I saw videos of downtown here, and apparently many can skirt the rules by selling more food. They looked packed, so might as well open up.
Tabasco said:I thought bars were still closed. Did I miss Abbott opening them up and saving them from bankruptcy?Fitch said:
Bars in my area of Houston were sardine cans this weekend. Surprised to see a nightclub open as well.
So it goes.
pay the government so you can get around the government mandated closure. What a joke.Fitch said:
This past week TABC offered a special permit bars could buy to open if they sell food. Food trucks, bag of chips, hand full of peanuts...
BiochemAg97 said:pay the government so you can get around the government mandated closure. What a joke.Fitch said:
This past week TABC offered a special permit bars could buy to open if they sell food. Food trucks, bag of chips, hand full of peanuts...
74Ag1 said:
Dropping like a rock!!!!
DadHammer said:
I still can't figure out how they get that number. If you go back 14 days, most people are over it by 14 days, active infected number should be closer to 56,000 active cases. That number is 50% higher than what you calculate from average infected in the last two weeks??
If you look at the charts by county, the active cases are very poorly determined. Some counties have interesting patterns where the # of active cases steadily rises for a while then suddenly drops by a large percentage. It is really crazy and makes active cases kinda meaningless because no one is tracking it correctly.DadHammer said:
I still can't figure out how they get that number. If you go back 14 days, most people are over it by 14 days, active infected number should be closer to 56,000 active cases. That number is 50% higher than what you calculate from average infected in the last two weeks??
fav13andac1)c said:
Do you have a source for the data you follow now?
All of us healthcare workers who haven't already caught itcone said:
old and vulnerable are going to still want the vaccine
This is the strange math I have been kicking around in my head. I get spooked by all the Docs coming in here and talking about the relatively healthy middle aged people that die. That scares me back inside.Quote:
Looking at your graphs, how is that even a pandemic with the population size of Dallas in the millions?
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The county has now accumulated 78,205 cases of the virus since testing began in March. With 70,929 estimated recoveries being reported by the state through Monday, there are roughly 6,279 active cases in Dallas County. There have been 997 confirmed deaths attributed in the county to the virus, which, according to Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Dr. Philip Huang, is now the third leading cause of death in the county behind diseases of the heart and cancers. Since March 20, the date of the first reported COVID-19 related death in Dallas County, the county has averaged 5.5 deaths per day.
You do know it's raining outside, right?Windy City Ag said:This is the strange math I have been kicking around in my head. I get spooked by all the Docs coming in here and talking about the relatively healthy middle aged people that die. That scares me back inside.Quote:
Looking at your graphs, how is that even a pandemic with the population size of Dallas in the millions?
I then think through my own personal knowledge of the disease. There have been enough cases through my friends and family and larger network to leave the realm of anecdote and get into the world of statistically relevant sample.
I know of one person that died . . .he was a pretty morbidly obese friend of a friend working in a big East Texas Ag business.
I know four 80+ year olds that have had the disease and recovered, some with longer lasting GI issues but others who had only mild symptoms.
I know many folks of my age range who had it with a varying degree of symptoms. The two with the dry cough and respiratory issues both responded quickly to whatever they were prescribed.
I know many kids and teens who have rode it out like a mild cold.
I then read this yesterdayQuote:
The county has now accumulated 78,205 cases of the virus since testing began in March. With 70,929 estimated recoveries being reported by the state through Monday, there are roughly 6,279 active cases in Dallas County. There have been 997 confirmed deaths attributed in the county to the virus, which, according to Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Dr. Philip Huang, is now the third leading cause of death in the county behind diseases of the heart and cancers. Since March 20, the date of the first reported COVID-19 related death in Dallas County, the county has averaged 5.5 deaths per day.
So in a country of 2.67 Million people, active cases represent 0.2% of the population. Deaths represent 0.03% of the population.
So I want to go back outside.
This makes me sad that so many people feel this way. There is a whole world being lived without fear right now by a lot of people. We took family vacations this summer and stayed in hotels. We visited grandparents and celebrated memorial day and labor day with family and friends. We let our kids play with other kids and went to the pools that were open. It was OK to be afraid in Feb/March, but it's been known for a long time that this was not air born Ebola. Get out there and live life. The mental toll that this is taking on people is a real crime. The solution was far worse than the disease.Quote:
This is the strange math I have been kicking around in my head. I get spooked by all the Docs coming in here and talking about the relatively healthy middle aged people that die. That scares me back inside.
this is what frustrated me in March with the WHO insisting this wasn't a pandemic. There were already cases on every continent except Antarctica (for obvious reasons) with documented community spread in several countries, yet the WHO insisted it wasn't a pandemic until a several weeks later.plain_o_llama said:
So is this a "pandemic?"
For instance, Pandemic is used by some to mean "extreme epidemic." Imagine the old Drudge Report with the red siren announcing the "Cat 5 Hell-Storm in the Gulf." In some academic circles focusing on Epidemiology, Pandemic just means an Epidemic that has spread geographically to multiple countries.
BiochemAg97 said:this is what frustrated me in March with the WHO insisting this wasn't a pandemic. There were already cases on every continent except Antarctica (for obvious reasons) with documented community spread in several countries, yet the WHO insisted it wasn't a pandemic until a several weeks later.plain_o_llama said:
So is this a "pandemic?"
For instance, Pandemic is used by some to mean "extreme epidemic." Imagine the old Drudge Report with the red siren announcing the "Cat 5 Hell-Storm in the Gulf." In some academic circles focusing on Epidemiology, Pandemic just means an Epidemic that has spread geographically to multiple countries.