On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:24:11 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 4/18/20 9:13 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:36:38 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 4/17/20 9:21 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:50:28 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 4/17/20 4:40 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:41:04 -0400 (EDT), Justan Ohlphart
wrote:

Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
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Better see if you can still fit into your swim trunks.

There are almost as many Covid cases in tiny little Maryland as there
are in all of Florida with less than a third of the population and a


As of today, there were 23,443 reported Covid-10 cases in Florida and
11,572 in Maryland. Florida has twice as many cases as Maryland.

You are right, When I looked deeper that included the whole DC
Baltimore metro area and a hot spot around Richmond
Still with over 3 times the population and 6 times the area, half is
not a number I would brag about, particularly since the numbers of new
Maryland cases are still going up rapidly. (along with DC and
Virginia)

We seem to be flattening the curve and about half of the cases are
still in the 3 counties dominated by north easterners.
The number of deaths peaked on 4/6 and is going down.


I wasn't bragging about Maryland's numbers. I simply pointed out your
math error.

You have also been whining that Florida is doing it all wrong and yet
your state has twice the infection rate per capita and still rising.
We seem to be over the hump and our new infection rate is leveling off
or declining.


And once again, you step into it. My comments on Florida were aimed at
your moronic governor's failure, early on, to close the beaches and
promote social distancing. I have no idea what Florida is doing the
pandemic lately.

The problem with that argument is the beaches are not where the
infections were. There were a few places where people were jammed
together, mostly in Dade and Broward and that was not really beach
related. There were a few "festivals" that should have been canceled
in the South East but that was a local decision by democrat mayors.


And once again, once again, until testing is a lot more widespread, we
have no idea what the actual infection rate is across a large
population. We can say that "for those tested, the rate of infection was
x%." Of course, many of those tested present with symptoms, real or not,
so I'm not sure that is much of a valid test beyond what it tells us
about those who have or think they have symptoms.

South Dakota had virtually no infections until it turned out they have a
lot, especially in Minnehaha (a guess at the spelling) County, where
that packing plant is. But the state has a growing number of cases in
other counties, too. What does it mean? Among other things, without
widespread testing, you don't know much of anything.

Almost all of the infections were traced to that plant full of Somali
and Latino workers. The rest of the state was virtually unaffected.

If testing is so important, why isn't your dark blue but highly
infected state doing more of it?
If it is so easy for the federal government to come up with a billion
tests overnight, why can't the State of Maryland come up with a few
million on their own?