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Originally Posted by cabmando
Because the "others' harping on the high number of infections in places like Florida and Texas are allegedly medical professionals and some of them are advocating for more shutdowns to prevent "another Florida or Texas" when Florida and Texas combined haven't seen close to the daily death numbers that NY and NJ did.
"look at the infection rate!" seems to be the battle cry. If the number of infections are in age groups that tend to survive this virus, why do infection rates matter?
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Ignore the hollow battle cry but don't ignore reality.
FL and TX have already surpassed CA in terms of deaths/M and are rising at 3x the rate. They will soon each be higher than CA in total deaths with 1/2 the population or less. 200/day lost to Covid is not the same as NY but it is not pretty. Add 2000/ day who go home with heart, lung, kidney damage and stroke and things don't look so peachy in FL and TX. They are not over this and probably need to sit tight for a few weeks or risk exponential spread, blowing right by NY in total deaths.