re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

The only reason I know anything about these Facebook warriors or “Karens” as you’re calling them, is because you are in here ranting about them.

That’s what I meant when I said maybe you should stop reacting to stupid people.

If talking about them unsolicited is not attention, then you’re right, I don’t know how your version of attention works.

But hey, you do you, man.

I don’t care or see how it’s relevant what your experience is. It’s a stupid image that I wanted scruffy to see because I thought he would get a kick out of it. I don’t have any other way to contact scruffy. I bet you get unsolicited information all the time. Every time you open a thread in fact, something could and will likely be new to you. Bringing attention to the image on a completely different forum doesn’t bring attention to the originator who craved it. Unless it’s your wife/sister/mom and you showed her my post. That would make sense.

As far as reacting to stupid people. What a stupid cliche. Letting people and images be stupid without being called such normalizes them. Others need to know as well. Letting bad data like this go around without rational people calling it bad is dangerous. Look what that kind of thinking just did to our economy ffs.

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Why did chicken go back and remove all the louisiana daily covid threads?

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Didn’t even notice... May not have been Chicken though.

Yep, they are all gone. I guess a moderator decided they dont want people to know we are trending positive?

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Bc the facebook Karen’s and overreaction has crashed our economy and put 26m people out of work...

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are you serious? The President and various state leaders are controlling the response. You sound way more dramatic than any Karen.

Fair enough, baw. Keep fighting the good fight.

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New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents have had the coronavirus, Cuomo says

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That was for the state. In NYC, that percentage was 21%.

And yes, it's unquestionably higher, because antibodies can take two weeks to develop, and a number of people in NYC have been infected in the last two weeks but haven't produced antibodies yet.

Let's be conservative, though, and say that it's 25% by the time that NYC reopens for business (as of now, that's May 15th).

One of the biggest problems with COVID-19 is that the native R0 of the virus might be almost 6, according to data from Wuhan. That means that an explosion of cases can happen quickly, if it's beneath the radar of health authorities, like just happened in Singapore, where they thought that they had COVID-19 under control.

In NYC, a study reported on in the NY Times today argues that NYC had over 10,000 people infected by the time of the first recorded positive test.

But if 25% of the population is immune, there's a much lower risk to society. For simplicity, let's assume that each person with the virus gives it to two people on the fourth day after exposure. The median date that people experience symptoms is day 5, so let's assume that everyone is a good citizen and stays home after they get a fever.

Let's imagine there's a wedding with a superspreader who gives the virus to 100 people. Twelve days after the event, when authorities figure out that there's a problem, you actually have 800 people infected (100 x 2 x 2 x 2).

But if 25% of the population has immunity, then the results look quite different: only 253 people have the virus (75 x 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5).

This makes control of a 2nd wave much, much easier. It makes "test-and-trace" work much better.

And if NYC is at a much lower risk, then America is at a much lower risk, because NYC is still going to be a cramped city with lots of travelers where people use public transit.

This is one of several reasons that I do not worry very much about a 2nd wave. We are beating this virus, and we can control it.

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And with zero plans for return.

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Isn’t that blatantly obvious.

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There’s plenty of blame to go around.

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Like I said at the start of all of this, there needs to be a reckoning with many politicians and many state leaders need to be kicked to the curb.

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The President and various state leaders are controlling the response

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You mean, they can’t be facebook Karen’s? Well frick, you better tell them that...

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there needs to be a reckoning with many politicians and many state leaders need to be kicked to the curb.

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I’ve been on this train for a while now