Interesting thoughts, Cees Klumper. Some calculations I have been making, show maybe a slight trend that Italy has a reduction in spread of the virus since they locked down the country. This reduction of spreading is not dramatic and only appeared after 7 days. This makes some sense, based on the av...

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even a small % of 331 million Americans Statistically, only specific groups are hit the hardest, and if enough prudent measures are taken, there will be lower stats for them. In countries where high population density areas exist, community spread will/can be much greater. In Italy, there were &quo...

I am surprised at the COVID-19 ignorance I saw while out yesterday. I bought fuel at a large fuel station (Buc-Ees) and had sight of a lot of pumps and I saw no one using protection at pump. I got out with my denatured alcohol in pump spray and sprayeded anything I would touch on the pump. I went in...

Great discussion. Thanks to everyone on this thread.

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Guys: stay at home if you can, and only go out if you have to. I am telling you: in Spain we thought we had a quite good health system. Now it is collapsed, with people needing to be in hospital telling to go home, just because there are no beds for everyone. In hospital there are only so many respi...

Hunter S. Thompson...could really use him right now.... best take on this, bar none... “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and...

For additional information: A growth rate of .1 will double the infections in about 7 days. A growth rate of .3 will double infections in about 2.5 days. A lower growth rate allows more time for medical systems to respond to additional needs. If the growth rate is trending down and continues down, i...

My conclusion is the USA has not effectively slowed the spread yet. I think that's a no-brainer, without charts...Affected people traveling via cruise ships, air travel, etc., have exposed this virus to many since defensive measures were delayed, and delayed. Where I live in a rural area, there are...