Just As Houston Reopens It Is The Next Hot Spot

fmdog44

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The confusion continues to mount. Houston started the reopening process this week at the same time it is being called one of the next hot spots for the virus. Comedy writers for the show Mash could not be this comical.
 

fmdog44 said:
The confusion continues to mount. Houston started the reopening process this week at the same time it is being called one of the next hot spots for the virus. Comedy writers for the show Mash could not be this comical.
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It won't be long, I predict the coastal areas will be up there after this holiday week end..
 

fmdog44 said:
The confusion continues to mount. Houston started the reopening process this week at the same time it is being called one of the next hot spots for the virus. Comedy writers for the show Mash could not be this comical.
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There is always a waiting time from getting exposed, getting infected with a virus, and it getting bad enough that you go and see a doctor, and then getting tested, and waiting for the tests to come back to tell whether you are testing positive or negative.
So, it seems to me , that if they are just now opening the city of Houston, and having an uptick of virus, all at the same time, that most of these people had to have already been exposed to the virus at least a week ahead of the city opening up.
 
In The Sticks said:
Swine Flu infected 16%, yet we're allowing our lives to be destroyed for less than 1%.
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There is no telling how many deaths were avoided because nearly the entire planet shut down in response to the urging of scientists, doctors, and epidemiologists.

If millions survived, even though they were predicted to starve to death during a terrible drought, because the world intervened with food and other support, would you call the original prediction a hoax or would you recognize that the response changed the outcome?
 
StarSong said:
There is no telling how many deaths were avoided because nearly the entire planet shut down in response to the urging of scientists, doctors, and epidemiologists.

If millions survived, even though they were predicted to starve to death during a terrible drought, because the world intervened with food and other support, would you call the original prediction a hoax or would you recognize that the response changed the outcome?
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Food and other support have a provable direct effect. This does not.

You can always say "It would have been worse if..." but that's never provable. The response is disproportionate to the threat. If it's not, then why not this response ever before when we had tens of millions infected?

The real question is if flu seasons see between 9,000,000 and 55,000,000 infections (per CDC data), then why the media hype and hysteria over 1,500,000 instead of the celebration you cite? It is all contrived.
 
RadishRose said:
I don't believe it's all hype. I think we should be very cautious while going ahead. There are still facets of this virus that remain unknown.
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All I know is that there were over 30x more infected with other flus and we didn't know everything about them and the world did not stop.

How can less than 1/2 of 1% infected do this to us? Think about that. One half of one percent, and look at the self-inflected destruction, because of what we DON'T know?
 
fmdog44 said:
The confusion continues to mount. Houston started the reopening process this week at the same time it is being called one of the next hot spots for the virus. Comedy writers for the show Mash could not be this comical.
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Where did you get this information? I have not heard anything about Houston being a "hot spot."
 
Ken N Tx said:
It won't be long, I predict the coastal areas will be up there after this holiday week end..
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We just went through a long weekend up here in Canada, a road trip of less than two hours showed me how many were
completely ignoring distancing ,never mind leaving the big city to come up here.
So far this week ontario keeps getting more and more cases.
I plan to be here for at least a couple of weeks more.:devilish::devilish:
 
oldman said:
Well, that knocks it down to.003% of the County population. That’s a hot spot?
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I think the dipshit mayor was commenting on certain areas of town being local hot spots. A couple of homeless shelters and some poor areas of town have higher incidents of the virus. I have not heard anything about the City of Houston being a national hot-spot. We are so spread out that it would totally surprise me to hear such a thing.
 
IMO the important number is the hospital capacity to handle an uptick in cases.

New York State is attempting to maintain a 30% excess capacity.

I'm not sure if that is the right number but it makes sense to try to match the hospital capacity to the number of new hospitalizations/intubations.

When that excess capacity begins to shrink it is time to slow down, tighten controls, etc...

https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-icu-bed-capacity-modeling/
 
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