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So true....The infection potentiality has never been provided so libs roll out the we don’t know Worst caseHuge progress in the United States has been made in cutting the rate of increase per day in the United States. The United States has gone from a rate of 25% increase per day to now just 8% increase per day in just 10 days. That is nearly a 70% cut in the daily rate of increase in new infections per day, in just 10 days.
Where did the majority of that take place ?
About 20 to 25 states have no real issues. They have (in some cases) less than 10 total deaths.
New York and New Jersey (and it is really NYC and Newark) have been ground zero for the U.S.
The rest of the statistics are pretty low all things considered. You have a couple of states that have had some issues...but not like those two.
So tell me again...why does the whole country need to lock down because the Mayor of New York is a moron ?
It only takes one person to rapidly infect large numbers of people in a state. It would be possible to reopen, or stay open PROVIDED, you had enough testing capability to keep track, through contact tracing of the infected, and everyone that came in contact with the infected. Unfortunately, the United States is way behind in testing and does not have that ability yet. So, there are people in these states that are infected and we don't know it, because they have not been tested. There are also people that are dying at the hospital who have not been tested, so the number of deaths is actually an undercount.
Its the United States failure on the testing front which makes it necessary to lock down the country. You could kill the pathogen in less than a month everywhere in the country, if you kept every American isolated for the next month. You can't do that obviously, because essential services must continue, but shutting down the non-essential services will limit the spread and cases, lower the time it takes to arrive at a point where testing catches up with the number of active cases still in the country. When that happens, you can reopen.
Also, remember that there is a lag in testing results and what you are seeing today. Today's testing results for infection are where the country was 10 days to two weeks ago.
Michigan and Louisiana are hot spots that are rapidly increasing in cases. South Dakota does not expect to see its peak number of infections until mid-June.
The reason New York State and New York City is much more impacted than the rest of the country is because New York City is the center for international travel around the world. Trump failed to shut the borders and travel down back in January. He only blocked travel from one country which was meaningless given how people travel around the world in hours and the virus ignores borders and just hitches a ride on people moving around the world. Blocking one country has no real effect. You have to shut down all foreign travel to see an impact. That's one reason why Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have done so much better than the United States.
If you are around an infected person within 6 feet for 30 seconds whatbis the odds you become infected
1 in 10
1 100
1 1000
1 in 10,000
Then, it does appear that if infected it’s about a 5% chance of becoming serious to severe requiring hospitalization .
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