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Anonymous Coward User ID: 13358554 United States 04/03/2020 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP, Quoting: Serenity Now You've been of great help during this terrible time by posting your most excellent forecasts. If not for your forecasts, I wouldn't be as strong mentally and spiritually as I am now. I owe you a debt of gratitude my friend...a deb t that I won't ever be able to repay. Please accept my deepest thanks and gratitude as a token in kind. P.S. Please continue to help us as you see fit. Godspeed my friend! ----------------------------------------- ^^ THIS times infinity! Hey Opie, it's probably a good time to setup your PayPal Tip Jar. :) Yass! I agree we luvs us some OP, if I were younger I would date him & cook dinner and then massage his feet and then... Make it RAIN for the OP y'all... OP send us your paypal donation info & post as your SIGNATURE! A dinner, a massage and all of the rest sounds very appealing! If only I were the OP! God Bless The OP! |
Storm2come
Natural Law always wins in the end User ID: 24761162 United States 04/04/2020 12:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quarantines are useless and will only serve political purposes. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77758675 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] [link to thefederalist.com (secure)] your a moran, go lick a toilet seat dipshit. Thread: Partial crustal shift and the Sun / earth , Updated Catastrophe video pg. 114 Thread: Om frequencies, which one works for you?? If someone produces wealth and money, you have no right to tell them how to spend it.- Ayn Rand |
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JAZZz50
User ID: 77771189 United States 04/04/2020 06:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 20% death rate on world closed cases now! Quoting: Luisport 50,239 (20%) Deaths [link to www.worldometers.info (secure)] 20% compared to what? 26% death rate OUTSIDE CHINA JAZZZ50 2020 The SHTF literally as TP ran out. we went from being over the target, to actually being the target. too close to the truth. if i had a dollar for everytime someone says "merge" without using the word, i'd b so green i'd b King of Mars. |
deplorable recollector
(OP) User ID: 73110508 United Kingdom 04/04/2020 06:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday's update, 2 pieces of information will be analyzed and compared to my model. First one is another study from Imperial College of London: [link to www.imperial.ac.uk (secure)] Second one is the data from a self-diagnosed app in Madrid: [link to translate.google.com (secure)] The study, based on their models, is not perfect (nothing is, in the early stages of the pandemic we are now) but it is a solid work, and much more reliable then the Madrid app. However, the Madrid app is also significant, because if covers a good number of people. Still, the margins of error are bigger then the Imperial College study, but in acceptable perimeters, at least for Madrid, from which can be extrapolated to major cities / major regions / provinces that were late in implementing restrictions (like NYC). It is going to be a long ass update tomorrow, but it will show where we are and when the lock-downs can be lifted. The update will be posted after Italy's numbers on Sunday are public. Last Edited by Recollector on 04/04/2020 07:30 AM |
Joe Preps
User ID: 77039919 United States 04/04/2020 07:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday's update, 2 pieces of information will be analyzed and compared to my model. Quoting: deplorable recollector First one is another study from Imperial College of London: [link to www.imperial.ac.uk (secure)] Second one is the data from a self-diagnosed app in Madrid: [link to translate.google.com (secure)] The study, based on their models, is not perfect (nothing is, in the early stages of the pandemic we are now) but it is a solid work, and much more reliable then the Madrid app. However, the Madrid app is also significant, because if covers a good number of people. Still, the margins of error are bigger then the Imperial College study, but in acceptable perimeters, at least for Madrid, from which can be extrapolated to major cities / major regions / provinces that were late in implementing restrictions (like NYC). It is going to be a long ass update tomorrow, but it will show where we are and when the lock-downs can be lifted. The update will be posted after Italy's numbers on Sunday are public. Much appreciated DR...look forward to you analysis! :batsoup: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77949928 France 04/04/2020 09:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quarantines are useless and will only serve political purposes. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77758675 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] [link to thefederalist.com (secure)] your a moran, go lick a toilet seat dipshit. Excellent argumentation! Congrats! |
Huntur
User ID: 77776156 United States 04/04/2020 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday's update, 2 pieces of information will be analyzed and compared to my model. Quoting: deplorable recollector First one is another study from Imperial College of London: [link to www.imperial.ac.uk (secure)] Second one is the data from a self-diagnosed app in Madrid: [link to translate.google.com (secure)] The study, based on their models, is not perfect (nothing is, in the early stages of the pandemic we are now) but it is a solid work, and much more reliable then the Madrid app. However, the Madrid app is also significant, because if covers a good number of people. Still, the margins of error are bigger then the Imperial College study, but in acceptable perimeters, at least for Madrid, from which can be extrapolated to major cities / major regions / provinces that were late in implementing restrictions (like NYC). It is going to be a long ass update tomorrow, but it will show where we are and when the lock-downs can be lifted. The update will be posted after Italy's numbers on Sunday are public. Thanks so much. Really looking forward to this update as well as any update that you do for us. Will this be an overall positive report or are we doomed? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13358554 United States 04/04/2020 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday's update, 2 pieces of information will be analyzed and compared to my model. Quoting: deplorable recollector First one is another study from Imperial College of London: [link to www.imperial.ac.uk (secure)] Second one is the data from a self-diagnosed app in Madrid: [link to translate.google.com (secure)] The study, based on their models, is not perfect (nothing is, in the early stages of the pandemic we are now) but it is a solid work, and much more reliable then the Madrid app. However, the Madrid app is also significant, because if covers a good number of people. Still, the margins of error are bigger then the Imperial College study, but in acceptable perimeters, at least for Madrid, from which can be extrapolated to major cities / major regions / provinces that were late in implementing restrictions (like NYC). It is going to be a long ass update tomorrow, but it will show where we are and when the lock-downs can be lifted. The update will be posted after Italy's numbers on Sunday are public. OP, With regard to this plague, when do you expect the second wave to hit and when do you expect the unsurviveable third wave to hit? You wrote about these waves in the early parts of your thread. I also read a fascinating article that I think you would be interested in: We’re not going back to normal [link to www.technologyreview.com (secure)] The article makes sense to me, but it may not make sense for you...please let me know what you think. Again, thanks for everything you've done for us! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78727104 Portugal 04/04/2020 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Daily infections reported in Tokyo top 100 for first time Quoting: The Cure APR 4, 2020 The capital reported 118 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, marking the first time the single-day total has surpassed the century mark as Japan continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. [link to www.japantimes.co.jp (secure)] |
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deplorable recollector
(OP) User ID: 73110508 United Kingdom 04/04/2020 03:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday's update, 2 pieces of information will be analyzed and compared to my model. Quoting: deplorable recollector First one is another study from Imperial College of London: [link to www.imperial.ac.uk (secure)] Second one is the data from a self-diagnosed app in Madrid: [link to translate.google.com (secure)] The study, based on their models, is not perfect (nothing is, in the early stages of the pandemic we are now) but it is a solid work, and much more reliable then the Madrid app. However, the Madrid app is also significant, because if covers a good number of people. Still, the margins of error are bigger then the Imperial College study, but in acceptable perimeters, at least for Madrid, from which can be extrapolated to major cities / major regions / provinces that were late in implementing restrictions (like NYC). It is going to be a long ass update tomorrow, but it will show where we are and when the lock-downs can be lifted. The update will be posted after Italy's numbers on Sunday are public. Thanks so much. Really looking forward to this update as well as any update that you do for us. Will this be an overall positive report or are we doomed? No spoilers:) |
deplorable recollector
(OP) User ID: 73110508 United Kingdom 04/04/2020 03:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | On Sunday's update, 2 pieces of information will be analyzed and compared to my model. Quoting: deplorable recollector First one is another study from Imperial College of London: [link to www.imperial.ac.uk (secure)] Second one is the data from a self-diagnosed app in Madrid: [link to translate.google.com (secure)] The study, based on their models, is not perfect (nothing is, in the early stages of the pandemic we are now) but it is a solid work, and much more reliable then the Madrid app. However, the Madrid app is also significant, because if covers a good number of people. Still, the margins of error are bigger then the Imperial College study, but in acceptable perimeters, at least for Madrid, from which can be extrapolated to major cities / major regions / provinces that were late in implementing restrictions (like NYC). It is going to be a long ass update tomorrow, but it will show where we are and when the lock-downs can be lifted. The update will be posted after Italy's numbers on Sunday are public. OP, With regard to this plague, when do you expect the second wave to hit and when do you expect the unsurviveable third wave to hit? You wrote about these waves in the early parts of your thread. I also read a fascinating article that I think you would be interested in: We’re not going back to normal [link to www.technologyreview.com (secure)] The article makes sense to me, but it may not make sense for you...please let me know what you think. Again, thanks for everything you've done for us! I have read the article, about a week ago. Lacks intuition. It was a possibility, but not anymore. As for waves, we will have 2 more, or at least I hope that the governments will understand that they have to make it so we will have 2 more waves, and not only a second one, after the current one we are in. The numbers of waves depend entirely on the governments. Last Edited by Recollector on 04/04/2020 03:14 PM |
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User ID: 77578604 United States 04/04/2020 04:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Check out the full review of the book at the link below. More to come from me on this….. [link to www.amazon.com (secure)] Last Edited by IdeaMan1624 on 04/04/2020 04:24 PM IdeaMan1624 |
KaBau
User ID: 78658653 Norway 04/04/2020 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't get why people are stumped by empty hospitals. There are multiple reasons why some hospitals are empty, at the start of a pandemic. I can name a few, like : 1.Most hospitals, are the beginning of a pandemic, will NOT have cases that need hospitalization. 2.Some that do had cases, were most likely poorly equipped to deal with the numbers and/or severity, and those patients were moved to another hospitals, be it military, be it bigger and/or better hospitals or quarantine camps. 3.A number of hospitals in the areas that are not hit hard by the virus, are intentionally kept empty for other patients or for transfers of patients from hospitals that start to get overwhelmed. But, here is the most important part of those SHIT videos that are promoting the hoax theory : there are thousands of hospitals in pretty much any country with over 20 million people, and filming a couple of hospitals to promote an agenda (the hoax agenda) is aimed at IDIOTS. Don't be an IDIOT. Use your brian. Perhaps it is because you said that the high number of patients would overload the health system ... It seems to me a good reason ... If the pandemic has already exploded in the United States (25K + cases and 1K + deaths), the health system could not, under no circumstances, have empty hospitals. The press is lying, and it's not just about the hospital system. Today it was reported by BBC News that in Ecuador, bodies were being left on the street because the country's funeral system collapsed. Oh really? Does a country with 17 million inhabitants collapse because of 94 bodies? Has anyone ever died in Ecuador ??? This antics is already over the limit. Maybe if you have read much more carefully, I said that the healthcare systems will be overloaded, but it will start with a number of hospitals first, then slowly moving to the entire system. The epidemic DID NOT YET EXPLODED in the U.S., but it is about to, next week. What is now might look bad, and it is, but next week you will understand why I still not consider the current U.S. numbers an epidemic explosion. You can grasp ANYTHING that keep you sane, because it is important not to go suddenly from "looks like its ok" to "OH MY FUCKING GOOD, WE'RE FUCKED!", even if it's a stupid thing like some idiots posting a video from some hospital that is empty. For fuck sake, there is an EMPTY hospital 20 km away from the epicenter in Romania, which is my hometown. That is a small hospital, about 200 beds, while the 1,300 bed hospital in my hometown (which was put on total lock-down 3 days ago, along metro area) is closed to everyone but covid-19 patients, and it was overloaded with patients. Atm, the 1,300 bed hospital is having about 500 patients with covid19, everyone else being moved to dozens of other hospitals. There is still the beginning, and having empty hospitals IS ACTUALLY A FUCKING LOGISTICAL MEASURE. Having multiple empty hospitals now, when the pandemic starts, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT, because a country can trickle virus patients OR other patients to those hospitals, without risking overloading and mixing patients with covid19 with patients that don't have it. Does it makes sense to you now WHY there MUST be empty hospitals at the ready, at the start of a fucking pandemic? Once again. Thank you DP |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78735249 Germany 04/04/2020 06:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does it makes sense to you now WHY there MUST be empty hospitals at the ready, at the start of a fucking pandemic? Quoting: KaBau Uh.. still a no to getting that. Just have to ask, but previous to the onset, outbreak and pandemic declaration - was any one country's healthcare system not over loaded? Look at the US and then add the 100,000 declared cases of the beervirus ontop of what was always reported as a failing system and you think it'd be choas and mayhem outside any hospital. Obviously during a lockdown when rules are in place that the sick get picked up or dropped off with no visitors so the hospitals wont seem to be bustling. But reports of healtchare workers being furloughed coupled with lay offs or reports from those still on the floor that they are bored dont play into the pandemic panic. They also increase capacity especially for ICU beds, so that means the hospital could be close to overwhelmed one day and okay again the next because they just got 50 new beds. This is happening in NY right now which is why the news reports are conflicting when they actually aren't. In the US they are still at the beginning of the pandemic, it will look very different in a week/few weeks depending on the area. If they're smart they will move patients around the country to relieve some hospitals in worse hit areas. It's already very active in NYC already, the South looks pretty bad too though (Louisiana, Georgia, Florida) and there are a lot of unhealthy people down there so they can't even bet on "only old" people dying. I bet there will be even more severe cases needing hospitalization down there. We've had enough examples now to show that younger people are badly effected too. |
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User ID: 78106211 Norway 04/05/2020 06:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Look at the simulations at the bottom of this Nature article. Sweden is not closing schools, so they are closer to the do nothing scenario, and will get it over with while other countries might have second waves etc for another year [link to www.nature.com (secure)] |
deplorable recollector
(OP) User ID: 73110508 United Kingdom 04/05/2020 06:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UPDATE : When the lock-downs can be eased / lifted ? From the beginning of this thread I have been saying a number of things that are, and will be true until this pandemic ends : 1.The death rate from the virus is irrelevant. 2.A lot more people will die because lack of healthcare, due to overwhelmed hospitals. 3.The economic impact will be devastating. Regardless of lock-downs, the above 3 facts will stand. It matters not if there are lock-downs or not, the 3 facts above will stay true, the only difference will be in number of death (much more if no lock-downs) and the economic impact (much faster if no lock-downs). Before going into the numbers, some conclusions have to be remembered : 1.The pandemic will not slow down before 70% of the population gets the virus. 2.There will be multiple waves of the pandemic before we reach that 70%. 3.The speed and the size of the next waves will have to be controlled by lock-downs, in a manner that will not create the same situation as the present one. 4.The current wave is far from end. Italy and Spain are the most affected countries, and just reached the peak of the first wave. 5.The peak of the current wave in Italy and Spain looks more like a plateau, then a cliff. 6.ALL OTHER COUNTRIES are weeks before reaching the peak of the first wave. 7.The lock-downs, even if partial, or badly implemented, slowed down the infection rates. 8.The official confirmed numbers of cases and deaths are MASSIVELY under reported. Since nobody can control what governments do, and since all governments are different, they will choose when and how to ease the restrictions, and this is something that cannot be predicted. What can be predicted is when the lock-downs should be SAFELY lifted. I am posting this now before the new numbers or today, Sunday, April 5th, a posted, because I see no relevant change in the evolution in Italy, Spain, France, the U.K., Germany and the U.S. For Italy and Spain, the lock-downs should be safely lifted entirely in about 49 days from today. By safely, I don't mean that the pandemic is over. By safely I mean that after a period of 35 days from today, of decreasing numbers in cases, Italy and Spain will need another 14 days of a very low number of cases daily (around 30 new cases / day), before preparing the NEXT round of lock-downs, which will come with the start of the second wave, sometimes in mid-June. France and the U.K., as predicted, started to pile up deaths and new cases this week. Germany in the U.S. are going to have the same fate next week, but for the U.S. it is going to be REALLY bad. Many times before, when asked in this thread what I think about the U.S., my answers were in the line of "The U.S. is swimming in the virus, and when this thing starts, the U.S. will be overwhelmed, and will suffer much more then other nations". On page 6 of the Imperial College study, they are estimating the following real infection, in 11 countries across Europe, but I will only look at the countries I follow : 1.Spain 15% (7 million people), margins :[3.7%-41%] 2.Italy 9.8% (5.9 million people), margins:[3.2%-26%] 3.France 3% (2 million people), margins:[1.1%-7.4%] 4.U.K. 2.7% (1.8 million people), margins:[1.2%-5.4%] 5.Germany 0.7% (580k people), margins:[0.28%-1.8%] I am positive that the percentages for France, the U.K. and Germany are clearly higher in reality, all 3 countries are above 5% infected population. But, for the sake of not going into a debate, I will use their numbers, and compare them to my model. Now, my model was predicting the number of infected people if there are no measures taken to slow down the pandemic.Since most countries in Europe took those measure in early March, I will go to my model numbers on March 8th, when I stopped adding new days for my model. On March 8th, my model estimated a number of 131 to 200 million people infected across the world, with Europe having a share of 9% of the total, or between 11.7 to 18 million infected people. My model was built on a 2.5 day doubling rate, in the absence of travel restrictions, lock-downs and /or other NPIs (like closing schools, parks, bars, etc.). Most countries in Europe started to implement measure to combat the pandemic around March 11. So, I will double my model numbers for Europe, to account for this : March 11th, Europe had between 23.4 to 36 million infected people. The Imperial College study was published with data gathered until March 28th. According to their study, the total number of infected people in the respective 5 European countries was 17.28 million people. The total population of the above 5 countries is 323.4 million people, which is about half the population of Europe (the continent, not the European Union). In other words, the number of infected Europeans as of March 28th, was around 35-36 million people. My model had between 23.4 to 36 million people as of March 11th. The restrictions in traveling in Europe were implemented much earlier then closing schools and other venues, which were implemented before lock-downs. So, since my model was predicting the numbers if no measures are taken, I am going to call it again : my model was right, and predicted with acceptable accuracy, the evolution of the pandemic. Since every measure is affecting the doubling rates heavily (just closing schools is having a 100% increase in days until doubling), if I would take the time to analyse each country, and when they started the restrictions and lock-downs, my model will come to almost the same conclusion as the Imperial College study. The doubling rate would have increase to 5 days , then to 10 days, and my model prediction should start at March 1st, if not earlier. In the end, I would probably come to a number in the range of 50 million infected in Europe, as of today. Anyway, back to the countries that I chose to follow to see when the lock-downs can be lifted entirely, with Italy and Spain as the first that reached the peak. If Spain have 15% of the population infected, with severe lock-downs in place, we are in for a rough ride. For the next month, Spain will not even reach 20% of the population infected, AS LONG AS the lock-downs are kept as they are today, before they COULD lift the lock-downs. Why is this bad news, and why the rough ride? Well, for starters, this means that for Spain, which did the VERY WORST ever (kept everything open for tourism money and started restrictions way to late), the first wave is barely 20% of the population infected...and they NEED 70% before lifting all measures and go back to...what it was before. Secondly, the first wave in Spain started on early March, and they HAVE to keep the lock-downs until early May...AND an additional 2 weeks with new daily cases in the range of 20-30 (which in reality is around 500-600 cases). That puts Spain lifting the lock-downs in mid-May. Thirdly, Spain is still devastated by the first wave, and this is the cost that they will pay for a 20% first wave. Italy will pay a high cost as well, for a 15% first wave. And they can also lift the lock-downs in about same time as Spain : mid-May. However, there are MORE WAVES coming, because WE NEED 70% infection. This virus is not going to "go away", and we will have more waves before reaching that 70%. The bad news is that those waves have to be very small, maximum 5% infection per wave. Italy got nuked with 10% peak (15% 1st wave) infection on the first wave. Spain got obliterated with a 15% peak (20% infection on 1st wave). To keep the waves small, there is just one solution : keep the lock-downs and travel restrictions. Problem is...to keep multiple waves small, until we reach 70%...that means at least 12 waves from now on for all countries, except Spain and Italy, which are already riding a massive 1st wave. How long a wave lasts? Based on data available, a wave is about 45 days, followed by a lull of 15 days, followed by lifting restrictions for about 2 months, before implementing them back again, to avoid a wave that is above 5% infection. With harsher restrictions and lock-downs, mandatory masks and gloves, mandatory disinfection at malls, workplaces, transit, etc., a wave can be shortened to about 30 days, with a 1 week lull. So, that is, in the most optimistic case, a 5 week wave, followed by a 2 month no lock-downs. That is a cycle of 13 weeks...repeated 12 times. And this is a total of 156 weeks (3 years), before reaching 70% infection rate and keep the economy running, but far, FAR from being like before. Conclusions: 1.There will be multiple waves, and it all depends on the governments to implement measures to ensure that the waves are manageable (5% of less infection rate), and to population to respect and follow those measures. 2.If the above will happen, the world will "live" in a weird time of 5-7 weeks lock-downs, followed by a 1-2 weeks of easing restrictions, followed by a 2 month "back to work"...and again, for about 3 years. 3.The above will NEVER HAPPEN, because it is impossible for most people and the economy to survive such an erratic life. 4.Because the above cannot happen, and because the economy "must be restarted fast", the governments, like they did until today, will choose the worst option : open the economy BEFORE the first wave is over, and will ensure a second wave that will be devastating, much more devastating then the first one, which, btw, IS STILL 4-5 weeks away for most countries. The situation is as it was before : we are facing 2 options : sacrifice the economy and save the people, so those people CAN rebuild the economy, or choose the economy over people and face a catastrophic second wave, that will destroy the economy beyond recovery AND will kill A LOT of people, triggering massive social unrest in all forms : protests, clans, gang wars, criminality rates never seen before except in the movies, speculation, hunger, hyper-inflation, wars, etc. etc. I can't see a scenario where we, as a society, can go past this pandemic, without a radically changed world (for the worst). Maybe time between the waves will come with what we all expect since this began : a MIRACLE. A vaccine is 1.5 years away, there is no way we will have one earlier then that. A treatment can be discovered very soon, but as of this moment, there isn't one. Herd immunity is years away...unless the governments choose the worth option. If they do, we will have herd immunity VERY FAST, but the society will collapse beyond recovery. Well, beyond recovery in our life time. I am sorry, but data shows a very simple fact : We can't manage waves that are above 5% infection rate, without tens of thousands of deaths in EACH country. We can't keep the lock-downs in place for 3 years, to ensure bellow 5% infection rate waves. It is a catch 22, and we are as fucked as before. The economy will change drastically, the globalism is DEAD, the world will become much like it was in the early 1900's (nationalism will rise, which will also make the national and local economies re-become what they were before globalism and corporatism), and if we manage to avoid massive wars, the world will rebuild in 1-2 generations. People don't understand that "the peak" is just the FIRST peak, and until herd immunity, we will have MANY PEAKS, that will last years. Most people will NOT understand why the lock-downs have to be kept and cycled every 2-3 months. Most people will not SURVIVE the second wave, if the lock-downs are not cycled. I don't know how this will end and when, but it will be horrendous. And that is if we avoid wars. Last Edited by Recollector on 04/05/2020 07:10 AM |
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florida218
User ID: 32817130 United States 04/05/2020 07:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UPDATE : Quoting: deplorable recollector When the lock-downs can be eased / lifted ? From the beginning of this thread I have been saying a number of things that are, and will be true until this pandemic ends : 1.The death rate from the virus is irrelevant. 2.A lot more people will die because lack of healthcare, due to overwhelmed hospitals. 3.The economic impact will be devastating. Regardless of lock-downs, the above 3 facts will stand. It matters not if there are lock-downs or not, the 3 facts above will stay true, the only difference will be in number of death (much more if no lock-downs) and the economic impact (much faster if no lock-downs). Before going into the numbers, some conclusions have to be remembered : 1.The pandemic will not slow down before 70% of the population gets the virus. 2.There will be multiple waves of the pandemic before we reach that 70%. 3.The speed and the size of the next waves will have to be controlled by lock-downs, in a manner that will not create the same situation as the present one. 4.The current wave is far from end. Italy and Spain are the most affected countries, and just reached the peak of the first wave. 5.The peak of the current wave in Italy and Spain looks more like a plateau, then a cliff. 6.ALL OTHER COUNTRIES are weeks before reaching the peak of the first wave. 7.The lock-downs, even if partial, or badly implemented, slowed down the infection rates. 8.The official confirmed numbers of cases and deaths are MASSIVELY under reported. Since nobody can control what governments do, and since all governments are different, they will choose when and how to ease the restrictions, and this is something that cannot be predicted. What can be predicted is when the lock-downs should be SAFELY lifted. I am posting this now before the new numbers or today, Sunday, April 5th, a posted, because I see no relevant change in the evolution in Italy, Spain, France, the U.K., Germany and the U.S. For Italy and Spain, the lock-downs should be safely lifted entirely in about 49 days from today. By safely, I don't mean that the pandemic is over. By safely I mean that after a period of 35 days from today, of decreasing numbers in cases, Italy and Spain will need another 14 days of a very low number of cases daily (around 30 new cases / day), before preparing the NEXT round of lock-downs, which will come with the start of the second wave, sometimes in mid-June. France and the U.K., as predicted, started to pile up deaths and new cases this week. Germany in the U.S. are going to have the same fate next week, but for the U.S. it is going to be REALLY bad. Many times before, when asked in this thread what I think about the U.S., my answers were in the line of "The U.S. is swimming in the virus, and when this thing starts, the U.S. will be overwhelmed, and will suffer much more then other nations". On page 6 of the Imperial College study, they are estimating the following real infection, in 11 countries across Europe, but I will only look at the countries I follow : 1.Spain 15% (7 million people), margins :[3.7%-41%] 2.Italy 9.8% (5.9 million people), margins:[3.2%-26%] 3.France 3% (2 million people), margins:[1.1%-7.4%] 4.U.K. 2.7% (1.8 million people), margins:[1.2%-5.4%] 5.Germany 0.7% (580k people), margins:[0.28%-1.8%] I am positive that the percentages for France, the U.K. and Germany are clearly higher in reality, all 3 countries are above 5% infected population. But, for the sake of not going into a debate, I will use their numbers, and compare them to my model. Now, my model was predicting the number of infected people if there are no measures taken to slow down the pandemic.Since most countries in Europe took those measure in early March, I will go to my model numbers on March 8th, when I stopped adding new days for my model. On March 8th, my model estimated a number of 131 to 200 million people infected across the world, with Europe having a share of 9% of the total, or between 11.7 to 18 million infected people. My model was built on a 2.5 day doubling rate, in the absence of travel restrictions, lock-downs and /or other NPIs (like closing schools, parks, bars, etc.). Most countries in Europe started to implement measure to combat the pandemic around March 11. So, I will double my model numbers for Europe, to account for this : March 11th, Europe had between 23.4 to 36 million infected people. The Imperial College study was published with data gathered until March 28th. According to their study, the total number of infected people in the respective 5 European countries was 17.28 million people. The total population of the above 5 countries is 323.4 million people, which is about half the population of Europe (the continent, not the European Union). In other words, the number of infected Europeans as of March 28th, was around 35-36 million people. My model had between 23.4 to 36 million people as of March 11th. The restrictions in traveling in Europe were implemented much earlier then closing schools and other venues, which were implemented before lock-downs. So, since my model was predicting the numbers if no measures are taken, I am going to call it again : my model was right, and predicted with acceptable accuracy, the evolution of the pandemic. Since every measure is affecting the doubling rates heavily (just closing schools is having a 100% increase in days until doubling), if I would take the time to analyse each country, and when they started the restrictions and lock-downs, my model will come to almost the same conclusion as the Imperial College study. The doubling rate would have increase to 5 days , then to 10 days, and my model prediction should start at March 1st, if not earlier. In the end, I would probably come to a number in the range of 50 million infected in Europe, as of today. Anyway, back to the countries that I chose to follow to see when the lock-downs can be lifted entirely, with Italy and Spain as the first that reached the peak. If Spain have 15% of the population infected, with severe lock-downs in place, we are in for a rough ride. For the next month, Spain will not even reach 20% of the population infected, AS LONG AS the lock-downs are kept as they are today, before they COULD lift the lock-downs. Why is this bad news, and why the rough ride? Well, for starters, this means that for Spain, which did the VERY WORST ever (kept everything open for tourism money and started restrictions way to late), the first wave is barely 20% of the population infected...and they NEED 70% before lifting all measures and go back to...what it was before. Secondly, the first wave in Spain started on early March, and they HAVE to keep the lock-downs until early May...AND an additional 2 weeks with new daily cases in the range of 20-30 (which in reality is around 500-600 cases). That puts Spain lifting the lock-downs in mid-May. Thirdly, Spain is still devastated by the first wave, and this is the cost that they will pay for a 20% first wave. Italy will pay a high cost as well, for a 15% first wave. And they can also lift the lock-downs in about same time as Spain : mid-May. However, there are MORE WAVES coming, because WE NEED 70% infection. This virus is not going to "go away", and we will have more waves before reaching that 70%. The bad news is that those waves have to be very small, maximum 5% infection per wave. Italy got nuked with 10% peak (15% 1st wave) infection on the first wave. Spain got obliterated with a 15% peak (20% infection on 1st wave). To keep the waves small, there is just one solution : keep the lock-downs and travel restrictions. Problem is...to keep multiple waves small, until we reach 70%...that means at least 12 waves from now on for all countries, except Spain and Italy, which are already riding a massive 1st wave. How long a wave lasts? Based on data available, a wave is about 45 days, followed by a lull of 15 days, followed by lifting restrictions for about 2 months, before implementing them back again, to avoid a wave that is above 5% infection. With harsher restrictions and lock-downs, mandatory masks and gloves, mandatory disinfection at malls, workplaces, transit, etc., a wave can be shortened to about 30 days, with a 1 week lull. So, that is, in the most optimistic case, a 5 week wave, followed by a 2 month no lock-downs. That is a cycle of 13 weeks...repeated 12 times. And this is a total of 156 weeks (3 years), before reaching 70% infection rate and keep the economy running, but far, FAR from being like before. Conclusions: 1.There will be multiple waves, and it all depends on the governments to implement measures to ensure that the waves are manageable (5% of less infection rate), and to population to respect and follow those measures. 2.If the above will happen, the world will "live" in a weird time of 5-7 weeks lock-downs, followed by a 1-2 weeks of easing restrictions, followed by a 2 month "back to work"...and again, for about 3 years. 3.The above will NEVER HAPPEN, because it is impossible for most people and the economy to survive such an erratic life. 4.Because the above cannot happen, and because the economy "must be restarted fast", the governments, like they did until today, will choose the worst option : open the economy BEFORE the first wave is over, and will ensure a second wave that will be devastating, much more devastating then the first one, which, btw, IS STILL 4-5 weeks away for most countries. The situation is as it was before : we are facing 2 options : sacrifice the economy and save the people, so those people CAN rebuild the economy, or choose the economy over people and face a catastrophic second wave, that will destroy the economy beyond recovery AND will kill A LOT of people, triggering massive social unrest in all forms : protests, clans, gang wars, criminality rates never seen before except in the movies, speculation, hunger, hyper-inflation, wars, etc. etc. I can't see a scenario where we, as a society, can go past this pandemic, without a radically changed world (for the worst). Maybe time between the waves will come with what we all expect since this began : a MIRACLE. A vaccine is 1.5 years away, there is no way we will have one earlier then that. A treatment can be discovered very soon, but as of this moment, there isn't one. Herd immunity is years away...unless the governments choose the worth option. If they do, we will have herd immunity VERY FAST, but the society will collapse beyond recovery. Well, beyond recovery in our life time. I am sorry, but data shows a very simple fact : We can't manage waves that are above 5% infection rate, without tens of thousands of deaths in EACH country. We can't keep the lock-downs in place for 3 years, to ensure bellow 5% infection rate waves. It is a catch 22, and we are as fucked as before. The economy will change drastically, the globalism is DEAD, the world will become much like it was in the early 1900's (nationalism will rise, which will also make the national and local economies re-become what they were before globalism and corporatism), and if we manage to avoid massive wars, the world will rebuild in 1-2 generations. People don't understand that "the peak" is just the FIRST peak, and until herd immunity, we will have MANY PEAKS, that will last years. Most people will NOT understand why the lock-downs have to be kept and cycled every 2-3 months. Most people will not SURVIVE the second wave, if the lock-downs are not cycled. I don't know how this will end and when, but it will be horrendous. And that is if we avoid wars. Thanks. Trump was talking yesterday that we must open back up and get people back to work. I assume if he does that that America will be off the charts on devastation. Any commentson how devastating this approach will be. Take care |
miabelieves
User ID: 72370644 United States 04/05/2020 07:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My only question, the ramifications of this virus compared to Spanish flu is worse because of population, economy and the fact travel is so easy? Hold on to your undies, it's gonna be a hell of a ride |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78442634 Switzerland 04/05/2020 07:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey guys I want to give you an update how the situation in Switzerland is. Unless in the canton Ticino which has a border with Italy (60000 italian workers cross the border everyday), the hospitals are not overrun. We even took some patients from France. Switzerland has never been in full lockdown mode. For example many construction sites are still open. Non essential factories are still producing with the exeption of canton Ticino. There is no mask required like in Czech Republic for example, only groups of more than 5 people are banned. To the situation in Ticino, the federal governement said about 2 weeks ago the health system in Ticino would soon collapse, they said there are not enough ICU beds. The local governement denied it and said that hospitals are still capable to handle the situation. That means everyone who needs ICU will get it. |
Joe Preps
User ID: 77039919 United States 04/05/2020 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | DR...had to read today's update 3 time to sink in... I have come to a few conclusions: 1. Your Analysis has been spot on...unfortunately. 2. There is NO way governments can do what they need to do over the next few YEARs to manage this properly. 4. You are correct we need some kind of medical miracle to get out of this inevitable loop. 3. We are FOOKED, and everyone needs to take care of themselves, family unit...plan as if you are on your own. SIGH...... Last Edited by Joe Preps on 04/05/2020 08:43 AM :batsoup: |
Red Hot Chilean Pepe
User ID: 76933812 Chile 04/05/2020 08:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for the update DR. I wish more people in government positions would acknowledge that they must be considering scenarios like this. I think they are but only as a worse case scenario. I think most governments are banking on a miracle. The longest they delay in stating the truth, and the longer that it takes to make it sink in most people to get used to the idea that normality is over for a good while, the worse the potential outcome is. All great truths begin as Blasphemies. G.B.S. GLP is like a diamond mine of information, in the sense that you have to shovel mountains of crap to find the diamonds, but it's still worth the pain. |
Azaziah
User ID: 73993997 United States 04/05/2020 08:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | UPDATE : Quoting: deplorable recollector When the lock-downs can be eased / lifted ? From the beginning of this thread I have been saying a number of things that are, and will be true until this pandemic ends : 1.The death rate from the virus is irrelevant. 2.A lot more people will die because lack of healthcare, due to overwhelmed hospitals. 3.The economic impact will be devastating. Regardless of lock-downs, the above 3 facts will stand. It matters not if there are lock-downs or not, the 3 facts above will stay true, the only difference will be in number of death (much more if no lock-downs) and the economic impact (much faster if no lock-downs). Before going into the numbers, some conclusions have to be remembered : 1.The pandemic will not slow down before 70% of the population gets the virus. 2.There will be multiple waves of the pandemic before we reach that 70%. 3.The speed and the size of the next waves will have to be controlled by lock-downs, in a manner that will not create the same situation as the present one. 4.The current wave is far from end. Italy and Spain are the most affected countries, and just reached the peak of the first wave. 5.The peak of the current wave in Italy and Spain looks more like a plateau, then a cliff. 6.ALL OTHER COUNTRIES are weeks before reaching the peak of the first wave. 7.The lock-downs, even if partial, or badly implemented, slowed down the infection rates. 8.The official confirmed numbers of cases and deaths are MASSIVELY under reported. Since nobody can control what governments do, and since all governments are different, they will choose when and how to ease the restrictions, and this is something that cannot be predicted. What can be predicted is when the lock-downs should be SAFELY lifted. I am posting this now before the new numbers or today, Sunday, April 5th, a posted, because I see no relevant change in the evolution in Italy, Spain, France, the U.K., Germany and the U.S. For Italy and Spain, the lock-downs should be safely lifted entirely in about 49 days from today. By safely, I don't mean that the pandemic is over. By safely I mean that after a period of 35 days from today, of decreasing numbers in cases, Italy and Spain will need another 14 days of a very low number of cases daily (around 30 new cases / day), before preparing the NEXT round of lock-downs, which will come with the start of the second wave, sometimes in mid-June. France and the U.K., as predicted, started to pile up deaths and new cases this week. Germany in the U.S. are going to have the same fate next week, but for the U.S. it is going to be REALLY bad. Many times before, when asked in this thread what I think about the U.S., my answers were in the line of "The U.S. is swimming in the virus, and when this thing starts, the U.S. will be overwhelmed, and will suffer much more then other nations". On page 6 of the Imperial College study, they are estimating the following real infection, in 11 countries across Europe, but I will only look at the countries I follow : 1.Spain 15% (7 million people), margins :[3.7%-41%] 2.Italy 9.8% (5.9 million people), margins:[3.2%-26%] 3.France 3% (2 million people), margins:[1.1%-7.4%] 4.U.K. 2.7% (1.8 million people), margins:[1.2%-5.4%] 5.Germany 0.7% (580k people), margins:[0.28%-1.8%] I am positive that the percentages for France, the U.K. and Germany are clearly higher in reality, all 3 countries are above 5% infected population. But, for the sake of not going into a debate, I will use their numbers, and compare them to my model. Now, my model was predicting the number of infected people if there are no measures taken to slow down the pandemic.Since most countries in Europe took those measure in early March, I will go to my model numbers on March 8th, when I stopped adding new days for my model. On March 8th, my model estimated a number of 131 to 200 million people infected across the world, with Europe having a share of 9% of the total, or between 11.7 to 18 million infected people. My model was built on a 2.5 day doubling rate, in the absence of travel restrictions, lock-downs and /or other NPIs (like closing schools, parks, bars, etc.). Most countries in Europe started to implement measure to combat the pandemic around March 11. So, I will double my model numbers for Europe, to account for this : March 11th, Europe had between 23.4 to 36 million infected people. The Imperial College study was published with data gathered until March 28th. According to their study, the total number of infected people in the respective 5 European countries was 17.28 million people. The total population of the above 5 countries is 323.4 million people, which is about half the population of Europe (the continent, not the European Union). In other words, the number of infected Europeans as of March 28th, was around 35-36 million people. My model had between 23.4 to 36 million people as of March 11th. The restrictions in traveling in Europe were implemented much earlier then closing schools and other venues, which were implemented before lock-downs. So, since my model was predicting the numbers if no measures are taken, I am going to call it again : my model was right, and predicted with acceptable accuracy, the evolution of the pandemic. Since every measure is affecting the doubling rates heavily (just closing schools is having a 100% increase in days until doubling), if I would take the time to analyse each country, and when they started the restrictions and lock-downs, my model will come to almost the same conclusion as the Imperial College study. The doubling rate would have increase to 5 days , then to 10 days, and my model prediction should start at March 1st, if not earlier. In the end, I would probably come to a number in the range of 50 million infected in Europe, as of today. Anyway, back to the countries that I chose to follow to see when the lock-downs can be lifted entirely, with Italy and Spain as the first that reached the peak. If Spain have 15% of the population infected, with severe lock-downs in place, we are in for a rough ride. For the next month, Spain will not even reach 20% of the population infected, AS LONG AS the lock-downs are kept as they are today, before they COULD lift the lock-downs. Why is this bad news, and why the rough ride? Well, for starters, this means that for Spain, which did the VERY WORST ever (kept everything open for tourism money and started restrictions way to late), the first wave is barely 20% of the population infected...and they NEED 70% before lifting all measures and go back to...what it was before. Secondly, the first wave in Spain started on early March, and they HAVE to keep the lock-downs until early May...AND an additional 2 weeks with new daily cases in the range of 20-30 (which in reality is around 500-600 cases). That puts Spain lifting the lock-downs in mid-May. Thirdly, Spain is still devastated by the first wave, and this is the cost that they will pay for a 20% first wave. Italy will pay a high cost as well, for a 15% first wave. And they can also lift the lock-downs in about same time as Spain : mid-May. However, there are MORE WAVES coming, because WE NEED 70% infection. This virus is not going to "go away", and we will have more waves before reaching that 70%. The bad news is that those waves have to be very small, maximum 5% infection per wave. Italy got nuked with 10% peak (15% 1st wave) infection on the first wave. Spain got obliterated with a 15% peak (20% infection on 1st wave). To keep the waves small, there is just one solution : keep the lock-downs and travel restrictions. Problem is...to keep multiple waves small, until we reach 70%...that means at least 12 waves from now on for all countries, except Spain and Italy, which are already riding a massive 1st wave. How long a wave lasts? Based on data available, a wave is about 45 days, followed by a lull of 15 days, followed by lifting restrictions for about 2 months, before implementing them back again, to avoid a wave that is above 5% infection. With harsher restrictions and lock-downs, mandatory masks and gloves, mandatory disinfection at malls, workplaces, transit, etc., a wave can be shortened to about 30 days, with a 1 week lull. So, that is, in the most optimistic case, a 5 week wave, followed by a 2 month no lock-downs. That is a cycle of 13 weeks...repeated 12 times. And this is a total of 156 weeks (3 years), before reaching 70% infection rate and keep the economy running, but far, FAR from being like before. Conclusions: 1.There will be multiple waves, and it all depends on the governments to implement measures to ensure that the waves are manageable (5% of less infection rate), and to population to respect and follow those measures. 2.If the above will happen, the world will "live" in a weird time of 5-7 weeks lock-downs, followed by a 1-2 weeks of easing restrictions, followed by a 2 month "back to work"...and again, for about 3 years. 3.The above will NEVER HAPPEN, because it is impossible for most people and the economy to survive such an erratic life. 4.Because the above cannot happen, and because the economy "must be restarted fast", the governments, like they did until today, will choose the worst option : open the economy BEFORE the first wave is over, and will ensure a second wave that will be devastating, much more devastating then the first one, which, btw, IS STILL 4-5 weeks away for most countries. The situation is as it was before : we are facing 2 options : sacrifice the economy and save the people, so those people CAN rebuild the economy, or choose the economy over people and face a catastrophic second wave, that will destroy the economy beyond recovery AND will kill A LOT of people, triggering massive social unrest in all forms : protests, clans, gang wars, criminality rates never seen before except in the movies, speculation, hunger, hyper-inflation, wars, etc. etc. I can't see a scenario where we, as a society, can go past this pandemic, without a radically changed world (for the worst). Maybe time between the waves will come with what we all expect since this began : a MIRACLE. A vaccine is 1.5 years away, there is no way we will have one earlier then that. A treatment can be discovered very soon, but as of this moment, there isn't one. Herd immunity is years away...unless the governments choose the worth option. If they do, we will have herd immunity VERY FAST, but the society will collapse beyond recovery. Well, beyond recovery in our life time. I am sorry, but data shows a very simple fact : We can't manage waves that are above 5% infection rate, without tens of thousands of deaths in EACH country. We can't keep the lock-downs in place for 3 years, to ensure bellow 5% infection rate waves. It is a catch 22, and we are as fucked as before. The economy will change drastically, the globalism is DEAD, the world will become much like it was in the early 1900's (nationalism will rise, which will also make the national and local economies re-become what they were before globalism and corporatism), and if we manage to avoid massive wars, the world will rebuild in 1-2 generations. People don't understand that "the peak" is just the FIRST peak, and until herd immunity, we will have MANY PEAKS, that will last years. Most people will NOT understand why the lock-downs have to be kept and cycled every 2-3 months. Most people will not SURVIVE the second wave, if the lock-downs are not cycled. I don't know how this will end and when, but it will be horrendous. And that is if we avoid wars. Thanks for this. It is pretty much what I have been prepping for. My Niece is a US Combat Medic stationed in Italy... she says it is a shit-show. Good grief. May the Lord have mercy. |