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For second day in a row; state tops 900 new Covid-19 cases; rate not seen since mid-May
By adamg on Fri, 10/23/2020 - 4:19pm
The latest Massachusetts numbers are out - 968 cases for the day, compared to 986 yesterday - numbers the state hasn't seen since Mid-May, when we were coming down from our surge.
The number of people who test positive on a test has been at 4% or higher for the past ten days, compared to 1.9% on Sept. 7 and 3.3% on Sept. 23. On Thursday, 537 people were hospitalized with Covid-19, compared to 369 on Sept. 23.
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The more things change...
The more things change...
Nursing homes/LTC facilities: 6323
O'all deaths confirmed: 9608
Percentage is about two thirds of the confirmed deaths were in nursing homes.
Underlying conditions (Total Deaths** with Underlying Conditions): 98.2%
I do notice that they, for some reason, stopped breaking it down by age. Not sure why. Probably had something to do with the average age of deaths was in the vicinity of 86 or so.
But shut down Salem for Halloween.
Yeah, getting drunk while
Yeah, getting drunk while dressed up as a sexy nurse is way more important than the lives of old and unhealthy people. Not sure why we don't just kill them before they're even exposed to Covid.
We don't need to break it down by age because we know it's mostly older people. Everyone understands that. It's just people like you that are bothered by making changes to protect other people.
If we know what it is without
If we know what it is without the data (perhaps you can elaborate on what else you know) then why bother with data at all?
Here...
...meet 'some people like [me]'. Note: I'm not an 'infectious disease epidemiologist', but I am willing to listen to many noted scientists.
This is the 'Great Barrington Declaration'.
"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. "
https://gbdeclaration.org/
'It's just people like you that are bothered by making changes to protect other people.'
I'm happy to make changes to protect other people. Maybe it's time to do it right?
It's not without controversy, but like the Hunter Biden story, it's not getting the air time it deserves. Here's the Spectator take on it:
'The three scientists who created it aren’t outliers or cranks, but professors at Oxford, Harvard and Stanford. And since its launch, the declaration been signed by tens of thousands of epidemiologists and public health scientists, including a Nobel Prize winner. So why haven’t you heard of it? The short answer is there’s been a well-orchestrated attempt to suppress and discredit it.'
https://spectator.us/great-barrington-declaration/
Oh please
This "declaration" has no real traction in the actual community of public health professionals dealing with this mess. Why? Because it is philosophical garbage that has consistently ignored facts and data that are consistently counter to what their pet theory predicted.
Only one of the people advancing this ivory tower chamber pot filling is close to a public health epidemiologist - and he has seriously discredited himself in the face of the progress of the pandemic by supporting trash theories and being shot down by 90 of his colleagues. One is an economist, another looks at theoretical potential for zoonoses. All have a problem believing that their pet theory is not being supported by the evident reality. Academic theory can help understand reality, but not when the fine work of Dr. Bayes is ignored due to pride or payoff.
What they have in common is that they staked out a position early on and have refused to let the actual data and progress of the epidemic put them off that early position even when it has been shown to be extremely wrong - as in what happened in Sweden when their theoretical analysis did not include some critical variables about disease spread, and they wound up with intolerable death rates compared to their neighbors and an economy shut down by people staying home to avoid infection.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89204
So, what we have here is...
...a Really Smart Person, that works in Massachusetts (an assumption), has a tired late nineties handle and is totally smarter than " professors at Oxford, Harvard and Stanford" and a "Nobel Prize winner".
Well, RSP, can you tell us why Massachusetts, with its surfeit of Really Smart People, is about the fourth most Covid-dangerous place in the country to live?
Here, have some statistics... https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Mass: 1427 per million death rate.
Truth of the matter? This has been a damn slow motion train wreck from the beginning. Lefties can blame Trump, but that ain't the half of it.
You know nothing
More than 6,000 VERIFIED signatures.
https://www.johnsnowmemo.com/
Three scientists drafted Great Barrington, now thousands have to undo the damage. SAD.
As a 30-sometging high-risk, I do love being reminded how disposable I am.
"Noted scientists"
Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including 'Dr Johnny Bananas'
No surprise there...
...people that disagree are trying to sabotage it with fake names.
But if you go to the link, you'll see a bunch of real people from real places all over the world.
You'd want to look at the weekly report
They are still reporting the age numbers there.
For the record-
Average age of new cases- 38
Average age of those hospitalized- 66
Average age of those who have died- 81
All for the last 14 days.
I'd say that those number are trending down, and by that I mean everyone is getting younger.
Also, how do you think an 81 year old gets exposed?
Oh my
Somebody is pretending to understand pandemic behavior again.
And throwing elders under the bus all so he can get smashed and behave like a drunken child at the end of the month.
Stick to your day job - those photoshops you did with the Volvo were great.
Should you live long enough
If you don't drink yourself to death or something, you too will have underlying conditions. I presume your attitudes will change then.
Well then...
...better have another beer. Can't live forever.