More than a 9/11 worth of casualties every three days.
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Further proof that the political “outrage” over such events is always, always an excuse to consolidate power and perpetuate cruelty. If a bunch of brown terrorists did it, it’s the worst thing in recorded history and they’ll go completely berserk. If it’s white domestic terrorism, police murders, or even better, deaths not even caused by human beings but by something like a hurricane or a virus, then the solutions involve actual change, progress and foresight rather than simply jacking up military budgets and stripping away civil liberties, so they straight-up ignore or even actively deny the problem.
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Has the gem " DeSantis and his team have followed the science closely from the beginning, which is why they forged a nuanced approach"
Throughout this entire crisis, they’ve been downplaying the severity while doubling down on China as the villain for downplaying the virus.
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Another stalwart Trump supporter thrown 8nder the bus. My President has great timing when it comes to embarrassing his Base. @apalatn beat me to it!
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Very rough and very unscientific estimates:
Let us assume that, on average, 5% of all infections end up in hospital. Sadly, a large proportion - think at least 20% - of those will need to be connected to a respirator. Average time in an ICU for such a case would be probably around four weeks.
According to the link provided in the piece, currently 993 ICUs are available. 56 hospitals report they no longer have ICUs available.
10249 new cases yesterday, so about 510 people would be hospitalised. Not immediately, we could assume within three weeks. About 100 of those could need a ICU. A month ago, very roughly, case numbers jumped 10k/d. So, we can assume that during the next three weeks, we’ll have about 2100 people in need of an ICU, not accounting even for tomorrow, and so on.
Again: unscientific, not taking into account anything despite the plain numbers, no spatial variability, nothing.
That Governor and his advisors has more information, and better information, of course. I really hope they do.
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Of course the current administration, by making belief in the dangerousness of Covid-19 part of the culture wars, has ensured that Republicans will be less diligent with masking and distancing.
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According to Wikipedia and the CDC, the coronavirus necropolis (all the people who have died of coronavirus) would be the 186th largest city in the United States, right between McAllen, Texas and Syracuse, New York.
We’re not anywhere near the least populous state (Wyoming) but this necropolis has more people than three US territories.
[Edited] That was 3 days ago. Given yesterday’s numbers, we’re at 180th (between Midland, Texas and Rockford, Illinois.)
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