From the website LIVE SCIENCE:

A flatter curve, on the other hand, assumes the same number of people ultimately get infected, but over a longer period of time. A slower infection rate means a less stressed health care system, fewer hospital visits on any given day and fewer sick people being turned away.

Congratulations on discovering what people here have been telling you for the last 6 months. Just wait till you independently re-discover how exponential growth works, boy are you in for a treat!

Getting infected at a later point in time is likely going to have more treatments available and potentially a vaccine to prevent cases as well.

I get that you are clinging to your narrative as much as possible, even as we are seeing and will see hospitals run into troubles, cases explode, deaths increase etc in the USA #1 as other countries have taken proper steps to avoid this. Good chance "just staff up" will not be the magical answer either.

You seem comfortable with your beliefs, whereas others who share them here seem afraid to commit to them directly. You may as well cut to the chase - if the USA #1 gets to a million+ dead, and does so with a death rate per capita say 8-10 times higher than Canada - is that a problem at all, or is it just the USA #1 getting to a place early that everyone else will be at in your opinion, so it is just the USA #1 showing its good ol' Merican initiative. Thanks!

All the best.

This is what I've said flatten the curve always has been!

And hospitals in Florida aren't overwhelmed. They have plenty of bed space and ventilators. They are in the process of requesting extra staffing. No one will be turned away or denied access to a ventilator.

You do understand that there are other important factors, correct?

Do you understand that "opening it back up" and "flattening the curve" are inversely correlated, i.e. the more you "open up" the steeper the curve becomes?

Getting back to the foundation of this thread, Georgia is killing it!



Cases only up 250% since this thread started, and we all know from Smudger the virus does not spread, so no worries about cases, hospitalizations and deaths increasing on the back of this insane uptick.

CURVE HAS BEEN FLATTENED... VERTICALLY! TOTAL VICTORY!

There both whopper of lies. What does Bush have to do with Trump?

Trump lies the most of any president. Bush Sucked but I bet many Democrats take Bush over Trump.

I think that is why Trump won. Folks just said cant trust any of em lets see what the reality star can do.

Lets say Biden wins and they grab the house and the senate. The right thing to do is ram Universal Health Care through but they won't

They are overwhelmed, and they're getting worse. You lying about it again doesn't make it so.

The analogy was between Bush and Smudger, both declaring TOTAL VICTORY very prematurely. Shoehorning "but Obama lied once about doctors" into that makes you seem a bit obsessed.

Is Fox 13 Tampa lying?

https://www.fox13news.com/news/flori...id-cases-surge

Flatten the curve was just a way to try to communicate to lay people what was going on. For a place like NYC, where you had rampant community spread before any preventative measures were taken, you would have a massive increase in cases even after you shutdown because people caught it earlier. Flatten the curve was meant to explain that the lock down wouldn't magically end the out break. Things would get really bad after the lock down, but people shouldn't say "screw it" and go back to normal. The lock down was still helping despite cases and deaths going up everyday after NYC was shutdown.

After the flattening phase, the goal is to get the underlying number of cases very low BEFORE you open up again and to use social distancing/masks and contact isolation to keep the spread to a minimum AFTER you reopen. That's the hammering of the curve pattern you see in the EU. The US failed at this. Partly because people like you thought flattening the curve was the only relevant concept and refused to learn any more about it.

Smudger thinks your whole second paragraph is impossible, despite the fact that it's worked everywhere it's been tried, because "flatten the curve" can only mean not overwhelming the hospitals and never doing any better than that.

Did not click, but I doubt you're going to get the response you want to the question "Is Fox lying?" here.

The problem wit this is you have to pass something that will survive republican court challenges and a republican POTUS/House/Senate. It's much harder now than it was for FDR, back when republicans weren't trying to make things worse on purpose.

I mean, it's perfectly reasonable to think that staff more than beds are the limiting factor, but to read that article and think that there is actually no problems at all, because doctors, like, are just things you can pluck out of the ground and put to work right away, is preposterous.

It depends on what your definition of "it" is...

The results of the Sweden experiment are in: killing way more people with no benefit at all

Fox 13 is a local affiliate. It is not Fox News.

And there's the United States, saying "hold my beer": CDC will issue new guidance on school openings, Pence says, after criticism from Trump

CDC: "Schools should take precautions to keep everyone healthy and safe"
Trump: "That doesn't work for me"
Pence: "Don't worry, the CDC will change their guidelines"

lmao

Putting political goals like "reopening schools before the election" ahead of any health challenges that stand in the way, totally normal country we have here

When this thread started the US just hit 50,000 deaths. In almost three months since there have been close to 90,000 additional deaths, yet no more wisdom from the Lord of the Thread. The same wrong arguments continue to be propped up.

In this case “it” refers to large numbers of Americans.

Glad I don’t have to worry about that. Check out what encompasses Fox Corp after the merger/sell off with Disney. It is the national network, the affiliates they own and the cable channels. It is all under a much, much smaller roof.

In fairness to Smudger, local Fox affiliates aren't necessarily all that partisan, certainly not to the extent of Fox News on cable. The biased conservative local stations are the ones owned by Sinclair.