Careful, Painter, stay on topic. Don't dare drift from football despite the state of the world, your thread will be closed. We are too immature to discuss matters beyond the football field, it seems. Anyway, how about that Nick Saban?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Bob In PA on August 09, 2020, 12:18:08 PM
Rich: Europe would be better served to mind its own business, as they have done no better or worse. Bob
Population:
United States - 330,000,000
Germany,UK, France,Italy and Spain - 325,000,000 combined
Approximate number of covid tests:
United States - 59,000,000
Euro countries listed above - 41,300,000
Approximate number of covid Deaths:
United States - 158,000
Euro group - 151,000
Deaths per 100,000 population:
UK - 70
Spain - 61
Italy - 58
United States - 48
France - 45
Germany - 11
Bob
PS. These stats are getting a bit long-in-the-tooth but they're approximations anyway (but sufficient to make my point). I have no idea if the comparison is now more or less favorable than it was at the end of June.
Quote from: Bob In PA on August 07, 2020, 01:00:59 PMThe date supports opening the schools. New York is in very very good shape thanks to the measures put in place by the governor months ago. And Bob, criteria could change as the science on Covid changes constantly. As long as the students and teachers don't interact foolishly with those slackers from Florida, Georgia and other outlying states, New York should remain good.
Lenn: Yet he's opening the schools. I say good for him. I (for one) won't seek to chastise him if he takes a tough stance (as you suggest), just so he doesn't change the criteria that he has already established. Bob
Quote from: Jim143 on July 11, 2020, 09:10:06 AMThe reporting overall of the pandemic has been abysmal on both sides. CNN is non-stop hysteria, while Fox concentrates on what's going on in a city block in Portland or Seattle and ignores the virus altogether. There is no balance. Of course if we had leadership things would be different, but we don't. We have an ignorant president who spreads his ignorance to others as contagious as Covid.
I cant speak to Sarasota county, but I am thankful that the restaurants in Nassau county have a conscience. We have had a few voluntarily report that a worker was tested positive and then voluntarily close down for a week to deep clean and retest the rest of the staff.
Those that are open, have so much plastic around the workers that you feel like you are walking into a "clean room" and I can only think of one that is open (or was two weeks ago - we haven't been back yet, maybe today) for indoor seating with major spacing between tables. Very few have outdoor seating and the rest are take out only.
Nassau and Duval counties have a lot of testing going on and there are probably 60% (or less) positive in results. I know this because my wife works for the Director of Chronic Diseases for the Florida Department of Health in Duval and is the one who is processing ALL the test results that come in. And trust me - they are coming in in droves. She comes home brain fried each day. She gets anywhere from 80 - 120 test result reports, each upwards of 100 pages. About 20 pages or so are her "normal", what use to be day-to-day work: HIV, Hep, TB etc. the rest are Covid test results and there are probably 60% (maybe a little less) that are positive.
What we see here, living in "ground zero" is not indicative of what is being reported. In the department where I work, there are maybe 3 or 4 that have it (out of 218 employees) and not one of them are in the hospital. The local news is reporting that there are 26% of the hospital beds open and available in the entire state. Edit: 26% of ICU Beds available state wide