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I live in South Carolina as well, and I can confirm (I think you meant 2021 not 2020?). Most people in my city have been going about life as usual since ~ May i

by 40four 5y ago

I live in South Carolina as well, and I can confirm (I think you meant 2021 not 2020?). Most people in my city have been going about life as usual since ~ May if this year. Almost nobody wears masks. Everything is open. And guess what? We’re all good! The sky isn’t falling. Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Life is good, and I can remember the last time I worried or had anxiety about Covid. There seems to be a group of people who still believe we can ‘beat’ Covid. That somehow we make it go away, with endless restrictions. In reality, it is here to stay, and we will have to live with it for the rest of our lives.

VRay 5y ago
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/south-carolina?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/sout... Doesn’t look too bad so far as the USA goes, although if legal gun owners or Mexican cartel members were out there killing 40 people a day, you’d be screaming bloody murder about it
- NullPrefix 5y ago
  How many people are dying because of obesity? There's an epidemic going on and I hear no bloody murder screams near any McDonald's
  - robflynn 5y ago
    Let me know when a fat person walking into a room makes other people fat.
    - NullPrefix 5y ago
      He carries donuts. Frosted with layers or sugar.
tzs 5y ago
South Carolina has had a pretty high number of cases since mid year [1]. Higher than the late 2020/early 2021 surge which was before vaccination. It hasn't been doing all that great on death rates, either [2]. A bit worse than the Southern average, and quite a bit worse than the other regions of the US. South Carolina has now reached the same death total per capita as the Northeast [3], which is quite astounding. The Northeast got there by having a large number of people die early in the first couple of months of the pandemic as it tore through high density communities of especially vulnerable people while we were still trying to figure out basic things like how to treat it and what measures were practical and effective for limiting spread. That should have cemented the Northeast as the US COVID death leader for the rest of the pandemic. But South Carolina in the last couple of months, despite over half the people being vaccinated, as managed to get a death rate that looks almost like an early pandemic Northeast death rate, eliminated the death gap. [1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [3] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

by 40four 5y ago

VRay 5y ago

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/south-carolina?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/sout... Doesn’t look too bad so far as the USA goes, although if legal gun owners or Mexican cartel members were out there killing 40 people a day, you’d be screaming bloody murder about it

NullPrefix 5y ago
How many people are dying because of obesity? There's an epidemic going on and I hear no bloody murder screams near any McDonald's
- robflynn 5y ago
  Let me know when a fat person walking into a room makes other people fat.
  - NullPrefix 5y ago
    He carries donuts. Frosted with layers or sugar.

tzs 5y ago

South Carolina has had a pretty high number of cases since mid year [1]. Higher than the late 2020/early 2021 surge which was before vaccination. It hasn't been doing all that great on death rates, either [2]. A bit worse than the Southern average, and quite a bit worse than the other regions of the US. South Carolina has now reached the same death total per capita as the Northeast [3], which is quite astounding. The Northeast got there by having a large number of people die early in the first couple of months of the pandemic as it tore through high density communities of especially vulnerable people while we were still trying to figure out basic things like how to treat it and what measures were practical and effective for limiting spread. That should have cemented the Northeast as the US COVID death leader for the rest of the pandemic. But South Carolina in the last couple of months, despite over half the people being vaccinated, as managed to get a death rate that looks almost like an early pandemic Northeast death rate, eliminated the death gap. [1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [3] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...