The Current trump failure

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America(563 per million) just blew past Sweden(562) in deaths per million. trump will definitely take us past Italy(589), Spain(615), and then Britain(621) by election day, and probably a month sooner. There may be bigger failures in the Third World, but trump will be the biggest failure in the first world.

Countries will not lift their travel ban on the USA until we get this under control. Our economy will continue to long term shrink as long as we have travel bans against us.

And there is no plan to get this under control. Maybe a miracle will appear, but it will not happen by election day.

So it looks like the Alt Right will be stuck claiming it is all a hoax.
 
Something to think about. Italy, Spain, and Britain got high numbers from just part of their countries being hit hard. They were able to get it under control before it hit the entire country hard. For instance, Italy was only hit hard in Northern Italy, where only a third of the people live.

America has no plan to control Covid-19. It will spread everywhere, and continue to spread until hopefully it burns itself out. That means we should expect several times higher death rates.

And that is only if it burns itself out. Many viruses do not burn themselves out. Most viruses do not burn themselves out completely. There is a lot of wishful thinking in even thinking that it will kill hundreds of thousands more Americans.
 
America(563 per million) just blew past Sweden(562) in deaths per million. trump will definitely take us past Italy(589), Spain(615), and then Britain(621) by election day, and probably a month sooner. There may be bigger failures in the Third World, but trump will be the biggest failure in the first world.

Countries will not lift their travel ban on the USA until we get this under control. Our economy will continue to long term shrink as long as we have travel bans against us.

And there is no plan to get this under control. Maybe a miracle will appear, but it will not happen by election day.

So it looks like the Alt Right will be stuck claiming it is all a hoax.
 
Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time. But researchers say the solution is not to test less, or to skip testing people without symptoms, as recently suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.amp.html
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How about the current PCR test failure?

If a testing regime is ‘picking up huge amounts of individuals with insignificant amounts of virus’—then it is effectively producing a huge amount of false positives.

Immediately, this raises the question of how many deaths were categorized as COVID deaths based on faulty tests. When this came out about the PCR tests it reduced the death statistics to junk. The figure is useless—and likely always will be because it’s going to be impossible to unravel.

And the CDC is right: stop testing asymptomatic people until a less sensitive testing regime is in place that won’t pick up individuals with six COVID viruses in their nasopharyngx. And it should happen immediately because it’s going to be impossible to keep schools open when it’s literally guaranteed that some kids are going to ‘test positive’ for COVID—when they aren’t positive, actually.

“In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.“[from NYT link]

Stop testing asymptomatic people. Now.
 
Maybe if we stop testing people spreading Covid-19, it will magically go away?

Its already going away in the sense that it is seemingly rapidly evolving into a standard coronavirus....AKA one that we barely care about.
 

Hospitalizations have always been the best barometer.

‘Case’ numbers are nearly meaningless at this point until PCR tests are replaced. Or until it’s mandated that a PCR test isn’t labeled positive unless it takes less than 30 cycles to detect genetic material of the virus.

If they would do that our COVID numbers would drop like a brick. If the OP wants to fault Trump for something—fault him for not making this happen, today.

Somehow, I get the idea the OP wouldn’t think that would be politically expedient. At least not until after the election.
 
Wait a minute.

Did it just dawn on the CDC that there should be a maximum number of cycles on PCR tests? Are these tests being cycled ‘until they can finally wring some viral genetic material out of it’?

IOW, if your PCR test comes back negative you are really, really, negative for any China Virus in your nasopharyngx lol.

How did they not know this? We are six months into this and they just figured this out?
 
Its already going away in the sense that it is seemingly rapidly evolving into a standard coronavirus....AKA one that we barely care about.

We seem to be settling into a phase where Covid-19 kills between 500 and 1,500 a day, with no end in sight.

That is assuming that we do not have a huge expansion.

Either way, we are quarantined with no end in sight. How many years before we collapse? I hope it is years, because that will give us time to come up with a solution.
 
Hospitalizations have always been the best barometer.

‘Case’ numbers are nearly meaningless at this point until PCR tests are replaced. Or until it’s mandated that a PCR test isn’t labeled positive unless it takes less than 30 cycles to detect genetic material of the virus.

If they would do that our COVID numbers would drop like a brick. If the OP wants to fault Trump for something—fault him for not making this happen, today.

Somehow, I get the idea the OP wouldn’t think that would be politically expedient. At least not until after the election.

Originally I was going with deaths but months ago I went to World0Meters Serious/Critical, that seemed to be the more reliable number. It also is a good view into how stressed the hospitals are, much more that hospitalizations because people were being hospitalized when there was no medical reason to do so.
 
We seem to be settling into a phase where Covid-19 kills between 500 and 1,500 a day, with no end in sight.

That is assuming that we do not have a huge expansion.

Either way, we are quarantined with no end in sight. How many years before we collapse? I hope it is years, because that will give us time to come up with a solution.

Herd immunity lol.

It will make you sleep better at night.
 
Originally I was going with deaths but months ago I went to World0Meters Serious/Critical, that seemed to be the more reliable number. It also is a good view into how stressed the hospitals are, much more that hospitalizations because people were being hospitalized when there was no medical reason to do so.

What is critical seems to differ from country to country, and even within countries. Whereas death is pretty much universally defined.
 
Maybe if we stop testing people spreading Covid-19, it will magically go away?
maybe if you stop posting dumb shit you will go away? ha. we should be so lucky
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When I heard about the guy killed on a motorcycle who was listed as a COVID death,
I stopped paying attention to how many people are "infected"
 
Originally I was going with deaths but months ago I went to World0Meters Serious/Critical, that seemed to be the more reliable number. It also is a good view into how stressed the hospitals are, much more that hospitalizations because people were being hospitalized when there was no medical reason to do so.

How many [quarantine induced] opioid overdoes have had a ‘positive’ PCR test?

I’m to the point I’m skeptical of all the numbers.
 
Herd immunity lol.

It will make you sleep better at night.

Natural herd immunity is often difficult to come by, and may well be impossible with Covid-19. Maybe we will hit natural herd immunity at around a million deaths, but maybe we will just hit a million deaths and just keep going. I am hope we fix this well before finding out.
 
Natural herd immunity is often difficult to come by, and may well be impossible with Covid-19. Maybe we will hit natural herd immunity at around a million deaths, but maybe we will just hit a million deaths and just keep going. I am hope we fix this well before finding out.

Sweden.
 
we should listen to 'da scientists' and shut the country down. 'eh Joe?
Face Time Fauci the other day said he was "concerned" with the numbers of positive tests
 
Natural herd immunity is often difficult to come by, and may well be impossible with Covid-19. Maybe we will hit natural herd immunity at around a million deaths, but maybe we will just hit a million deaths and just keep going. I am hope we fix this well before finding out.
we are well on the way to a vaccine -which also produces herd immunity -
 
Study Suggests COVID-19 Antibodies Last at Least 4 Months
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-...id-19-antibodies-last-at-least-4-months-study
the study, which was published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, involved more than 30,000 people in Iceland and found that antibody levels rose for about two months after infection and then plateaued through the four month mark.
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also we have the so called "memory cells" which can activate antibodies upon re- exposure
 
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