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by hvac 6y ago
How would those same places be doing without masks?
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by hvac 6y ago
If the state’s data is garbage in the first place then the chance of a good-faith debate happening drops even further. I’m more than a little disturbed by the narrative that it’s OK for the state to lie as long as they are advancing a cause
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by hvac 6y ago
> Florida has a lower death rate To be fair, Florida also has some of the lowest latitudes in the US.
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by hvac 6y ago
To be clear, this is the same country that banned events of more than eight people.
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by hvac 6y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by hvac 6y ago
How would another presumably milder coronavirus that was widespread enough in Asia to cause observable population-level effects not also be widespread in the rest of the world?
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by hvac 6y ago
You mention mask compliance, but your links discuss mandates - did the mandates have a material effect in changing the number of people actually wearing them?
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by hvac 6y ago
The direction does matter, actually. The virus particles leaving an infected person will generally be inside droplets large enough to be caught by a mask before they get a chance to evaporate and atomize. Meanwhile, the virus encountered by
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by hvac 6y ago
Hmm, "counting the number of requests made to Apple Maps for directions" is different than people actually going places, though. If you look at the Google location data reports, the retail and recreation category was down 16% when
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by hvac 6y ago
Huh, you're right. Apparently there is limited hospital bed capacity on the Hawaiian islands.
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by hvac 6y ago
The US? I'm not aware of any place here that's under lockdown.
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by hvac 6y ago
That 0.67% was the CFR, not the IFR.
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by hvac 6y ago
I can't edit my comment now, but I also just noticed that the CDC recently revised the IFR upwards from 0.26% to 0.65% ( https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena... ), apparently as of
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by hvac 6y ago
The linked NYT article says that deaths are up 28% over the last two weeks.
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by hvac 6y ago
>More than 25% of New Yorkers have had COVID This doesn't follow, though. You can test positive for SARS2 antibodies and - either through asymptomatic infection or false positive - not have had COVID-19. The UCL study focused on the