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PSYclone22

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I don't really care what the death rate is, I care what the number of deaths is.

I'd rather see a disease of 5% fatality rate that only a few people get rather than a 0.5% fatality rate that a hundred million people will get.
Total deaths is a function of infections x death rate. So inadvertently? You care about the death rate.
 

BoxsterCy

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He may have an inflated view of his essentialness.

Although this would be a great time for the DOT to work on its projects with traffic being down.

Plus if he is a really small firm he isn't working on DOT designs anyway.
 

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The death rate in the US is already plummeting as we increase testing. After the CDC has collected data over the next few months what does everyone predict the death rate to end up being? Looking back on this a year from now will allow us to see whether we overreacted or if it was indeed necessary.

A: Over 2%
B: 1-2%
C: <1%
D: <0.5%

Again, the final death rate means nothing. The death rate is sky high in places like Italy because the hospitals are being overloaded. A well managed crisis is one that keeps infection rates low and death rates lower.

There’s already ample evidence that regions that don’t take this seriously and take steps to limit spread of the contagion will succumb quickly to overrun hospitals with severe cases.

It’s a disease that we as humans have NO immunity against yet. It’s not like a flu virus that has been flying around forever and we have some built in immunity against. If you catch it you will spread it.
 

Doc

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He contracts out with them for surveying and storm water stuff I think. I don't know the lingo, only that I can't imagine that's essential.

I just saw tonight that CDOT is keeping their major projects going and hope to actually do paving ops during the day now. I would be curious if states could and would divert some of their resources away from engineering design projects for consultants
 

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St. Louis's goes into effect Monday, and the Kansas City Metro. area goes into effect Tuesday. KC also pushed back the date for schools to resume from April 6th to April 26th.
 

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I've brought this up already, but what do any of them even mean when they say shelter in place. Officials really need to stop using that phrase.
 

BCoffClone125

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Based on Trump's comments today, I would be very surprised if a national shelter in place will be enforced unless things really take a turn for the worse. He seemed pretty set on letting local governments enforce it based on their individual situations.
 
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