I'm pretty sure everyone was told "never forget"

 

[bac2therac]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

Yup..the worm is turning

 

[T2Kplus10]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

Except Sweden. 😀

 

[DJ Spanky]

My study on the efficacy of well-aged single malt scotch in preventing me from catching it is still ongoing.

 

[Knight Shift]

My study on the efficacy of well-aged single malt scotch in preventing me from catching it is still ongoing.

Is it a double blind randomized clinical trial? Cause those are the only ones that matter (for HCQ).

 

[Section124]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

You wouldn't know it based on the major US news stations. They only care about Trump stories.

 

[Section124]

A certain poster is not going to be happy when he wakes up and sees his thread is locked.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

I actually see that as bad news for us since we don't want to ban travel from Europe forever, well maybe France 😉

 

[RUfromSoCal?]

How about we stop comparing COVID to 9/11?

...see you after my ban.............

 

[Tango Two]

No COVID-19 Patients at Saint Peter's For First TIme Since Pandemic Hit

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Saint Peter’s University Hospital had no COVID-19 patients in its beds on Wednesday for the first time since March.

www.tapinto.net

 

[ArminRU]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

They got everything under control fairly quickly, was able to open things up, now they are paying the price (really only Spain and France). Very predictable. But it was probably worth it for them. Would not be surprised if we’re on a similar path.

 

[bac2therac]

Or Virus gone virus

 

[knightfan7]

My study on the efficacy of well-aged single malt scotch in preventing me from catching it is still ongoing.

You'll like this story. Who says single malt can't make your life better?

Man whose dad gave him Macallan whisky every birthday sells it to buy a home

Lucky man.

metro.co.uk

 

[RU848789]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

Wrong as usual. The EU+UK had 33K cases yesterday, while the US had 39K cases (and it was 27K for the EU/UK and 35K for the US 2 days ago), plus the EU/UK has about 1.4X the population of the US, so the US is still well ahead of the EU in cases per capita (1.6X as many). However, it's definitely true that the huge gap from June/July has narrowed considerably since August and the 7-day average is still increasing for the EU and decreasing for the US, although the positivity rates are lower in the EU (more testing) and deaths per capita are far lower (1163 the last week in the EU/UK vs. over 5000 in the US during that time), although the lag in deaths should send the EU numbers up in coming weeks.

COVID-19 | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

qap.ecdc.europa.eu

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

www.worldometers.info

 

[RU848789]

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That tweet is from someone completely ignorant of H1N1 vs. COVID. H1N1 only resulted in 12K deaths, much lower than a typical flu season (34K deaths) and obviously far lower than COVID (nearly 200K deaths now). Yes H1N1 was worse in children and if that were the only concern I'd say let's not worry about schools and COVID, but the real issue here is the risk of infected children infecting teachers, staff and family members who are at far greater risk than from H1N1. You're quite good at finding irrelevant tweets.

 

[RU848789]

A certain poster is not going to be happy when he wakes up and sees his thread is locked.

As per my post yesterday, doesn't matter much, as I'm about to get much busier with my consulting gig for my old company (will now be working on bringing a new COVID antiviral manufacturing process to market), so my posting here was likely to go way down anyway. I guess this is better than no thread, but it'll make having useful exchanges over multiple days more difficult and will make finding posts harder, but I get why they're doing it, since it makes for little need to moderate something that can only get so far out of hand in 1 day. It's just sad that the CE crowd has brought it to this - that first thread was just so much better, at least for a few months. I can see this one being like Groundhog Day with a similar set of posts every day.

 

[Greg2020]

How Orwellian of LinkedIn:

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Micheal Levitt said Israel would only have 10 deaths total from Corona virus. They have more than 500 and just announced that they are doing a nationwide lockdown again. I could care less what he says.

 

[Greg2020]

Europe doing much worse than the US now. Hmmmm.

Nope USA more deaths by far everyday than Europe has combined in a week.

 

[Greg2020]

Or Virus gone virus

Except the virus didn't virus all summer there. Was it on a summer holiday???? Explain.

 

[tom1944]

Did anyone see the article where nursing homes with union employees had a 30% lower death rate than non union nursing homes

 

[Knight Shift]

Micheal Levitt said Israel would only have 10 deaths total from Corona virus. They have more than 500 and just announced that they are doing a nationwide lockdown again. I could care less what he says.

Try to address the topic at hand. Love how some of you people just want to revert back to something someone said that you don't like or want to quibble with without addressing the topic at hand. Many people care less what you have to say, yet you keep saying things.

 

[Greg2020]

Try to address the topic at hand. Love how some of you people just want to revert back to something someone said that you don't like or want to quibble with without addressing the topic at hand. Many people care less what you have to say, yet you keep saying things.

I am impeaching his credibility. Everyone cares what I have to say whether they love it or hate it.

 

[Section124]

As per my post yesterday, doesn't matter much, as I'm about to get much busier with my consulting gig for my old company (will now be working on bringing a new COVID antiviral manufacturing process to market), so my posting here was likely to go way down anyway. I guess this is better than no thread, but it'll make having useful exchanges over multiple days more difficult and will make finding posts harder, but I get why they're doing it, since it makes for little need to moderate something that can only get so far out of hand in 1 day. It's just sad that the CE crowd has brought it to this - that first thread was just so much better, at least for a few months. I can see this one being like Groundhog Day with a similar set of posts every day.

Well I hope you are making 3X what you used to make as a consultant. I used to work for a company that gave an early retirement package to most older employees. Only to hire them back at 3X pay. Good luck and get that COVID process to market!

 

[Knight Shift]

I am impeaching his credibility. Everyone cares what I have to say whether they love it or hate it.

There is nothing to impeach, Counselor (thought you weren't a lawyer, formerly). He was tweeting a tweet from another individual who got banned from LinkedIn for citing and quoting an article questioning the value of lockdowns. Are you debating that the tweet is real? We can all be assure that you are not for real, because all you ever do is toe the same party line and do the same tap dance to the same tune.

 

[ArminRU]

As per my post yesterday, doesn't matter much, as I'm about to get much busier with my consulting gig for my old company (will now be working on bringing a new COVID antiviral manufacturing process to market), so my posting here was likely to go way down anyway. I guess this is better than no thread, but it'll make having useful exchanges over multiple days more difficult and will make finding posts harder, but I get why they're doing it, since it makes for little need to moderate something that can only get so far out of hand in 1 day. It's just sad that the CE crowd has brought it to this - that first thread was just so much better, at least for a few months. I can see this one being like Groundhog Day with a similar set of posts every day.

Any clue when trial news of the Merck antiviral will be hitting? Supposed to be any day now.

 

[tom1944]

Did anyone see the article where nursing homes with union employees had a 30% lower death rate than non union nursing homes

Here is the article

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01011