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Kids are coming home from camps.
One lone person runs a fever; tests positive.
All attendees are subsequently tested; multiple, asymptomatic cases are identified.

As most of you are aware of the incubation period for covid-19 is 5-14 days. The first BLM protest in Houston was on 05/28/2020 which means that people would start developing symptoms which would prompt them to present for testing around 06/02/2020. Sure enough that is when the spike started. Prior to 06/02/2020 Harris county was reporting < 200 new cases per day, but since 06/02/2020 Harris county has been reporting > 200 cases per day. Plus the "record uptick in new covid-19 cases" was first reported on 06/06/2020 which just happens to been in the middle of the incubation period for people exposed at a protest. Kids coming home from camp and football players coming home from summer workouts might play a factor in it, but if that was the only cause then it is one hell of a coincidence that the spike started 5 days (the start of the incubation period) after the first protest.

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It’d be a fascinating discussion, if it wasn’t so maddening.

It is a fascinating discussion for ppl in healthcare. I called it and tried to start the discussion almost 3 weeks ago.

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if it wasn’t so maddening.

According to the CDC the weekly hospitalization rate for covid-19 has remained stable and the mortality rate continues to fall ( LINK). Which is good Obviously my position can and will change if the mortality rate starts increasing or even slows it decrease. However, as of right now I think that we should be happy that the # of cases is going up and the mortality rate is falling; because it means that we are building herd immunity.

Of course, the idiots in the media and the super idiots in government are overreacting again and that is maddening.

This post was edited on 6/28/20 at 4:11 pm