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There’s also faculty and staff that enters into these decisions. Most of the faculty positions are very specific to the subject they teach. If a small handful of faculty members (many of whom meet one of the high risk factors) in one school were to get sick and be out for an extended length of time, you can’t just wave a wand and replace them. And the students education would not be the one they signed up and paid for. Same with the staff members. Take one or maybe two out for a month, and you can make do. Take 3-4 out, and it’s chaos.
I think PSU has done everything right so far in this process, and think they’ll continue to do so. Hindsight is something we all benefit from, after the fact.
 
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"There could be legal ramifications if not handled appropriately. Again easy for you to sit behind a computer and give your thoughts instead of looking out for a couple thousand students and faculty. "

Easy for YOU to sit behind a computer and give your emotions. Now go find a mirror and see the guy who imagines he's the only one "looking out for a couple thousand students and faculty. "

Not only did I survive being immunocompromised, I'm married to an RN who formerly worked in a virology lab. I also am a former healthcare auditor, so even though I'm not in medicine, I understand medical data. I'm approaching this from an analytical perspective, not an emotional one.

In PA, about five thousand people have died WITH this disease out of 12.8 million (based on numbers under question). Nobody under 30 has died with it. Only about a dozen or so under 40. Sixty percent were hypertensive. Only ten percent had no other KNOWN comorbidities. Three thousand died in nursing or personal care homes. This is not the black death of the 1300's.

Enough already. There are 150,000 new cases of cancer ever month, and you know many are being missed and that can strike the young, as we all learned from Brandon Sorenson.

This is a new pathogen, but not the only thing we have to worry about. There'll be more health problems from hook-up culture STD's among the students then there'll be from COVID.
 
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"Except that you don't contract an STD from casual contact with strangers in public settings."

And yet we do nothing about it. Maybe we need a campaign of "sexual distancing".

"You don't contract cancer from another person."

But if you are missing routine care and testing because you are locked down or afraid, it doesn't matter how you got it, it matters that you are missing out on care. There are oral cancers that are being missed because dentists were "non essential". Doctors have had to argue with patients that "yes, you should come in with chest pains".

"Mortality is not the only risk of Covid 19."

Strawman. But for the vast majority, there still isn't any long-term deleterious effects. Even if you are really old, if you don't have comorbidities, you can survive it. Hence the woman in Hazleton who became mildly ill just before her 101st birthday, had a big celebration for her birthday and died of old age after her birthday. Her 93 year old sister similarly survived and is still alive.

Had our "leaders" not shipped the sick to the musing homes, the death count would have been less that 4984 (As of 05/22/2020).
 
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Except that you don't contract an STD from casual contact with strangers in public settings. You don't contract cancer from another person. Mortality is not the only risk of Covid 19.
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Ever been to the Jersey Shore? (Not the central PA town.)
 
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"Except that you don't contract an STD from casual contact with strangers in public settings."

And yet we do nothing about it. Maybe we need a campaign of "sexual distancing".

"You don't contract cancer from another person."

But if you are missing routine care and testing because you are locked down or afraid, it doesn't matter how you got it, it matters that you are missing out on care. There are oral cancers that are being missed because dentists were "non essential". Doctors have had to argue with patients that "yes, you should come in with chest pains".

"Mortality is not the only risk of Covid 19."

Strawman. But for the vast majority, there still isn't any long-term deleterious effects. Even if you are really old, if you don't have comorbidities, you can survive it. Hence the woman in Hazleton who became mildly ill just before her 101st birthday, had a big celebration for her birthday and died of old age after her birthday. Her 93 year old sister similarly survived and is still alive.

Had our "leaders" not shipped the sick to the musing homes, the death count would have been less that 4984 (As of 05/22/2020).
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The previous poster's point, I think, is that STDs largely result from choices—voluntary decisions to have sex or not to have it. You don't catch STDs from the air. And there are, in fact, sexual awareness "campaigns".

And who is being prevented from getting routine care? If the decision to to delay care is based on fear, that fear is not likely going to go away very quickly when social restrictions are lifted; will it?

There may conceivably be oral cancers that have been missed in the last three months, but the number is likely small, and these diagnoses can still me made.

If you are going to make utilitarian calculations about suffering and death, then also factor in all kind of other statistics and empirical information that related to health: fewer car accidents, cleaner air, etc. The calculations are going to get very complex and controversial.

How about all the suffering and death that is being caused in meat packing, which has been deemed "essential", but which is arguably not. We don't need to eat meat, and it is killing many workers, not to mention millions of animals.

Opening up non-essential sites like places of worship too soon is very likely going to create super-spreader events and lead to the continuation of the crisis and second or third waves of the virus.

And, who are your "leaders"? The guy at the top is without question responsible—despite his irresponsible claim to the contrary that "I take no responsibility at all"—for a great additional share of the human suffering and death in the U.S. because of his incompetency, delays, misinformation, promotion of snake oil "cures", and the like.
 
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The previous poster's point, I think, is that STDs largely result from choices—voluntary decisions to have sex or not to have it. You don't catch STDs from the air. And there are, in fact, sexual awareness "campaigns".

And who is being prevented from getting routine care? If the decision to to delay care is based on fear, that fear is not likely going to go away very quickly when social restrictions are lifted; will it?

There may conceivably be oral cancers that have been missed in the last three months, but the number is likely small, and these diagnoses can still me made.

If you are going to make utilitarian calculations about suffering and death, then also factor in all kind of other statistics and empirical information that related to health: fewer car accidents, cleaner air, etc. The calculations are going to get very complex and controversial.

How about all the suffering and death that is being caused in meat packing, which has been deemed "essential", but which is arguably not. We don't need to eat meat, and it is killing many workers, not to mention millions of animals.

Opening up non-essential sites like places of worship too soon is very likely going to create super-spreader events and lead to the continuation of the crisis and second or third waves of the virus.

And, who are your "leaders"? The guy at the top is without question responsible—despite his irresponsible claim to the contrary that "I take no responsibility at all"—for a great additional share of the human suffering and death in the U.S. because of his incompetency, delays, misinformation, promotion of snake oil "cures", and the like.
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Here's a leader:


This is a wrestling site. Quit with the campaigning.
 
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The previous poster's point, I think, is that STDs largely result from choices—voluntary decisions to have sex or not to have it. You don't catch STDs from the air. And there are, in fact, sexual awareness "campaigns".

And who is being prevented from getting routine care? If the decision to to delay care is based on fear, that fear is not likely going to go away very quickly when social restrictions are lifted; will it?

There may conceivably be oral cancers that have been missed in the last three months, but the number is likely small, and these diagnoses can still me made.

If you are going to make utilitarian calculations about suffering and death, then also factor in all kind of other statistics and empirical information that related to health: fewer car accidents, cleaner air, etc. The calculations are going to get very complex and controversial.

How about all the suffering and death that is being caused in meat packing, which has been deemed "essential", but which is arguably not. We don't need to eat meat, and it is killing many workers, not to mention millions of animals.

Opening up non-essential sites like places of worship too soon is very likely going to create super-spreader events and lead to the continuation of the crisis and second or third waves of the virus.

And, who are your "leaders"? The guy at the top is without question responsible—despite his irresponsible claim to the contrary that "I take no responsibility at all"—for a great additional share of the human suffering and death in the U.S. because of his incompetency, delays, misinformation, promotion of snake oil "cures", and the like.
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“Never allow a crisis to go to waste,”
 
Thenightking said:
My wife , son in-law, and two daughters all graduated From PSU, and I am a huge wrestling fan. If they puss out and do not open on time in the fall it will forever change my opinion of PSU. Time to man up! I really like Notre Dame's plan to start a little early and End by Thanksgiving with maybe finals online and then be off until spring semester.
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If only we could just roll out the “man up” protocol across the country we’d be fine. We know that “manning up” stops the spread of this virus!

Are you seriously suggesting the answer to this is to just gut it out?

This virus does not care about any of that. It doesn’t care what color phase we are in or how much you want a wrestling season. At least 100,000 people have died in half a year in this country from this. The idea that we should “man up” so you can watch wrestling is about as selfish as it gets.
 
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If only we could just roll out the “man up” protocol across the country we’d be fine. We know that “manning up” stops the spread of this virus!

Are you seriously suggesting the answer to this is to just gut it out?

This virus does not care about any of that. It doesn’t care what color phase we are in or how much you want a wrestling season. At least 100,000 people have died in half a year in this country from this. The idea that we should “man up” so you can watch wrestling is about as selfish as it gets.
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I live in the other SC (South Carolina). I own a home health care company aptly named Stay At Home. No kidding!! Most of our clients have comorbidities. Just by taking simple common sense precautions you can greatly reduce risk without the need to shut things down. I’m born and bred from PA but they got it wrong. Just be smart. 75 clients and 65 employees and no virus. Suicides, drug addiction and domestic violence will dwarf the deaths from the virus. Everyone has to confront their fears without impacting others. It’s your right to be safe and I’ll respect that. Please respect my right to a different opinion on how to get there. I’ve seen reopening work here in SC. You guys need to get there sooner rather than later in my opinion.
 
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El-Jefe said:
To the extent that anyone should believe the CDC (seeing as though it has hardly bathed itself in glory):

https://reason.com/2020/05/24/the-c...a-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate-below-0-3/
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Those are encouraging numbers.

I think the real question is how many of us will eventually get it before a vaccine is found or herd immunity kicks in. 0.4% of the USA is still 1.4 million people. Even if early estimates were also high and only a 3rd of us get it, that’s still almost half a mil dead. Way better than early projections for sure. But a lot of people.

I’m not advocating for continued closure. It makes sense to me for universities to operate as fully as they are capable of doing safely. of course that’s a loaded term, but I think common sense is still a thing.
 
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Those are encouraging numbers.

I think the real question is how many of us will eventually get it before a vaccine is found or herd immunity kicks in. 0.4% of the USA is still 1.4 million people. Even if early estimates were also high and only a 3rd of us get it, that’s still almost half a mil dead. Way better than early projections for sure. But a lot of people.

I’m not advocating for continued closure. It makes sense to me for universities to operate as fully as they are capable of doing safely. of course that’s a loaded term, but I think common sense is still a thing.
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Plans should be made as if there never will be a vaccine, and then all the better if it does happen.

This is the director of the lab making and testing the Astra Zeneca vaccine (which has pre-sold 400 million doses to USA and 100 million to UK), quoted over the weekend:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe...h-only-50-percent-chance-20200524-p54vvu.html

An Oxford University vaccine trial has only a 50 per cent chance of success because coronavirus is fading so rapidly in Britain, a project co-leader has warned.

"It is a race, yes. But it's not a race against the other guys. It's a race against the virus disappearing, and against time," [Professor Adrian Hill] said. "At the moment, there's a 50 per cent chance that we get no result at all."

Hill said that of 10,000 people recruited to test the vaccine in the coming weeks — some of whom will be given a placebo — he expected fewer than 50 people to catch the virus. If fewer than 20 test positive, then the results might be useless, he warned.
 
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Plans should be made as if there never will be a vaccine, and then all the better if it does happen.

This is the director of the lab making and testing the Astra Zeneca vaccine (which has pre-sold 400 million doses to USA and 100 million to UK), quoted over the weekend:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe...h-only-50-percent-chance-20200524-p54vvu.html

An Oxford University vaccine trial has only a 50 per cent chance of success because coronavirus is fading so rapidly in Britain, a project co-leader has warned.

"It is a race, yes. But it's not a race against the other guys. It's a race against the virus disappearing, and against time," [Professor Adrian Hill] said. "At the moment, there's a 50 per cent chance that we get no result at all."

Hill said that of 10,000 people recruited to test the vaccine in the coming weeks — some of whom will be given a placebo — he expected fewer than 50 people to catch the virus. If fewer than 20 test positive, then the results might be useless, he warned.
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Maybe they just need to move the trial to Brazil—It’s definitely not fading there. It’s beginning to look to me like this thing does prefer winter sun levels like influenza.
 
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If the goal is to reach herd immunity, there are two ways to accomplish that. One, through a vaccine. And two, by a large portion of the population getting infected and recovering.

If the vaccine may never happen (or at least for a considerable amount of time), the only other option is infection / recovery. Without a vaccine, a large percentage (60-80%) of a population must be infected and recover in order to reach herd immunity. Only about 0.5% of the US population has been infected so far. Not nearly enough to reach herd immunity.

Now stay with me here...;):p

We should not only be encouraging young, healthy college students to return to campuses...we should be requiring them to return, infecting them all with the virus, and quarantining them in their dorm rooms until they recover. Then, when the semester is over, we are 20 million people closer to reaching herd immunity! :D

(In all honesty, this uncomfortable?...unconscionable?...darkly-humorous! plan would likely save the lives of tens of thousands of parents and grandparents.)
 
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If the goal is to reach herd immunity, there are two ways to accomplish that. One, through a vaccine. And two, by a large portion of the population getting infected and recovering.

If the vaccine may never happen (or at least for a considerable amount of time), the only other option is infection / recovery. Without a vaccine, a large percentage (60-80%) of a population must be infected and recover in order to reach herd immunity. Only about 0.5% of the US population has been infected so far. Not nearly enough to reach herd immunity.

Now stay with me here...;):p

We should not only be encouraging young, healthy college students to return to campuses...we should be requiring them to return, infecting them all with the virus, and quarantining them in their dorm rooms until they recover. Then, when the semester is over, we are 20 million people closer to reaching herd immunity! :D

(In all honesty, this uncomfortable?...unconscionable?...darkly-humorous! plan would likely save the lives of tens of thousands of parents and grandparents.)
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I know that the post is toungue-in-cheek, but that only protects parents and grandparents if they stay the "F" in State College. To a parent with 2 PSU students at home and one only a year out and working from home (I suppose because there is free food, utilities, and laundry service), that sounds deliciously appealing.;) It started out as a fun little reunion, but as time passes they grow more miserable. And clearly their strategy is to spread the misery as much as possible. :mad:
As a side note, my divorce attorney wife started going back to the office Monday. Yesterday she stopped taking new clients. I guess some businesses are booming.
 
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Chris Watts said:
If the goal is to reach herd immunity, there are two ways to accomplish that. One, through a vaccine. And two, by a large portion of the population getting infected and recovering.

If the vaccine may never happen (or at least for a considerable amount of time), the only other option is infection / recovery. Without a vaccine, a large percentage (60-80%) of a population must be infected and recover in order to reach herd immunity. Only about 0.5% of the US population has been infected so far. Not nearly enough to reach herd immunity.

Now stay with me here...;):p

We should not only be encouraging young, healthy college students to return to campuses...we should be requiring them to return, infecting them all with the virus, and quarantining them in their dorm rooms until they recover. Then, when the semester is over, we are 20 million people closer to reaching herd immunity! :D

(In all honesty, this uncomfortable?...unconscionable?...darkly-humorous! plan would likely save the lives of tens of thousands of parents and grandparents.)
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If we really wanted to save grandparents, we would require all governors and state health dept officials to stay in nursing homes for the next 6 months.
 
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Immunity is probably closer to 5-10% when you include all the asymptomatically infected, but I honestly don't think you will get to herd immunity of 60-80% before a vaccine arrives. Not even close. Sweden practiced herd immunity and only got to 5-7% I believe.

I don't understand why universities don't restart. Very, very few kids or professors will have risks. Those that have risk factors can either use masks or take a sabbatical. The thrust of any plan is to protect the "at risk" population. You do that via PPE and quarantining at-risk and sick people. You CANNOT eliminate all risk. It isn't possible. Once you can get past that fact, planning can begin.
 
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If we really wanted to save grandparents, we would require all governors and state health dept officials to stay in nursing homes for the next 6 months.
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My competition is nursing homes and senior day centers. As soon as this hit in early March, my wife and I thanked our lucky stars that we didn't own any. Managing infection by limiting access to the facility and creating pods of seniors/workers to reduce potential cross contamination among the whole facility would have been key YET EXPENSIVE. I suspect that nursing homes that were in some level of financial distress or poorly managed have the vast majority of deaths. The 80/20 rule. It should not have been this deadly in nursing homes if simple protocols were followed. Nursing home 101 stuff.
 
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I know that the post is toungue-in-cheek, but that only protects parents and grandparents if they stay the "F" in State College. To a parent with 2 PSU students at home and one only a year out and working from home (I suppose because there is free food, utilities, and laundry service), that sounds deliciously appealing.;) It started out as a fun little reunion, but as time passes they grow more miserable. And clearly their strategy is to spread the misery as much as possible. :mad:
As a side note, my divorce attorney wife started going back to the office Monday. Yesterday she stopped taking new clients. I guess some businesses are booming.
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Yes, the "plan" would require all students to remain at the campus or in the dorm rooms for those campuses requiring remote learning. Considering all the trillions being dished out by the federal government, they could even create some financial incentives to encourage compliance. The financial incentives could include scholarships for individuals such as your "one living at home" to encourage post-graduate studies.

Without this plan, colleges may cancel the fall semester! Think about the impact on parents' mental health with all those kids living at home! :D (which in turn may cause a continued increase in clients for your wife...)

I'm happy to hear I have your support. Now, which one of us is going to start the change.org petition... :p
 
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I live in the other SC (South Carolina). I own a home health care company aptly named Stay At Home. No kidding!! Most of our clients have comorbidities. Just by taking simple common sense precautions you can greatly reduce risk without the need to shut things down. I’m born and bred from PA but they got it wrong. Just be smart. 75 clients and 65 employees and no virus. Suicides, drug addiction and domestic violence will dwarf the deaths from the virus. Everyone has to confront their fears without impacting others. It’s your right to be safe and I’ll respect that. Please respect my right to a different opinion on how to get there. I’ve seen reopening work here in SC. You guys need to get there sooner rather than later in my opinion.
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not saying you're wrong about reopening, but i did a little fact check about deaths and found about 48k suicides, 70k drug overdose deaths, and about 3k domestic violence per year in the united states, a total of about 121k per year or ~40k in 4 months. the virus has killed 100k in about 4 months. in essence, suicides, drug overdose, and domestic violence deaths would need to more than double to even come close to covid deaths. again, not saying that's not what's happening, just putting it into perspective.

i agree that most of the restrictions are unnecessary and people should be more free to do as they please as long as they aren't impeding others from protecting themselves.
 
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I live in the other SC (South Carolina). I own a home health care company aptly named Stay At Home. No kidding!! Most of our clients have comorbidities. Just by taking simple common sense precautions you can greatly reduce risk without the need to shut things down. I’m born and bred from PA but they got it wrong. Just be smart. 75 clients and 65 employees and no virus. Suicides, drug addiction and domestic violence will dwarf the deaths from the virus. Everyone has to confront their fears without impacting others. It’s your right to be safe and I’ll respect that. Please respect my right to a different opinion on how to get there. I’ve seen reopening work here in SC. You guys need to get there sooner rather than later in my opinion.
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I rarely drink alcohol anymore (in 30s). My dad was a heavy drinker and I have two young kids. My friends on the other hand pretty regular drinkers. That all being said, last weekend something hit me, I am (and so is my wife) drinking more alcohol now. I can't pinpoint if it is because I'm more bored at home without being able to run around or is it the stress of the situation. All I know is I polled a few friends at the Memorial Day campfire and everyone but 1 is drinking more and some significantly more than what they did previously. Take that for what it's worth, but something tells me my group of friends is not unlike most people in Pennsylvania right now. In that group of friends, I have friends who have been laid off for 6 weeks, guys that are responsible for navigating companies through this, and others who have different stresses. It is not lost on me if my casual friends are increasing alcohol consumption that the impact to other things like drugs, domestic issues, negligence of personal responsibility is being impacted significantly right now. To El Jefe point, I don't know if Penn State is awful for how they handled this, but people want leadership through difficult times and people willing to make mistakes instead of the "no action is my action" idea. This is where true leadership comes in.
 
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I rarely drink alcohol anymore (in 30s). My dad was a heavy drinker and I have two young kids. My friends on the other hand pretty regular drinkers. That all being said, last weekend something hit me, I am (and so is my wife) drinking more alcohol now. I can't pinpoint if it is because I'm more bored at home without being able to run around or is it the stress of the situation. All I know is I polled a few friends at the Memorial Day campfire and everyone but 1 is drinking more and some significantly more than what they did previously. Take that for what it's worth, but something tells me my group of friends is not unlike most people in Pennsylvania right now. In that group of friends, I have friends who have been laid off for 6 weeks, guys that are responsible for navigating companies through this, and others who have different stresses. It is not lost on me if my casual friends are increasing alcohol consumption that the impact to other things like drugs, domestic issues, negligence of personal responsibility is being impacted significantly right now. To El Jefe point, I don't know if Penn State is awful for how they handled this, but people want leadership through difficult times and people willing to make mistakes instead of the "no action is my action" idea. This is where true leadership comes in.
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Great post, especially about leadership and inaction. We sent an email to all employees at the beginning of this ordeal setting new ground rules. Wear PPE, wash hands often, wear gloves, extra times between shifts, change of scrubs between shifts, and one CNA/one client for high risk clients. You feel sick? Don't go to work. We also provided documentation that they were essential health care workers in case they were stopped for curfew violations. We did all these things BEFORE the employees asked. It fosters trust that you have their backs when you are proactive.

The biggest impact of COVID-19 is finding employees. No one wants to work with unemployment benefits so high. That's a killer. Can't wait until July 31st when it ends.
 
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not saying you're wrong about reopening, but i did a little fact check about deaths and found about 48k suicides, 70k drug overdose deaths, and about 3k domestic violence per year in the united states, a total of about 121k per year or ~40k in 4 months. the virus has killed 100k in about 4 months. in essence, suicides, drug overdose, and domestic violence deaths would need to more than double to even come close to covid deaths. again, not saying that's not what's happening, just putting it into perspective.

i agree that most of the restrictions are unnecessary and people should be more free to do as they please as long as they aren't impeding others from protecting themselves.
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One thing to consider is that about 50% of the Covid deaths are nursing home residents. Average life expectancy once a person enters a nursing home is about 6 months. Most of these nursing home deaths would have occurred sometime this year (not making light of anyone dying). The same can be said for most of the Covid deaths, the victims are generally elderly and in poor health.

Probably a good way to look at it is comparing the all cause number of deaths for 2020 against 2019. About 3 million people die every year in the USA. It will be interesting to see if the number of deaths increases or even decreases. Car accident fatalities will be less this year.

Can probably even look at 2021 as well, the number of cancer deaths will most likely increase because of the lack of routine screenings cancelled during the shutdowns.
 
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I know that the post is toungue-in-cheek, but that only protects parents and grandparents if they stay the "F" in State College. To a parent with 2 PSU students at home and one only a year out and working from home (I suppose because there is free food, utilities, and laundry service), that sounds deliciously appealing.;) It started out as a fun little reunion, but as time passes they grow more miserable. And clearly their strategy is to spread the misery as much as possible. :mad:
As a side note, my divorce attorney wife started going back to the office Monday. Yesterday she stopped taking new clients. I guess some businesses are booming.
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So you're saying that when my wife trys to call your wife at work, your wife won't answer?

Great, now I can show the wife where I hid her cell phone and the SIM card and the battery and the charger.
 
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One thing to consider is that about 50% of the Covid deaths are nursing home residents. Average life expectancy once a person enters a nursing home is about 6 months. Most of these nursing home deaths would have occurred sometime this year (not making light of anyone dying). The same can be said for most of the Covid deaths, the victims are generally elderly and in poor health.

Probably a good way to look at it is comparing the all cause number of deaths for 2020 against 2019. About 3 million people die every year in the USA. It will be interesting to see if the number of deaths increases or even decreases. Car accident fatalities will be less this year.

Can probably even look at 2021 as well, the number of cancer deaths will most likely increase because of the lack of routine screenings cancelled during the shutdowns.
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more fact checks. this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143238/) says median nursing home stay is about 2.2 years, so you might be off by a factor of 4.

~35k motor vehicle deaths per year 2009-2018 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year) so even if that had dropped to zero, that would save only 12k in 4 months. cancer deaths are about 600k per year but have bounced between 0.185-0.186% as a percent of population in the united states 2008-2016 (https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/DataViz.html) so you would expect an increase as population increases. i agree there will probably be more than expected in this/next year. i also think your comment about nursing home deaths applies to cancer deaths, that most would have occurred regardless.
 
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