36,200 new cases in the U.S. The highest 1 day total ...

[aggiesal]

According to Johns Hopkins,
on 4/24 the U.S. is up to 905,400 cases
up from 4/23 of 869,200.

That's 36,200 new cases, the highest 1 day total for the U.S.

But let's just open up the country, and have everyone go back to work.

[jimfields33]

1. Testing must be increasing to have that large numbers number. Good news there

New York and New Jersey are keeping numbers up big time.

[Igel]

2. Do more tests, find more cases.

That'll happen for a while. Even if the infection rate plummets.


Nobody's saying "let's just open up the country, and have everyone go back to work" unless they're talking off the cuff. Even Trump's language usually has the occasional "if", and what's written is even more conditional.

The "liberate" protesters do the same. For 10-word sound bite you say something different than the 3-minute interview.

Partly I agree. If you're in a county with no reported cases and no deaths, and the four counties adjacent to yours are also case-free for the last week or two, why should you be shut down because of what's happening in Brooklyn? It's the same as saying Brooklyn should have all restrictions removed because those counties have had no cases for over a week. Obviously forcing NYC to conform to Podunksville is insane. But it's no more insane than the usually given assumption that what happens in NYC is the same thing (but better) than what happens in Podunksville.

If nothing else, perhaps the idea of this other kind of diversity will sink in--with acceptance of diversity as a good thing.

[thucythucy]

3. Your idea of no-case counties lifting restrictions

only works if you can guarantee there will be no contact by anyone in those counties with anyone in places that have active cases.

Suppose I'm a long haul trucker driving a route that passes through a hot spot. I stop to get gas, become infected but asymptomatic. The next day I drive into Podunkville and go bowling, eat at a restaurant, then hit the gym. I have now potentially passed the virus on to dozens of other people.

This only works if we all work together to stop it.

[Ace Rothstein]

7. Places are going to open with cases all over the country.

The closures were to flatten the curve, not to completely eradicate the virus. It would probably take years for us to get to zero cases based on how many have it today.

[thucythucy]

8. Yes, indeed, but many of the places that are opening

have far fewer resources available, and may thus find themselves overwhelmed in very short order.

Some areas--for instance tribal communities out west--are going to be hit (and are already being hit) particularly hard. And rural communities--which have seen closings of community hospitals and health centers--are in for a rough time.

Hopefully the polls are right and the vast majority of people will continue to social distance and stay at home.

With that in mind, I think one major impetus for this rush to "open" the economy is a rather cynical calculation on the part of some GOP governors. Declaring their states "open" means that workers who don't feel safe (and indeed may not be safe) returning to work will no longer be eligible for unemployment insurance. They will be "voluntarily" giving up their jobs, which relieves employers and the states from any burden to provide for them during this crisis.

Typical conservative ploy.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Your last post is spot on.

People have to be mindful of just how toxic this Virus Spore is. It is carried on shoes,clothing,Skin,Hair,and is spread by touch or even wind. It is a Protein encased Spore . Watched a fellow doing his Pizza Deliveries across the Street last evening. No Gloves,no mask,he was wearing a Cap. Was that Hot Box carrying bag disinfected,not,how I know,did a pick up a half hour latter at the same Pizza Store. No one was Gloved or Masked or keeping any type of distance inside that store when I walked in to pick up our order. Well that ordered Pizza was a not touching that sucker with a ten foot pole.

[aggiesal]

5. Where was this so I can avoid this location? ...

The lady across the street is hacking up a lung.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Decator and Ann.