On Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 9:47:59 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 06:06:54 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 12:24:19 AM UTC-4, Rod Speed wrote:
wrote in message

We are quickly reaching the point that driving to the
restaurant is more dangerous than going in, mask or not.
BULL****.

What are the annual deaths from all auto accidents in the US, 40K?
We have 500K dead from Covid in one year, we're adding to that at the
rate of 1K+ per day and Covid is now increasing again in 13 states.

Look at who died and lets reframe the question.
95% of the covid deaths involved people, mostly old people with
serious co morbidities.

That's very wrong too.



A good percentage of them were in nursing
homes, not out on the road.
If you are a reasonably healthy person and you drive to a restaurant
that is using any decent health and safety protocol, which is more
dangerous?

28% were under 70, 12% under 60. Twelve percent of 500K is 60K,
50% higher than the deaths from auto accidents. And we can't deal
with the population we'd like to have, we have to deal with the population
that we actually have.



I also notice that some of the states with the worst resurgence of
cases are still locked down. Michigan is a good start on that but New
Jersey is running pretty tight too. Hawaii is even harder to explain.
The worst states reported tonight on NBC were Maine, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Idaho.

I can't keep track of the specifics of the restrictions in the many states.
NJ is far from "locked down". Restaurants are open at 50% capacity,
gyms are open, all businesses are open, etc. The explanation for here
and NY is likely due to easing of what the restrictions were a month or
two ago and that the more transmissible UK variant is now ~30% of new
cases.

Meanwhile, I do know stupid when I see it and that's Spring Break in FL.
I see Miami Beach had to declare an emergency, put in place an 8pM
curfew, etc, to finally do something to try to limit that disaster. Packed
bars, packed beaches, wild partying, no masks, no distancing.
Apparently it was the good old bait and switch deployed by DeSantis.
Have everything open, no masks, lure them down, then when it's too late for the
dopes that came and for the whole country that will get infected as
a result, start shutting it down.




I do expect we might see more cases here but with so many people from
those hot spots coming here it is not surprising.