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...which is even less useful, if that's at all possible.Hey, 2 in a row and you didn't use the words "stinky", "bike", "vitamin D", or "zinc"! ;-)
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...which is even less useful, if that's at all possible.Hey, 2 in a row and you didn't use the words "stinky", "bike", "vitamin D", or "zinc"! ;-)
I am not on facebook so I cant confirm........... I am told there will be a protest across the street from Faker's house this Saturday at 2pm. Any truth to it? Could be a good time.
Ask all those docs if they wear surgical masks during surgery. Then ask them why.
Sounds like you know a lot of stupid docs.
Hey, 2 in a row and you didn't use the words "stinky", "bike", "vitamin D", or "zinc"! ;-)
When the outbreak started, I asked five ID docs at work whether surgical masks were effective. 4 hard no's with accompanying eye rolls, and 1 maybe. These are all HMS and BU Med faculty. Fit-tested N95s, yes those work. I really don't know where all this false confidence about mask effectiveness is coming from. It's like throwing a virion banana down the proverbial hallway.
Mostly out of tradition.
"Overall, we found very few studies and identified no new trials for this latest update. We analysed a total of 2106 participants from the three studies we found. All three studies showed that wearing a face mask during surgery neither increases nor decreases the number of wound infections occurring after surgery. We conclude that there is no clear evidence that wearing disposable face masks affects the likelihood of wound infections developing after surgery."
Ask all those docs if they wear surgical masks during surgery. Then ask them why.
Sounds like you know a lot of stupid docs.
Mainly so they don't drool into your wound.
Mostly out of tradition.
"Overall, we found very few studies and identified no new trials for this latest update. We analysed a total of 2106 participants from the three studies we found. All three studies showed that wearing a face mask during surgery neither increases nor decreases the number of wound infections occurring after surgery. We conclude that there is no clear evidence that wearing disposable face masks affects the likelihood of wound infections developing after surgery."
Can't even get them to paint CROSSWALKS here in Auburn! Ha.
When my kids were at JB school, they had to cross streets maybe 6 times on their way, at least 3 or 4 of them had NO crosswalks.
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Antibody studies in CA and NY are showing WAY more people got this than the tested numbers show: like 3-5X.Okay, this is a legitimate question, not trying to be a wise ass. So we should be wearing masks in confined areas. Got it. But for how long do we do this, and why? Forget the issues with people touching things, therefore spreading this in other ways. That is a reality, and I guess a risk that perpetual wearers of masks are willing to live with (more on that later). But what happens if you get the virus? Are we all going to die? I cannot be the only one that hopes to get this thing soon and hopefully be done with it. I thought the purpose of distancing and masks was to slow the spread and not choke the hospitals. How did we leap from that to total eradication at all costs? I think everybody has lost sight of what the purpose of all of this was originally and somehow it got twisted into "This is how its gonna be forever".
MA seems to be flattening out. These are the numbers I personally rely on.
Fingers crossed!
- MA has been testing roughly 10K per day since early April. Percentage of those tested positive has been dropping since April 22: from a peak of 34% to 10% yesterday.
- Net hospitalizations have been decreasing since April 21.
- Daily deaths declining since April 22.
In the meantime, most of NH is doing pretty well, (although 30% more than VT and 108% more than ME in total cases) with fewer than 100 hospitalizations. While Nashua now has over 200 cases, Manchester is the hotspot.
4/13 report: 156
4/20 report: 272 - 74% increase
4/27 report: 405 - 49% increase
5/3 report: 529 - 31% increase
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Oh yeah - and Sweden, on purpose or by accident, sacrificed it's oldest members to get to herd immunity. I'm not sure we are willing to do that here in the US.
It HAS flown here. Once again, nobody even remembers the 1968 Hong Kong Flu let alone 1957's Asian Flu. US death rate for the latter: 674/M. Present US death rate for the Wuhan bug: 263/M.That was on purpose. Sweden's Prime Minister said early on that thousands would die as a result of their approach. It was culturally acceptable there as sacrifice for the greater good. It would never fly here.
It HAS flown here. Once again, nobody even remembers the 1968 Hong Kong Flu let alone 1957's Asian Flu. US death rate for the latter: 674/M. Present US death rate for the Wuhan bug: 263/M.
Hey. dogs and democrats love it.Daycare and summer camps in limbo, serious problem. Bright side this will lead to more stay at home parents and less warehousing of kids. Coronachan has a lot of upsides.
But we have scads of evidence from other parts of the world. And other states in this country. We're seeing numbers drop even as things open.Reread the other part of my post. The present death rate for Wuflu is unknown.
That along with pissed off people, will be what ends house arrest. States opening and no piles of bodies, or worse from the states perspective neighboring states opening and 'stealing' tax revenue from closed states.But we have scads of evidence from other parts of the world. And other states in this country. We're seeing numbers drop even as things open.
That was on purpose. Sweden's Prime Minister said early on that thousands would die as a result of their approach. It was culturally acceptable there as sacrifice for the greater good. It would never fly here.
Another perspective from MIT’s magazine.
Stop covid or save the economy? We can do both.
Contrary to what you’ve heard, shutting down the country is also the quickest way to get it started back up againwww.technologyreview.com
In a piece called “National Coronavirus Response: A roadmap to reopening,” former FDA director Scott Gottlieb also argued for ramping up testing and then isolating those infected rather shutting in the entire population.
Worldometer says otherwise.
"Areas in the United States that do not adhere to any social distancing policies face 35 times more cases of the novel coronavirus, according to a study published Thursday in a peer-reviewed health-care journal.
....Holding the amount of voluntary social distancing constant, these results imply 10 times greater spread by April 27 without [shelter-in-place orders] … and more than 35 times greater spread without any of the four measures,” the researchers wrote in “Strong Social Distancing Measures in the United States Reduced the COVID-19 Growth Rate.”
1) I thought they were supposed to test everybody.We can't draw any conclusions from the statistics. In NH people in LTC, a hospital, or a high risk group (medical staff and first responders) are getting tested. Outside of that you have to convince a phone jockey at the state triage line that you have the classic dry cough and high fever Wuflu symptoms to get a test. The real infection rate is unknown. With that the recovery and death rates are unknown. Recovery is a relative term since recovered currently means left the hospital alive, not back to pre-infection functioning.
That was on purpose. Sweden's Prime Minister said early on that thousands would die as a result of their approach. It was culturally acceptable there as sacrifice for the greater good. It would never fly here.
You going? Where does he even live, anyhow?Rally at Faker Baker's house set for tomorrow (Sat, 5-16)
https://libertyrally-ma.com/
Worldometer says otherwise.
Looks like there might be company.I am not on facebook so I cant confirm........... I am told there will be a protest across the street from Faker's house this Saturday at 2pm. Any truth to it? Could be a good time.