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Old 06-20-2020, 07:30 AM
 
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On a positive note, COVID-19 is rapidly inactivated by sunlight

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Old 06-20-2020, 07:33 AM
 
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And, in more good news, the Mayo clinic finds convalescent plasma safe for diverse patients with COVID-19.


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Old 06-20-2020, 08:18 AM
 
Location: Western MA
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And, in more good news, the Mayo clinic finds convalescent plasma safe for diverse patients with COVID-19.


https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/d...with-covid-19/
They gave this to my brother in the hospital and it really turned things around for him. He is now covid-free, still recovering at a sub-acute rehab facility though. He went in the hospital on April 3.
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Old 06-20-2020, 08:23 AM
 
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The "curves" for fatalities in AZ, TX, FL, are flat. Texas is a massive state that registers fewer deaths a day than Massachusetts.

Did anyone look into what these allegedly surging statistics might be? I posted some thoughts earlier, I see those were promptly ignored.

Why is all "bad news" immediately believed without question, but "good news" denied? Every time.

Why are so many other places in the world not concerned as much? Is it really ridiculous to question how stats are taken and recorded? It has always been a cluster to keep track of what these metrics mean and then when they change midstream. It's shocking how little curiosity you guys on here have about all this.

Forgive my ignorance as I haven't been able to research some of these things in depth, and have limited my focus on what "to do" vs. what "not to do". Just looking at the trends, (with the exception of Italy in the initial stages) the EU has squashed this far better than the USA has. New Zealand is down to 3 cases a day or something like that. Brazil is a disaster. What have these places done differently?
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Old 06-20-2020, 09:04 AM
 
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On a positive note, COVID-19 is rapidly inactivated by sunlight

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The powers that be in Cambridge still have the playgrounds shackled and padlocked. Shameful.
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Old 06-20-2020, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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The "curves" for fatalities in AZ, TX, FL, are flat. Texas is a massive state that registers fewer deaths a day than Massachusetts.

Did anyone look into what these allegedly surging statistics might be? I posted some thoughts earlier, I see those were promptly ignored.

Why is all "bad news" immediately believed without question, but "good news" denied? Every time.

Why are so many other places in the world not concerned as much? Is it really ridiculous to question how stats are taken and recorded? It has always been a cluster to keep track of what these metrics mean and then when they change midstream. It's shocking how little curiosity you guys on here have about all this.
Not sure what your point is. FL and TX up to new highs in terms of cases per day...is that "good" news? And then you have the FL governor with the nerve to blame it on Hispanic laborers who ironically serve to keep his damn economy afloat (again, needless race-baiting for those who want to believe the virus was imported from undesirable countries).

I hope we can all agree--positive case numbers can be conflated with increases in testing, but hospitalizations cannot. And that's where AZ's numbers are troubling.
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Old 06-20-2020, 10:02 AM
 
Location: The Moon
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The powers that be in Cambridge still have the playgrounds shackled and padlocked. Shameful.
Not surprising to me as someone who has spent quite a bit of time at playgrounds in Somerville/Cambridge. The local "Karens of Camberville" page is full of people complaining about someone walking on the other side of the street without a mask. With limited evidence of outdoor transmission it is time to relax some of these more low hanging fruit restrictions for peoples wellbeing.
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Old 06-20-2020, 10:32 AM
 
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Forgive my ignorance as I haven't been able to research some of these things in depth, and have limited my focus on what "to do" vs. what "not to do". Just looking at the trends, (with the exception of Italy in the initial stages) the EU has squashed this far better than the USA has. New Zealand is down to 3 cases a day or something like that. Brazil is a disaster. What have these places done differently?
I can address NZ. It's an island. They shut down early and hard, and banned travelers from coming in from the airport. I don't know that Spain or France would agree that they've had it relatively easy, but certainly they've responded faster and better than the U.S.

Brazil has a dictator/president as poorly informed/motivated as the U.S. and vast areas of shantytowns and very poor people with no chance of distancing or washing or any such, plus they are a lot of people who will starve if they don't go out to their work.
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Old 06-20-2020, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Westwood, MA
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I can address NZ. It's an island. They shut down early and hard, and banned travelers from coming in from the airport. I don't know that Spain or France would agree that they've had it relatively easy, but certainly they've responded faster and better than the U.S.

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I don’t know why you claim the countries that are doing worse than the US “have certainly responded faster and better”

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Old 06-20-2020, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Westwood, MA
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Not surprising to me as someone who has spent quite a bit of time at playgrounds in Somerville/Cambridge. The local "Karens of Camberville" page is full of people complaining about someone walking on the other side of the street without a mask. With limited evidence of outdoor transmission it is time to relax some of these more low hanging fruit restrictions for peoples wellbeing.
I was walking around Westwood with my kids and when someone started turning right on red directly into my family crossing on a walk signal, they honked, got upset, and the yelled the F word at me because I didn’t have a mask on. Even without anyone else within 100 feet of us. People use the mask thing to feel superior.
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