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First confirmed case in my town. A damn doctor!

They are reaching out to his patients, and trying to see where he got it from.

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8000+ tests done yesterday in the US. Glad to know it's finally ramping up!

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Good news that usps will continue working.
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/stat...oronavirus.htm

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If the masks were unlimited use, sure. As they are produced and distributed, they are also used up and discharged. Especially with medical professionals, probably going through a dozen a day.

how do we know which person in the world needs one? We can't predict who'd get sick. Young healthy people might be sick and never know it. Doesn't hurt them, but hurts others around them.

But again, while production has ramped up 20X, it's not something that can keep increasing, if it can even be sustained at that pace, for the reasons I mentioned. It literally CAN'T keep multiplying. I'm not sure how long it can keep up this current pace to be honest.

They are running out of the material to make the masks, and you can't just increase production of that. It will take MONTHS to setup manufacturing before production increases. Making masks is actually a very complicated process. It might look easy, but it's not. We are talking about a product that can keep out something as small as a virus...

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my area has had quite a few.... even people my age. Good thing I'm a bit of a recluse and don't have many friends anymore lol. Since the, umm, election...

I doubt I'll personally know someone that dies, or maybe even get sick (with knowledge they are sick). Tho my best friends sister in laws uncle just died?

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So you wear a red hat. :bird:

I always thought it was green but I'll concede I'm color blind.

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I didn't vote for him. But god forbid I defended the guy. Now i'm a monster, racist, bigoted neo nazi. So if that's the hat they say I wear, I might as well get it sized to fit comfortably. I'm always on the side of the unpopular opinion lol

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You have good points.

Far right republicans who think this is a hoax don't want a mask.
Homeless don't want a mask.
The poor probably aren't very concerned with a mask
I don't want one(as of right now) because I'm just staying away from people.

I'd say 25% of Americans, or less, will want a mask. Just a guess... who knows.

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Most of my family would probably be considered far right republicans. And trust me, they think this can be serious. The hoax claim was specifically about what they were saying about trump and his handling of it and everything they said to make him look bad. Trump was already calling for border closings and was pissed off the plane with sick people was let in, and etc etc, long before anyone heard the word "hoax".

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Or what? Don't go shooting up a school cos someone almost toyed with your gun. :bounce:


Just kidding.
=}

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Although I'm completely devoid of interest in politics of any kind, I have a particular affinity for him.

Two other things: He comes off as someone who loves his country, and the man has the right amount of fight in him.

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No, I know people who thing this is just a reach for control, and people really aren't sick, and there's no need for any worry.

I guess my people are to the right of your people. :lol:

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Maybe all of that is funny in the UK? :confused:

Lost in "translation", I suppose.

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It was essentially telling you stop being so self righteous and easily triggered

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I wasn't. But I see yall are from the same country, so I guess it's all lost on both of you. lol

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That is how it came across none the less. Maybe its lost on us :)

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That's what I'm saying lol :peace:

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You still using worldometer for those numbers? It's showing 12,876 for me, which is a little less than the day before.

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Good! I find them very pessimistic... doom and gloom ish. :dance:

I like this type of graph, that shows we are nowhere near any sort of exponential growth. In fact, the expansion rate appears to be slowing. (for now, but I bet all the new testing capabilities for us will increase it some)

The red line is 1, which represents consistent/same growth
Between 0 and 1 is a decline
Above 1 is an increase(2 would be double, for instance)

https://i.imgur.com/fzprTu0.png

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Thank GOODNESS we aren't up around 2, 3, or 4! Wouldn't be good.

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I never used worldometers, lol. I use the johns-hopkins-grade stuff

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/a...23467b48e9ecf6