Done. Yeah. That was an oops
JimmyC
853
You canāt make comparisons on a day to day basis because death count reports drop on Sundays and Mondays. Thatās why you use the 7 day moving average. I would have thought you were aware of that.
Thereās no disease or cause of death that comes close to killing 300 people a day in Texas. Those 300 deaths are alarming to the families of those that died.
If you add up all of our cases active and recovered, our total death rate is about .97%.
Weāre doing fine, far better than many states.
Covid isnāt killing 300 people a day in Texas either. Weāve only exceeded 200 daily deaths 6 times since the outbreak began and the average is closer to 150.
We have a long list of diseases that exceed that daily number of deaths in Texas.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/vstat/vs15/t19.aspx
JimmyC
857
Right, I brought up the 7-day moving average because you were fooled into thinking the death rate was decreasing because you were looking at daily numbers.
My statement was 100% accurate, get over it and quit moving the bar to make it look worse than it is.
JimmyC
859
Yes, it was technically accurate, but totally disingenuous and useless for trying to gain an understanding of the scope of the problem. Heads upā¦deaths are going to drop significantly this coming Sunday and Monday, but rise precipitously on Tuesday.
Wrong again but obviously the facts will in no way deter or dissuade you.
We had a short term spike, weāve had them before and weāll have them again. That is true with every communicable disease.
WuWei
861
295 deaths today. Not technically 300, I guess.
Highest in the country.
Also highest new case count at 9,750.
Yeah, doing just fine. Fine.
322 yesterday - highest
8,843 - second to Florida
Splendifurous
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And a case mortality rate below 1%.
We have numerous other diseases with higher total mortality and mortality rates in the State.
Compared to all of the other challenges weāve had since 1836 this one is pretty minor, it just gets all of the press for obvious reasons.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/vstat/vs15/t19.aspx
Note, we lose about 9,000 people a year to chronic lower respiratory disease and people with that primary diagnosis make up the vast majority of Covid deaths.
We also lose about 3,000 annually to the Flu and that is a disease we are well prepared to fight.
Iād like to see us doing better but in the grand scheme of things weāre doing a very good job with this disease as well. Weāre fighting nature here and the best we can hope for is to mitigate the damage, we never defeat Nature.
You understand that people suffer terribly from the disease, and the health care people also suffer treating the covid patients, right?
And that is true of every communicable respiratory disease.
HCWās have less to fear from this disease than they do influenza which kills a much higher percentage of the young and healthy.
WuWei
867
Hidalgo County 869,000 residents. 28 of them died in one day yesterday of the same cause. 28 in a day.
Val Verde County - 49,000. 27 in a day.
In a county that size, how many days before itās somebody you know?
Yeah, weāre really kicking it in the ass.
Iām in a county of under 5,000. If someone gets sick, much less dies odds are they are known to everyone.
Iām in an even smaller county, just a little under 4,000.
Everyone knows everyone here and if you donāt, someone you know will fill you in.
We would definitely know.
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