Erick, your teaser emails and insightful perspectives worked and enticed me to subscribe, well done.
As my own personal observation having been unemployed for the last month due to the virus shut down and also in this time being the health care advocate of my brother that was hospitalized with Covid 19. I wouldn't have been able to be productive at work trying to make sure he was getting proper care, I would have had to take time off. Thankfully he is now negative and at home (after a 44 day hospital stay). My heart goes out to those families that the outcome didn't turnout as well.
My point being is that if we had went with "heard immunity" the economy would've shut down on it's own due to people getting sick, needing to care for others, fear of getting sick and tending to and grieving those who died. Under the shelter in place scenario we have a more able body and less traumatized work force once the storm has passed and we get back to the business of doing business. I think back on the haunting words of Jacob Marley "mankind was my business, charity, forbearance and benevolence were, all my business", I implore the Ebenezers (my-Scrooge-self included), at this moment in time, this is our business, do it well.
Followed the link to the JHU map. The search function kept crashing the website. I’ll stick with the Ga dept of public health tracking for my county since it’s a reliable link.
Thank you for sending the very informative links this morning!
I find line or bar graphs (as shown at the IHME site) much more informative than animated maps. Does anyone have time trends of (1) total COVID-19 tests performed, (2) positive COVID-19 tests, (3) hospitalizations for COVID-19, (4) deaths due to COVID-19 and (5) individuals recovered from COVID-19? Although total US data would be of some interest, this would be by far best broken down by state (and even by county if possible).
This would be even more informative if the various measures regarding business closures, etc. taken by states (and again localities, if possible) could be superimposed by date of initiation on the timelines.
As you have pointed out, we need such detailed data to be able to figure out the urgent question of how/where/when to reopen our society and economy.
Very very nice! And thank you for sending this. I watch YouTube & saw a video MSNBC had put up. They showed the total number of U.S. cases (which was accurate, yet they showed GA & FL as having over 170k cases!
I had to use their politically correct, snowflake responses against them. I complained that it personally offended me (an actual choice) and/or it was wrong.
It did both.
FYI: I recommend "The History Guy" and "Answers with Joe." Both are entertaining, informative, fast and relatively politically neutral.
Erick, your teaser emails and insightful perspectives worked and enticed me to subscribe, well done.
As my own personal observation having been unemployed for the last month due to the virus shut down and also in this time being the health care advocate of my brother that was hospitalized with Covid 19. I wouldn't have been able to be productive at work trying to make sure he was getting proper care, I would have had to take time off. Thankfully he is now negative and at home (after a 44 day hospital stay). My heart goes out to those families that the outcome didn't turnout as well.
My point being is that if we had went with "heard immunity" the economy would've shut down on it's own due to people getting sick, needing to care for others, fear of getting sick and tending to and grieving those who died. Under the shelter in place scenario we have a more able body and less traumatized work force once the storm has passed and we get back to the business of doing business. I think back on the haunting words of Jacob Marley "mankind was my business, charity, forbearance and benevolence were, all my business", I implore the Ebenezers (my-Scrooge-self included), at this moment in time, this is our business, do it well.
Does this mean you will no longer email columns to subscribers?
Followed the link to the JHU map. The search function kept crashing the website. I’ll stick with the Ga dept of public health tracking for my county since it’s a reliable link.
Thank you for sending the very informative links this morning!
I find line or bar graphs (as shown at the IHME site) much more informative than animated maps. Does anyone have time trends of (1) total COVID-19 tests performed, (2) positive COVID-19 tests, (3) hospitalizations for COVID-19, (4) deaths due to COVID-19 and (5) individuals recovered from COVID-19? Although total US data would be of some interest, this would be by far best broken down by state (and even by county if possible).
This would be even more informative if the various measures regarding business closures, etc. taken by states (and again localities, if possible) could be superimposed by date of initiation on the timelines.
As you have pointed out, we need such detailed data to be able to figure out the urgent question of how/where/when to reopen our society and economy.
Is there a site(s) with these more detailed data?
Very very nice! And thank you for sending this. I watch YouTube & saw a video MSNBC had put up. They showed the total number of U.S. cases (which was accurate, yet they showed GA & FL as having over 170k cases!
I had to use their politically correct, snowflake responses against them. I complained that it personally offended me (an actual choice) and/or it was wrong.
It did both.
FYI: I recommend "The History Guy" and "Answers with Joe." Both are entertaining, informative, fast and relatively politically neutral.
Thank you