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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Er, do you mean John Dillworth, or is there a John Dillman?

ORIGINAL: obvert

...Georgia happens to have some very dense concentrations of this virus around right now and it seems this statewide order is coming a bit late. They may not have known asymptomatic cases could transmit the disease, but as government leaders who can influence life or death for millions of people, they should have. I hope that people have been paying attention to the media, the warnings, and doing this themselves. The travel map on the left below does show that some were not over the past week (darker indicating more movement).

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Er, do you mean John Dillworth, or is there a John Dillman?

YES. Thanks, 16hr workday.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

You're pulling long hours. Good luck. Keep safe. No quarantine for you!

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Er, do you mean John Dillworth, or is there a John Dillman?

YES. Thanks, 16hr workday.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Of course there aren't enough tests to simultaneously test 1/3rd of billion people. There aren't enough medical people to COLLECT 1/3rd of billion tests or enough laboratory techs to RUN 1/3rd of billion tests or enough medical people to give results and advice to 1/3rd of a billion people.

Suppose you test 1/3rd of a billion people on Saturday and you have a million lab couriers to take the tests to the lab and a million techs running 330 labs each and everyone shows up to work on time and works on nothing else so it's all done by 2 PM and now you need 10 million nurses and doctors to call all 330 million and everyone HAS a phone and ANSWERS their phone (even the illegal aliens of which there are 20 million) and when they answer you need translators for Hmong and Que-Che and Cantonese and Swahili etc.

Now you have 35 million positives and you have to counsel them and tell them to stay home which they have already been advised to do...WHEW! Now, on Sunday, you only have 300 million to retest because some of them will have converted during the night....and there you go again.

The only practical way to measure incidence in a prospective fashion in a large population with many asymptomatic cases is with a sizable careful random sample.

In the meantime we discover Mr. Undie-Messing is a preening peacock of a statist ***-hole who has posters of Chairman Mao in his room in Mom's basement.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Obvert this map is misleading. The box accurately shows 79 cases in Floyd County, which has a population of almost exactly 100,000. It finesses the figure to show 81.6 cases per 100k. But that isn't the number of cases that originated here.

Floyd County is the heath center for most of northwest Georgia. We have two hospitals and a huge medical clinic. Cases from most surrounding counties end up here. To get an accurate figure on the actual number of cases here, you'd have to subtract cases that originated elsewhere.

ORIGINAL: obvert

...Georgia happens to have some very dense concentrations of this virus around right now and it seems this statewide order is coming a bit late. They may not have known asymptomatic cases could transmit the disease, but as government leaders who can influence life or death for millions of people, they should have. I hope that people have been paying attention to the media, the warnings, and doing this themselves. The travel map on the left below does show that some were not over the past week (darker indicating more movement).

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


In the meantime we discover Mr. Undie-Messing is a preening peacock of a statist ***-hole who has posters of Chairman Mao in his room in Mom's basement.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy


Liquor Store: Staff that usually rush up to help you choose a wine (I buy the higher quality stuff with the bigger markup) stayed well back and did not offer help since I knew where I wanted to look. Lines painted on the floor near the tills to mark distancing boxes. Cashiers did not handle bottles I touched nor my Air Miles and Credit Card. I bagged the goods myself.

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


In the meantime we discover Mr. Undie-Messing is a preening peacock of a statist ***-hole who has posters of Chairman Mao in his room in Mom's basement.

This is uncalled for. I hope we're not trying to keep out people who have differing views on subjects here. I hope this is a place where challenging someone's ideas, assumptions, conclusions, is part of a healthy dialogue.

Statements like this do not lend themselves to a healthy dialogue formed from differing backgrounds and positions.

ORIGINAL: mind_messing

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


In the meantime we discover Mr. Undie-Messing is a preening peacock of a statist ***-hole who has posters of Chairman Mao in his room in Mom's basement.

This is uncalled for. I hope we're not trying to keep out people who have differing views on subjects here. I hope this is a place where challenging someone's ideas, assumptions, conclusions, is part of a healthy dialogue.

Statements like this do not lend themselves to a healthy dialogue formed from differing backgrounds and positions.

Where is Cars vaunted attempts to make the discussion apolitical and call out inappropriate language now?

Evidently not required seeing as I have been deemed a persona non grata by the thought police.

Pol Pot & Mao, I seem to have touched a nerve [:)]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Of course there aren't enough tests to simultaneously test 1/3rd of billion people. There aren't enough medical people to COLLECT 1/3rd of billion tests or enough laboratory techs to RUN 1/3rd of billion tests or enough medical people to give results and advice to 1/3rd of a billion people.

Suppose you test 1/3rd of a billion people on Saturday and you have a million lab couriers to take the tests to the lab and a million techs running 330 labs each and everyone shows up to work on time and works on nothing else so it's all done by 2 PM and now you need 10 million nurses and doctors to call all 330 million and everyone HAS a phone and ANSWERS their phone (even the illegal aliens of which there are 20 million) and when they answer you need translators for Hmong and Que-Che and Cantonese and Swahili etc.

Now you have 35 million positives and you have to counsel them and tell them to stay home which they have already been advised to do...WHEW! Now, on Sunday, you only have 300 million to retest because some of them will have converted during the night....and there you go again.

The only practical way to measure incidence in a prospective fashion in a large population with many asymptomatic cases is with a sizable careful random sample.

In the meantime we discover Mr. Undie-Messing is a preening peacock of a statist ***-hole who has posters of Chairman Mao in his room in Mom's basement.

He probably has a mural of Chairman Mao plus Pol Pot on the ceiling of his bedroom.

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: mind_messing

ORIGINAL: obvert




This is uncalled for. I hope we're not trying to keep out people who have differing views on subjects here. I hope this is a place where challenging someone's ideas, assumptions, conclusions, is part of a healthy dialogue.

Statements like this do not lend themselves to a healthy dialogue formed from differing backgrounds and positions.

Where is Cars vaunted attempts to make the discussion apolitical and call out inappropriate language now?

Evidently not required seeing as I have been deemed a persona non grata by the thought police.

Pol Pot & Mao, I seem to have touched a nerve [:)]

I know you're unaffected by this kind of playground name-calling mind_messing, but it's especially difficult in an international context to bring historically American red-scare McCarthyism tactics into an open forum centered around learning and sharing about a crisis we're all trying to negotiate and have dialogue around.

Exactly on point. Where are the voices calling to keep politics out here?

If I happen to believe in a different system of thought or philosophy to a select few vocal people on this forum should I not contribute? Am I not welcome? Is there an old guard that decides who can play and who can't?