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Deblasio did a #### job. Cuomo was bad in beginning but turned it around.
Cuomo has been awesome. Diblasio an idiot.
At what point did anyone in any state look at TV and reasonably conclude this was no big deal when the crisis in Italy was unfolding. This country as a whole was given numerous warning signs that this was in fact a big deal and on its way. Pretty sure we all had televisions in March too. Everyone thinks they’re invincible to pain and suffering until it literally slaps you in the face. Right now, Florida, Texas, and Arizona, are all getting slapped in the face despite the countless warnings from countries and New York. That’s America for ya.
Florida and Texas have a long ways to go to screw up and kill as many people as New York did. To top it off, the best measures taken by NY still resulted in 1000 new cases today.
Yeah cause it's easy to contain a virus spread amongst 1.7 million people living in an area of 23 square miles. I think it's pretty incredible what NYC has accomplished.
In other words, the United States of Canada/Jesusland map that was created in 2004?
Dude, you have been coming off as quite the mean person for basically this whole page of the thread. A few things...Otis said:
Agreed. I've been in this thread every day providing encouraging stats for CT, and I think we will continue the trend until either schools or bars reopen. I think Gov Lamont is gonna have no choice but to try opening schools back up, knowing he may have to close them shortly afterwards.
Glad CT is doing better. For comparison, Hawaii went a whole month with single digit cases, and has never had a day with double digit deaths. We have one of the higher population densities in the country, yet somehow we’ve kept the virus at bay. A compliant population who trusts scientists more than politicians really helps.
Otis has always loved putting down the South, and the people who live there. I'm a Southerner. I couldn't imagine purposely being so mean spirited towards a region and its people. There is no use in telling him to be a better person, because he has proven over the years that he just isn't.
We are switching to home school for this year only if the school requires you to go in. Social distancing has no chance in an elementary school.
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Just left after a week and a half in Bradenton/Tampa area. NOBODY was wearing masks. Staff who were forced to would have them on their chin.
In an effort to not let my anger get the better of me and end up banned, I took the only step I could to ensure that. Honestly, I hate blocking users but it's become rather common for me as this virus has ravaged the country. I'm just utterly amazed to see people take joy, reveling in the pain and suffering of others. I can't imagine a person ever thinking like that, yet here we are. Anyways, I've done what I can to move on from it, to avoid it, and I truly appreciate the fact that I wasn't banned for losing my temper and reacting a bit, so I do thank the mods for allowing my transgression.
Hawaii has a huge benefit in being islands far away from everyone else. Essentially controlling anyone from coming in and infecting everyone else is a huge advantage. Pretty easy to track anyone coming in as well. States like NY, NJ, VA, etc just have massive amounts of people constantly in, out, and through the state making it extremely difficult to contain and track people.
So this goes back to what I brought up what feels like FOREVER ago (abut was probably a week or two lol) in that there are multiple strains out there. This seems to confirm what I had read earlier in that the West Coast of the US was originally dealing with the strain from Wuhan whereas the East Coast got the strain from Europe which is much more contagious, hence the difference in outbreaks earlier on in Washington vs NYC. The good news here is that I’m not seeing anything implying that it has mutated again.
I didn’t intend to come off mean and apologies if I did. And of course I’m not wishing bad things on anyone. It’s just wildly frustrating to experience what we experienced, to have done all the right things here in NY and be locked down doing the right things, much as it sucks, and yet to see other parts of the country out there partying and blowing this off all these months. It’s maddening because a lot of people are going to be unnecessarily sick there, but it’s also maddening because that wildly irresponsible response is going to put us ALL back. this lockdown stinks for everyone and stinks for the economy. I just wish people would wake up.
A few pages ago, I showed how Hawaii was the 13th most densely populated state, but 50th in deaths per million. I enjoy tooting CT's horn, but let's stop and toot our island state also. How you only have 946 positive cases and 18 deaths is a mystery to me. Let's put those numbers into perspective:
I've heard from others that live in Hawaii that this is definitely becoming a big concern. But I encouraged them, as you might soon have the advantage of being the only state in America that tourists feel safe travelling to/from.
It's the same here in my small town. It used to make me sad, but now I'm starting to get angry about it. Almost hoping someone makes a comment about my mask.
Alabama has been middle of the pack during all this despite these dunderheads. Policy here has been fairy good - we've been under a mandatory mask order for a while.
I agree it is frustrating. I posted in this thread long ago that I hoped people would finally learn watching NY after they had ignored China and Italy. It is just sad seeing they didn’t when you had friends die and many friends lose parents. It is so frustrating knowing this was avoidable.
Retrospective studies are notorious for not holding up with RCT. Wouldn't put any stock in it.
Or because it takes 3-4 weeks for them to turn into deaths?
Here on the Treasure Coast, quite a few people still wear them, but it's not a certainty. It's super easy to do, but people go nuts over it for some reason. Yes it's hot, it's July in Florida. Deal with it, and remember that you probably have at risk family members that could at least use the courtesy.
Correct. We should prep as if this virus will do what’s it’s done everywhere across the world, because that’s what this virus does. Assuming/hoping that it will suddenly “self-weaken” doesn’t seem logical. It would be nice, of course, but based on what we’ve seen everywhere on the planet, that’s not what is going to happen.
Or maybe as likely the vulnerable populations are still taking this seriously but the younger ones aren't. Thus deaths aren't really increasing even though cares are rising.
