“If you notice, 18% of the people came from nursing homes, less than 1% came from jail or prison, 2% came from the homeless population, 2% from other congregate facilities, but 66% of the people were at home, which is shocking to us,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters at his daily COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday.
Now these numbers are quite obviously different from the percentages of people who are dying, which just tells us exactly how vulnerable the elderly in long term facilities really are. They make up only 18% of the cases, but account for a much, much larger percentage of the deaths.
Now why are people (who are not out working essential jobs) catching the virus at a rate similar (if not higher) than those who are out and about? That is certainly a question we should be asking and addressing moving forward. If staying home doesn't help, then why keep people home by force?
This reminds me a little of Dr Birx suggesting that the extremely low number of casualties coming from younger Americans was very surprising to the medical experts involved. While we can all respect the opinions of the experts, we should always use the "reality" of what is happening to determine our course moving forward.
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Out-of-State Visitors Flocked to Georgia
“One week after Georgia allowed dine-in restaurants, hair salons and other businesses to reopen, an additional 62,440 visitors arrived there daily, most from surrounding states where such businesses remained shuttered, according to an analysis of smartphone location data,” the Washington Post reports.
“Researchers at the University of Maryland say the data provides some of the first hard evidence that reopening some state economies ahead of others could potentially worsen and prolong the spread of the novel coronavirus. Any impetus to travel, public health experts say, increases the number of people coming into contact with each other and raises the risk of transmission.”
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Well now, it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
How Germany Kept Factories Open During Pandemic
May 7, 2020 at 2:26 pm EDT
Wall Street Journal:
“Large parts of Europe have been ravaged by the pandemic, but Germany has fared better. While it has seen roughly the same number of diagnosed infections as similar-size neighbors—Italy, Spain, France, the U.K.—it has registered only about one-quarter as many deaths.
“And German authorities, unlike those in Italy and Spain, gave all factories the option to stay open through the pandemic. More than 80% of them did so, and only one-quarter have canceled investments."
Key lessons:
*“Businesses implemented strict safety rules early on.
*Managers involved unions and employees in safety planning.
*Regional governments moved quickly to test and trace chains of infection.
*And strong ties to China, where many German firms have operations, gave companies a jump on planning.”
Ramadan Bombathon
Banner week for The Religion of Peace
Well Reverend...
It looks like the predictions that people would be slow to go back to normal couldn't be more wrong, huh?
Perhaps if Cuomo let New Yorkers back outside less of them would be getting sick!
Most of them died in nursing homes.
Well now, it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
you mean it will be interesting to see how freedom and liberty pans out.
Well, Ch, and the rest of you. If Trump had acted with good sense the way Germany did rather than telling everyone we'd be down to near zero in a few days, things would have gone better here.
How in the world did the USA end up with the largest number of cases in the world?
Georgia, booming , James in tears at profits.
China Doll James.
Always bad mouthing the USA.
China Doll James said
"How in the world did the USA end up with the largest number of cases in the world?"
China lied and the WHO signed off on the lies.
CNN
"Justice Department drops criminal case against Michael Flynn
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 7:47 PM ET, Thu May 7, 2020
So now while Trump is encouraging the country to reopen, the West Wing is going in lockdown, now that President Bone Spurs is scared he’s been exposed!
Rogers how is your new $65,000 Audi a A8?
How's your asshole today goat fucker after taking trumps manhood again?????? BWAAAAAAAAAA
Roger posted he will become a Millionaire this year & move out of the attended care old folks home and into
The "Home of his dreams".
How ya going to fund it?
And you keep telling us how you live off your dead parents like the fucking leech to society you are.....
And the guy who watches more TV than anyone else in WH history claimed he knew nothing of the lynching in Ga that was ignored by the sheriff for 2 months.....sad how little black lives matter to the whites of the south and asshole slurpers like the goat fucker!!!!!
ATLANTA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged a father and son with murder Thursday evening in the death of a black jogger who they suspected was a burglar running through their neighborhood, eventually shooting him on the street and touching off racial outcry throughout the country.
Gregory McMichael, 64, a former police officer, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were both jailed on charges of murder and aggravated assault in the Feb. 23 shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Local prosecutors had initially refused to charge the pair.
A viral video taken by another man in the neighborhood has sparked outrage because it appears to show two white men laying in wait for Arbery as he jogs down the street in broad daylight.
The McMichaels, who still maintain that they believed Arbery was a possible burglary suspect, were taken into custody Thursday and were being booked into the Glynn County Jail.
Latest on Arbery's case: Day after father, son arrested on murder charges, a dedication run is planned for Ahmaud Arbery's birthday
The original decision not to arrest the McMichaels or Bryan, and the more than two months that passed before charges were filed, fueled outcry across the nation with attorneys for Arbery's family saying he was racially profiled. Local officials and community leaders say a history of nepotism and privilege in the district attorney offices of Waycross and Brunswick has allowed the killers to remain free.
Deadly Blue States.
Life is Safer in Red States.
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