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Do note that the death rate (I prefer the term mortality rate, it sounds less harsh).....you're taking this as a % of just the "identified cases"....which every expert I've come across refers to as just the tip of the proverbial iceberg....most seem to think the real case number is at least 10x...

I think the reason is because of all the mild and asymptomatic cases being identified as testing ramps up. If you look at countries where testing has been robust the pandemic looks far less scary. Iceland with a total population of just 364,134 according to google has confirmed 1,801 total...

Thanks for sending me down yet another rabbitt hole, just finished reading this article...suggesting an eventual vaccine might be like the annual flu vaccine, targetting different strains if the virus ends up mutating like influenza....there are lots of questions and precious few answers. If a...

In Canada the number of serious/critical cases is less than 1.6% of the total current case load. When I first started looking the % was something like 2.2%, that's when Canada was testing about 10K per 1 million of population, now we're up around 27K per million. As more and more testing is...

Five years??? I had been operating under the assumption (always dangerous I know) that it would take 12 to 18 months at minimum....that's the time frame that's been widely reprorted. I've been worried that in a rush to bring a vaccine to market that short cuts would be taken....and that full...

I wasn't saying that there "is" a vaccine....sorry if I didn't word my post well. I am assuming that there will be one eventually, in another year or so if proper safety trial protocols are followed.

From everything I've read its not just SP that is being taxed, anyone who came for 2 weeks or more is subject to filing NY state taxes....you'd think they'd drop "business as usual" type rules during a pandemic, but that's bureaucracy.

One thing that will be interesting to see, in a sadly morbid way, is what all cause mortality is like in the years to come. The Toronto Star ran an article with a headline saying 82% of deaths are in LTC/Nursing home type settings, but I didn't read the article so I don't know if that's...

Just an update, thankfully the police backed off and no charges were laid....this church continues to hold drive thru services. A further note is that this is a rural farming area, and not everyone has broadband internet for streaming, some don't have internet at all.

No, what I'm saying is that I don't know if its being uniformly reported by every country the same way, or even within a country itself....if regional health authorities are all using the same criteria. I know most like hard and fast answers...it keeps things simple. He had covid-19 and he...

I don't know how to react, to laugh, cry, get angry.....

I have a bit of a problem with the reporting....I'm in Canada, and we're about 1/10th the size of the United States, so its even less. But I'm looking at the numbers being reported by some countries, and I'm scratching my head. I think it could very well be that some places are over reporting...

While lockdown is absolutely far from being the only variable, it is the one with the most far reaching ramifications I believe. I don't know the Canadian numbers yet, but I'm seeing reports that US unemployment is now at over 30 million people. Apparently there are a lot of Canadians who...

MSM outlets have terrified so many people that some are too afraid to come out....and that's fine, it should be each individual's choice...same as with so many other things in life. Want to smoke? Think the experts and health professionals are all wrong? Okay...its your call.

Not really affected by Covid-19.....maybe I've had it, I don't know. Lockdown measures have certainly impacted me....my wife's weekly visits from a community care team for people with mental health issues, they were cancelled and replaced with a phone call, then she had a breakdown and had to...

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/who-declares-swedens-covid-response-a-model-for-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR0NTO-7eVZEUCyapAlI4fLW5jhvqvDNTJDJPTs6GcKepTfrFmdNZ3RzjuM When the Imperial College came out with its now entirely discredited report, the world reacted fast....well, most of the world...

Notice how little coverage this is getting....but some guy with a sign saying I WANT A HAIRCUT in Lower Bootlick Indiana is national news with coverage by Fox, CNN and all the other networks.

Scary times....I don't have much to compare. The only person I know first hand is someone I went to HS with, she's now a nurse in a LTC facility but works in administration, with staffing shortages and everything she had to start working the floor and she contracted it...in her fifties like me...

Thanks, there is a mountain of unknowns at this point....less now than in December or January certainly, but its like a 100 ml cup, before we had 2 ml worth of data and now we're up to 20 ml tops....still 80 millitres of unknown. The reason I asked the question is because of the cases I've seen...

I'd be curious to know your thoughts on a particular question EH. I have some data, but not enough. What I know from Health Canada's website (I believe you're also in Canada) is that 806,499 tests have been done (as I write this) with 55,473 coming back positive. I'm reading that there is...