Originally Posted by LDAHL
@ LDAHL,
As of May 18, the death rate due to COVID-19 was as you say in those 5 states.
The lowest death rate (in 3 states) was 1 per 100,000.
The highest death rates were:
NY 145
NJ 117
CT 96
MA 84
As of May 13, an international comparison:
USA 27.9
Canada 15.76
Sweden 36.31
South Korea .51
Australia .40
Iceland .21
Source: http://www.statista.com/statistics/1...es-us-by-state
Talk about driving while looking in the rear view mirror. No death total from reopening could possible be known until at least a month afterward (and more if their are delays in reporting etc.), because two weeks to hospitalization, another 2 to death.
And that's assuming you went out to a bar that day and caught deadly covid that day or something, which is probably less than the people affected through community spread because the thing is spreading and growing in the community, and so people are getting it even without being completely reckless and crazy, and that probably takes even longer for those cases to show up. That's why we have experts giving advice and not people looking in the rear view mirror for long term effects of policies only now being enacted. There's lots of variables of course, and there may be unknowns as well of course.
Trees don't grow on money
“Dangerous” is relative. Just ask an expert. For all the politically motivated pearl-clutching over Wisconsin political battles the last couple of months, Wisconsin has been relatively safer than it’s neighbors. It’s even been safer than Canada. It’s possible that could change in the future as different states accept different levels of risk (which they all must), but that doesn’t make them ignorant yahoos.
But Wisconsin has a Republican majority legislature, you'd almost certainly have 0 per 100,000 if those Republicans didn't like killing people so much.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
I believe the preferred term is "rednecks" as in "all those uneducable rednecks refusing to listen to me".
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
My philosophy is also I am exposed anyways through my job, so why should I be restricted? Let high risk people stay home, pay them to stay home with tax dollars, deliver things to them, so long as they are willing to stay home. But don't curtail my freedoms because 1) you think you're protecting me when I'm already at risk and 2) vulnerable people who could stay home don't have the self-discipline to do so.
Last edited by Yppej; 5-18-20 at 6:21pm. Reason: Fix punctuation
The reason WI was safer is because of being shutdown. Watch and see what happens now.
Could be... do as trump does, don't wear a mask and tell everyone to open up those sports arenas. Hey, we need to get everyone out there! Unlike trump, we are not all tested daily. My hope is he gets the virus so he has some perspective of what is really going on. I would bet he would change his tune. Look at Boris Johnson... I read today that he thinks it may be a long time (if ever) that a vaccine will be available. Unlike trump, who is saying the vaccine will be available by year end. Although trump also said the virus would be gone by April.
We KNOW what you think. You keep yapping about it daily.
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