Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

Are you saying the number of deaths have increased because more are infected rather than because of increased mortality rate? Well, you could be correct,
Singapore
100 case 0 deaths
1189 cases, 6 deaths, mortality rate 0.50%

Edit:
Global 1154449 cases, 61684 deaths, mortality rate 5.34%
USA 291301 cases, 7847 deaths, mortality rate 2.69%
Germany 92150 cases, 1330 deaths, mortality rate 1.44%
Taiwan 355 cases, 5 deaths, mortality rate 1.41%
Israel 7589 cases, 44 deaths, mortality rate 0.58%
HK 862 cases, 4 deaths, mortality rate 0.46%

But you’re going to pay unemployment if you don’t. One way or another you’re footing that bill. Might as well make the bill smaller by not paying a Chinese worker and shipping in addition.

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Should look from a personal PoV.

No change in personal income tax. So same take home $ but larger spending in manufactured goods. So is worse off.

On the contrary, we will be paying for this mess somehow, at some point in the future. So harriet in particular should be concerned over an increase in taxes on W2 income.

Adjusted US is at 7847/.006=1,307,833 infections… So we’re about 1/200th through the population… going to be a loooong road.

Double whammy? Less take home $ and spend more!

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0.6% only if still able to contain the spread. That has passed for USA*, it is in mitigation phase, so is more like 1.5%.

7847/0.015 = 523k, more than 300,000 asymptomatic or very mild cases roaming around undetected.

*Nationally. Some States can do containment.

California ranks 39th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in per capita testing, according to datacollected by the Covid Tracking Project.

Cotton specifically said that “we don’t have evidence that the disease originated there, but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says.”

Asking the question and investigate the possibility is valid since there is a biosafety Level 4 laboratory that specializes in researching coronaviruses in Wuhan - IMHO, is an obvious question to ask and I believe is what Xi has asked and is investigating. However, it is irresponsible for him as a Senator to ask this question publicly instead of asking the relevant American authority which I believe is investigating*, since it has geopolitic implication and affecting bilateral relationships. His statement is in effect insinuating it is definitely originated from the lab when he added “duplicity and dishonesty” so the press# is not wrong in saying he is spreading conspiracy theories.

*AFAIK, detectives/ investigators don’t release info publicly who are the suspects. Suspects are suspects, releasing their names imply that they are culprits, damaging their reputations when later confirmed that they are not. So is very irresponsible to release such info publicly.

#Obviously National Review, a right-wing magazine, is referring to those left-wing press.

“scientists don’t rule out that an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study,”

Are these scientists same scientists from Scripps Research? If not, just a different PoV, and not a change in position of those scientists that say,

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This being the US–I don’t agree at all that he has to keep the question silent unless the Level 4 biolaboratory was top secret which wasn’t since it had public papers on coronaviruses. Obviously there are going to be scientists and newscasters asking the same question, people should know that the gov’t has thought of it and is investigating.

I think you mean .6% only if medical resources aren’t maxed out. It doesn’t matter about containment. That number comes from South Korea. As long their illnesses affected a representative set of the population, it’s a reasonable estimate.

Don’t understand your logic at all. So any politicians can just shoot like a cowboy? even this can cause riots? chaos? racisms? distrust? geopolitic tensions? Can I do so too? This virus is spread by US military so is the virus that kill the pigs.

From what I understand, he didn’t accuse, he suggested that it was a possibility. And yes, you’re free to do the same. The internet is filled with people putting forth theories and doing investigations to support them.

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He did accuse - read my previous post. My main contention is he shouldn’t ask that question in public.

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53 posts were merged into an existing topic: How Trump has handled the pandemic

0.6% is outdated. Latest S. Korea mortality is 177/10156 = 1.74% Medical resources ain’t max out yet. 0.6% was during “building up” and is not the steady state figure.

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Did they continue testing though?

Diamond Princess stopped at .01. To my knowledge, all tested, all resolved. Age range still expected to be on the higher side.