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ZurdoDev wrote: However, on a serious note, this pandemic is turning out to be a bigger scam than Y2k was.
That is not yet final. Our Great Leader Donald Duck Trump is panicking that US econony may be deep down in a pit at election time. Right now it seems like he is saying: Forget those worries about the virus! Get the economy going!
I am certainly not the only one fearing that this strategy may backfire. For the last 6-8 weeks, USA has experienced roughly 1500 corona deaths a day. The fall the last two weeks is so minimal that it cannot be trusted to be a trend. The "opening up" so strongly pushed from the central administration could very easily revese this trend.
I do not know where to draw the borderline between a "scam" and that which is not a scam. Two thousand corona deaths a day? Five thousand a day? Ten thousand? If opening up leads to ten thousand deaths a day for a year, it could reduce the US population by 1%. Is it still a scam? Or does that depend on which one percent of the US population dies from corona?
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The problem is everyday there is a new article about how numbers are not being reported accurately and how they are reported too high. This thing is no where near as bad as the media is making it.
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I have noticed that Our Great Leader Donald Duck Trump has stressed that point, obviously worried about the fact that his country is rapidly climbing the ranks of deaths per capita, while he is fighting vigourusly to let the virus loose to get his economy going again in time for the election. In that situation, it obviously benefits his case to ascribe as many of the deaths as possible to other causes, totally unrelated to his "opening up".
He may succeed in hiding away a share of the deaths as "not corona related", but only in the short time range. I have noticed one change: At one of the most used (and respected) sources of corona information, worldometers.info/coronavirus[^], updates from the USA for the previous day used to come in a steady stream the following day. The last week or so, there has been very few updates through the day: almost all updates are made the last 1-2 hous before the daily counters are reset. So unless you remember the total count from the previous day, or explcitly look up "Yesterday" data, chances are that you will see only a minor fraction of the total actual values reported: They are visible only for an hour or two before being reset at midnight.
Note that we are not talking about reporting the deaths of today, but of yesterday - data being reported is up to 24h old. This would be perfectly understandable if we were talking some underdeveloped country that had always been slow in reporting due to a poorly developed infrastructure. We are not. The updates used to come much earlier, but quite suddenly, they were beginning to be delayed. That change came remarkably close to when DDT started casting doubts about the corona death counts.
One result of this is that when DDT opens up for the both the economy and for the virus, the rest of the world will have a stongly justified scepticism to the official US death figures presented after the opening of the country.
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Member 7989122 wrote: data being reported is up to 24h old.
Data reported can be much older than that.
If someone at a retirement home dies it's usually not reported until the next day, unless it's during the weekend, then it can take a few more days past Monday, because the clerks need to catch up.
Doctors report to Counties, counties report to regions and regions report to countries. Give or take a few levels depending on country and organisation.
Every level have its own slack which add zero to several days for every level. This slack is also multiplied when people are overworked.
When reading up on it I was surprised how NOT flawless the system is in most countries.
Member 7989122 wrote: Our Great Leader Donald Duck Trump
Stop it now, this is not the soapbox.
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You might argue with him with many arguments, but stop using the pejoratives and the political irony because it might get fast out of control.
M.D.V. 
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If anything it's most probably reported to low.
Many people that get sick and die are never tested, so they're not included in the statistics.
Also, in many countries you're excluded from the statistics if you don't die in a hospital.
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ZurdoDev wrote: The problem is everyday there is a new article about how numbers are not being reported accurately
Proof?
The news reports confirmed cases which have been tested. Most people aren't tested and the number of actual infections is higher.
ZurdoDev wrote: This thing is no where near as bad as the media is making it.
Even bigger. There'll be more consequences.
Summer is coming. Your petty opinion can't change that. And I, will make a profit on your back.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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ZurdoDev wrote: this pandemic is turning out to be a bigger scam than Y2k was.
Tell that to @OriginalGriff and his wife.
Or to my cousing and his wife.
Or to the mother of my best friend.
Because to my classmate in primary school, you can't say anything it anymore
And to one couple neighbours of my father... Both (he and she) dead.
I ask you to be a bit more respectous with this damned thing.
Only because in your area is not that bad, it doesn't mean it is so "harmless" to be considered a scam.
Consider you lucky if you don't have to see it from a close point of view.
M.D.V.
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modified 16-May-20 7:24am.
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I suspect the "Z" in the user name could be a misprint ... 
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ZurdoDev wrote: However, on a serious note, this pandemic is turning out to be a bigger scam than Y2k was.
Two things:
1) Y2K wasn't a "scam" - it took me six months of hard work to ensure that all company systems would operate properly post 01/01/2000, and a lot of that time was finding a data-compatible replacement for the elderly UNIX box running the company accounts system - which would have failed, and temporarily crippled the company cashflow while it was sorted out.
Y2K looked like a scam because a heck of a lot of people in a heck of a lot of fields worked damn hard to make sure that nothing untoward happened (except under controlled conditions to prove there was / wasn't a problem). If we had all ignored it, the company would have returned to work in early january to find the only way to find out if a £10M+ turnover company that traded world wide through a distributor network was owed money, and if so by who, and what for was to go through the mountains of paperwork in the archives and start cross-correlating again ...
2) Covid is not a joke: it may be a "minor inconvenience" for the young and fit, but they can still infect others, and older, more vulnerable people do not have an easy time ot it, if they even survive. And that includes your parents, grandparents, their friends, your older coworkers, your neighbours, the people who sell you stuff, clean up after you, stack the shelve so you can buy crap, and on, and on ...
If you aren't young, fit, and healthy this is a killer, or if not makes you wish it had - and remember that athletes have been struck down and even killed: Here Is The List Of Sports Stars Who Died Of COVID-19[^]
The attitude of "I'm all right Jack" is fine, but when you assume it's a scam and a joke you mean "I don't care about anyone else but me" and that stinks.
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And the reason men die 4 years before their wives ....
Because they want to.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: And the reason men die 4 years before their wives ....
Because they want to.
It's amazing the institution of marriage has lasted this long. It seems that nearly everyone thinks it's torture. 
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Yeah, and we just celebrated our 40th year of 'torture' in isolation.
Which wasn't so bad. We dislike most restaurants as they are too noisy and all the same.
We are very good cooks and made an amazing Salmon Wellington for our dinner.
And all the wine we wanted as we didn't have to drive home.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Quote: How to live longer than the average life expectancy
Simple: fail to die.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Simple: fail to die.
So far so good. Fingers crossed.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's my plan,
"Live forever, or die trying."
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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A well known joke in Norway is that "In Norway, the standard of living is so high that very few obtain it".
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They are saying that this may end up being an annual virus like the flu or common cold. So, in that respect, you are correct. Of course the death rate is about 4 or 5 times that of the flu (may be higher), but people will get use to it and take it for granted. History is a bitch; even when death is on the line, people learn to accept what they can not change.
I have been doing research on many subjects resonantly. Did you know that approximately 39 thousand deaths in the USA can be contributed to MSG additives in foods. That is higher than the average number of people dying from the flu each year. Of course that was a shallow research dive and I do not know if that is correct, but it is amazing what people will accept (or ignore) and take for granted.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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Live to be 99, then be very careful. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is an Alligator wearing a tunic an investigator?
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It may sound a bit cold-blooded of me, but Caiman! You can do better!
That rumor's a real crock, and don't think I amphibian about that, either: honest.
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or well fed?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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