Posted on Oct 24, 2020
Brit Hume has noticed what the media tends to avoid in their Covid-19 coverage (guess why)
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Brit Hume nails it... cases are not hospitalizations. Cases are not necessarily sick people.
Brit Hume has noticed what the media tends to avoid in their Covid-19 coverage (guess why)
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I see no issue here. I think the media is representing the information properly, and in a way that the public can understand (and they're not trying to spread panic). Everything I've seen reported by the media involves both the number of cases and the number of deaths. Reporting the number of cases is important because cases lead to sick people, sick people lead to hospitalizations, and hospitalizations lead to deaths. Not all cases lead to deaths though, and everyone understands that, especially with the way the media is reporting the numbers.
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LT Brad McInnis
See my comment above with the graph. I don't necessarily disagree with you LTC (shocking I know), but I think we get wrapped around the axle on the wrong things. If there are 70k new cases today, how many of those were tests of the same people, how many of those were backlogs of old tests? We have had both here in Houston. There was a lady here who had a test every time she went out. So, in a week, she had 7 tests, one woman, and how many more are there like that. Each one skews the numbers...
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I was noting the rate of death is going down some. I figured it's because more young people are getting infected. Young don't have as high a death rate. Also possible that the new drug regimes, including steroids, is reducing deaths. And they've pinpointed the right ways and times to use ventilators. But maybe the virus is getting weaker. I hope the virus is getting weaker. Hope doesn't make something true, but it's better than no hope.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
Maj John Bell - The bottom line is there are more patients with COVID than the local hospitals can handle. Perhaps precautionary actions would help?
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MSG Stan Hutchison
Cpl (Join to see) - "most of the left are pro-eugenics, err population control pundits"
False!
False!
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Maj John Bell
MSG Stan Hutchison - What precautionary actions are you suggesting? At this point I am not impressed by the mandatory shut downs ability to preserve public health. ;Or by the "expertise" of the experts. Plus, the law of unintended consequences from those mandatory shutdowns is tearing us a new one.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/italy-did-everything-right-to-stop-a-second-wave-of-the-coronavirus-so-what-went-wrong
https://www.thedailybeast.com/italy-did-everything-right-to-stop-a-second-wave-of-the-coronavirus-so-what-went-wrong
Italy Did Everything Right to Stop Second COVID Wave. So What Went Wrong?
Just one month ago, Italy was the shining example of how masks and aggressive testing work to stave off a second COVID wave. Why have things gone so terribly wrong?
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Abortion on demand is genocide! Democrats started or escalated all major wars of the 20th century. Democrats were the Eugenicists of the 20th century! TRUE
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I consistently see and hear #cases, # hospitalizations AND #deaths. The local news also includes age ranges for all three categories, as well as #recoveries. I also hear, although not as often, #asymptomatic cases, and %hospital capacity.
The media, at least what I consume (a blend of NPR, social media, Fox, Breitbart, CNN, USA Today, NYP, and WSJ - but mostly NPR and the local radio news at 5:00 (a Fox affiliate) because that is what I can listen to in my car) has done an excellent job of reporting ALL the numbers, and with contextualizing them.
The media, at least what I consume (a blend of NPR, social media, Fox, Breitbart, CNN, USA Today, NYP, and WSJ - but mostly NPR and the local radio news at 5:00 (a Fox affiliate) because that is what I can listen to in my car) has done an excellent job of reporting ALL the numbers, and with contextualizing them.
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SPC John Waisman
I just read an article that said that in NYC the death rate 3 months ago was 27% and now it's 3%. Several factors, they say, might be at play: younger people are getting it, and they're less likely to die; they have better drugs now that are being proven through use; they know better when to use ventilators and (possibly more importantly) when not to use them; they know better how to position patients so they are less likely to need a ventilator. And so on. In other words, the medical teams are on the upside of a learning curve. This is a novel virus; iE: a new virus. Initially we knew nothing about it. Now we know more.
There's hope, but we aren't out of the woods yet. In my humble opinion. I am not a medical worker. And I wear a mask when I can't social distance or when I'm in a store. I hope we all stay healthy.
There's hope, but we aren't out of the woods yet. In my humble opinion. I am not a medical worker. And I wear a mask when I can't social distance or when I'm in a store. I hope we all stay healthy.
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