Covid-19

AWP said:
Were they actually positive? Did they actually have the disease? As I posted earlier, an RN friend of ours, at her hospital some of the docs sent off blank swabs that came back CV-19 positive. They did this twice. There are 6+ "positive" cases on the books for tests that were never taken.

Without cross referencing anitbody tests with "known" positive cases, we'll never know. We destroyed a global economy over one of the most haphazard and broken testing programs in medical history.
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They probably were positive. How many of us have had a cold, been around people, but those people not get sick? Either they have antibodies, or the level of your cold is such that the virulence is really low. How many people have tested positive yet say they feel like the only thing they have is "a bad cold," and others around them do not get sick?

In theory I would love to see people get two tests in one: one to see if they have it, and one to check antibodies. But that will never happen.
 
PineTree said:
@Dame Population dynamics are accounted for in those predictions
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Population dynamics are notoriously unreliable, but often the best we got. Most "past performance predicts future results"-type of equations based on 'n' died per year so we'll tack that number plus/minus formulas don't account for changes in clinical quality in the >65 population. Too many variables, and the margin of error is too great.

Provisional data, inability to control undefined variables, and double-dipping of the data are indeed troublesome in trying to figure this out.
 
Devildoc said:
Population dynamics are notoriously unreliable, but often the best we got. Most "past performance predicts future results"-type of equations based on 'n' died per year so we'll tack that number plus/minus formulas don't account for changes in clinical quality in the >65 population. Too many variables, and the margin of error is too great.

Provisional data, inability to control undefined variables, and double-dipping of the data are indeed troublesome in trying to figure this out.
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Seems as accurate as polling. Or Studies from the NIH. You can find at least one study on the NIH site to support a conclusion.
 
PineTree said:
@Dame Population dynamics are accounted for in those predictions
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You asked for a better reason and as @Devildoc said, the statistics are unreliable. I am looking at my experience with coworkers. Lost another one this weekend. Deaths up 7% from last year could be age/stress related alone considering the Boomers tend to work longer.
ETA: 2020 alone should be considered a stress factor IMHO.
 
Law Enforcement is losing a lot of support from the people. Nashville PD seems to think it's smart to arrest people and put them in jail overnight because they won't wear a mask.

Man on Broadway ignores police commands to wear face covering, is arrested

Not the first one either.

Nashville police arrest man, issue 20 citations Friday for violating mask mandate

Nashville Police: 4 arrested, 38 cited during enhanced mask enforcement this weekend

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Looking at sport. Alistair Brownlee competed in WTS Hamburg on Saturday finishing 9th. He then flew back to the UK and competed in the Helvellyn triathlon taking 1st.
 
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Salt USMC said:
You know what’s wild? More police have been killed by COVID-19 this year than all other causes COMBINED

Officer Down Memorial Page: 2020
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I recall having read an article some years ago, a journal article, with autopsies of military members and police officers who died from non-traumatic injuries at an earlier than expected age. One of the key findings was that the heart was aged significantly, hypothesis being the stress response and cortisone in those particular professions. I cannot help but to wonder if this is a similar thing, men who may not be in the best of shape, whose immune system is a little ragged because the flight or fight response, whose increased cortisol is on a nearly perpetual "on" state.
 
Literally one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen. Joe West is a power hungry cunt.
 
Devildoc said:
I recall having read an article some years ago, a journal article, with autopsies of military members and police officers who died from non-traumatic injuries at an earlier than expected age. One of the key findings was that the heart was aged significantly, hypothesis being the stress response and cortisone in those particular professions. I cannot help but to wonder if this is a similar thing, men who may not be in the best of shape, whose immune system is a little ragged because the flight or fight response, whose increased cortisol is on a nearly perpetual "on" state.
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Correct. Heart disease in law enforcement officers is an automatic "on the job" injury and is figured into medical retirements as such.
 

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