D&D and the rising pandemic

[gepetto]

In case you missed it, POTUS’ latest “outsider“ medical expert, Dr. Atlas, is a radiologist who favors herd immunity...and gets some of his stats from the same place Trump does- from thin air. Get your salt licks ready, you’re going to need many grains.

Trump's new coronavirus adviser uses made-up statistics and false claims to praise White House pandemic response

In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump’s most visible, and presumably trusted, coronavirus adviser.

www.yahoo.com

President Trump's New COVID-19 Adviser Is Making Public Health Experts Nervous

Dr. Scott Atlas is a radiologist from Stanford with some unorthodox ideas about managing the pandemic. The White House says his thinking is just what's needed, but scientists aren't so sure.

www.npr.org

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

Nearly everyone who is killed or seriously harmed is in thier 70s or later with 2 or more serious co-morbities.

If not for media hype causing government over reactions nobody would have even noticed there was a new flu virus here. The actual viruses impact on the life of the average person would have been less then that of a normal flu season.

 

[Garthanos]

Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

50 percent of the deaths in my county alone are 20 years below expected life span your numbers are BS.

Language, please.

 

[Cadence]

Except that IS true. Our average age of covid death is 78. Average life expectancy is 78.5 here. Pretty much everyone who it got was going to die this year anyway and its only costing half a year of life on average.

Nearly everyone who is killed or seriously harmed is in thier 70s or later with 2 or more serious co-morbities.

If not for media hype causing government over reactions nobody would have even noticed there was a new flu virus here. The actual viruses impact on the life of the average person would have been less then that of a normal flu season.

We wouldn't have noticed somewhere between 105,000 to 220,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19... and that's after shutting things down!?!

(Excess death #s at Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19 )

 

[Garthanos]

We wouldn't have noticed somewhere between 105,000 to 220,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19... and that's after shutting things down?

(Excess death #s at Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19 )

Yup 18 percent higher than normal and that includes the effect of reducing contact ... places without doing that get about 5 times the deaths as those that do it fairly well... it would be more like twice as many deaths as typical in a given year without doing something.

Bad bad math

 

[Cadence]

nobody would have even noticed

But once you do notice...
From Officer Down Memorial Page for the United States for 2020

 

[Garthanos]

Pretending we don't have a national disaster only makes things worse.

 

[Zardnaar]

QR codes in businesses. Basically use it whenever you go somewhere.

 

[cbwjm]

QR codes in businesses. Basically use it whenever you go somewhere.
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My covid diary seems to be mostly cafes. Nice when sign in works straight away, other times it takes a while and you need to move your phone around until the angle is just right.

 

[Zardnaar]

My covid diary seems to be mostly cafes. Nice when sign in works straight away, other times it takes a while and you need to move your phone around until the angle is just right.

We only really go out for family dinners, well breakfast today.

 

[Cadence]

We only really go out for family dinners, well breakfast today.

Done carryout or drive through (things we could reheat at home)... but haven't actually eaten in a restaurant since middle of March. :-(