one way to keep your hospitals from getting overwhelmed...are you watching Arizona
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one way to keep your hospitals from getting overwhelmed...are you watching Arizona
WSJ shines a harsh light on New York's mistakes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-new...s&page=1&pos=1
The tweet frames it like when the numbers jump back up it will be bc of arizona and Texas. Why not use NJ, Mass, RI, and Conn? Those are all bordering states, and they and NY are all are top 5 in cases and deaths per million. Nah, some red states across the country are to blame.
First, it's not the tweet. It's comments I added. Second, NJ, MA, RI, CT have tested strenuously and brought down their infection rates before reopening. Not all to the same extent as NY, but they have brought things down substantially.
In the first wave, it was pretty clear seeing the geographic progression from NY. In both directions. South to NJ, PA, MD, VA. And north to New England. I'm guessing Arizona's neighbors are watching with concern. State borders can't be closed like national borders. So if a neighboring state gets hit hard, it will in all likelihood spill over to neighboring states.
Any chance Brazil catches us? We have ~1.2 million more documented cases, but we've tested around 21.7 million more than them. Right now Brazil has 805,649 positive tests out of 1.364 million tests (worldometers is source). Surely that positive rate is wrong, right?
2 more weeks guys
Millions of Americans have experienced the coronavirus pandemic directly, as they or their loved ones suffered through infection. But for most of us, the experience is defined by weeks and months on end stuck at home. The shut-ins are testing the safety of our home environments. Stress and isolation combined with another feature of American life — easy access to firearms — could form a deadly brew.
Last week we released results of a new study — the largest ever on the connection between suicide and handgun ownership — in The New England Journal of Medicine revealing that gun owners were nearly four times as likely to die by suicide than people without guns, even when controlling for gender, age, race and neighborhood.
Several myths cloud public understanding of the connection between guns and suicide. Perhaps the most pernicious is the idea that people who really want to end their lives will find a way to do it, making the presence or absence of a gun somewhat irrelevant.
Decades of research on suicide tell a different story. Suicide attempts are often impulsive, prompted by fleeting crises. A vast majority of people who attempt suicide survive and do not go on to die in a future suicide. But whether attempters get that second chance at life depends a lot on the method they use, which in turn depends on what is readily at hand. Firearms afford few second chances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/o...gtype=Homepage
So the issue is not that the pointless lockdowns caused the depression but that hand guns are available.
Dear lord.
June 12 data for Arizona and New York
New Cases: AZ 1654, NY 822
# of People tested yesterday: AZ 13.5K, NY 72K
% positive: AZ 12.1%, NY 1.1%