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Nzoner's Game Room>***NON-POLITICAL COVID-19 Discussion Thread***
JakeF 10:28 PM 02-26-2020
A couple of reminders...

Originally Posted by Bwana:
Once again, don't come in this thread with some kind of political agenda, or you will be shown the door. If you want to go that route, there is a thread about this in DC.
Originally Posted by Dartgod:
People, there is a lot of good information in this thread, let's try to keep the petty bickering to a minimum.

We all have varying opinions about the impact of this, the numbers, etc. We will all never agree with each other. But we can all keep it civil.

Thanks!

Click here for the original OP:

Spoiler!

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banyon 04:45 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by Donger:
While that would be fantastic, I'm not seeing how deaths are going to decrease while cases are increasing. What am I missing?
I think he is saying that post vaccination availability, the most vulnerable people that are dying should have some form of protection to bring down that number.
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DaFace 04:45 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by Donger:
While that would be fantastic, I'm not seeing how deaths are going to decrease while cases are increasing. What am I missing?
We're vaccinating the most vulnerable people first.
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Donger 04:47 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by DaFace:
We're vaccinating the most vulnerable people first.
:-)

Sorry, major brain fart.
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Pasta Little Brioni 04:56 PM 12-17-2020
That's been the play all along. Quarantine the most vulnerable until a vaccine. The rest of us were 99.999 percent going to be ok. Meanwhile, we absolutely wrecked the economy and cause insurmountable mental health damage that will have severe long term effects
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Kidd Lex 05:01 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I once served on a child automotive fatality review board. It's a great example of how nothing is really straightforward. If you have a case where a kid was killed in a routine minor crash by a red light runner solely because he wasn't in a car seat, then was the death due to running a red light or not being in a car seat? Or if a drunk 16 year-old runs the right tires off of the shoulder on a rural road, overcorrects because she's never been in that situation, and then rolls the car, is it a drunk driver fatality or a poor training fatality or an engineering fatality for the shoulder dropoff or a fatality due to a long response time given the location?

It's easy to think that this stuff is straightforward, but there's often a cascade effect where one thing may start the problem but it's the combination that results in the death.
That had to be a tough assignment.
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Rain Man 05:11 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by LTL:
One of those arms will be mine at 8am in thc morning.

via GIPHY


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Rain Man 05:15 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by Kidd Lex:
That had to be a tough assignment.
I got kind of desensitized to the common types of deaths, which is probably not nice to say, but there were some pretty common story lines that we heard over and over. Seriously, parents - train your kid how to not overcorrect if their tire drops off onto a shoulder. But every once in a while one would come along that would make me cringe, either due to the accident itself or the situation leading up to the accident.
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petegz28 06:12 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by DaFace:
I bet we'll see plenty of CASES until we get up toward 60-70%, but in theory we should see DEATHS start to drop VERY soon (maybe even by the end of January). That's the hope at least.
If cases are going up why would deaths go down? Aside from learning to treat better?

Having said that we have to keep in mind that cases have surged more than 7 times of what they were in the first wave while deaths have risen rather minimally all things considered. We peaked at around 35k daily cases in the first wave with a peak of around 2.75k daily deaths.

We are now at 251k new daily cases and I say only (but still a lot) 3.4k daily deaths.


So while I don't get where you get rising cases but less deaths I do see deaths dropping significantly with only a minimal drop in cases.
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petegz28 06:14 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by DaFace:
We're vaccinating the most vulnerable people first.
Alright, I had not read down to this post so I see where you are coming from on that.
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Pasta Little Brioni 06:17 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by petegz28:
If cases are going up why would deaths go down? Aside from learning to treat better?

Having said that we have to keep in mind that cases have surged more than 7 times of what they were in the first wave while deaths have risen rather minimally all things considered. We peaked at around 35k daily cases in the first wave with a peak of around 2.75k daily deaths.

We are now at 251k new daily cases and I say only (but still a lot) 3.4k daily deaths.


So while I don't get where you get rising cases but less deaths I do see deaths dropping significantly with only a minimal drop in cases.

BUT BUT BUT according to Dinger, you'd think we'd have seven times the deaths
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Donger 06:21 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball:
BUT BUT BUT according to Dinger, you'd think we'd have seven times the deaths
Are you ever right?
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dirk digler 06:26 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by petegz28:
You were not seriously asking. If you were it came off as rather rhetorical.


I have said this a hundred times and I will say it again, if you want to lock things down then fine. But you have to compensate the businesses and their employees and such.

I feel a lot better about it if a business suffers because people choose not to go out. That can happen at any time for any reason and does every few years because of simple economic swings.

That being said I am not a fan of shutting people down and tell them too ****ing bad when I have a pay check and I am not impacted by said edict.
Here is the dilemma though Pete and that is the Federal government have failed in their responsibilities so what are the local and state governments supposed to do? They don't have the ability to pay businesses or people only the federal government does.

If you are mayor or governor your #1 responsibility in situations like this is to save as many lives as you can.

You just can't put this all on the local\state governments and then blame them for not paying businesses to stay open.

Just my .02 cents
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dirk digler 06:28 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by LTL:
One of those arms will be mine at 8am in thc morning.
I win, mine will be at 7AM. :-) :-)
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Pasta Little Brioni 06:41 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by Donger:
Are you ever right?
Yes? Why wouldn't I be?
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petegz28 06:43 PM 12-17-2020
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
Here is the dilemma though Pete and that is the Federal government have failed in their responsibilities so what are the local and state governments supposed to do? They don't have the ability to pay businesses or people only the federal government does.

If you are mayor or governor your #1 responsibility in situations like this is to save as many lives as you can.

You just can't put this all on the local\state governments and then blame them for not paying businesses to stay open.

Just my .02 cents
I am not going to get into this because it will get very political, very fast. Suffice it to say there needs(ed) to be a concerted effort by all levels but yeah, politics.
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