bendog
Diamond Member
It's simply intellectual bs to try and figure the number infected by reported cases. Trump didn't want tests, so we don't have tests. Hospitalization rates may be a better measure, but even there not all rural states have hospitals for the most rural. And not everyone hospitalized is on a ventilator. Probably if you're sick enough to need oxygen, IV fluids, and the best of the anti-shityourselftodeath and coughyourselftodeath death, you have a better chance of living if you get to a hospital. But even if you don't get to a hospital, probably you might have a chance to live.How is it that Harris County (Houston), the 3rd most populous county in the United States, only has 847 cases and Dallas County (9th most populous in U.S.) only has 731 cases?So far, Red States are doing a Victory Dance that they are immune to Coronavirus and it is only a Blue State problem.
Instead of showing leadership, Trump joins them in pretending.
When it comes, Red States will be hit particularly hard by the virus.
Firstly, they are woefully unprepared. They are doing little to discourage public gatherings.....particularly Churches
Secondly, they have a shaky healthcare infrastructure. In many cases people are 50 miles from the nearest healthcare facility. Those facilities are poorly staffed and when the shit hits the fan, they will have no access to critical safety equipment and ventilators.
While they won’t have the fatalities of urban areas, I fear their death rates will be much higher
Something ain't stirring the Koolaid.
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But it may turn out in the end that death rates are the most accurate measure we'll have as to where the virus went and how much.
I'm assuming the Trump clusterfuck will still let us end up with a test for all Americans to determine whether they show anti-bodies, and whether they might benefit from a vaccine based on blood/hemoglobin of previously infected persons … sort of like what we had for small pox in the early part of the previous century.