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you won't hear a peep about it from either of them

Posted on: September 16, 2020 at 10:41:09 CT

phrejd KC

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but you can count on hearing plenty about the next scare metric that gets trotted out, whatever that may be.

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Boone Co reported 44.6% positive cases. was actually 8% - zoomer 99 - 9/16 09:12:11

They reported every single case as positive according to - alwaysright MU - 9/16 12:20:21

positivity rate, not cases (nm) - pickle MU

- 9/16 10:34:40

also, boone county sitting at 13 hospitalized patients. - phrejd KC - 9/16 10:34:16

Wish that were so, but it's not accurate. # much higher - Macgrantt MU - 9/16 11:16:29

Your link shows 16 in hospital. Better shut - tman MU - 9/16 11:29:21

i'll take the state's official numbers - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:24:34

We flattened the f out of that curve! (nm) - BigDave MU - 9/16 11:06:06

shocking. i'm sure this will be widely covered and all the - phrejd KC - 9/16 09:58:18

Don’t know if you are posing or really are this stupid - Macgrantt MU - 9/16 13:05:08

i assume you meant to respond to a different post - phrejd KC - 9/16 13:09:09

Positivity rate is still at 24% so I'm guessing they aren't - tgr MU

- 9/16 10:13:40

you sure about that? (nm) - phrejd KC - 9/16 10:14:04

No, they didn't overreport positive numbers, they under - MizzouAstro MU

- 9/16 09:53:03

so what you're telling me is NEGATIVE CASES ARE KILLING - phrejd KC - 9/16 09:59:42

I was ready to blame Boone County for being dumb and not - tgr MU

- 9/16 09:41:56

small correction...they didn't over-report positive cases - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 09:21:50

Actual number of positive cases isn't known because most - alstl MU - 9/16 09:24:44

You're right but they should be looking at all of it - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 10:41:48

They don't know the positivity rate because they don't know - alstl MU - 9/16 10:56:18

hospitalization numbers are the most relevant and reliable, - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:03:31

positivity rate is a relevant proxy metric - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 11:07:27

i appreciate the desire to consider multiple metrics, but - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:18:44

that's why normalizations are put in place - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 11:21:11

that's a different metric. - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:28:46

well no shyt, no one is saying that - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 10:58:38

^^^^Some JG math here^^^^(nm) - tgr MU

- 9/16 09:42:30

in NYC nobody is getting sick now because the idiot mayor - alstl MU - 9/16 09:48:19

Or New York has some of the most stringent regulations - tgr MU

- 9/16 10:07:10

You mean like this? - Eggs MU - 9/16 10:50:24

It's cool, they're all wearing masks - Cosmo MU

- 9/16 10:52:11

The entire city got the virus. (nm) - alstl MU - 9/16 10:30:04

your 60-70% assumption for herd immunity is inaccurate(nm) - phrejd KC - 9/16 10:17:42

When the feds converted the Javits Center into a hospital - alstl MU - 9/16 10:49:40

They didn't pack 8 million people into one building - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 11:03:21

the fundamental argument is whether limiting interaction - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:11:46

your premise is flawed - TigerNuts KC - 9/16 11:19:59

fine, add "do this for 7 years while we wait for a vaccine" - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:32:36

Hmm, sounds exactly like what happened in Italy(nm) - Eggs MU - 9/16 10:51:02

no in italy it sounded like this: - phrejd KC - 9/16 10:55:04

I've read the same number of 60-70%. - kmawv8 MU - 9/16 10:21:08

15-20% seems like it might be a magic number(nm) - Eggs MU - 9/16 10:49:08

that's needed for B cell (humoral) immunity. - dangertim MU

- 9/16 10:28:24

Sweden is the interesting study - Eggs MU - 9/16 10:56:03

yeah but everyone is sweden died, so, like there's that. - phrejd KC - 9/16 11:31:18

at least 120%-140% - phrejd KC - 9/16 10:23:32

90%...lol(nm) - meatiger MU - 9/16 09:33:33

This will **** off Gabe and Dave (nm) - ZouMiz STL - 9/16 09:16:37

you won't hear a peep about it from either of them - phrejd KC - 9/16 10:41:09