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  • Mar 24, 2020, 02:58 PM
    jlisenbe
    My understanding is that as the ability to test for CV increases, then the mass closings will become less and less necessary. It can't happen fast enough. But then those money trees in D.C. are always blooming.
  • Mar 24, 2020, 07:57 PM
    talaniman
    If they find that more people than they thought have the virus then we see more closings. So far no place in America has shown that the virus is slowing down, just the opposite as more testing is done.
  • Mar 24, 2020, 09:49 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    If they find that more people than they thought have the virus then we see more closings. So far no place in America has shown that the virus is slowing down, just the opposite as more testing is done.

    It appears to take anything up to three months for the infections to peak so you are not out of the woods yet but by easter you may see some relief and trump may prove right
  • Mar 25, 2020, 05:27 AM
    talaniman
    I like your optimism but 20 days seems unrealistic. 60 days? I don't see that either considering how tepid the response is thus far.
  • Mar 25, 2020, 05:50 AM
    paraclete
    Yes but miracles still happen trump has decreed it
  • Mar 25, 2020, 08:36 AM
    talaniman
    I have no faith in the dufus decrees let alone miracles of which he has but one...he got elected.
  • Mar 25, 2020, 08:42 AM
    cdad
    Tal I believe that the testing alone is going to show an artificial increase in the virus but not a real exponential one. Right now testing isnt at its highest levels so it only shows that the "facts" are just artificial projections.

    BTW I hope you and your family are safe.
  • Mar 25, 2020, 10:00 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by cdad View Post
    Tal I believe that the testing alone is going to show an artificial increase in the virus but not a real exponential one. Right now testing isnt at its highest levels so it only shows that the "facts" are just artificial projections.

    BTW I hope you and your family are safe.

    Same to you Cdad, been a while, bet your kids are grown by now! 8D

    Only widespread testing can give us an accurate picture unless hospitals start turning people away.
  • Mar 25, 2020, 01:15 PM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Tal I believe that the testing alone is going to show an artificial increase in the virus but not a real exponential one. Right now testing isnt at its highest levels so it only shows that the "facts" are just artificial projections.

    Already testing is giving great results ;but inaccurate ones since people who presumably don't have it are NOT being tested then we don't have a true denominator to work with . I think the results will confirm an over reaction . But at this point it is neither here nor there . The die is cast and we have to learn the hard way as a society that the cure is worse than the illness. I really do hope that those who predict a V recovery are right . I have my doubts ;the ugly hand of government intervention has been unleashed
  • Mar 25, 2020, 04:27 PM
    talaniman
    What government intervention? States and locals have been scrambling waiting on an intervention. That's why the dufus considering opening up parts of the economy is crapola for dumb people, since he nor the feds have shut anything down. You think states and locals will listen to him if he tries that? Naw, just bluster for the stupid, and no doubt he walks that back citing the scientist made me do it.
  • Mar 28, 2020, 05:46 PM
    paraclete
    ah the plot is finally revealed, shut down NYC. But in a time when the world is isolating americans are still taking to the skys in droves
  • Mar 28, 2020, 06:17 PM
    jlisenbe
    NYC is not being shut down.
  • Mar 28, 2020, 07:22 PM
    paraclete
    Trump has the plan
  • Mar 29, 2020, 03:06 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jlisenbe View Post
    NYC is not being shut down.


    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/srYxvY8uXhM/maxresdefault.jpg
  • Mar 29, 2020, 05:21 AM
    paraclete
    sure looks like it to me, still you are in good company similar scenes are repeated all over the world, the Chinese thought the tariffs did damage to their economy, now we will see what their foolishness does
  • Mar 29, 2020, 07:08 AM
    jlisenbe
    What I meant is that it has not been quarantined by the feds. I think you are right in that they have largely shut themselves down. It's a good time to be praying for all of this is fertile soil for revival in faith in Jesus.
  • Mar 29, 2020, 07:10 AM
    tomder55
    we have RI guard and cops going door to door looking for NYers in the state .
  • Mar 29, 2020, 07:11 AM
    jlisenbe
    That's kind of scary.
  • Mar 29, 2020, 07:13 AM
    tomder55
    yup
    https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/rhode-...g-coronavirus/
  • Mar 29, 2020, 07:41 AM
    talaniman
    RI in a state of panic? Shocking a venture capitalists Yale grad acting like a loony right winger. Hope Cuomo talks some sense into her.

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