oh well - another day, another 30,000+ confirmed cases, another 2200+ fatalities

[NRaleighLiberal]

another day when the orange dumbass dimbulb ignoramus couldn't care less.

another day when areas around the country play with fire and start to open shit up.

another day when assholes protest - bring guns - generally carrying on their ignorant cult behavior.

another day when some of the predictions for fatalities are already gone (http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates) - a low end estimate from yesterday for the first wave was 59K - we are already at nearly 64K).

[Iliyah]

1. With reopening too soon . . .

we won't know the outcome for approx. two weeks. If death tolls remain at 2,000 per day that is approx. 28,000, it will be over 90,000 . .

[tclambert]

3. That's linear. It may be exponential, with a doubling time now of 20 days.

The number of cases used to double every 3 days. Then the governors stepped in and told people to stay home. That slowed the doubling time. With premature re-opening of some states, it may double faster.

We often get tens of millions of cases of the seasonal flu, despite having vaccines. We could easily see tens of millions of cases of Covid. the flu causes tens of thousands of deaths every year. Covid could cause millions of deaths, just in the US.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, "We often get tens of millions of cases of the seasonal flu" I don't think we're being told the

... story here regarding this bug.

60 million Americans got swine flu and the US was S Korea level in 2009, 1.5 billion humans caught the swine flu in the rest of the world.

Looking at what happened to Germany's relative Ro we're no doubt going to start doubling in 20 days.

Just ... shit, I've never thought a person was as dark of a force as Trump was.

A true dark force

[Historic NY]

4. In my little corner deaths are up

just saw a obituary for my neighbor directly across the street had died. All the old neighbors are going or gone, I've become one of the old neighbors now. I've been here since 1969. He died Sunday.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. With the delay between exposure and visible symptoms the spike will hit 1 to 2 weeks from now.

And that is assuming they can keep testing enough people. ATM testing is marginally improved but not nearly enough to keep up. We have neither confirmed control of the spread nor means to tell how many have actually been infected or where they are.

[duforsure]

6. Trump forcing people to reopen and back to work

Prematurely without the adequate testing and system set up to track and trace is another recipe for disaster from trump. No matter how much he tries to hide what will happen from them trying to do this. Trump is causing more American deaths for his personal political gains. Trump is openly telling people their life doesn't matter, only what helps himself matters by doing this now.