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  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,587 Founders Club
    It's Science!!!!!! SCIENCEEEE!!!!!
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Next week? Peak oil next near?
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,409

    Next week? Peak oil next near?

    "It's a big joke!" - MikeDamone
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,686

    Next week? Peak oil next near?

    the dumbest of all the climate stuff is "there will be millions of climate refugees, then you'll regret it when all of them are in the US!"

    it's like no bro. we'll build a wall and shoot people that try to storm it.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,409

    HHusky, with all due respect, you are one of the people trying to politicize this. Many in the Tug are guilty of this, it's not just you, but that doesn't make it better. I encourage you to read this post.

    We know the deaths are higher than reported bases on excess death data (citation below). But so are the cases. Which is why you are now guilty of spinning this out of proportion to fit your viewpoint.

    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

    Here are some basic numbers for you, based on legitimate NYC data.

    1.4 percent fatality rate to infection, and double the deaths reported (which means like quintuple the cases, minimum).

    Assuming that rate extends out to the whole of the US, which it doesn't (it's probably a little lowered), we have about 14,850,028 cases and 207,906 deaths.

    Of those deaths, 26% are in the 65 and under age bracket. Extrapolate that out. 54,055 deaths under 65.

    89% of those are people with at least 1 underlying health condition. Of those 54,055, 48,109 had a pre-existing condition.

    That means, in the entire country, 5,946 deaths in under 65's with no pre-existing condition. Out of millions of cases.

    You see how easy it is to spin numbers now?

    If you're on the right, you point at the pre-existing condition numbers and say wow, nothing at all here! Open this shit!

    If you're on the left, you go hey what about the 200k already dead? And what happens to the fatality rate once hospitals get overloaded? Use restrictions or don't open!

    I understand that people love to be partisan, but please at least understand your bias before you post some stupid shit. When you just post numbers without understanding their context, you do more harm than good to yourself and your point. For fuck's sake.

    Death isn't the only issue here and having to shut down twice will be far worse than enduring this short term pain.

    Science is only right, not Left-Right.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,959 Standard Supporter
    In 1968 an estimated 100,000 Americans died from the Hong Kong flu. US population was 201 million. In 2020 we have 330 million. Extrapolated deaths from 1968 would equate to 164,000 deaths and we didn't shut down sh*t. In 1958 the Asian flu killed an estimated 116,000 Americans. Population was 175 million. That extrapolates out to 219,000 deaths. We didn't shut down sh*t. Anyone arguing that laying off 40 million Americans for a non-unprecedented virus is either a partisan Trump hating hack or a moron who can't do numbers and sh*t. At best, it should have been a localized shut down in like NYC for a month and heavy protection for the elderly with underlying medical conditions. People like the dazzler were free to shelter in place in their basement until hell freezes over or there is a vaccine. But just like paying taxes, the dazzler feels better when everyone is suffering.