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I am interested to see how Sweden fares through this. They are not practicing any social distancing nor closing businesses. They have warned elderly and at risk to take precaution but no more than they would for the flu. So far they have just over 4000 confirmed cases and 146 deaths. I am not sure how aggressively they are testing for the virus.
 
fishonjazz said:
Trump then...“When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” Trump said. “We have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a very good job.”

Trump now........“We can hold that down, as we’re saying, to 100,000, that’s a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000 — so we have between 100- and 200,000 — we all, together, have done a very good job,”


Seems like he thinks that no matter what he does or doesn't do or what happens that he is doing a great job.
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In all fairness he did say we, not I.
 
Scat said:
In all fairness he did say we, not I.
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In all fairness the word "we" includes the person saying it imo. So he is congratulating himself, along with other unnamed people.
 
candrew said:
I contracted the Coronavirus with Lyme disease at the bar earlier this evening.
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Scat said:
I am interested to see how Sweden fares through this. They are not practicing any social distancing nor closing businesses. They have warned elderly and at risk to take precaution but no more than they would for the flu. So far they have just over 4000 confirmed cases and 146 deaths. I am not sure how aggressively they are testing for the virus.
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I suspect Japan is ****ed. They have the second oldest median age in the world after Monaco.
 
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Catchall said:
They are already resigned to the fact that the Covid-19 virus is out there and that it will very likely become a regularly circulating and mutating coronavirus along with the other 18.
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Frankly your post was a lot of ways of "lying with numbers" but I couldn't get over this sentence, particularly because you are speaking with such faux authoritativeness to contradict people who have studied this their whole lives.

Do you believe that there are precisely 19 coronavirus strains and this one was named Covid-19 because they are numbered sequentially in order of discovery? Anxiously awaiting your expert reply.
 
sirkickyass said:
Frankly your post was a lot of ways of "lying with numbers" but I couldn't get over this sentence, particularly because you are speaking with such faux authoritativeness to contradict people who have studied this their whole lives.

Do you believe that there are precisely 19 coronavirus strains and this one was named Covid-19 because they are numbered sequentially in order of discovery? Anxiously awaiting your expert reply.
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They come out every year, like Madden.
 
sirkickyass said:
Do you believe that there are precisely 19 coronavirus strains and this one was named Covid-19 because they are numbered sequentially in order of discovery?
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Covid-19 was named for it's being discovered as a SARS variant in December 2019, not for being discovered after an 18th virus. So I misspoke.

From NIH:
There are hundreds of coronaviruses, most of which circulate among animals including pigs, camels, bats and cats. Sometimes those viruses jump to humans—called a spillover event—and can cause disease. Seven coronaviruses are known to cause human disease, four of which are mild: viruses 229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1. Three of the coronaviruses can have more serious outcomes in people, and those diseases are SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) which emerged in late 2002 and disappeared by 2004; MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), which emerged in 2012 and remains in circulation in camels; and COVID-19, which emerged in December 2019 from China and a global effort is under way to contain its spread. COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2.

The figures I provided and will continue to provide are the official state figures from which policy decisions are being made. The infection rate in Utah continues to be very low, and the response of forcing businesses to close is likely to become excessive if it continues beyond another week or two.
 
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