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re: Bama student body at 29% Covid positivity rate
Posted on 8/24/20 at 6:10 am to purpleandgoldhaze
Posted on 8/24/20 at 6:10 am to purpleandgoldhaze
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Misleading title:
Not surprising.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 6:39 am to memphis tiger
My nephew's son 15 yo healthy athletic kid got Covid in July.
Symptoms were 101 fever, body aches & bad cough. The pediatrician tested him to confirm. Doc sent family home without any medication & said "he needs to ride it out. Use OTC meds when needed". They were quarantined for 14 days. No one left home. He is fine now & back to normal.
Interesting-doc said since no one else had any symptoms, the family DID NOT NEED TESTING. None of them got sick.
So young healthy kids can get Covid. But the survival rate is extremely high.
But all we hear is "get tested". Why? If there's no symptoms why get tested?
I'm 57 & have high blood pressure. Called my doc last month at OLOL asked if I needed testing. He asked if I had any symptoms. I said no. He said "no need to get tested".
And if a family who's child had Covid didn't need testing, why does anybody without symptoms need testing?
But Gov Honor Code keeps telling me to get tested. Why? Screw him.
If you don't have symptoms you do not need to be tested!
Sorry for length; it's early.
Symptoms were 101 fever, body aches & bad cough. The pediatrician tested him to confirm. Doc sent family home without any medication & said "he needs to ride it out. Use OTC meds when needed". They were quarantined for 14 days. No one left home. He is fine now & back to normal.
Interesting-doc said since no one else had any symptoms, the family DID NOT NEED TESTING. None of them got sick.
So young healthy kids can get Covid. But the survival rate is extremely high.
But all we hear is "get tested". Why? If there's no symptoms why get tested?
I'm 57 & have high blood pressure. Called my doc last month at OLOL asked if I needed testing. He asked if I had any symptoms. I said no. He said "no need to get tested".
And if a family who's child had Covid didn't need testing, why does anybody without symptoms need testing?
But Gov Honor Code keeps telling me to get tested. Why? Screw him.
If you don't have symptoms you do not need to be tested!
Sorry for length; it's early.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 6:42 am to Ebbandflow
Like I said a complete waste of time. You answer a question with baseless ad hominem attacks instead of facts to support your claims. I don’t distrust all media but I can tell when someone’s full of shite.
-there are 5 million people living in Alabama
-There are 115k confirmed cases in Alabama
-that’s an infection rate of 2.3%
-There are 38,000+ enrolled at Alabama, that’s .08% of the states population.
-29% would mean between 11 and 12k of those students have tested positive.
-that means 10% of all cases in the state of Alabama are at the university of Alabama
So .08% of the people living in Alabama account for 10% of the cases when the infection rate is 2.3% statewide?
Do you know how impossible that is?
-there are 5 million people living in Alabama
-There are 115k confirmed cases in Alabama
-that’s an infection rate of 2.3%
-There are 38,000+ enrolled at Alabama, that’s .08% of the states population.
-29% would mean between 11 and 12k of those students have tested positive.
-that means 10% of all cases in the state of Alabama are at the university of Alabama
So .08% of the people living in Alabama account for 10% of the cases when the infection rate is 2.3% statewide?
Do you know how impossible that is?
This post was edited on 8/24/20 at 7:06 am
Posted on 8/24/20 at 6:49 am to Jim Rockford
This is BS. It was a select group of sick students who were tested and STILL was only 29%. Not the overall percentage. People are too stupid to understand percentages and metrics.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 6:50 am to Jim Rockford
I don’t believe any of this shite.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 7:35 am to BeachDude022
Yes but coupled with something else. I don’t downgrade it but we have to move on with our lives. Staying at home, laying in the corner in the fetal position, is only going to ruin our children’s and grandchildren's future with debt. The reason it spreads with college age children is due to the total disregard for it and hey maybe that is the correct path...who knows?
Posted on 8/24/20 at 7:49 am to Jim Rockford
I understand it's a big deal. But, what's the point of your post? frick off.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 7:52 am to BeachDude022
So has the flu year over year. So has SARS. So has swine. Follow Sweden, they chose herd immunity with protecting the elderly and infirm without wrecking the economic. I would like to see the suicide rate post pandemic.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 8:21 am to Jim Rockford
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Bama student body at 29% Covid positivity rate
They are all related so that's not a surprise.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 8:25 am to BeachDude022
How could you actually know this for sure? Please explain.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 8:29 am to Ebbandflow
What's the equivalent size city of 40 million unemployed unnecessarily by government tyranny?
Nobody gives a shite about those people. It's like they don't even exist. But let's continue to worship medical personnel for simply doing their job, fully aware of the risks & get paid very well.
I do not feel sorry for them They aren't heroes.
The 40 million unemployed whose jobs have disappeared are the heroes.
How bout some commercials honoring the unemployed?
But let's not talk about that.
Nobody gives a shite about those people. It's like they don't even exist. But let's continue to worship medical personnel for simply doing their job, fully aware of the risks & get paid very well.
I do not feel sorry for them They aren't heroes.
The 40 million unemployed whose jobs have disappeared are the heroes.
How bout some commercials honoring the unemployed?
But let's not talk about that.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 8:42 am to Jim Rockford
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Bell's statement reads. "It is disturbing to see statements from that conversation taken out of context. The quoted positivity rate is grossly misleading as presented. The positivity rate attributed to Myron deals with a sub-group of students who identified as symptomatic or exposed to someone with COVID-19. Such samples are in no way reflective of the positivity rate of the campus community
From the OP link
Posted on 8/24/20 at 8:44 am to Yelladawg
I agree with you Yelladawg. Medical personnel are not heroes. The people whose lives have been destroyed by rogue government are the ones who need help.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 8:53 am to LSUStar
I've been saying this from the beginning. Several friends are nurses & ER techs. They're embarrassed with the hero bullshite.
But families facing foreclosure bankruptcy & despair are invisible.
But families facing foreclosure bankruptcy & despair are invisible.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 9:12 am to BeachDude022
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I’m pretty sure it’s killed people.
Yeah... The really old and the extremely fat.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 9:16 am to memphis tiger
Except for the ones that die.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 9:18 am to Jim Rockford
Shut that university down.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 9:24 am to Ebbandflow
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There have been numerous cases of people catching it more than once.
You're an idiot. Stop posting. From 4 days ago:
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Shashikiran Umakanth, a clinical investigator of Covid-19 who has been involved in ICMR research projects, said the SARS-CoV-2 virus seems to be persisting in some individuals. “But after about a week or 10 days, we know it is no longer capable of spreading and causing infection in others. The commonly performed tests to diagnose Covid-19 can identify virus particles, but cannot decipher if these particles are live or inactivated,” he said.
Umakanth said there can be confusion if a recent Covid-19 recovery develops fever or cough due to some other viral infection. The dead particles of SARS-Cov-2 can then be detected via a test and interpreted as a case of reinfection even though those particles are ineffective.
Posted on 8/24/20 at 9:37 am to ike221
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It's not deadly
Haha not sure what drug this guy is taking but it must be good shite. It’s not deadly. Wow
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