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SuperDuperHypersonic 4 points ago +4 / -0

A national network of vehicle charging stations? Like the ones that already exist? F'ing Ohio cringe.

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SuperDuperHypersonic 3 points ago +3 / -0

NJ no mask, except for those two in the curtains far away from everyone. Honk Honk

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SuperDuperHypersonic 2 points ago +2 / -0

there's been 70 million tests so far (according to the CDC; and I can't find what this means in terms of how many actual individuals have been tested), and 6 million positive tests (translating to 5.3 million cases by some other sources). Test to positive result ration is about 9% (again, a CDC number). Seems unlikely that with the current testing they'd hit that 50-80x increase from the currrent 5mil.

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SuperDuperHypersonic 2 points ago +2 / -0

Vodka stares closer made from American Grain.

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SuperDuperHypersonic 11 points ago +11 / -0

And I can't find scuba gear anywhere

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SuperDuperHypersonic 1 point ago +2 / -1

So far, comparing the total cumulative deaths starting at week 1 for the past few years (using data downloaded at the end of July from the fluview link), the numbers I had for week 25 (around June 20th):

2017: 1.385 million 2018: 1.412 million 2019: 1.399 million 2020: 1.537 million

comparing the weekly cumulatives between 2020 and 2018, 2020's cumulative count was actually lower, dipping to almost 30k less deaths than 2018 at the low point around week 8 (about Feb 22), and then starting to surpass the cumulative from 2018 around week 14 (about April 4th). The weekly rate of difference has also been going down.

(added the summarized numbers derived from the weekly data downloaded from the link above: https://web.archive.org/web/20200814155905/https://pastebin.com/ZX2PJBNE )

So as of week 25 (mid to late June), there were about 138k more cumulative deaths compared to 2019, about 125k more compared to 2018 at the same time in the year. By that point, about 151k deaths were "to pulmonary / influenza" from numbers available at that link (compared to 111k in 2018, and 95k in 2019).

On one of the trackers the covid deaths were shown to be about 120k-125k for that time period: https://infection2020.com/

tl/dr: here have been slightly more cumulative deaths (~100k-140k) from the beginning of the year to mid to late June, compared to the same time periods for the few previous years.

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SuperDuperHypersonic 15 points ago +16 / -1

Couple criticisms with that methodology:

  1. Because the data lags up to 8 weeks (from the CDC's website), the most recent data that should be looked at is 8 weeks ago. Weeks after that will likely not have all the deaths in yet.
  2. Table 1, total deaths for the year also is misleading. Looking at the weekly deaths, the weekly deaths increase into the winter typically. This increases the total body count for the previous years, while the current year is left lighter.
  3. What week does TGP consider the start of the flu season for its chart from fluview?

The weekly data here can be downloaded here: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

Death certificate reporting can lag by 1-8 weeks is a disclaimer here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

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SuperDuperHypersonic 3 points ago +4 / -1

Nah, mutation is something else altogether. Part of why the common cold (also a coronavirus) and flu are still around.

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SuperDuperHypersonic 15 points ago +16 / -1

Enough people catch the virus, become immune to it, and then cannot catch it again. When enough people can't catch or spread it, the ppl who haven't caught it are less likely to catch it since everyone else is less likely to be able to give it to them.

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SuperDuperHypersonic 8 points ago +8 / -0

From the same group that brought you "there is no evidence of human to human transmission". Even if its something I'd agree with, this organization is not credible.

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