Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

[ShockerFever]

Lowest number of new cases and new deaths since the end of March.

[ShockingButTrue]

It looks like even goats and pawpaw's can't hide from that god**** Bat Flu. The end is near...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/tanzania-president-questions-coronavirus-kits-animal-test-200503174100809.html

[ShockerFever]

Weird how this thread went quiet when deaths and new cases hit month-long lows.

[Kel Varnsen]

Weird how this thread went quiet when deaths and new cases hit month-long lows.

Just give it two weeks and we'll look like Italy or Spain, man.

[Kung Wu]

Weird how this thread went quiet when deaths and new cases hit month-long lows.

I saw a projection where deaths are supposed to fall off dramatically in the next week or so. If the projection is solid, the economy should be opened wide up. Not sure if it was a reasonable projection though, and I want to crunch some of my own numbers when I am not so dang busy at work.

My hypothesis (and that's all it is, I have not crunched numbers to prove this) is:

1) this virus has been worse than the flu for obvious reasons already stated over and over in this thread,
2) the worst is now behind us,
3) even with an open economy the NEW death counts starting from now will NOT be worse than flu -- so we are statistically back to normal

I think this can be proven, but I have not crunched any numbers lately.

[wufan]

Crunch some numbers already!

[WstateU]

I saw a projection where deaths are supposed to fall off dramatically in the next week or so. If the projection is solid, the economy should be opened wide up. Not sure if it was a reasonable projection though, and I want to crunch some of my own numbers when I am not so dang busy at work.

My hypothesis (and that's all it is, I have not crunched numbers to prove this) is:

1) this virus has been worse than the flu for obvious reasons already stated over and over in this thread,
2) the worst is now behind us,
3) even with an open economy the NEW death counts starting from now will NOT be worse than flu -- so we are statistically back to normal

I think this can be proven, but I have not crunched any numbers lately.

[WstateU]

Weird how this thread went quiet when deaths and new cases hit month-long lows.

Just hold the mic!

[pie n eye]

Weird how this thread went quiet when deaths and new cases hit month-long lows.

To be fair, there have been other lulls in the thread.

It feels like everyone is in wait and see mode right now.

[revenge_of_shocka_khan]

To be fair, there have been other lulls in the thread.

It feels like everyone is in wait and see mode right now.

I know I am. Our Attorney General (who is under indictment for securities fraud) is sending out cease-and-desist letters to cities in Texas telling them they must end social distancing and masks.

I want to see whether those people get sick or not. If they don't get sick, I may go out. I don't plan on being out very soon.

[wufan]

I know I am. Our Attorney General (who is under indictment for securities fraud) is sending out cease-and-desist letters to cities in Texas telling them they must end social distancing and masks.

I want to see whether those people get sick or not. If they don't get sick, I may go out. I don't plan on being out very soon.

He’s trying to end shelter once place laws, not social distancing. Did I miss something?

[MoValley John]

He’s trying to end shelter once place laws, not social distancing. Did I miss something?

I think you're missing the re-air of Wrestlemania III currently on Fox. This is an awesome byproduct of the pandemic.

[MoValley John]

I got fifty bucks on Hogan over Andre the Giant.

[revenge_of_shocka_khan]

He’s trying to end shelter once place laws, not social distancing. Did I miss something?

No. Not according to the local news outlets. He has issues with both masks and social distancing. He says most of the major cities in Texas are overstepping their boundaries.

And this is the guy who wrote the security law that he later violated to get indicted. And the whole thing pretty much stinks because his case has been pending for over 2 years. If this was all a big mistake, why didn't the charges get dismissed? Seems like they should have.

That tells me there must be probable cause out there somewhere, otherwise they would have dismissed the charges.

Not only that, he was indicted by a grand jury, who has to hear the evidence and vote to indict or acquit. So there's definitely some stink on him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/u...y-charges.html

Then he got his wife elected as a state senator and she tried to do this:

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/16/ken-paxton-angela-securities-regulations-texas-attorney-general-power/

"In what state Sen. Angela Paxton describes as an effort to safely expand Texas’ burgeoning financial tech industry, the freshman Republican from McKinney has filed a bill that would empower the office of her husband, Attorney General Ken Paxton, to exempt entrepreneurs from certain state regulations so they can market “innovative financial products or services.”

One of those exemptions would be working as an “investment adviser” without registering with the state board. Currently, doing so is a felony in Texas — one for which Ken Paxton was issued a civil penalty in 2014 and criminally charged in 2015."


So they say everything is bigger in Texas. I guess that includes the crooks, too.

[wufan]

Do you have any articles that says he’s threatening to end social distancing or occupancy maximums? I read two and the both said he wanted to prohibit city ordinances that were beyond Texas state law, specifically:

requirement to wear a mask everywhere in public

Must stay home except for essential activity

forced closure of non-essential businesses