I said we'd see increasing cases 2-4 weeks after congregations of people without masks, especially if inside. Fortunately, over 80% of the protestors were wearing masks most of the time they were congregated...though not all were. And they were outside. So, the hope was that there'd be much less spread than if all those protesters weren't wearing masks. But nevertheless, serious concern.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 10:46 pmStats showing more promise: https://twitter.com/ethicalskeptic/stat ... 63137?s=21MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 6:29 pm Point made, idiots abound.
This Republican is not statistically immune, nor is my wife or sister or either brother in law, much less my mother or mother-in-law. Almost all Republicans.
Even my 26 year old son is not immune, nor my nieces and nephews. All Democrats. That said, their motivation to avoid contracting has been more for the benefit of their family than themselves, I realize an alien concept for some knuckleheads.
Thankfully, we've all been careful and avoided it, while in the meantime the medical responses have gotten much better. Every month that goes by this should improve further, meanwhile we're all (R's and D's alike) working (except the grandmas) with the exception of my basement dweller Trumpist who is nevertheless getting paid to stay in the basement by the NSA contractor. He's playing with his super computers, burning my electricity. ahh well.
Still haven’t seen a spike in cities/states that were protesting for the past 4 weeks. Things that make you go hmmmm.
I believe MD said we should know by now when we brought up this concern 4 weeks ago.
Hospitalizations and Deaths are another matter, I said. These would be discernible later still as most of the protestors were young so far less likely to be the ones who would end up in the hospitable themselves, rather it would be the secondary and tertiary spread from them downstream. That's two cycles or more of infection, not one. And as this is an exponential function, it builds. That is, unless people are very careful to not spread it beyond themselves.
So, we're still a few weeks from when I predicted noticeable spikes related to the protestors (if there would be a lot...though the mask wearing looked like it would help).
But we're indeed seeing spikes in areas which had opened up without mask wearing, where too many people scoffed at the risks.
So, where we are indeed seeing spikes is in areas where large % of people are eschewing masks altogether.
The good news is that the medical folks are cutting deaths by 2/3 those who are hospitalized, so while it's brutal and has damage long term, a serious case is considerably less likely to result in immediate death now than 3 months ago...we'd expect this to continue to improve.
