TH666#5 the only thing cut to shreds is your mom’s son’s balls! Your pedophile sign is still in your mom’s front yard! ... You might be able to think for yourself if you would stop breastfeeding....

Just to be clear -- It is IMPOSSIBLE for any gov't or establishment "medical agency" to accurately quantify the # of "covid cases" or "covid infections" because a "positive PCT test" does not medically confirm a "CV-19 case."

Just to be clear -- It is IMPOSSIBLE for any gov't or establishment "medical agency" to accurately quantify a "covid case" or "covid infection" because a "positive PCR test" does not medically confirm a "CV-19 case."

They might, right along with the states around them. The point you are missing is that South the coders numbers will be the same if not better than the states around it, but this will be accomplished without destroying the economy or taking away peoples freedoms.

@FleaMagnet Go to this site http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/, scroll down to "Confirmed COVID-19 Cases by States/Territories, normalized by population" Under Highlight choose South Dakota, under Show choose Top 25, and for Data choose Total Confirmed Cases. The Dakotas are the worse in the USA. So, we'll see what happens in a month and a half.

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@notmev I appreciate that you direct us to the facts. People are often lazy to check out the facts. However, while at it, change the 'Total confirmed cases' to 'Deaths'. You will see that South Dakota is in the middle. And their infection rates (cases) have been going down since mid-November. So, no, data do not confirm they have done so badly by keeping things unrestricted. What happens in the future, no one knows, but it is somewhat unlikely that there will be a large virus resurgence in the spring. I would worry more about a resurgence in the locked-down states. Because they may have less herd immunity.

For a computer nerd your terminology is vague. The Dakotas? I thought we were talking about South Dakota. Also, has the name of the virus been changed again? It was Covid19. Is that name suddenly offensive to someone somewhere? I can’t help wondering how adjusted these graphs are.

@FleaMagnet: "The Dakotas?" That is a very common american phrase that refers to North and South Dakota together. What country are you in? Also this is the data from the South Dakota republican government, https://doh.sd.gov/COVID/Dashboard.aspx, it matches.

@GodsArmpit Nice comment, just "No". Come on, pull your head out of the ground, and put a prediction to your beliefs in front of everyone.

@martin7s Thanks for your prediction. South Dakota is not in the middle of the pack. They have the seventh highest death rate when normalized to their population. We could argue forever why I think the other states are higher than SD, but not now. I believe that the new variants will cause another peak in a month to a month and a half. SD has fully vaccinated 10% of their population, 21% have gotten at least one shot, another 12% have had the disease. They are doing really well, but not fast enough to get to herd immunity before the variants take hold. Just my prediction, which I do hope is wrong for all states. This shows each state's vaccine status: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

That is true. However we are talking South Dakota it is like saying Charlotte is located in the Carolinas. Try traveling there with that info.

@FleaMagnet I'm being pendantic. Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. SARS-COV-2 is an example of a coronavirus. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

My aunt was on vacation in a group of 60 pensioners. 48 of them showed symptoms, the eldest being 94. None died.

You didn't check to carefully to see all the changes implemented in Sweden in the last couple months to combat the spread of sars-cov-2. True, they did not lockdown, but you seem to be missing all that they did and how they changed when the case numbers went up. Try again.

@Notmev: So why are the kids not going back to school?

@FleaMagnet Is your question with respect to Sweden?

Saw her delivering it IMPECABLY, no looking at notes or autocue, no apparent 'whispers in her ear', just competent oration.

"then one sentence into the response interrupt forcefully" - well observed.

Fuck you!!!

The "two weeks to flatten the curve" never made sense. So two weeks later, we pick up where we left off? It was clear that this would be extended indefinitely.

@Mikeyh0 "Canada has collapsed" I missed that, what collapse happened in Canada?

@notmev - Canada may not have collapsed quite yet, but our federal debt is currently $1,071,182,500,700.00. That’s ‘just’ Cnd. dollars, but one trillion in debt is an awful lot for a country with only about 35 million people. So the future looks bleak to me.