COVID-19

[shel311]

Then TIL my post went right over Nick's head


You do realize we're not basing the COVID mortality rate on estimates, right?

[nick]

you know.. you changed my mind.. all the hospitals getting overwhelmed with patients and pleas for help.. and so many celebs just throwing millions at the situation to save lives.. what are they doing??? Save that $5 mil brees its just the flu you dummy.

[shel311]

you know.. you changed my mind.. all the hospitals getting overwhelmed with patients and pleas for help.. and so many celebs just throwing millions at the situation to save lives.. what are they doing??? Save that $5 mil brees its just the flu you dummy.

Ah the tried and true Nick go to move. When you are proved wrong, just change the subject and don't talk about it any more.


Just conceding that you misunderstood the point of my post would have sufficed.

[dakshdar]

I mean nick, you probably live in the biggest city in the ndl. Most are rural or suburb

There's a whole hell of a lot of people in LA county as well, with the vast majority crammed within a 15 mile radius (like me) of downtown.

We have ~8k people/square mile in my "town" and we're on the lower end for this area (two towns over its ~12k/square mile).

[nick]

you know.. you changed my mind.. all the hospitals getting overwhelmed with patients and pleas for help.. and so many celebs just throwing millions at the situation to save lives.. what are they doing??? Save that $5 mil brees its just the flu you dummy.

Ah the tried and true Nick go to move. When you are proved wrong, just change the subject and don't talk about it any more.


Just conceding that you misunderstood the point of my post would have sufficed.

no i just dont care anymore. .. I just bring up stats and facts and you post "well 538 said.." and "well this docs projections said" oh wait "no sorry his numbers were wrong" and think its fact. Youve yet to post an actual stat. You wrote "Today i learned" and then no stats.. you post projections (that were wrong).. I dont get what more I can do??

[nick]

I mean nick, you probably live in the biggest city in the ndl. Most are rural or suburb

There's a whole hell of a lot of people in LA county as well, with the vast majority crammed within a 15 mile radius (like me) of downtown.

We have ~8k people/square mile in my "town" and we're on the lower end for this area (two towns over its ~12k/square mile).

ya i figured you/plasma would have me beat. Toronto's only 2.9m but the whole GTA (added little cities) makes it 6m. That said 3m is still a lot but no where near Cali numbers.

[shel311]

I just bring up stats and facts and you post "well 538 said.." and "well this docs projections said" oh wait "no sorry his numbers were wrong" and think its fact.

That's adorable that you think that's what happened here.

Again, you simply saying you misunderstood my post is all you had to do.


Now you "don't care any more" like you always stop caring right when you whiff on something, then you change the subject. I'm guessing a few posts later you still don't understand the point when I asked if those were CDC estimates.

You do it every...single...time.

I dont get what more I can do??

Read, comprehend, concede you misunderstood what I said, don't pretend you don't care any more, don't change the subject and create the strawman like you love to do. There ya go, that's what more you can do.

[nick]

[The_Niddler]

I mean nick, you probably live in the biggest city in the ndl. Most are rural or suburb

There's a whole hell of a lot of people in LA county as well, with the vast majority crammed within a 15 mile radius (like me) of downtown.

We have ~8k people/square mile in my "town" and we're on the lower end for this area (two towns over its ~12k/square mile).

For reference, I have 86 people per square mile. Not 86k, but 86!
Zip code is 43917

[nick]

The Greater Toronto Area has a land area of 2,280.2 square miles (5,905.7 square kilometers) with a GTA population of 6.4 million inhabitants. At the city level, Toronto's population density is 11,226 residents per square mile

[Cnasty]

417 per sq mile
Population: 22k

[shel311]

Population: 156k
2343 per sq mile

[GeorgesGoons]

3218 per sq mile
population: 409k

Greater Omaha area has 950k
I would assume that it may drop down to 2k per sq mile but not much less than that if it even drops that low

[GeorgesGoons]

I wish President Trump would line item veto all this extra crap in there (from both sides). If it does nothing for the American people and small businesses then it should get shot down.

[ReignOnU]

Nola is getting very bad... and i still have to work. I'm not liking my odds...

https://wwl.radio.com/articles/cantrell ... ew-orleans

According to the mayor, it's the president's fault that she didn't decide to handle shit in her city. Seems reasonable.

[ReignOnU]

TIL the seasonal flu mortality rates aren't calculated similarly to COVID where we take the actual # of positive tests and then deaths.

For seasonal flu, it's all assumed rates based on how bad the strand is for that given flu season.

If we calculated mortality rates for flu exactly the same way we're doing for COVID, the flu mortality rate would similarly be near 4%.

Hmm... figured you'd be one of the few that would get that immediately.

Important to consider what you're reading in a lot of articles. Some use % of those tested and confirmed, some use % of not tested, but assumed via symptoms (not even sure where they are getting this #), then others use # of total population (you see this when comparing to stuff like suicide, car accidents).

[shel311]

Hmm... figured you'd be one of the few that would get that immediately.

Sorry I let you down.

But yea, I hadn't thought of the difference in the testing numbers vs estimates between the 2.

[GeorgesGoons]

Started at the bottom and worked my way up. Some things that don't need to be in this bill:

- Housing Opportunities for people with AIDS
- Transit Infrastructure Grants ($25B)
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation ($526M)
- Grants in aid for airports ($10B)
- Senate Employee Child Care reimbursement ($84k per month). I'm good with that if all other day cares that had to shut down get reimbursed.
- Central Utah Project (water & related resources) ($12.5M)

[GeorgesGoons]

Started at the bottom and worked my way up. Some things that don't need to be in this bill:

- Housing Opportunities for people with AIDS
- Transit Infrastructure Grants ($25B)
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation ($526M)
- Grants in aid for airports ($10B)
- Senate Employee Child Care reimbursement ($84k per month). I'm good with that if all other day cares that had to shut down get reimbursed.
- Central Utah Project (water & related resources) ($12.5M)

The first 5 were within the first 100 pages. And the Utah project was one I searched for b/c I heard about it this morning.

[ReignOnU]

Hmm... figured you'd be one of the few that would get that immediately.

Sorry I let you down.

But yea, I hadn't thought of the difference in the testing numbers vs estimates between the 2.

Forgiven, you've been pretty on point with stuff throughout.

I just keep looking at info each morning and evening, trying to get a grasp on what is most likely.