D&D and the rising pandemic

[FrogReaver]

These projections —IHME | COVID-19 Projections — seem dubious, with peaks being reached tomorrow. I don’t see how the projected curve matches other statistics that I’ve see. Are we anywhere close to an overall steady state (in the US), that is, where the number of new cases matches the number who are clinically post infection? A downturn requires at least that, and we don’t seem to be even there yet.

Be safe and be well,
Tom Bitonti

Our new cases per day is very close to stable at the moment. If it's going up per day then it barely is. That's enough to cause the death rate to drop significantly.

 

[FrogReaver]

This is particularly amazing!

Apple, Google bring COVID-19 contact-tracing to 3 billion people

 

[abirdcall]

That's the point. 91 people confirmed by test to have it after recovering out of 376,000 people altogether. The odds there are just as likely to be coincidence due to faulty tests or any other number of reasons that wouldn't apply to a broader population. Get back to me if/when they find more.

No one has said that it has been proven.

It was just a thing someone posted saying that it happened.

There is no need to be so argumentative. I think you're reading way more into things than what is really there.

If you're not interested you can also just move along too.

 

[Azzy]

I see bad leadership,
Florida Governor Spreads Dangerous Falsehood About Who Dies From Coronavirus

I would like to state for the record that I did not vote for this dumbass.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I would like to state for the record that I did not vote for this dumbass.

Neither did i. Fortunately im not an american.

Unfortunately i am an earthling and politicians cover this planet.

Why do 99% of politicians suck so bad? :'(

 

[Zardnaar]

Neither did i. Fortunately im not an american.

Unfortunately i am an earthling and politicians cover this planet.

Why do 99% of politicians suck so bad? :'(

I've been joking on other forums that New Zealand should run the world as everyone else is so bad at it.

In 1776 US had 4 million people. We've got 5. Give us our own continent and 200 years.

Might have to annex Canada and Norway. We'll need help to run the world.

I can promise the velvet glove, milk powder, Rugby with nice biscuits and chocolate. NFL will be banned though replaced with Rugby. Baseball also banned you get cricket.

 

[Azzy]

Neither did i. Fortunately im not an american.

Unfortunately i am an earthling and politicians cover this planet.

Why do 99% of politicians suck so bad? :'(

There are two schools of thought on this:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
—John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."
—Frank Herbert (1920–1986), Chapterhouse: Dune

Personally, I find that there is truth in both statements—power is, indeed, an intoxicant that easily corrupts those that hold it, but it also a siren's song to those whose hearts are already corrupt.

 

[Umbran]

I didn't claim flu would give a false positive. I said they could have flu while also getting a false positive. 2 independent actions...

While that could happen... it is a bit of an odd coincidence. A person who had covid-19, and got tested positive, recovered, and then caught the flu, and have had a bad test? You'd not expect it to happen often.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Why do 99% of politicians suck so bad? :'(

Because they’re not YOUR politicians!

It’s an old political science truism that incumbents have an advantage because the people who voted for them kinda blind themselves to the flaws everyone else sees.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Personally, I find that there is truth in both statements—power is, indeed, an intoxicant that easily corrupts those that hold it, but it also a siren's song to those whose hearts are already corrupt.

As several studies have pointed out, career politicians on all parts of the political spectrum tend to have personality traits very strongly associated with the so-called Dark Triad.

Research ties dark personality traits to political campaigning

Selinsgrove — New research from Susquehanna University political scientist Rolfe Peterson finds that personality traits known as the Dark Triad – Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy – show themselves at higher

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Dark triad - Wikipedia

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