Americans, in general, have almost no discipline. Californians are worse.
It’s shocking how people buy into such stupidity as what you were quoting. Look at the death above average. Look at the hospitals, which are full. Basic logic dictates that you know nothing. You are an atrocity and an abomination and an offense to all the people I know who have died. Go crawl under a rock with your fringe freak views.
I choose not to believe the trash and lies in the media.
Numbers only mean as much as the details behind them. Watch, I’ll do it too.
Indeed. Happy Holidays. Stay safe and hopefully next year's holidays are back to normal!
Tell that to the 139 clients exposed to a couple hairdressers sick with COVID-19, but the clients didn’t get sick — not even one — likely because everybody wore a face covering. It’s either the masks or some incredible luck (or a little of both).
Kerry Mullis himself even said you can PCR basically anything and get a positive result of what you‘re looking for. At this point, America’s has done such a ***** job of managing COVID, it will just have to burn through. Trump and many Americans simply, and mistakenly, fixated on the death rate, which while higher than the season Flu viruses, isn’t that spectacular. What is and should have been the focus is the hospitalization rate and post-recovery morbidity. The US should have instated a nationwide lockdown in March/April. Now it’s too late, and states like California are simply destroying lives and businesses because they mishandled it from the get go. I wish our response would have looked more like Japan’s or New Zealand’s, which understandably is hard to apply to a geographic area the size of the US, but this will continue to get worse through the winter, vaccine or not.
He didn’t say anywhere in his comment that that the pandemic doesn’t exist. I suggest you check your confirmation bias at the door before commenting. He also didn’t sat that the old and infirm deserve to die, only that it is and has always been the case that the old and infirm die. The statistic that over 50% of deaths have been those over 80 and 80% of the deaths have been those over 65 have a new excuse this year other than dying of old age or one of their conventional co-morbidities. How we attribute deaths this year is very much a political act.
Completely agree with you. California and NY both have destroyed far more lives with their responses. Both states also suffer from crushingly pathetic leadership. Newsome and Cuomo are totally inept.
I agree with you. I am a medical student, so it will always be my first responsibility to save someone’s life, and if we’re just going to have the attitude “oh well, they were 75 anyways, they lived a long life” then why stop there, as you pointed out. We have a responsibility to take care of our more compromised, but I also believe we cannot destroy businesses i.e. lives the way NY and California have.
Everyone knew what it was by the time it hit NY/NJ and that it affected the elderly especially hard. Yet, Quomo sent Covid patients to nursing homes, directly resulting in 7k - 10k deaths right off the bat. NJ also failed to protect the elderly and had mass outbreaks in nursing homes. Deblasio was telling NYers to go to the movies 3 days before the lockdown. You don’t hear about these mistakes because the media has a very left bias.
With one side of your mouth say you Florida and California numbers are comparable, and with the other you're struggling to come up with explanations for why Florida's are worse. With one side of your mouth you say the virus hits states at different times, and with the other you say we need to look at recent data and not the entire history. And if treatment and readiness has improved with time as you say, then it's good California's restrictions were able to delay their big outbreak until now, no?
Normally I would agree with you, but the problem is hospital bed capacity.
Evidence actually shows that it was visitors and staff driving nursing home infection rates, not recovering returning residents. DeBlasio did not tell people to go to the movies three days before the lockdown. And masks were mandated mid-April, not mid-summer. Also Georgia has a higher case rate and almost twice the death rate as California.
