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I was quoting the July 16th on Worldometer. Been in the 900+ for the last three days. If the death rate of COVID was just a matter of course for people. Then why the increased hospitalization? Why is Texas brining in refrigerated trucks because the morgues are full?

There are states that already allow for Mail-In Balloting? Should those states immediately have their results called into question? What about early voting?

We are able to keep more Chronically Ill people alive longer. The point of the post is the present a reason, not an excuse. What would you suggest to fix the problem? Make more people pay for their healthcare on their own dime? Would that solve the problem? Or perhaps a significant tax hike. Is it better to have people die in their mid 70's? It certainly would be a lot cheaper.

There's definitely an exponential rise in cases: 77,000 yesterday. They'll be at Dr. Fauci's prediction of 100,000 daily cases before August. There's a good chance they'll hit 4 million cases by next week. Meaning the infection rate is doubling. And deaths are rising too. Almost 1,000 deaths yesterday. For perspective, Canada recorded 17 deaths. Italy had 20. The UK had 66. And Belgium, who still has the highest per capita death rate from the spring saw 4 deaths yesterday. New York, which saw the bulk of the outbreak deaths in the Spring only had 23 deaths yesterday.

Here's an interesting article regarding Canada's relatively high death rate with COVID-19. Per Capita, it's not that much worse than in the US. Just a shade under 9,000 people in Canada have died of COVID-19. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-heart-stroke-1.5652003 People live much longer in Canada with chronic diseases. So when a virus that is most deadly to people over 80 comes around, it's the straw that broke the camel's back. This also speaks to the rate of people in LTC homes that died vs the general public. If you have more very old people in the public because your healthcare system is able to make them live longer, then it's natural that more old people will be around to die from a virus like COVID-19.

I'm not American, so I don't know how it all works. But you still have to register. You just can't show up and say. Uhhh let me vote. And they have to actually send you a verifiable ballot to vote. In Canada we get this voter forms that allow us to vote. I can't see it being much different. You can always make up way one could cheat. But the big issue in this election, which you didn't address in your long post was that voting shouldn't be made more difficult because of the pandemic. As you note, mail-in balloting would actually suppress older more conservative voters. But it would also make older people, who often volunteer during elections less likely to do so. So their's a democratic crisis on the horizon.

More like Voter Suppression. In the face this pandemic, will there be enough people willing to volunteer at polling stations to make voting easy and accessible. We've seen in Primaries already that people have had to wait hours to vote. And that's not even for a general election. That's why there's a push for mail-in balloting. Not because people are looking to cheat.

Yeah it's the campaign manager's fault. https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/16/donald-trump-replaces-re-election-campaign-manager-amid-tanking-polling-numbers Has an incumbent ever made up a double digit deficit with 3 months to go?

If that was the case, then why wouldn't they nominate Sanders?

The Republican Governor of Mississippi with series of Tweets debunking the idea that Herd Immunity is a feasible option. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/tate-reeves-mississippi-coronavirus-herd-immunity/index.html

That's not something to be happy or unhappy about. The truth about America is that they devote so much money to the Military that they have this default role as leader of the world. Other countries are happy to let them do this because spending that much on Military is unpopular and the funds are much better spent on things like Universal Healthcare. The irony is that Trump removes the US from its role as the World's police. Withdrawing form Syria, Afghanistan, Germany etc. But the funding for the Military will always stay the same. He'll also threaten to remove support from traditional Allies in NATO but cozy up to Russia.

Collapse is subjective. There's still a lot of money there. But their influence seems to continue to diminish. And it seems, that's by design, in Trump's America.

America is still important to the world. Their inability to handle a pandemic is important. Their leader is lying to people about the seriousness of this disease it's informative to know about this. I would argue that seeing what's happening in the US has increased the resolve of most Canadians to not let that happen here. In that sense, it's a net positive.

Train wrecks are interesting to watch.

And the GOP could lose seats in Colorado, Arizona, Iowa, Michigan, Maine. Even Lindsey Graham in South Carolina is potentially vulnerable.

Lots of domestic flights, I reckon.

I'm saying there are multiple factors. Memorial Day for example. That actually lines up quite nicely with spikes we've been seeing. Just think of the spikes we'll see associated with the Fourth of July.

There has now been a full 2 weeks with daily cases under 200. 111 cases today. Less than 1,500 active cases. Less than 50 ICU beds occupied. At the end of the week the less populated parts of the Province will move to Phase 3. Which will allow for indoor dining, Gyms and Movie Theatres with Social Distancing guidelines still in place. The other portions will follow suit in following weeks.

I'm not denying they're a factor. You're contending it's pretty much the ONLY factor and the Re-opening had nothing to do with it. How's that for political hackery? Again ignoring rates in DC, Washington State, Europe and Canada where protests also happened. AND ignoring Arizona which didn't have any high profile protests, that I'm aware of but have some of the highest infection rates in the country right now.

Are you aware of the term Correlation is not Causation?

Uh Oh! Better start banning 3M from shipping N95 masks to Canada again. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/delayed-use-defense-production-act-ppe-shortages/index.html

You're the one who cited an article references surfaces. It not my fault you don't read what you reference. We're several posts in and you still haven't addressed the several communities that saw BLM protests and didn't see a notable spike. Look, I'm not denying protests don't play a factory in the spread. But you're basically saying the out-of-control outbreak we're seeing right now in the US is solely due to BLM protest. And early re-opening played no factor. That's ridiculous!

Posting an article from March. Regardless, the article you cite notes touching surfaces. Like ATMs, Gas Pumps etc. Here's one from 3 days ago. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-surfaces-groceries-packages-playgrounds-1.5645602

So people get COVID through the skin now?

And Disney World just re-opened.