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12-22-2020, 08:01 PM | #50146 | |
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Get the 70+ taken care of and the death rate will drop exponentially. Then start getting everyone else done and the cases will start to drop. |
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12-22-2020, 08:03 PM | #50147 | |
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It's a 6-1 to a degree but I can see where getting the death count down takes away a great deal of the fear factor. |
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12-22-2020, 08:06 PM | #50148 |
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Spending trends down as people hunker down when cases and hospitals and such are what they are.
It’s a tough unique situation on that discussion. |
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12-22-2020, 08:10 PM | #50149 | |
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Right now I think we can agree the death rate is largely due in part to 70+ individuals. But when someone just sees 3,000 people died today they don't stop to break it down. |
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12-22-2020, 08:13 PM | #50150 | |
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People don’t want to get sick, have people around them sick. Until they feel safe it’ll be slow going. Which is why the vaccine and such is such a big deal |
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12-22-2020, 08:16 PM | #50151 |
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I agree but I think the death count is the primary reason people are hunkering down. Let's just say when I talk to people who are afraid of this "getting sick" isn't usually what they are afraid of, it's dying.
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12-22-2020, 08:21 PM | #50152 |
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12-22-2020, 08:30 PM | #50153 |
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12-22-2020, 10:03 PM | #50154 |
I missed '69!
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12-22-2020, 10:45 PM | #50155 |
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At this point, the economy is what it is. I don't think anything is going to keep things going because politicians have way too much invested in making sure everything continues to crawl, vaccine or no.
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12-23-2020, 11:10 AM | #50156 | |
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People confined to their homes aren't spreading covid, the people still doing every day jobs as mundane as stocking shelves in grocery stores are a larger risk of spread. The faster you stop spread the faster this goes away. So priority would go health workers first then everyone else. If you vaccinate all the hospital and nursing home care givers that should stop that spread there, then you go on to everyone else still moving around out in the community. |
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12-23-2020, 11:34 AM | #50157 | |
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For instance, the people in nursing homes are getting it from people coming in and out, not hte people already there. So vaccinate the workers and such. The elderly get hit hard and thats where a large portion of deaths come from, but they aren't exactly super spreaders and such. The younger handle it better, but they spread it more. It's a tough situation. |
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12-23-2020, 11:35 AM | #50158 | |
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I bet someone could create a model for it that we could all debate the accuracy of. |
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12-23-2020, 11:41 AM | #50159 |
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Good news on the vaccine quantity front. Assuming manufacturing capacity doesn't become a problem, Pfizer and Moderna combined should let us vaccinate 200 million people by early summer.
I'm kind of tentatively targeting the 4th of July as a "pop the champagne" return to normalcy. It would be great if summer celebrations could help us all feel like we're through this thing. |
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12-23-2020, 11:45 AM | #50160 | |
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