The COVID-19 Wild West Thread (Read 601 times)

It would be interesting to see that chart with the leading causes of death (cancer, heart disease, etc.) on it.

Thanks for bringing that up. I've been seeing the graph on FB for a couple of weeks and was wondering the same thing.  So...I just googled monthly deaths from cancer/heart disease.  In the US alone, heart disease is around 50000 per month, and cancer is also around 50000 per month.  Therefore, they would dwarf the other bars on the graph, and make it wholly uninteresting.

I have to read more about the parameters on that graph. I shared it without really thinking about it. Are the numbers listed the number of deaths per DAY for that date for all things? Or cumulative totals? Neither makes sense, because the bars on the graph should be changing more, and if cumulative, the numbers wouldn't be so static from start to finish (really, NO new natural disaster or other deaths in 6 months?).

 

The only quick info it shows is the rise in deaths of CV19 over 6 months.

It seems fairly obvious that it's showing cumulative deaths by point in time. The size of the bars don't change much (except for Covid) because the relative position of each cause of death doesn't change much over time (again, except for Covid), but the scale of the x axis changes as the slider bar showing the date changes.

The numbers are absolutely not static, they go up steadily over time--including natural disasters.

 

Thanks for bringing that up. I've been seeing the graph on FB for a couple of weeks and was wondering the same thing.  So...I just googled monthly deaths from cancer/heart disease.  In the US alone, heart disease is around 50000 per month, and cancer is also around 50000 per month.  Therefore, they would dwarf the other bars on the graph, and make it wholly uninteresting.

That's true because this graph is showing global deaths and Covid has not rolled out (or been tested for) evenly across the globe, and some countries have done better than others at controlling the spread, but it has been devastating to specific countries and regions of countries at times.

On a chart like this for the US only, cancer and heart disease would dwarf all other causes except Covid, which killed about 59,000 people in the US in April, even though the huge majority of those deaths were in a handful of states with particularly bad outbreaks and cancer and heart disease were more evenly distributed. If you started the chart in March it would be more of a fair comparison than year to date.

This might be kind of a big deal.

 

https://news.psu.edu/story/623797/2020/06/22/research/initial-covid-19-infection-rate-may-be-80-times-greater-originally

Yes, and then there's this:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-antibodies-fade-months-study/story?id=71406787

There's still too darn much we don't know.

A bright spot through all this has been our 22-year-old daughter.  My husband and I are swamped with engineering work.  So we told her we'd pay her to do indoor and outdoor projects.  Today she reviewed some of my precast concrete detailing drawings and found a few errors.  She is a hard worker and catches on quickly.    She's making a big run to the grocery store right now.

My husband is also teaching her to use power tools and she's helping to build a fence around his garden.  We never thought we would have this much time with her at this age.

We made the same deal with our 25-year-old son, but he is not really taking advantage of the offer.  He's preoccupied with making plans to get back to Beirut, where his Syrian girlfriend is still in school.  I don't think it's wise for him to go, but it's out of my control so I try not to worry.

Oldest son with schizophrenia is back in his supported housing and doing OK.  And Dad is out of hospice, to everyone's amazement (his improvement has held steady for months now).  So we feel very fortunate at the moment.

One caveat; that 2-3 years of SARS-COV-1 immunity resulted in part to it pretty much disappearing. MERS disappeared, too.

There is the partisan issue (which is not in the US only, by the way).

But there's a lot to be said about how wearing masks is being sold to the population. People have habits and will fight tooth and nail to preserve their habits. And wearing masks is very uncomfortable. So it has to be a good message to get people wearing.

Some people still don't wear seat belts in the back seats to this day (a considerable amount of people).

It does not help that some places are making face masks mandatory ANYTIME+ANYWHERE you are outside your home.

Here in Italy they made it mandatory in situations where social distancing is not possible, so public transport, closed spaces/offices, or public places where there's a big crowd tight together. Any other time you're okay to be without a mask.

That makes sense, so more people adhere to it.

I think they should start some sort of fashion trend of sorts, where wearing masks in certain situations (like outlined above) is very fashionable and get the pretty teens to do it. Ugly teens will follow and so will adults cause they want to be IN.