County Trends Up In NEW COVID-19 Cases

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County Trends Up In NEW COVID-19 Cases

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All indicators are up except death, which tends to lag by 2-5 weeks.

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COVID-19 by Zip Code

CCBH Jurisdiction Cases Overview *

3,063 - Total cases
1070 - Recovered cases

* The county numbers do not contain any numbers from Cleveland, Ohio.

So here is the problem and you tell me what it means if anything. Nothing adds up. Not only do they not add up, but there is no way to add them up.

No governmental group is using the same terminology in the numbers or stats. Most governmental agencies are not posting complete numbers. Example above is common. Cuyahoga County does not include the numbers from their largest city. But Cuyahoga County leads the state in cases? But not in testing or do they? No way to verify or compile numbers.

To me this smells of cover-up or mass confusion, or both.

Then we have floating numbers like the map above. The color of Lakewood has not changed since day 15. But what that color means has changed 3 times! So a caual observer would look at the chart as say all is good. But actually the number of cases in Lakewood has tripled.

This is the problem with what is going on. Nothing is being based on facts or truth. City Council has no numbers. They cannot even tell you what streets in Lakewood has the over 100 cases on it?

Contact tracing? A dream, as there are still no tests. Yet based on this, we strive to reopen and pack our streets and endanger residents.

I use a total of 15 fact based and scientific sites dedicated to COVID-19, and I still cannot get a complete picture. That should be troubling to all.

And with this total blackout on real numbers during the largest crisis in my lifetime, we charge ahead.

Unfortunately, I have become well versed on the 1918 Flu Epidemic, and I notice two troubling things. 1) We are mirroring the mistakes they made back in 1918 that blew it up to big as big as it was. And 2) The difference between FLU and COVID-19, COVID is 5 times more contagious, and with Flu you generally have symptoms in 24 hours. With COVID-19 it could take 2 weeks if ever, but you are contagious in the first 12 hours without every knowing it.

This is the nightmare monster they speak of.

And after 5 months of knowledge that this was coming, still no real testing, no real coordinated plan or numbers.

This is getting out of control.

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Let me take a moment to compliment Publisher James O'Bryan for his commitment to the truth, hard work, and critical thinking on the most crucial issue we now face.

Thank you, Jim.
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Mark Kindt wrote:Let me take a moment to compliment Publisher James O'Bryan for his commitment to the truth, hard work, and critical thinking on the most crucial issue we now face.

Thank you, Jim.

Mark

I found out some interesting things with this post, out in the sewers of Facebook.

The only number anyone cares about is the Death number. I posted this and was called a troll because death numbers are down. When you take the time to explain that deaths trail new cases by 2-8 weeks, they do not care. When you underline that an average COVID-19 hospital experience is about $140,000. They say it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is this number or that number, which ever trend line they can pin their hopes on, even though all of them are up and down. It is crazy.

I have never seen so many people willing to charge so quickly into potentially life changing or deadly and something they have ZERO knowledge of in my life.

And again we will all sit on the sidelines with medical science, common sense, and critical thought watching those with hunches make the decisions.

Blows my mind.

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This sounds horrible, but when death rates go up faster than infection rates, it means things are starting to get better. That ain't us yet.

It's also horrible how much I've learned about infectious disease emergencies in a couple of months. Thank you Profs Cuomo and O'Bryan???
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the cleveland public library has the old newspapers on microfilm. they can be used to research what people were doing during the 1957 pandemic.
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Dan Alaimo wrote:This sounds horrible, but when death rates go up faster than infection rates, it means things are starting to get better. That ain't us yet.

It's also horrible how much I've learned about infectious disease emergencies in a couple of months. Thank you Profs Cuomo and O'Bryan???

Dan

All it means is that too die from COVID-19 you have to catch it. You catch it day 1, you show symptoms day 4-18, and then you might go in the hospital, then they might put you on a respirator, then you die. So death numbers never equal case numbers, thank god. And they lag behind new cases. None of it matters unless that is the single stat you are pinning you hopes and or argument on. At least that is what I found out. Talk new cases, they talk hospitalizations, talk hospitalizations they talk ICU, or deaths. All part of the confusion they all put out.

Think about it, 5 months into this, no consistent counting yet. Why?

Not a professor, just like to to sort through bullshit.

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Latest research, including info gleaned from autopsies in the US, indicate this isn’t a respiratory virus - it’s vascular. The virus invades the endothelium-the lining of blood vessels- and creates inflammation leading to clotting. The damage from small clots affects the lungs and makes them unable to get vital oxygen into the blood. The clotting damages kidney and brain, as well.

I’ll post links later.

Bottom line - YOU DO NOT WANT TO CATCH THIS VIRUS.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2015432

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04 ... brain-toes

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanc ... 5/fulltext

And a less technical summary:

https://elemental.medium.com/coronaviru ... 4032481ab2
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Jim O'Bryan wrote: Not a professor, just like to to sort through bullshit.

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