re: Louisiana COVID-19 - July 24, 2020 Update: 103,734 cases - 3,603 deaths - 1,199,726 tested

Clarity would be great. Are we removing duplicates from yesterday? Or from June? Or from March? Are we only removing duplicates after the person calls in to say they were counted twice? How many duplicates are we finding?

All we get from JBE is quit asking questions, there are NO duplicates. Which we know is bullshite.

That's what I have a problem with.

Straight from his press conference yesterday.

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A positive COVID-19 case reported to the state refers to a specific individual, whether they tested positive once, twice or however many times.

One case = one person.

It is grossly irresponsible to suggest or imply that the state is inflating numbers.

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Except for the ones the LDH has to cull through;

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Because of the daily removal of newly identified duplicates and out of state cases, the new case increase may not match the difference between today's and yesterday's total case count.

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But how do they decide which duplicate to delete?

The older ones or the newest one?

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I haven't heard the answer on that. Not sure the criteria.

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The only reason I can see for his tirade is to force private schools to not reopen on time.

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Quite the opposite. We will stay in phase 2 until the private school tuition refund date has passed.

Then, like magic...back to phase 1.

Is Oschner testing for antibodies?

Yes. They’re doing both. Prerequisite is that you can’t have tested positive before. But it’s only on the questionnaire. They can’t confirm it prior to testing. So anyone can lie and be part of the study. They’ve caught a few people who slipped up and told them they had already tested positive.

Who said the numbers weren’t already representative of the local population?

That’s your assumption and it’s wrong. They’re not looking for a percentage boost. They want a specific number of AAs and will continue testing until they hit that number even if the white/other number increases as well. It’s a quota like I said.

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Prerequisite is that you can’t have tested positive before. But it’s only on the questionnaire

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What is the basis of the study? Would be odd that someone is disqualified to determine if they have the antibody just because they previously tested positive. In my non-scientific mind, I would think they would then become part of the control group. And, could develop a secondary study to see how long it takes to develop an antibody, and how long the antibody stays in the system.

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We have already demonstrated that the virus comes right back when we ease restrictions. We need to continue opening as long as the health system can continue to function, we haven’t reached the maximum of what we can take.

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What's funny in this is that it was mostly liberals pushing the "70%+ of the population will get this!" as a fear mongering technique at the beginning. The same ones that were using the Hammer and Dance thesis (article linked) as the way this "had to go down".

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And they've completely abandoned this strategy now that we're "dancing" and they've now shifted to some kind of eradication goal.

Which, if eradication was the goal, we should have gone full Chinese and started welding doors and Shiite. But, we didn't do that, because the goal was never full eradication. This was always going to be the World + Coronavirus from here on out.

Everything we're seeing in Louisiana looks like it's supposed to, according to the original plan. The only misfire was we thought this surge was going to come in the fall and not necessarily in the dead of summer.