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  • Re: Herd Immunity

    From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Björn Felten on Fri Apr 24 15:04:36 2020
    The USA has tested about 1% of it's population -- and *not* counting. Status of 99% is "unknown". Now *there's" a major uncertainty...

    I fear the worst there if everything is true which I read about it.

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Björn Felten on Fri Apr 24 15:10:10 2020
    According to The New York Times, it seems like Belgium and Sweden are
    the only two countries that are reporting fairly accurate data:

    It all depends on how you count. Here it is "if you die qnd it could have been Covid19, then you're counted as such even if there's no pisitive test".

    Some people started comparing our deathrates with the ones from previous years,
    and the conclusion is there has been some liberal counting, probably people dying from natural causes (especially in retirement homees) were counted as Covid19 anyway.

    \%/@rd

    --- D'Bridge 4
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  • From Daniel@1:340/7 to Ward Dossche on Fri Apr 24 11:52:00 2020
    Ward Dossche wrote to Bjorn Felten <=-

    The USA has tested about 1% of it's population -- and *not* counting. Status of 99% is "unknown". Now *there's" a major uncertainty...

    I fear the worst there if everything is true which I read about it.

    My wife mentioned a suspicion that the disease landed in the US earlier than thought. Then we both read that cases misdiagnosed in early February were, indeed, Covid 19. That was a month earlier than the first reported deaths... Blew me away.


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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Ward Dossche on Sat Apr 25 00:15:22 2020
    Hello Ward,

    The USA has tested about 1% of it's population -- and *not* counting.
    Status of 99% is "unknown". Now *there's" a major uncertainty...

    I fear the worst there if everything is true which I read about it.

    OMG!
    I am a dead man walking!
    What am I gonna do?
    Quick!
    Find me a cat!
    They have 9 lives!

    --Lee

    --
    Erections, That's Our Game

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Daniel on Sat Apr 25 14:41:02 2020
    My wife mentioned a suspicion that the disease landed in the US earlier
    than
    thought. Then we both read that cases misdiagnosed in early February
    were,
    indeed, Covid 19. That was a month earlier than the first reported
    deaths...
    Blew me away.

    I think that's correct too.

    I expect it landed here (Belgium) before New Year and I had already symptoms when it was just propagating in China ... just didn't know or realize it was Covid19.

    \%/@rd

    --- D'Bridge 4
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