Shadowprophet
Truthiness
I thought NYC And LA were locked down?It doesn't take a flawless data set to get a reasonably clear understanding of what's going on; all it takes is a modestly consistent data collection protocol. And since the testing in the US has been absolutely pitiful from day one, the criterion has been reasonably consistent, which gives us a workable picture. Chances are that we're only detecting the more severe cases, and missing the other 50-80% of the cases - but that's been true all along so the stats are still useful.
Certainly the broad trends that I've been charting with the CDC data indicates the overall trend over any given week; here's what that looks like as of yesterday:
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I'm stunned that we still don't have a mandatory lock-down anywhere in the US with National Guard, the works. By not doing anything like that anywhere in the US, at least tens of thousands of people are going to die who could've been saved, and it's probably actually over 100K people who could've been spared.
I wasn't going to say this, but here seems like as good a place as any,. My sister in law says she was at the grocery store and ran into one of her friends who admitted flat out that she had the coronavirus, This is frightening because one would think people who are infected wouldn't be allowed out in the public. But she says she was coughing and runny nose who whole nine yards. so, At least here in Kentucky. We have people with it going into grocery stores coughing all over the merchandise now one would think some sort of safeguard or security would be in place to prevent this from happening. But logically, I suppose people who have it have to eat too... It's getting scary out there.