Kolek planning to go pro
Likely caught Covid going to the Trump rally in Tulsa. Didn’t wear a mask. Another completely avoidable death Trump bears responsibility for and will not care about.
I suspect Herman hasn't been running his own twitter account in recent days, if ever.Though I suppose there is some irony in the fact that the people he entrusted to run his social media played down the disease as he laid in a hospital dying from it.
As I predicted a week or two ago, deaths are now skyrocketing. It’s gonna get worse. And then schools will open. As I said yesterday, buckle up.
Skyrocketing? According to what? The trend isn’t going down and that’s concerning. And it’s definitely rising in some places, but I don’t see the need for hyperbole here. Things are concerning and caution worthy enough without that sort of exaggeration.If the death counts spiked over 2000 per day, I could see that label, but it’s not as of yet. With Arizona and Texas on new case downtrends, let’s hope it doesn’t get there.
There is an ~ 28 day lag between cases and deaths. IMO, just project the cases out 4 weeks and you should be able to predict the trend, if not the absolute magnitude (thanks to improving treatments).
I understand. But that’s not what a was responding to. I’ve looked at various trend lines and haven’t seen anything to suggest a “skyrocketing” now or in the near term. I’m not denying an uptrend, let’s make that clear, was purely responding to hyperbole. Rolling 7 day hospitalization trends falling in Arizona for the last 2-3 weeks, Texas for the last week plus, make me think that daily totals may continue to rise for another week or so, but I don’t expect “skyrocketing” numbers over 2000 a day like I mentioned.
You guys discussing 'skyrocketing' reminds me of the circular, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
I mean it's all relative. On July 6 the 7 day avg US deaths was 520, as of yesterday that number is 1022. Doubling in 23 days is really bad. Not far from skyrocketing...
Going from 520 to 1022 in less than a month is skyrocketing in my book, especially since we could have prevented the increase if we had actually followed the initial CDC guidelines on reopening. Not every death is preventable - other countries have proven that - but the rapid doubling caused by an impatient reopening and a petulant populace most certainly was preventable.And let's all remember - the summer was supposed to be relatively calm before schools (maybe) opened up, flu season starts again, etc. Buckle up, folks.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET A FLU SHOT THIS YEAR
This is still the scary part. We had hospital inundated right now. And honestly, the COVID case load wasn't that extreme. If things ramp up in winter, and we have even a mild flu season, our hospital systems will be well beyond capacity.That is why schools being open is particularly troublesome, especially higher ed. Although those under 25 do tend to survive, they still do require hospitalization and stress resources. A rise in cases due to schools, could break the system on its own.
Yep, and the early research returns are that younger people spreading is hitting multigenerational homes hard, which preminently impacts PoC. In other words, music to GOP ears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=363&v=4TogbPPyQQM&feature=emb_logo
sky·rock·et/ˈskīˌräkət/Learn to pronounceverbinformalgerund or present participle: skyrocketing (of a price, rate, or amount) increase very steeply or rapidly. "the cost of housing has skyrocketed"From 520-1,022 nationally in a couple of weeks? "Skyrocketing " seems to fit.