emunney wrote:Kerb Hohl wrote:crkone wrote:Wisconsin went from
Negative 10089
Positive 585
Deaths 6
to
Negative 11583
Positive 707
Deaths 8
to
Negative 13140
Positive 842
Deaths 13
The deaths are going to start coming and that will be bad no matter what, but if one puts their very optimist glasses on, the day before you list has similar growth also.
I'm naive to think this is the peak but these tests may still be days old so in theory one would hope it's going to flatten. In all likelihood the rate will double one or two more times on a per-day basis and then hopefully begin to flatten.
Wisconsin is doing very well and looks like it's headed toward basically the flat curve shape from the viral diagram. Good job, keep it up everyone.
Likely due to some random luck and further isolation, Minnesota where I am is going at the same rate with even less cases.
Then you take a look at Mississippi:
Half the population size of Minnesota/Wisconsin
Less dense population
Acted way too late
Mississippi very likely has more cases than Wisconsin but we don't know. 485 confirmed as of yesterday with 150 in the hospital and 6 deaths.
However, they've done way less testing and have probably as many cases/hospitalizations while being half of the population as Wisconsin and more isolated. And they still are putting in less measures to stop it.
There still may be a bad outcome for Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois (Chicago's density is an inherent issue even if you're trying hard to stop it) but I am way more worried about places like Mississippi. They probably are basically just going to let X number of people die instead of at least trying to halve or quarter the total deaths.
