Time To End The Shutdown?
- Thread starter Wally
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allahuakbar
She/Her
I hope it goes till June/july
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Trouble is, the shutdowns were based on false numbers and the shutdowns do nothing to prevent the flu from spreading. Sooner or later things have to reopen, and when they do the flu will start again.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
The shutdowns were to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, Wally. Ttku...
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Try reading the link before commenting:
During last year’s flu season, according to the CDC, 490,561 people in the U.S. were hospitalized due to the seasonal flu virus. The prior year, it was 810,000 flu hospitalizations. This explains why, as we noted here, America’s hospitals have not been overwhelmed by the number of Wuhan flu sufferers, not even in New York City. The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations falls well within the natural variability in flu hospitalizations that we always see from year to year.
TTKU
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
The flu numbers are for an entire year. Ttku
newfie
Well-Known Member
And the flu has a vaccine..ttku
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
If and when they do decide to reopen they need to make sure that the barbershops and hair salons open first as there are a lot of people who are going to need to get squared away before heading back to the office.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
The flu is seasonal you demwit.
TTKU
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
Yes, and a complete shutdown wouldn't be necessary if there was one for Covid-19. Ttku...
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Congratulations you're the dumbest person in the room. Carry on.Compare the numbers next Feb, dip.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Based on numbers that never even came close. Numbers are way off.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
Mitigation works , Wally. CA don't have nearly the numbers you have on the East Coast because we started before anyone.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Exactly. Herd immunity works. People were sick in California before the hype.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
The flu shot for next year will be for all the strains the previous years. As new strains develop each season, then the anti body can be developed to be included in next years shot.
Tupac would say, "Be patient and give the homies some time. Yeah Mo Fo Yeah Yeah friend
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olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
Sweden decided not to shut down on the theory of letting it run it's course quickly thru the population and then be done with it.
how is that experiment going?
how is that experiment going?
Non sequitur
Well-Known Member
It occurred to me that the Diamond Princess cruise ship is the perfect controlled environment in which the covid19 "pandemic has been concluded, and every person was thoroughly tested and quarantined. So I looked it up and found that all the articles are all over one month old. Very strange considering that it should be the perfect lab model for determining just how "exponentially" the virus spreads. This exponentiality is the foundational pillar of the Covid19 shutdown of all commerce. The testing took place in Japan, the perfect place to get trustworthy analysis, and yet, not a word about it since March 12th? They tested 100% of the people onboard, and the death rate was 0.5. That's not something to shutdown the world for.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Too early to tell. Their older population took a hit but what were their numbers in previous years? Did neighbor countries prevent deaths or just prolong the pain? No one knows.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Or will know.
Hard to trust the numbers coming from any place, including our own.
