it was intended playfully. although if you want to get angry I’m happy to further add that I find that medical professionals constantly downplay sickness and disease potentially because they become numb after seeing so much of it. Even with their own children they downplay illness. Have a family friend who is a cardiologist and his daughter had strep that he downplayed until it caused scarlet fever.
They either have/had symptoms and lied to you or that’s the worst doctor I’ve ever heard of and you should be incredibly fearful living in a small town with that kind of medical care assuming you have limited options. and just to be clear, the rapids aren’t that great. If someone had symptoms consistent and rapid was negative I’d question it too.
Its excess deaths vs expected. All of the reasons for those excess deaths will take a long time to deconvolute. Most of it is likely due to deaths from having the virus itself imo.
Nope, fuck that and fuck you. Muslims are persecuted openly on a global scale for the actions of a minority. The MAJORITY of evangelicals in this country are 100% horrifically dogshit humans. https://www.vox.com/2018/11/5/18059454/trump-white-evangelicals-christian-nationalism-john-fea https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...p-evangelical-christians-kristin-kobes-du-mez It's time to stop acting like because these people go to church that they're good people. They are very fucking bad people.
And excess all cause mortality may still be undercounting covid deaths if the shutdowns also caused a large decrease in deaths from things like motor vehicle accidents. It’s sloppy but a few years from now people will settle on an agreed estimate.
I was in no way targeting all religious people. This is about American Evangelicalism. This is about all the awful things those pieces of shit have done to this country and the people in this country hiding behind the Bible. These mother fuckers don't even practice Jesus's teaching or they'd be a bunch peace loving socialists. They literally were going to church and openly going out spreading the virus saying that "god would protect them" but fuck everyone else right? Get these people the fuck out of my god damn country. I've had enough of these fucking genocidal maniacs.
Bad news Those numbers for bay and escambia county (panhandle) are bad. Especially escambia. Lots of people from the south go to the beaches in the panhandle to vacation. Only a matter of time before that place became bad. Rural counties as a whole are starting to see higher positivity rates and those counties are poorer, less access to good healthcare and the people that live their generally have poorer health. Goodish news Miami-dade seems to be seeing a trend down in positivity rate. Testing is still lower but more than it was when the hurricane really slowed it down and the positivity rate, while still high at 13.5%, is creeping down from highs about a month ago. Hillsborough county (Tampa) and Orange County (Orlando) have started to get the positivity rates below 10% consistently. Not in good enough shape to get complacent but local mask mandates/people using common sense and wearing masks seem to be helping.
That's an awfully broad brush you're painting all physicians with, perc. I'm a physician, but undeniably human, and sometimes my judgment is wrong, too. I'm sure at some point I'll fuck up and cause someone harm and it'll feel terrible and make me feel like I should quit. In fact, all the good physicians I've ever known wonder daily if what they're doing is right, and have to wrestle with a large amount of psychological self-torture. This is a psycho-spiritually agonizing profession. Tl;dr, in response to "sometimes you guys are wrong!" My response is "thanks for the reminder I hadn't thought of that in the last 4 minutes" Is this axe sufficiently ground such that we can amiably get back to discussing relevant stuff? There's plenty of it
Several years ago one of my sons lost a classmate because her doctor father thought he could take care of his sick child at their beachfront condo rental in Costa Rica instead of getting her to a hospital
Again, it was playful. its about directionality of being wrong. And it’s about inherent biases of the profession and the psychology that drives it. There is a lot of data, from women’s health to medication side effects in support of the broad brush strokes to be fair. my quote of your post on page 2 was amiable. Don’t take being wrong so personally to your core. As you said, it’s going to happen. A lot. You believe I’m upset that I wasn’t listened to - given I’m an expert and I was ignored and ridiculed by physicians in this thread early on. I’m not upset anymore. It was good natured.
unfortunately it’s not realized at all. Desantis’ education department is already picking a fight with at least one county school board for a 1 month delay in opening schools. He’s made comments about getting bars and other businesses open again and we still don’t have a mask mandate at the state level. I’d expect them to say “we won” once the statewide is below 10% for a few days or a week. 5% is only the goal of leaders who care about the lives of their citizens. No one would ever mistake Ron Desantis and someone who cares if Floridians live or die.
Fair. But at least not so deep that saying it out loud or someone else saying it out loud evokes a visceral defense mechanism
(it’s the first time in several weeks. Alachua is almost always the lowest positivity rate. That said, Leon is always among the best 5-8 counties. Education and mask mandates work. Bay County on the other hand.... Panama City be wildin’ y’all)
Should probably be apparent from the absurdity of my handle that I don't exactly always log on to tmb.com to post my most polished, professional opinions. No, I didn't take it so hard as you think. Just found it odd that you'd go out of your way to tag me in a "gotcha!" and then follow it up with a rather biting outsider indictment of my entire profession. Jesus I didn't eventemember I posted that. But this is now petty AF. So I'll post this and re-orient back to the relevant discussion. You're welcome to your critiques of medicine.
As a Tampa/Pasco resident I have been impressed with the little i do get out. For gas station, Aldi, Publix. Everyone has had a mask, havent seen any drama of people refusing to wear one. But i am a hermit and don't get out too much.
in south Tampa it’s been pretty good except college age people. University of Tampa kids that live near me don’t wear masks. Hillsborough county has a mandatory mask policy inside businesses and supermarkets having implemented similar procedures helps. It also helps that most restaurants have at least some outdoor seating. Im concerned about what will happen when schools come back but the people Have done a decent job despite bad leadership.
Testing in general is down too Eric Topol @EricTopol 4. The other glaring factor is the reduction of testing, which parallels the diagnosis of new infections. This is just the opposite of what is needed now to get the US pandemic under control. Graph @COVID19Tracking