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So 225 new deaths today.

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  • dncdnc Member Posts: 56,828
    Where is the 225 coming from? This tracker has it at 130.

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
  • DooglesDoogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,717 Founders Club

    If we have enough data to make sounds decisions and the hospitals aren't being overwhelmed then this should be the case.
    Completely agree. If it's being reported that our hospitals look like Italy with people dying in the hallways because of lack of ventilators then we need to continue to make efforts to quarantine and isolate the people most likely to require hospitalization.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,182 Founders Club
    dnc said:

    Where is the 225 coming from? This tracker has it at 130.

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

    225 was yesterday. 130 is today, but the day is still going.
  • dncdnc Member Posts: 56,828

    225 was yesterday. 130 is today, but the day is still going.
    danka
  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,501
    Doogles said:

    My 90 year old Grandma caught a fever last week and passed in her sleep two days later. She lived a great life, but dementia and other health complications had her teetering for awhile.

    Corona virus may very well be the closer to a lot of ailments, but saying these deaths are 100% in addition to is extremely naive.
    My dad died at 80 a few years ago. He was in bad shape for about seven years. You can take your pick as to what caused it - I've always gone with old age. He had a heart attack at 65 and it took him about four months to really get back on track. The common cold kills a lot of old folks. The media never mentions this. Ever.

    I'm not saying it's nothing, fake, or made in a lab. But the "It bleeds, it leads" media mantra didn't just change. People act like it did...no...it's intensified now...
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,182 Founders Club

    I'm not making an advisability argument, only observation of sentiment. For example, you've got Thomas Friedman in NYT opinion yesterday asking if the cure is worse.
    Yes, this was implied. There's a lot if's and but's in my comment.

  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 23,610
    Doogles said:

    My 90 year old Grandma caught a fever last week and passed in her sleep two days later. She lived a great life, but dementia and other health complications had her teetering for awhile.

    Corona virus may very well be the closer to a lot of ailments, but saying these deaths are 100% in addition to is extremely naive.
    They are neither 100% in addition nor 0% in addition. I understand that eventually something kills all of us and it’s hard to argue that someone in her 90s was going to still be here in 10 years, but there are plenty of 50 and 60 and 70 somethings dying of it too.
  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 23,610

    Yup. T's & P's on granny, btw. 90 is a damned good run.

    It's not like the cause of death is allocated 85% old age/parts wore out, 10% complications from diabetes, 5% COVID-19 respiratory failure.....it's getting marked down as 100% COVID.



    That’s true of influenza too. It’s still apples to apples record keeping.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,875
    HHusky said:

    That’s true of influenza too. It’s still apples to apples record keeping.
    Depends on who the scorekeeper is.

    Right now, 5% COVID gets the W even though old age threw 8 2/3 innings of no-hit ball.

  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 23,610
    edited March 2020

    Depends on who the scorekeeper is.

    Right now, 5% COVID gets the W even though old age threw 8 2/3 innings of no-hit ball.

    We have always assigned an immediate cause of death. Quite a good sized number of us manage our high blood pressure with medication and can live for decades doing so. If one of us dies of Covid 19, the stat keepers will remark that he had an underlying condition: hypertension. How much false solace has been taken over these reports? In other words, this cuts both ways.
  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    NPR this morning had an in memoriam about Terrence McNally (who?), apparently dead of COVID this week
    https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821285239/honored-playwright-terrence-mcnally-dies-of-coronavirus

    As a minor detail, they mentioned he'd survived lung cancer and had been using oxygen when receiving an award at the Tonys last year.
  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 23,610
    SFGbob said:

    I know what you've said O'Keefed. But we both know you are a liar. So were you lying then or are you lying now?

    My testimony hasn’t changed. Were you just looking for a provocative sound bite?

    Don’t quit your day job.
  • HHuskyHHusky Member Posts: 23,610
    SFGbob said:

    I know what you've said O'Keefed. But we both know you are a liar. So were you lying then or are you lying now?

    My statements haven’t changed. Were you just looking for a provocative sound bite?

    Don’t quit your day job.
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