Coronavirus. Your thoughts? [Serious and Non-Serious]

We went out with friends and this really nice security guard saved us a 300 dollar fine, I didn't know there was a rule that 5 people couldn't sit on one table even if they have a 6 feet distance between them.

My county just sent out a broadcast alert via cellulars to adhere to COVID guidelines. Several resturants in our area had to close down for cleaning due to staff being infected. It's just not getting any better. It could have but too many dipshits don't give a damn.

The raw death toll is only surface level analysis. The most dangerous countries to live in for corona is better determined through a death rate per capita basis. One of the main factors attributing to the high death rate in the US is the high population size. Note that mathematical models describing decease spread utilize population size as a variable. There is a correlation between population size and the number of deaths. If a country has more people, then it has a higher population size to infect. Which could also lead to a higher raw death toll then smaller nations. However, more deaths in a certain country does not necessarily mean that's it's deadlier there. Per capita deaths/population is a more accurate way to determine how deadly a disease is in a country. It may sound counter intuitive but let me explain. Let's have a hypothetical scenario. A thought experiment if you will. Where a virus called X infects country A and country B. Where the corresponding population is as follows: Country A = 1,000,000 people Country B = 200,000 people Virus X kills 100,000 people in both countries A,B. Some might assume by the raw death toll that the virus was equally deadly in both countries. But that is not really the case. Virus X killed 10% of the population in country A. While virus X killed 50% of the population in country B. In a per capita basis the death rate is: Country A = 10,000 deaths/100k pop. Country B = 50,000 deaths/100k pop. What does a higher per capita death rate mean? It means that a person living in country B is far more likely to die from virus X then a person living in country A. Although the death toll is the same in both countries. Virus X killed a higher % of the population in country B. Which makes it deadlier to live in country B. Now applying the same statistical logic of the hypothetical scenario to the real world corona case. A study conducted by Johns Hopkins University & Medicine found the per capita death rate for several countries. Data last updated on thursday, July 2, 2020 at 03:00 AM EDT. https://i.ani.me/0262/2424/corona_4.jpg According to this particular study. Currently the countries of San Marino, Belgium, Andorra, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Sweden, France have a higher per capita death rate then the US. Which means that a person living in those aforementioned countries are statistically more likely to die of corona then a person living in the US. Note that this is with the current available data. The death per capita will fluctuate in the future. I've noticed that the media often times blurts out raw death toll numbers without much analytical consideration as to what they statistically mean. Which may lead to some people misunderstanding how deadly the disease may be in their country. But that's a different topic and I digress. Reference: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

No one at my job wears masks or social distance lol if coworkers and bosses don’t and customers don’t then I won’t. I mean they were saying screw the shutdown order we’re staying open. All is mostly pre virus in our bubble world.

There's 21 states in America that are in a second wave of COVID right now. TWENTY-ONE. Some of which never managed to flatten the curve even ONCE. North Carolina for example has been a perfect 45 degree upward line in "new cases" since the beginning of March. The only reassuring thing I can think of on that subject is that some of the dumbasses that are spreading COVID might actually learn a lesson in caring about other people after they accidentally give it to someone they love.

@theboredadventurer I have read that the US is still in the first wave.

So the good news is, even if all of us get this virus. Most of us should survive it. Just looking at California numbers alone. Recent one I saw is 272,000 people got the virus. 6,337 people died from it. That is under 3% of Californians that contracted it and died. The worse one (for now) is New York. they got 398,000 people who got it and 32,219 died from it. That's under 9 percent of New Yorkers dying from it. I think the real problem is ICU beds. Everyone who gets sick deserves a chance to survive/recover. We got to assume that the people who goes into an emergency room needs an ICU bed. I can't find concrete numbers about ICU beds in California or New York, but they don't have enough. I can only speak from experience, but the hospitals I worked in the past only had 10 and the other 12 ICU beds. I can't speak for bigger hospitals, but I doubt they have more than 20 ICU beds in their facilities. What I can generalize is Rural or remote areas do not have that many hospitals, much less ICU capacity. That's a lot of people who won't get the best care they deserve. It sucks, but we really need to avoid indoor or outdoor crowds as much as possible. It will help the hospitals to just have enough resources to treat the really sick ones.

@alihawk That doesn't looks good. I have read it in the news that the us is still in the first wave because the situation isn't under control, according to Fauci. http://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-coronavirus-montag-119.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/virologe-fauci-verlangt-sofortiges-handeln-a-44237b2f-e0db-4935-a01e-bbd1871a371f-amp