Now 1,000 Americans are dying a day, will the deniers apologize?

This suggests covid-19 deaths may be significantly underreported due to lack of testing.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronavirus-update-dead-covid19-doctors-hospitals

Take out the four largest death totals by state (NY, NJ, MI, LA) and you have just 1,885 deaths through 3/31.

Statistically, most states are not having a problem with this. Outliers are making it seem worse than it is. This is like saying ALL of Europe is struggling with the disease, when it’s just outliers like Spain and Italy that are skewing the numbers.

My state has seen fewer than 40 deaths in over two weeks. What happens in New York is irrelevant to me.

As a firefighter in Long Island, have never seen so many dead.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

What happens in New York is irrelevant to me.

Great attitude. You seem like a compassionate guy.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

Yeah, because the media never promoted the idea of something like Saddam being responsible for 9/11 or having WMD that we needed to go in and destroy...yes, the media would never mislead us.

i would be way more inclined to believe it was hype/hoax if it was mainly media-driven. But when Japan suddenly shut all their schools for 2 months I knew it was more than media hype. Sure the media has been their typical overblown selves, it's the actions of governments and companies that stand to lose billions that really brought home the fact that it was a real threat.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Take out the four largest death totals by state (NY, NJ, MI, LA) and you have just 1,885 deaths through 3/31.

Statistically, most states are not having a problem with this. Outliers are making it seem worse than it is. This is like saying ALL of Europe is struggling with the disease, when it’s just outliers like Spain and Italy that are skewing the numbers.

My state has seen fewer than 40 deaths in over two weeks. What happens in New York is irrelevant to me.

The flu starts in one state and then spreads as well. You see the spread of the flu over 12 weeks in this interactive map.

Maybe you will be lucky and it won't come to your state. The idea with any virus is to keep it from spreading.

I imagine that at this point anyone who is a "denier" is trolling the sanctimonious nutjobs the internet seems to attract. I wonder if social distancing will now be the norm for each flu season. How many die a year to that alone? We could cut the rate by an order of magnitude at least.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Take out the four largest death totals by state (NY, NJ, MI, LA) and you have just 1,885 deaths through 3/31.

Statistically, most states are not having a problem with this. Outliers are making it seem worse than it is. This is like saying ALL of Europe is struggling with the disease, when it’s just outliers like Spain and Italy that are skewing the numbers.

My state has seen fewer than 40 deaths in over two weeks. What happens in New York is irrelevant to me.

ok, so you are out touch with how it's progressing. A few weeks ago, NY had numbers just like your state does now.

a few weeks ago it was mainly Spain and Italy in Europe, now not the case at all.

Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain all have deaths per million numbers that are least triple ours.

To translate that,....that would mean 3,000 or more deaths a day in the US if we reach those rates. 21,000 a week. 9/11 every single day.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

Yeah, because the media never promoted the idea of something like Saddam being responsible for 9/11 or having WMD that we needed to go in and destroy...yes, the media would never mislead us.

The idea was promoted more aggressively by the Republican Party, conservatives and Fox News than anyone else.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

Yeah, because the media never promoted the idea of something like Saddam being responsible for 9/11 or having WMD that we needed to go in and destroy...yes, the media would never mislead us.

You are touched in the head.

AT THESWOOSH wrote:

As a firefighter in Long Island, have never seen so many dead.

Is it me or does this guy sound like the alleged md

I also work in an icu. At my hospital we have the medical icu, surgical icu, cardiothoracic icu, Neuro icu, peds icu, pacu, cath lab, 2 floors and additional floor opened today all for intubated covid patients. Scared to go to work everyday. Never seen anything like this. There is a wait list for vents. So you would have to be a complete a$$hole to continue to deny. Wish you idiots could work one shift in the icu to see the utter devastation.

Which hospital in which state mr. secretive?

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

Yeah, because the media never promoted the idea of something like Saddam being responsible for 9/11 or having WMD that we needed to go in and destroy...yes, the media would never mislead us.

You completely lost all credibility with this one. I won't even bother to read your posts from now on.

Good luck and thanks for putting your life on the line to save others.

Ignore the deniers. They are just noise.

A Real MD wrote:

You’re getting desperate bro! Our medical ICU, which normally has 34 beds, has expanded to 60. We have about 50 patients in right now, 30 are on vents w COVID. I don’t even live in one of harder hit states!

Is there a reason why none of you will disclose where you work?

Cause all the corners are secretly meeting in sewers and have special agenda against the truth?

I can understand one rogue agent, but seriously this makes no sense and is just a heinous and wild speculation.

Only thing worse than the "deniers" are the "just wait two weeks!" bugmen who are cheering this thing on. Pathetic.

slripe111 wrote:

A Real MD wrote:

You’re getting desperate bro! Our medical ICU, which normally has 34 beds, has expanded to 60. We have about 50 patients in right now, 30 are on vents w COVID. I don’t even live in one of harder hit states!

Is there a reason why none of you will disclose where you work?

Is it because you’re afraid we’ll try to corroborate your claims