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3/17/20 UPDATE

https://i.ibb.co/jM4bbP8/3-17-20-cas...side-china.png

15600 new cases on the 17th.
New case/recovery graph:
https://i.ibb.co/rMhZgk9/3-17-20-daily-cases.png

It's pretty damn close to exponential, ebs. :shocked:

EDIT: Also wtf is your chart trying to show? Seems to implicate the opposite of what the reported date is showing.

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What a cryptic way to let us know you've never travelled. ;)


Meanwhile, this is how I feel.

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Money better spent elsewhere...

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Re: Supermarkets limit food purchase
 

Same thing now in the UK. Rationing On *many* products. From what I have read on some news sites.

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That’s not very nice!

I’m sure he did leave his bedroom once when his mum was out and he ran out of Kleenex ;) They were quite scary times.

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They are rationing most 'desirable' products

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I thought italy had imposed a moratorium on mortgage payments.

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anyone elses sales grinding to a halt? I had thought my market would pass through it, as it's typically catering to the higher end of the income bracket... Guess not

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We have a 3 months break in the UK for people struggling to pay their mortgages

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I'm actually thriving right now. The one bottleneck is slow China shipping speeds. :cheer:

Probably because I sell things for the one item everybody is glued to as they're stuck at home.


Also h4ck is in Cali, lol. The Italian flag is to show his appreciation for Mussolini. IDK why he didn't just go flagless. :noidea:

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A microbiologist from the University of Hong Kong is calling for people who don't wear face masks to be banned from using public transport.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...9-20200318.htm

Meanwhile on the other side of the world the government is trying to tell us there's no need for people who aren't sick to wear masks. So who's right? Maybe this guy is just highly invested in the face mask business?

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I think it’s very much a cultural thing in that a lot of Asian cultures do believe that the masks work whereas here in the west we don’t believe it as much. The scientific evidence can be interpreted to support either argument depending on what it is they’re trying to prove

Being that it’s not an airborne virus you’re much more likely to contract the virus through touching something and then touching your face so the masks will be somewhat limited as a preventative measure.

For those that have contracted it already however if they are coughing on something the mask will catch those particles and stop the virus spreading. Even better than wearing a mask that would be for those particular people to just not go out the house

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I'm amazed at some of this shiit I dream up, sometimes! That explains why, for days now, I've not been able to replicate your graph layout on the site I was using! :lol:

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Maybe exponential doesn't mean what you think it does?

Exponential would be something like...
4,000 cases/day
8,000 cases/day
16,000 cases/day
32,000 cases/day
64,000 cases/day
128,000 cases/day
256,000 and so on (or even worse)

A simple doubling of daily cases.

NOT
15,000
16,100
17,000
18,000
18,900

The deaths are surely rising, but at NOWHERE NEAR an exponential rate. Thank God!

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It's showing whether or not growth is exponential.

If the numbers are along the red line, which is a factor of 1, it means cases are consistent. Growing by the same amount each day.

If the numbers were at 2, it would mean a doubling of cases everyday.

When it's between 0 and 1, there was a decline in cases that day, compared to the previous day.

So, even though the number of deaths are usually greater each day, the PERCENTAGE OF GROWTH seems to be dwindling down. And that is a VERY good thing.

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You just multiply the growth factor x the previous day's cases.

GF=1.33, then you multiply previous day x 1.33 to get that day's cases

What we DONT want to see is that number hovering up around 2

What we DO want to see is the GF number consistently going down towards 1, and then finally down to 0.

Hope it all makes sense now.

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but how do the people that contracted it already, KNOW they did, unless they are the ones with obvious symptoms? People that are sick should probably stay home tho. But by the time you know you're sick, how many people have you infected?

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That's why we're shutting shiit down, the prevent the ignorant from inadvertently spreading it to others.

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That is why a lot of public spaces are on lockdown because you’re right people don’t necessarily know that they are ill.

It’s why governments are advising people against all but absolutely essential contact with other people Aka social distances