We were at 4 a couple days ago and now we are at 5 per million of the population.
Italy has increased to 151

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Expected but over a thousand still is pretty low.

Yep, 1000 deaths per million would be 1/10th of one percent

Danny the people that do the math here. Have said we would be way higher numbers if they hadn't spread us all out. locked down things..
Something like 2200 infected instead of 842???
Math never been my strong suit can't get much past my ten fingers.. but it's easy to see numbers are highest where we're bunched up. Guess like parvo in the raccoons densest get hit worse. ..

Mac

its increasing. we are up to 6 deaths per million.

The numbers are going to keep going up for a long time.

Keith

around 1800 nationwide now according to Hopkins. 517 in NYC alone.
88000 annually from alcohol but that's legal so meh......and folks pull their wallets out and pay to die from it.

the situation isn't getting better it's getting worse so the number will only go up from here until things turn around and as of right now there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Italy is over 10,000 deaths total.

It's first case was January 29th.

Italy went into a national lockdown roughly one month later, in March 10th.

2 months. From nothing to 10,000 deaths.

The thing that gets me is that South Korea, Japan and Germany are handling it so well.

The death rate is likely much lower due to people who are asymptomatic, and also only lab-confirmed cases are being counted. There are people in my town presumed positive, but aren't counted as infected because it's not lab confirmed. The death rate is calculated as number of deaths/people infected. The top number is easy, everyone that dies from coronavirus is known. But the bottom number is unknown due to asymptomatic cases and mild cases and unconfirmed cases. The more cases we know about, the lower the deaths are as a percentage.

Their people might be little quicker to snap in line when government speaks??? Only got to have followed this group here on T-man to see how it was first talked about in this country..Just a joke to start with for few to many people, or government trying to control us..Still people thinking it's government trying to just control us no big deal..Those folks in them countries snap in line when their government says might be a problem need to do this or that.

Mac

I guess when the cv19 numbers reach the numbers below it will no longer be a crisis


Here are some numbers no one gives a crap about

Goose next time you see the numbers on the screen read it carefully. IT SAYS confirmed AND presumptive cases. I wish they would exclude terminal patients in the stats. 3 in ky where in final stages of cancer. In fact the first death was only given a week to live before he succumbed to the "virus "

At least here in Nebraska, the presumptive cases aren't counted. There are three or four presumptive cases in my town, but they aren't included in the official count for the state. I'm in gage county, and the official count for gage county right now is still zero. In any case, the asymptomatic cases aren't being counted for sure.

covid19 cases in nebraska

We better forget all the baloney about how many die from other things.
This is something we have never experienced before.It is faster spreading than the flu.Can you even imagine what the numbers would be if all the steps that have been taken--were not taken.
Forget all the pissing and moaning. Say your prayers for all the medical workers,say your prayers for all our soldiers and Law enforcement officers.
Do what you can to help stop the spread and quit comparing the virus to the other things that kill us.
Every death due to the virus--is a loss of one of our fellow countrymen.
Tom

Actually South Korea and Singapore were much better prepared for this that we were. After the H1N1 virus a few years back those two countries learned the lessons and created test kits and procedures that our CDC ignored. We spent those dollars researching 'gun violence as a health risk'.

Death rate from this will be way less than 1 percent, pretty much a flu only we want this one to be politicized and shut down the country over. Im more scared of how EASY it is to get citizens in this country whipped into a frenzy and then GLADLY give up all their rights at the drop of a hat so the gov. can 'save' them.

Dark days ahead in this country but not due to this particular virus.

Anti-Gov I've discussed that in depth on another site. Covid-19 is definitely going to kill people but there are a multitude of things that cause the deaths of many people in this country that get little attention. Danny as far as the mortality rate increasing I've also discussed in another place the numbers can be skewed for a number of different reasons. The only positive in our county is a "presumed positive" that wasn't even tested for Covid-19. The CDC has counted "presumed positives" along with confirmed cases since the start of this. How many of those cases counted are presumed positive and not actually tested? I challenge anyone to find that information.

Nebraska is no longer reporting "presumed positives" we are in the lower end of the spectrum for cases in the United States since they quit reporting presumed positives and are no longer tracking presumed positives. People are only being tested here if they are aged 1-65 healthcare workers which are symptomatic, over the age of 65 years old and in critical condition, and I believe they just came out with guidelines yesterday to test institutionalized patients with symptoms. If you're only being tested because you're in critical condition how can we use those numbers to come up with a mortality rate?

That being said we probably have a large number of people that don't meet the requirements for testing that are infected and are doing just fine at home with mild illness. Those people will never be included in the total cases of Covid-19 (or mortality rate) because we aren't testing them, and they don't meet the requirements to be tested in this state. I can tell you I've ran the 1800 number for our county for a number of nights over the last two weeks. We are fielding a lot of calls I would say on average 25 a day of people that have symptoms and travel that make them likely to have contracted Covid-19 that are being told to self quarantine for 14 days. These same people are being told to only come to the hospital if their symptoms worsen to the point they don't feel safe at home. So far we have not had that happen. These people that have fevers, horrible coughs, and generalized not feeling well are not included in the total cases or the mortality rate.

I'm not downplaying the fact that Covid-19 in the right setting, population, and person has the ability to kill people. What I am simply saying is there are a number of things that the general public has never paid attention to that will also kill you however, Covid has been sensationalized by the media. You look at Anti-Gov's numbers above that's from October of last year. Can you imagine if the media would have reported every case of influenza by state, by day, and then the deaths per day/per state? That would come out on the low end to 133 deaths per day every day to influenza for the last 5 months. So far in two month's time the first Covid-19 was in the United States January 20th we've averaged 33 deaths per day.

I dislike the comparisons to flu and the pandemic of 1918 to covid-19. One is a reminder we couldn’t do much 100 years ago and the other kills relatively few. Covid-19 is here, now, and potentially kills many more than the flu.

This one started in ASIA but so what? They all start somewhere. It’s what you do with the knowledge that counts. When it first started local Wuhan government tried to discredit the doctor who was notifying his colleagues that he was seeing a strain of virus that had serious potential. Local officials had no knowledge of the extent because no testing had been done to show how nasty it could become.

Contrast this to our own leadership. Our president called it fake news put out by a political party to take him down. Our government also didn’t have test results but had to have known it was a matter of time (as short as it was) before it got here. Let’s face it, the Chinese didn’t know how serious it was. But we did.

All of this is water under the bridge. Most world leaders are leading their populations through some pretty tough times. The US now has some leadership ( Anthony Fauci for one, Mike Pence for another). Medical interventions, procedures and equipment are sometimes slow. The US has hot spots where treatment capabilities are overwhelmed. But the numbers will go down and we’ll get better at treating it. But it’s going to hurt for a while.

By the start of the next trapping season, a good many of us are going to have some great stories to tell around the camp fire. Some Tman members will no longer be with us. There will be plenty of time to point fingers, but in the end, it’s the lessons heeded that will make the difference. Until then, clean your trapping equipment and get ready for the 2020-2021 season. We’ve all got time. Might as well make good use of it.

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"Actually South Korea and Singapore were much better prepared for this that we were. After the H1N1 virus a few years back those two countries learned the lessons and created test kits and procedures that our CDC ignored. We spent those dollars researching 'gun violence as a health risk'."
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Can I quote that? Great point!

You wonder why the government has done some of the things it has??? Because we have a lot of stupid people in this country.
When a suggestion was made--it was ignored by many--as proof on the beaches of Florida or on the sidewalks of many towns.Our own people--are our worst enemies--rules and suggestions made are not for them,but for everyone else.

Tom

Agreed, Tom.

In a lot of ways we Americans (now) are, and act like, a bunch of spoiled rotten little rich/entitled brats.

you ever get the feeling your being led by the tv? 1918 5% of the population tipped over. We are at less than 1 /100th of a percent right now. Still no mass graves for the homeless and prisoners.

Maybe they are trying to avoid 5% of the population dying this time?

Or we are over reacting, increasing the deficit with record breaking spending, tanking the stock market, putting untold millions out of work and for how long? how many businesses go under? when we could just tell at risk people to be careful. Just like with any other flu.

instead your being told your selfish if you question any of it.

If this stuff was that bad there would already be segments of the population where death was measured in percents. Not 900 sick people out of 1.2 million like in New Orleans.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/28/us/nypd-coronavirus-deaths/index.html


New York City police lost its first detective to Covid-19, marking the third NYPD death to the disease that has afflicted the department.

On Friday, 4,122 NYPD employees were out sick, a senior NYPD official said. That's about 11% of the department's workforce.

At least 442 uniformed NYPD members and 70 civilian members have tested positive for coronavirus, the official said.

Hard to say what all those numbers may really mean.

if 4000 is 11% then 400 is less than 1%. are they not testing all of them? nor is something else going on? like less than one percent are sick enough to need a dr? how many of the 4000 are just skating cause they dont feel like working?

Exactly

the number dead in usa is over 2000 now and climbing by 300 plus per day.

Doubt it's not feeling like working. Tired of people playing politics when lives are involved? Concerned to expose themselves?

Over 100 doctors lost,so far to Covid19,in the US.

Danny I used to think you were a little smarter than I do now. You have been the constant voice that keeps saying it is not that bad but I bet you are hunkered down like a tick on a dog. Just saying this to lesson your anxiety and bored while you are in isolation in KS. Just a guess. I sure think differently than you and about you. LLL

I'm seeing a pattern in the naysayers. Most live in rural or low population/travel areas at lower risk with fewer cases. Those of us in or within range of major cities/airports are seeing to risk. My local hospitals will be at capa city by the end of the month. My wife and daughter work in the medical field (geriatric not front line, thank God) and the fear is real. I have a sister in law in a college town with the highest number of cases in Alabama (due to young dumb kids spreading it on spring break).
For you guys in rural areas check out Dougherty County/Albany Ga. One funeral has spread the virus throughout the community, killed several (many from the extended family at the funeral) and spread the virus across several states not to mention completely overwhelmed the local medical facility to the point of needing to send in National Guard medics.

Nothing has really changed for me here. Cabinet shops are still considered essential. If I have to go to town, I go to town. I just use common sense and proper hygiene. The town where I work and shop has three colleges.

All you guys that are comparing the dead to to other causes. Just how many have to die before you are concerned?

Id say 100,000 in US


480,000 die from ciggarette smoke every year in the usa

41,000 of those are from 2nd hand smoke

1300 every day




7500 die every day in the usa from all causes . Will cv19 increase those numbers or replace some of those numbers ?

Smoking is a choice. A choice I made over 30 years ago and probably will until I die whether they kill me or not. Catching some virus because dumbasses spread the crap faster the medical professionals can fight it ain't my choice.

It wasnt a choice of the 41000 either

Stay on topic. Secondhand smoke is you bring the virus home from spring break and killing your grandmother.

You dont like those numbers , so how bout the flu ? 50,000 a year dead and you dont stay in your house do you ?

Secondhand smoke,the equivalent of murder by cigarette, kills 41000 a year and it's usually not their choice.

We could go round and round all night but until you look these folks in the eyes and see the fear you'll never understand.

I feel sorry for them of course

I also feel bad for most of the 2,700,000 that die every year in the usa

I wonder if the cv19 will add to those numbers or replace some of the other causes maintaining total

You'll probably see that number by the end of April.

What no one on this thread seems to understand is the concept of exponential spread. The death rate in the US went from 1000 to 2000 in less than 3 days.

That doesn't mean it increased by 1000 (even though it did). It means it doubled. IF it just increased by 1,000 every day, it wouldn't be so bad but that's not what the experts say is happening.

If this thing keeps spreading the way it is... by Tuesday you'll have 4000 dead. By Friday you'll have 8,000. The following Monday, 16,000. By Tax Day, 120,000 dead in the US. THAT is what exponential spread means, an that is will what happen if we don't do better at containing this than we are now.

why are we even comparing this to other deaths its not even relevant to stopping this virus! 64 abortions preformed per day in this country but the flu and auto accidents cause more deaths so that makes it ok? your trying to compare apples to oranges here....I have never been a doomsdayer or the sky is falling but this virus has got my attention ...it has bigger potential than the last virus out of china had...it time to help stop this worldwide virus. and china needs to shut down there wet markets and held accountable or this will continue year after year with greater consequences!

Angela you seem to be confusing exponential spread with mortality rate. I’ll let you figure out why. For the record the “expert” from the UK that predicted 500,000 deaths has changed his “theory” to 20,000.

I know you probably read a Facebook meme that explained it to you so maybe you can enlighten us?

No I was just illustrating how exponential spread affects the mortality rate. When the cases are doubling every three days, the deaths will as well, unless of course the fatality rate changes course from what it's been.

This will explain it to everyone better than I can.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...r-the-covid-19-coronavirus/#7228d4004e9b

Facebook memes are fun, but I prefer listening to various doctors explain things in the national and state press conferences. Figure the infectious disease specialists probably know more about it than trappers do.

Awww there you go ! Nice save....or was it? I’d say the mortality rate will decrease as the virus spreads. Call me crazy.

Ok crazy.

Let's talk in two weeks.

The mortality rate is flawed and sparks fear

Many had it and recovered before testing was available

Many have it and are denied testing and sent home even with the symptoms because they dont meet certain requirements

Not sure why you're so antagonistic, lol... but I truly do hope that I am wrong and you are right.

The current covid-19 deaths in NY matches the all other causes deaths in NY, it will probably surpass that tomorrow...and that is a week or more after shutdowns...imagine where it would be if no one/nothing shut down?

Whats happening in NY is a prelude to what is going to happen all over the USA as this thing spreads......and it is going to spread no matter what precautions are taken. It will either spread very rapidly or very slowly or somewhere in between those two choices.

Hopefully I’ve got time. Things sure are ramping up. I think if we could test for Covid-19 as fast as we can influenza with the availability of testing this virus wouldn’t have been a blimp on the radar and everyone would still be fighting about bounced NAFA checks.

If nothing else maybe this virus will open up conversation about multiple issues this country faces on a daily basis that the general public doesn’t bat an eye over.

On a Positive note. There is a very good amount of folks that have had it and recovering with no issues in Iowa. Stay Safe Everyone!

Angela, I promise I am not as much of as antagonist as I come across on the internet. I’ve put in my time for the week and waiting for the storm with nothing better to do while practicing social isolation.

On a side note Tiger King has half my attention right now.

At least one hospital in NY is storing the dead from Covid in the back of a refer tractor trailer due to lack of other options. I suppose some on here are just saying that's "Normal"?

And remember, even NY is weeks out from the predicted peak. Most of the country a good month behind NY. (predicted).

I understand. I really do. It spreads easily, it kills a lot of people, and it's growing quickly. I get that. What I don't understand is the need to shut the country down for it. Yes, lots of people may die, but lots of people die from other stuff too. I don't mean to keep beating the horse that is the flu comparison, but 20,000 people minimum die from the flu, and that's a lot of people. If the concern with the coronavirus is that it might kill a lot of people, then that same concern should transfer over to other diseases that spread easily and unnecessary too. If shutting down is the appropriate thing to do to prevent coronavirus deaths, then why is not the appropriate thing to do to prevent flu deaths. If it's necessary to only allow essential travel to prevent coronavirus deaths, then why is it acceptable to allow non-essential travel at other times when we know without a doubt that it causes deaths both from disease spread and auto accidents? We're all destined to die from the moment we were conceived in the womb, none of us will escape it. Lots of people may die from the coronavirus, and maybe unnecessarily so due to people not doing the social distancing thing. But guess what.... they're going to die no matter what. I'm going to die. You're going to die. We're all going to die. Maybe from coronavirus, maybe from flu, maybe from a car crash, maybe from heart disease, maybe from cancer, maybe from old age. But it's inevitable, and not to be feared. It can't be escaped.

There is a vaccine for the flu---so that helps keep the number of deaths down. There is no vaccine for the new virus.
Again--for all you hard heads-or dumb (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) as some have said. The new virus spreads easier and faster than our normal flu.Also the normal flu is something we have had several times in our lives.

The old saying--Better to be safe than sorry--seems very appropriate at this time.
Tom

Bogmaster Tom,

To be empathetic towards the tender ones, and fore armed in protection, is a mighty thing. Putting faces to the suffering makes all the difference.

The flu vac is only 20% effective , prolly why so many deaths

The normal flues we get every year are not pandemic,because their rate of spread is fragmented by populations that have already been exposed and have acquired some level of immunity.
Covid 19 is a novel virus -brand new -never been around before- so it is pandemic.No barriers at all to its ability to spread unimpeded.
The next time it comes around it will be like the other flues that circulate-not pandemic.
But there will very likely be future viruses that are brand new and will be pandemic for their first circulation throughout the world.

I guess my wife and I have just been lucky with the flu the last few years.we haven't gotten the flu or had any negative results from the vaccine.
I also bet those that the got the corona virus,would have had at least a 20% chance of avoiding it.
Tom

Am I the only one who feels bad for the flu?
Its being cheated out of killing all of the people which this new bug is killing.
Someone try to convince me that this is not happening. This new bug may be doing it quicker since it spreads more easily, but the same people with the predispositions to be prone to dying from the flu are being killed by the new bug in town.
I know a lot of people who are prone to catastrophe if they should get the flu or this new bug, and I do not want to lose them to either one of them, but the reality is, you cannot win a stare down with death. He never blinks.

That has had me thinking all along. Not to discount the COVID-19 situation and the unknowns there, but two acquaintances of my mom's died in the last two weeks, both from seasonal flu (both who had this year's flu shot). Is it that there are 400,000 to 730,000 hospitalizations to date this winter from influenza - but this particular Coronavirus is adding just enough hospitalizations on top of that to that to push the hospital bed requirements over the limits in some highly populated areas?

I am concerned about some of the unknowns with this virus, and data always consumes and fascinates me, but I am bothered by some of the news reporting emphasis on increased numbers when there is increased testing. The more testing done, the higher the numbers will go. I would expect every state to show rising numbers commensurate with its testing. Those numbers won't accurately reflect increased cases unless routine testing of the entire population is available. If such a situation were possible, then we would have the total population, a total of positive tests (both symptomatic and asymptomatic), a total of deaths (after eliminating other underlying causes) and some real numbers. If we could continue to repeat that testing, we would then know if the actual numbers of people infected is increasing or decreasing. That would be so valuable, but not likely to happen. At any rate, it is frustrating to hear how cases increase dramatically (right after testing increased dramatically). It would be nice to get some straight data without sensationalized numbers as headlines.

This is a strange situation, especially with the dichotomy between the less vulnerable (highly infectious, potentially asymptomatic young people) and the more vulnerable (older or at-risk due to underlying health issues). It is probably easier to change the behavior of people if they or their peers are getting sick.

Another thought - Widespread antibody testing would be a game-changer. We could begin to identify a growing immune population to support the rest and power the medical and the economic engine in increasing numbers. That would be sweet.

Just thinking out loud. I hope you all stay healthy.

# of infected people is a misleading stat. # of deaths attributed to kung flu is a better stat to follow although it can also be somewhat misleading......but not as much as # of infected.

This is like a shtf video.....come to life.....

I read where there is a shortage of antiviral medication for the amount of people being infected with coronavirus.
What most people dont know is that there are lots of antiviral decoctions that can be brewed from common plant medicinals in the bush.
I have been taking mine every night now for about 10 days and will continue for the next few weeks until this pandemic is passed.

Haven’t seen this number anywhere.

About 3000 abortions each day in the US.

I disagree. The economic cost of being "safe" will make us all, "sorry"!
You still have an income, Tom? No financial worries for you?
mt

The corona virus is not what is really killing all these people. It is being unhealthy that is killing them. Being unhealthy ussualy increases your chance of death. If i was unhealthy, i would isolate myself to increase my chance of survivaj and stop relying on the behavior of others to increase your odds for survival.

The economic tsunami is headed to shore.....POTUS thinks he can hold it off but I do not think that will happen. Prepare for hardship......I think that the spoiled young folks are in for a bit of a surprise.

I think you're right.

Neither have I but it's being reported fifty doctors have died from the virus or complications thereof in Italy. This could turn into a real nightmare fast.

To all of you who think this is not a big deal==> visit Hobby Lobby.
You think they close their doors on a whim?

Visit the latest covid-19 projections-IHME.. 81,000 projected dead, not many more than a bad flu year. ....this is obviously on top of the flu.......and assuming projections are correct

Martentrapper--with the shutdown ,the shows I was scheduled to do have been canceled.With it was much needed income.So yes I have economic worries,
But if I ended up dead--added income would do me little good.
Tom

I'm not going to make wild speculations about the origin of this virus... But natural or contrived, the situation is being exploited to further an agenda.

Mike

This things gonna be a disaster, sickness and economics. There are the die hard trump supporters and conspiracy theorists, but its real and gonna be bad. There have been more reasonable and realistic posts on this thread than most. Take it seriously, its just getting started. Whether u wanna believe it gets people sick or kills people or whatever, its going to bust a lot of small business owners nationwide and those who work for them. My wife works for a large hospital in a non emergency department and shes laid off in 2 weeks, no pay, for an undetermined amount of time. She makes more than i do. So we will have to tighten things up for i dont know how long. We have a good savings, which id like to not touch but it may happen. Yet there are the idiots who just repeat how this isnt a big deal its fake news ect. They need slapped. Hard

Not to downplay the deaths from this Chinese Flu, but I cant remember gut shooting our economy during the 2009 Swine Flu when 18,000 Americans died. Including 1,600 children.

My guess is this tragedy will coincide with a push by the deep state globalist to take down the US with the help of their fake media.

This is a bad flue that will hit the elderly hard this first year, but should be under control soon.

Its spring time in KS. Getting to the end of Flu season.

For the last year we have all been making money. Anybody who wanted to work and was healthy enough to do it, was working.

Thats over. I am worried we're on the edge of another depression. The last one started all the socialism we have now. Really pushed forward the idea of fiat currency. I expect now there will be no currency. Just computer money. The end of any anonymity any body had.

It has been at least a decade since I have watched TV. I don't like being told what to think about stuff. Like this virus.

What I think is, that the idea of individual rights is out the window. People are accepting that politicians can issue proclamations and the chattel must obey. That acceptance comes from one source. A tv set.

If your health is compromised by age, asthma, cancer, COPD, weak immune system or anything else, you should be limiting exposure in every flu season.

I think the world has gone mad

P.S. We are up to SEVEN deaths per million in the U.S.

In 1918 the flu killed 5% of the U.S. population. 5% of the U.S. population today would be 16.4 million. This flu hasn't even hit ten thousand yet

Corona: from Latin, crown.

Once more, subjects of the crown. Ironic huh?

And that bit about individual rights going out the window is dead on. I've seen the conversations on Facebook. The sheep are bleating for the government to step in and crack down... And they're willing to tattle on anyone who doesn't play along.

It's disgusting.

Mike

Less than 1 per million have been jailed for breaking quarantine I'd wager.

You don't wait till things are bad to take PREVENTATIVE action.

The excuse of every tyrant in history.

Mike

run turkey lurkey run. the sky is falling said henny penny

Just because you can't comprehend something, it doesn't make you right.

I can see just fine. I'm not on facebook and don't watch TV. Makes me a little harder to brainwash

Have a good day Danny.

I'm going to go start mine.

Folks seem to think that since some of us aren't gung ho about tossing out liberties that we're stupid, selfish, or "can't comprehend what's going on."

I'm an electrician. An "essential employee" Right now I'm working in a medical facility.

I've taken stock of the risks... My wife had surgery in late February. A few weeks ago she started hemhorraging and almost bled to death before I could get her to the hospital. She had emergency surgery and is now home with some pretty serious stitches holding her together... Not a good candidate for anything with Corona symptoms. Especially the cough.

I have an 8 month old granddaughter that means the world to me.

My folks are old enough to be in the higher risk category.

I don't go out unless I have to. I don't congregate. I don't interact. But that's because I know that's the responsible way to behave.

But if you think I'm going to crap on the Constitution on the off chance it'll make me feel safer, you're dead wrong. What if we enact all this mandatory garbage and my family members die anyway?

And the standard naive BS response is, "It's just temporary measures."

Until they're permanently temporary. Government rarely gives up any power they pick up. And y'all are willing to hand them the reins with thunderous applause. I'm sure Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of their ilk are wetting their pants right now. And the folks on here who talk the biggest smack about FDR are the ones screaming for more government control right now.

You better take a long hard look at what you're asking for... There's hundreds of thousands of white markers standing over the graves of people who fought for the freedom you're willing to kick to the curb.

Social distance all you want. But shut off the (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) TV and act like an American when it counts.

Mike

Well said, Mike. Thank you.

This could very well be the end of the world - I agree with a Vikings fan.

This has nothing to do with "being and American" or giving up our Freedoms (nice try) . This has to do with doing what's right for our fellow man so they don't die with the feeling of an elephant standing on their chest. It's pretty simple and it's called being "selfless".

It's real clear here who believes money has more value than human life. And most of you are old enough you should have banked enough to get you through this smiling. If not maybe check out Dave Ramsey (Christian based money guy) when this blows over.

Here's a couple for you that seem to have things out of order.

"Keep your life free from the love of money and be content with what you have." Hebrews 13.5

"whomever loves money will never have enough".

" whomever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income....Which is MEANINGLESS".

What's in your wallet? Pfffft.


The insane are running the asylum.

wow... this is getting good.

I love those saying how this is a joke, the death rates are so low, more people die of heart attacks, how about more people simply die !!

Where is the .1 or 1.0 % number coming from that I see on occasion ??

Asking because I'm coming up with 18 % death rate, and here's how i'm getting that number - as of this posting time:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


CLOSED CASES



Cases which had an outcome: 178,535


Recovered / Discharged: 146,396 (82%)


Deaths: 32,139 (18%)

Now, this is important - I only go by closed cases, because total cases do not have an outcome yet.

Also this is world wide, and there is no sign of this leveling off anytime soon, not days, not weeks, possibly/probably not even months.....


My own opinion: The regular flu, and all these other past pandemics, I view/viewed as a joke.
Nobody I know/knew has ever died of the flu.


We don't even bother getting vaccinated against it, because it you are healthy the regular flu ain't a concern.


As for heart disease, how many healthy people succumb to that vs. un-healthy ??


This Coronas virus is different, it does not discriminate, and it sounds like - in China anyway, it comes back once you think it's gone.


I already personally know of one healthy 44 year old male in NYC [Brooklyn] who is most likely going to be another fatality.


My mother, she likes to bring up how would America endure 5 years of hard starvation, like she seen growing up as a child in a part of Germany that today is in Poland during WW II
The older folks - especially from overseas - they know and understand suffering.... because they have lived through it.

We have a couple of cases on the assembly line, one jerk actually came to work and was sent home, believe me when I say he will suffer greatly for that, he will be treated 1000x worse than a scab and will have to watch his back 24/7 from here on in, and it would not surprise me if he is severely beaten at some point in time, because this is being taken very serious here in CT.

I tried to unsuccessfully organize a walk out right after fining out about this incident, oh by the way he said "I hope you all get it" while being forceably removed - but I was the only one who walked out.
*Then, like magic - a policy appeared - what a surprise !! where we can take two weeks off, so I now got two weeks off.

Hopefully when I come back, it's off the assembly line and on my new tow motor job which I just landed.


Oh yeah, back on track.... I feel that the U.S. is two months behind what is in Europe, this is just from watching the numbers.
I also feel that we are not even getting hit that hard yet, I think that will be more like June... since most Americans still view this as a joke.

No problem here - my gates are padlocked shut, ain't nobody paying me a visit anytime soon.... nor am I going anywhere except to help out my folks.

*I'll be back here on T-Man in 5 months, we'll see how things are then.............

Over and Out.... 73s

It is fine that the rest of us our sacrificing our personal economics, however I am noticing a lack of protecctive behavior on the part of seniors here in AZ. I understand, some senoirs don't care, but the rest of us are sacrificing to save them and it would appear that they are not doing their part. If the planet was going out of it's way to save me, the least I could do is play along and attempt to live.

After reading your post, I do not believe you will have any trouble with the visitor thing.

It’s here. It’s real. And we have to deal with it. NYC has a phenomenal number of cases. Everybody with a cough and slight fever is jamming a local ER, putting more pressure on the medical staff there to treat everyone. I watched and listened to an ER doc saying they were getting slammed. She said even car crash victims who were CT scanned had asymptomatic signs of having the virus. NYC has >25,000 cases from what I’ve read. That’s about 1/4 of the cases in the US. And yes, without enough respirators and ventilators, thousands could die.

One thing I did see that sparked hope was that c-paps can be used as ventilators.

Free, honest, speech is what this country needs and respects. Unfortunately we have too many talking heads who don’t understand the severity, saying 25,000 cases in one city doesn’t mean there is a need for a huge amount of medical equipment. Or that a rapidly moving virus can be thwarted by just sending people back to work. Congregation of people leads to the spread of this disease. I think we can all imagine what the floor of the New York stock exchange, or any factory with people in groups who are working to make anything is going to do when co-workers start coughing due to their asymptomatic conditions going active.

I can envision truck drivers who don’t spend time around people going back to work. But any job which requires you to not socially distance, e.g. by time clocks, locker rooms or lunch rooms, are not going to work very long before the next major spike in covid cases.

The FED is expected to grow it's balance sheet by over 4 trillion dollars minnimum. That is more than they did in 2008 and it will be far more than 4t when it's over.

We are going to sacrifice our children's future

Calvin, you do kmow that recessions lower life expectancy and if we go into a depression it will be far worse than this disease

I suffer from the same problem!!

X2

House and vehicles are paid off... Tidy nest egg to get me by for quite a while... I am actually prepared for this if I end up having to stay home from work.

So nice try. I don't remember mentioning anything about money in my post.

Mike

Italy is up to 178 dead per million. U.S. is still at 7. At 200 dead per million Italy will have lost .002% of its population to the virus

Reported cases vs deaths.

How many unreported cases were there?

When you jack around with stats you can present them in any light you wish. We see it all the time with "gun violence" statistics... The number of times a gun is used to stop or prevent a crime are never included. We get the worst case scenario instead of an overall view of the numbers as a whole.

Think it's an apples/oranges comparison? Add in the probable number of people who had this, suffered a few days thinking it was flu and moved on, then see what happens to your fatality stats.

Mike

X3. One thing that should raise eyebrows is weed shops open, gun shops closed.