Covid 19 SANITY

Honestly, was that ever even a question?

you gotta stay positive!!  

Good point.. you remind me that the Spanish Flu was followed by the Roaring 20's, a super great decade for music! 

Except the Spanish Flu should have been called the Kansas Flu.

Because of all the Latino people living in Kansas?

Exactly.

We got our welcome back staff bag this week.  This was the main item in it. 

Cute. I'm considering a hazmat suit, for regular trips outside the house or studio.

As of now I know 6 directly who’ve had it and probably another 20 indirect. 1 fatality. 3 heart problems. 4 hospitalizations. 1 ventilator. 3 needing oxygen. One of the heart problems was a healthy guy about 40, showed up 2 weeks after he seemed fully recovered.

Starting to bug me the news keeps running total cases. That made sense early on, now the more important number is active cases, and I don't ever see that as the headline. Nuance, people, nuance. NC is something like #9 in total cases, but #23 in active cases, and #32 in death rate.

A fair point but, maybe  by getting people to stop doing what was causing them to become extinct 20 years ago (shooting them for "sport" probably really high on the list), they have made a nice comeback.  

But you are correct in that everything is politicized these day.  In a lot of other countries this COVID stuff was seen as public health crisis and not as a litmus test of "patriotism".  

Thanks for saying this.   I was making a guess.  

You would think this would be easy, but the lack of standards in how to report has made this impossible. Hospitals within city or county Can have different reporting standards, counties may Herve different standards,....
The other problem is lag in testing results, you literally have people who are physically recovered before they get their positive results.
The wife keeps telling me the number of probable positive cases is higher than the daily positive in house patients.

I've followed the Swedish "experiment" very closely.  There have been a number of high profile epidemiologists and scientists who've gone on record saying that lockdowns are mostly unnecessary and ultimately worse for humanity than allowing a disease to run it's course, albeit a lack of lockdowns will result in a sharper peak and faster recovery.  Most of these specialists and experts were ignored in favor of those more willing to give in to fear and push new infections deep into the future with the "flatten the curve" strategy, which has never been proven before as before this it was mostly theoretical.  As of today, Sweden has done very well overall and many early nay-sayers are at a loss for words concerning the utter lack of mass death but mostly attempt to point out a higher peak death rate compared to surrounding countries, while ignoring that most of those other countries continue to have a steady infection/death rate while Sweden has almost none.  Another prominent scientist I pointed out earlier in the thread mentioned that in almost all respiratory viruses studied to date (including SARS/MERS/FLU), there is always a certain percentage of the population that will be sick, and of those a certain percentage that will die.  Whether you allow it to peak early, like sweden, or "flatten" it, the same number will ultimately get sick and/or die over time.  

Now that we have more data, we're seeing that the USA overall is right in the middle of the cases/population ratio that these scientists/doctors have described.  With all the false positives and places like Florida that reported 100% infection rates for a month or more due to faulty reporting structures, the positive cases are likely much less than we're seeing as well.

However, I also have people working in local healthcare and while officially many places (including places where these folks work) are claiming the system is stressed, they explain that it's mostly political for extra federal funding and the system is much less stressed than hype would have you believe.  In fact, a MD I know is taking some time off to work on their house and a PA that I know is on vacation this week, both from systems that are being mentioned as being "stressed".  

I also know folks who are going to get tested every single week, regardless of symptoms, because they're afraid.  The media has hyped up the "organ damage even with no symptoms" thing in order to continue capitalizing on the fearful who click links to indulge in the latest train-wreck.  One of which went and waited in a lobby full of potential covid infected because she had a headache.  No fever.  Just a headache...  Ridiculous. 

One of the most bizarre headlines I've seen is that Georgia (where I live) has supposedly had this huge "surge" in covid..  But the new cases have been falling for about a month now and are back down to a level closer to the initial easing of the lockdowns, so these headlines and talking points are completely false, yet I've seen a number of people sharing them on FB even today.