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Coronavirus

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1 minute ago, SasaS said:

True, but we are not talking California but Bay Area alone, which is 3 times the population density on New York State. And there were no measures in place for almost 2 months since the first cases.

I think you would need to remove NYC to have any comparison.

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8 minutes ago, SasaS said:

True, but we are not talking California but Bay Area alone, which is 3 times the population density of New York State. And there were no measures in place for almost 2 months since the first cases.

Didn't the west coast have the weaker strain of the virus, bizarrely? New York and Europe got the deluxe version apparently.

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1 hour ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1254391282711101440?s=19

 

Ha ha ha.

 

Twitter not linking again  Pfffft. 

 

Haha good handbag session, thanks for the link. Sadly Morgan seems to have blocked him so it's over now, would've liked them to carry on showing each other up for a while.

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10 minutes ago, SasaS said:

It was a comparison, it is still a fairly hig density. The same as the state of New Jersey.

Cali's numbers are pretty close to NJ in deaths v cases I think, that is probably because of LA County - which questions the multi strain theory. The Bay Area does seem low overall, agreed.

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12 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Cali's numbers are pretty close to NJ in deaths v cases I think

Sorry, but how is this relevant? My point is that you have a high population density urban area with a relatively low spread of epidemic despite the fact the virus appeared comparatively early and spread unchecked for some 2 months before any measures were introduced. This sounds baffling because in other similar areas it spread much more quickly.

 

One explanation can be that other factors may need to be in place for it to spread, not just a particular type / level of suppression / containment measures and population density, maybe you need a critical number of infections within a relatively tightly linked population group, without which the virus can wonder around the town for months without doing too much damage.   

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6 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

One explanation can be that other factors may need to be in place for it to spread, not just a particular type / level of suppression / containment measures and population density, maybe you need a critical number of infections within a relatively tightly linked population group, without which the virus can wonder around the town for months without doing too much damage.   

The viral load theory. Makes sense and would explain higher number of health care workers in most locations.

 

On the first part, my feeling is the virus was present in many places very early on. They are now suggesting as early as December. 

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Been watching some U.S news channels today. What's going on over there is just fucking mental putting aside the mad cunt aka Trump.

 

Their testing is an absolute shambles. Most of them completely useless or unreliable.

 

4 states have re-opened with more looking to follow.

 

Already at 55k deaths. To put things into perspective, 58k died during Vietnam.

 

They will easily surpass 100k if they carry on with this madness.

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