Whoa. 1% of D.C. population tested positive for covid in ONE DAY!

Former Never Trumper wrote:

zxcvzxvc wrote:

It's still irresponsible to infect others. The world hit a new daily high of 1.6 million cases today and the U.S. hit a record 465,000 cases. Now you might say that COVID's become harmless. It has not. Daily deaths in the U.S. from COVID rose to 2017 and 1777 a day the past two days from 1200-1300/day prior. If cases rise enormously while virulence decreases by less, you still get more deaths. We're unfortunately going to see a lot of COVID deaths next month.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

More deaths from Covid or with Covid? Obviously if everyone gets Omicron in the next two months we're going to have the opportunity to blame a lot of deaths on Covid.

Excess deaths have closely tracked COVID deaths over the last two years.

Similarly, COVID has been the underlying cause on >90% of death certificates including the disease.

We certainly are going to see a lot more “incidental” COVID infections in people hospitalized for other conditions but doctors are instructed to only include COVID on a death certificate if it actually contributed to the cause of death. There is no evidence that doctors have been making their error in the past so I don’t expect it to change.

DC Runnerman wrote:

I probably have it, I have a scratchy throat and some fatigue and a low grade fever. My son had similar symptoms a few days ago.

I won't be getting tested, nor will I consider quarantining.

So what's your plan? Get on the train and cough and sneeze on as many people as possible. Wipe you nose and then shake hands with people. Stand really close to people and breathe on them. Go on. See how many people you can infect.

I assume you also tailgate, stand on the walking side of the moving walkway/escalator, leave your shopping cart in a parking space when you're done with it and throw your litter on the sidewalk.

DickMargarita wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

Population 692K

6900 positive cases reported 12/27

That's not counting all the at-home tests and people who know they have it but couldn't get a test.

I'm no mathematician, but isn't that 1% of the population in a single day?

I am a DC resident and have been paying attention to the local data for a long time. The data reported on December 27 were total new cases from December 23 - December 26 (i.e., 4 days worth of cases). Also, it was corrected to 9200, though again, that's from 4 days, not 1 day. Also, the positivity rate is all goofed up because the Department of Health reported an obviously-incorrect total number of tests one day last week, basically implying a negative number of tests on one of the days. The actual positivity rate has been in the 15-20% range for the past several days.

Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:

Now theyll use this as justification to tell or even force everyone jabbed/jabbed again with boosters. Theyll blast it all over the media which is typically sponsored/paid by big pharma companies. Sensationalized diction such as "skyrocketing," "surging," "exploding" will be plastered all over every liberal media outlet. Time to wake up.

Correct. As a recovering journalist, writing in active voice with scary words like surging or exploding drives fear and clicks.

The real crisis right now is the viral increase in panic and stupidity. Hospitals are overrun with people seeking COVID tests, not COVID treatments. Also a very significant number of hospitalized are "with COVID" not "for COVID". People go to the hospital for whatever, get the mandatory COVID test, turn up positive, and get added to the count. This is all inevitable and probably a net benefit to society. Masks don't work, even the brain trust at CNN acknowledge that now. Vaccines don't work, because huge numbers of vaccinated are getting infected. Mandates don't work and now hospitals could really use all those nurses fired for not getting a vaccine. CDC guidance for COVID isolation is cut in half, more to try and save the Biden economy than anything else. 2 years people have been isolated for 10-14 days, especially crushing for kids' academic and mental health. For my $0.02 worth, let Omicron spread as it may, there is nothing anyone can do about it anyone. If you are scared, go back to the basement, otherwise go live you life

Don't care about this virus anymore move on lets figure out what alien species has sucked the brains out of the us president.

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Fantastic post, JoeRunnerCW.

jecht wrote:

Steve The Addict OFFICIAL -----^^^^^ wrote:

Now theyll use this as justification to tell or even force everyone jabbed/jabbed again with boosters. Theyll blast it all over the media which is typically sponsored/paid by big pharma companies. Sensationalized diction such as "skyrocketing," "surging," "exploding" will be plastered all over every liberal media outlet. Time to wake up.

Correct. As a recovering journalist, writing in active voice with scary words like surging or exploding drives fear and clicks.

Yep.

WE are now facing a tsunami of cases.

Former Never Trumper wrote:

zxcvzxvc wrote:

It's still irresponsible to infect others. The world hit a new daily high of 1.6 million cases today and the U.S. hit a record 465,000 cases. Now you might say that COVID's become harmless. It has not. Daily deaths in the U.S. from COVID rose to 2017 and 1777 a day the past two days from 1200-1300/day prior. If cases rise enormously while virulence decreases by less, you still get more deaths. We're unfortunately going to see a lot of COVID deaths next month.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

More deaths from Covid or with Covid? Obviously if everyone gets Omicron in the next two months we're going to have the opportunity to blame a lot of deaths on Covid.

If we are just reassigning cause of death shouldn't deaths from all causes remain stable?

clearly they just need to wear 3 masks duh!

gggggr wrote:

Former Never Trumper wrote:

More deaths from Covid or with Covid? Obviously if everyone gets Omicron in the next two months we're going to have the opportunity to blame a lot of deaths on Covid.

If we are just reassigning cause of death shouldn't deaths from all causes remain stable?

We don't know excess death counts during the omicron wave and won't know for some time. It's not something you can follow in real-time.

Been saying the same thing for 2 years now, but there are no takers. Panic sells.

The weak will gladly surrender not only their rights, but the rights of the fellow citizens for the promise of security. Political leaders are the more happy to take them and set themselves up as the provider of THE big answer, THE savior while laughing at your idiocy and slave mentality.

When and if sanity ever prevails in our government, I expect this:

Voter ID, a secure border, strong military, balanced budget, Congress not exempt from its own mandates, leaders honoring their oath of office by law, term limits.

Caleb's Hat wrote:

gggggr wrote:

If we are just reassigning cause of death shouldn't deaths from all causes remain stable?

We don't know excess death counts during the omicron wave and won't know for some time. It's not something you can follow in real-time.

Agree, and I didn't say anything about the timing.