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I dont doubt plenty of managers are over 50.My link
Considering that being placed in a managerial position requires a certain amount of experience and that as workers get older they tend to rise to positions of increasing power or skill, it is absolutely true that a significant portion of managers will be over 50 and/or have health issues.
On a per capita basis, Germany is doing more than 2x and with a similar timeline and better contact tracing still has 1/4 of the infections.
So serious plans call for establishing a massive techno tracing state but regular people are told not to wear N95 masks because there isn’t enough. Maybe just start with simple stuff first?
Downloading an app isn't simple? How many people have downloaded Zoom since this started?
Ditto. Actually, I’ve never had either one, that I can recall. Definitely never the flu shot. May have had the flu as a young kid, but not that I can remember.
At risk of clarifying what I'm sure you meant, let's be a bit clearer:
The OP was asking why US had more reported cases. If Country A tests 200 million and Country B tests 20 million, Country A will likely have more stated cases.
Ha! Have been thinking this for awhile but haven't really known how to express it. So here goes, and apologies in advance if this is stereotypical/offensive:
I think due to the containment and tracking protocols in Germany they have been able to better discern who needs to be tested and who doesn't. They have a better handle on the actual numbers than the US where it has been pretty much a cluster####. To attribute the higher numbers in the US to our commitment to testing is misguided at best.
Thanks for the reply.
The early Ferguson model had 2.2 million US deaths with full lockdown / social distancing / hygiene factored in. He's since revised that model.
Can you share that original model? All the ones I have seen show those numbers with no NPI in place.
I'll try one more time. If I have a group of 10 people with 9 apples and you have a group of two people with two apples, while your group has more apples per capita my group has more apples.
Have heard this conversation as well...Im sure a large amount will slowly get back to doing this as a greeting hear. But there will be people that opt not to. Unfortunately, some that opt not to will be considered rude by some IMO. Really that seems to be an American problem (not fully...but other cultures have their own greetings).
I think it will cause some minor social problems. Some people will still prefer to not shake hands. Others will get offended when people refuse to shake hands.
Just because they won't test you doesn't mean you don't have it. I see no reason why one person couldn't be inflicted with two viruses simultaneously.
The math in all of this has constantly been fuzzy. In the U.S. with 95% of people sheltering in place, we are almost at 2K deaths a day. If we were all out and about, without any other medical or scientific intervention, why would we expect the number of fatalities to go down? Because we got healthier? Because we got immunity? Would staying six feet apart, washing hands, and wearing masks cut the number of fatalities down to only a handful?
It's as simple as I could make it. [More people tested = more cases than the places where there were less people tested] didn't seem to sink in.
This seems like it should be able to be solved. People are still eating food now, they're just doing it at home instead of at school or at Disneyworld. Shouldn't there be an increase in demand for these agricultural products in supermarkets and takeout food?
For me the main concern has always been overwhelming our medical system. It appears as if we have prevented that and can now begin discussing slowly opening back up, with the help of testing.
On 9/10/2001 pretty much nobody would have expected what has occurred in air travel but it happened pretty quickly, we accepted it and now it is part of life. We, as Americans, will adapt. Kinda what we do and partly what makes us great. Look at the response to this virus? We're compressing years long timelines into months/weeks. Pretty impressive stuff is going on right now if you stop and look around.
Jeez the political cops are out early. Dude made a statement, ease up
File under: @rockaction is not discussing but arguing. Thanks, but ill pass on this one
I guess one good thing regarding FL agriculture is that orange juice sales are on fire.
Well that was a dumb model if it predicted 2 million deaths with a full lockdown.
When somebody announces they're not trying to be political and then proceed to indict the political machinations of the economy, it would seem not out line to say something. Dude did make a statement. I'm not a political cop, but it was nakedly political. Notice I didn't tell him he was wrong in his belief, simply that what he said was inherently political. YMMV on doing that, but I did.
The article asked a similar question, a lot of the supermarket chains already have contracts for produce, a lot of which originates overseas, so farmers not in those contracts are pretty much SOL.
For now they are...
I'm not harping on your post at all. So none of this is a crit on what you said, just joining the convo down thread. Really should've quoted the post with the article. Sorry.
Not so sure we have accomplished not crashing the healthcare system quite yet. It depends where people live. Some places may still be early in the timeline, so it may look like they only have a few cases but two weeks from now those places could see an explosion. So this month the problem areas are NYC, NO, CHI, DET, ATL, BOS but next month it could be DC, PHI, HOU, DEN, and LV.
