Musk needs to send her to Mars, one way trip
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What did Louisiana do? They were supposed to be becoming a huge hot spot and boom. The number of new cases dropped like a rock. Almost all of their cases come from just 2 weeks.
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A study from Drexel University has estimated that stay-at-home mandates put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic saved 4,988 lives in Travis County.
The estimates from the Philadelphia university’s Urban Health Collective are based on a 45-day stay-at-home order. Austin’s and Travis County’s orders have been in place in some form since March 24 and were extended on Friday to the end of May for Austin and to June 14 for Travis County.
No reopening for Austin?
You miss my post stating that Republican Williamson county is already open on May 1. So far Democrat Travis county has about 7-8 times cases than Williamson 
Frankly I see little difference between shutdown and opening. Non-essential means good to have, who cares.
City of Austin comprises some neighborhoods in Travis and Williamson. Cedar Park is in Williamson and is not under City of Austin.
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Notes: Indiana , Louisiana and Maryland data includes probable deaths; New York data does not include probable deaths from New York City; A spike observed in Wyoming in late April is due to the inclusion of probable cases.
What? Coverup?
Your republican sleeper suburb would not even be on the map without the real Austin, where the brains are. 
…and even if it does surge, so what? We will all get infected eventually. If lockdowns eradicated viruses we could eradicate the flu and common cold while we irradiated CV-19. Does anyone expect that outcome? The point was not to overwhelm the health care system and except in a very few disaster zones like NYC that never came close to happening. In fact, we emptied out hospitals nationwide. So why are we even concerned with new cases as a metric? Of course they will rise when you open things up. But you have to open up eventually.
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And the coverup:
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You can also cure obesity by banning scales.
Is obesity really a problem as the healthcare industry have you believe? I have seen and heard of skinny people dying of diabetes, heart attack, and cholesterol. I am sure you would have too.
Looks like corona-virus has opened a new faultline. This one is between science and politics.
I got tested today. I was at my doctors office and told him I might have had the Rona back in early February. So he authorized the antibody IGG test. I was excited to know if I might have immunity. Only problem is the tester told me the tests can show up to 30% negatives.
Positive is good but 30% of people tested could show negative and not know they have immunity. I guess it’s better than having false positives. Hoping I win lotto and have some immunity. That’s the other problem. Even if you test positive for immunity you don’t know how good it is or how long it will last.
Unfortunately testing has limited value.
Keeping the whole economy locked down until we start testing 5m per day seems stupid.
My doctor is very impressive has a degree in public health is an expert on respiratory diseases and is a surgeon. He said these flu like respiratory diseases burn after a year or two. Herd immunity will kick in when 60% get exposed. He believes the Stanford study that says 50-80 times the number of positive patients have been exposed already. So we are about half way there SIP or not.
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I am at a loss of words. Say 98 of 100 dhac deaths are obese, remaining 2 are skinny. So obesity is not a problem?
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I don’t know about history. May be similar for other early lethal germs and viruses.
For current case, is because of election and not so much for the good of the public.
People die because their organs and body do not function well. For example, producing too much cholesterol, or not able to consume the sugar produced, or hormonal disbalance not able to keep the blood pressure under check. It should be found out if obesity is causing all this, what is the cause among skinny people. The key to good health is a regular physical activity and good eating.
Two hundred years ago, bad politics was hiding behind religion, and then came the idea of separating religion and politics. Similar things can be said about science. Pushing the absurd idea to control what other people can do and then call it science is not what it is. If science is to be saved, it must be kept out of reach of fake scientists.
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