Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Here is a map from Johns Hopkins showing the incidence of new cases in the US, by county.  The darker orange, the more cases.  I don't see a red state/blue state pattern here.  I do see higher incidence in the major cities.  This should surprise no one.  That is where the people are, and where they are densely packed.   Overall, the US is trending downward on all metrics.  Presumably because the vaccines are working.

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Led by true-blue D controlled Michigan.  Why are you picking on Idaho instead of the real offenders?    I'm guessing that the party of the Gov. is your main concern, not who is doing well and who is doing less well.  Not really guessing.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Jim:

Hope you understand that I'm not really picking on Michigan.  NJ is doing much worse...  I'm not really picking on any state - all are between a rock and a hard place. 

I am trying to convince Rod that his irrationally partisan theme of the week (that R governed states are a disaster, compared to D governed states) is not supported by the data.  

I applaud Whitmer for cautiously opening up business in MI.  My main recent point in these two threads, (other than checking Rod) is that public policy has to be a balancing act between economic concerns and public health concerns.  Faucci has a great point, but he is mandated by his role and training to weigh public health concerns only.  The governors have to also consider the economic concerns.  Not an easy job.

I like the way our D governor has handled things in CO.  I suspect that the N and S Dakotan's like the way the Dakota R governors have handled their states, even though they clearly weigh economic concerns over public health concerns more than my governor does.  It shows in the respective deaths/M, although I have not read of the SD Governor's constituents calling for her head...  IMO The agility of the states to act independently is a good thing about our union.

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Seriously?  While true, this is in the same league as my also true 792% headline.

Context: 
Idaho Falls - 1100 recent cases out of 150k population:  55/100K/day
NYC - 123,000 recent cases out of 20M population:  44/100K/day

Hmmm.

Originally Posted by James Brown

A bad, but isolated incident.  You know better than to extrapolate from a headline to a generalization (or maybe not).  We can probably find one or two hospitals that are disasters in every state. 

It might make you feel superior to pick on your smaller neighbors, but state wide, Idaho is doing about the same as other states, which is presently pretty well.  Idaho's hospital situation is better than California's, but that is probably an indictment of your crappy state government than it is any kudos to Idaho.  Of course these ICU numbers from John's Hopkins are a lot better across the board than last time I posted them.  Vaccinating the older population is no doubt making a huge difference.   Jim

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

That's great Jim. I like that, thinking on your feet. My wife got the J and J vaccine kind of the same way. She called right when a large shipment was received in nearby Dearborn and they said come and get it. Wish I had gotten the J and J, too, not looking forward to my second dose of Moderna on April 7th.