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U.S. positivity rate drops below 2% I suppose that's a good thing but, keep in mind that the 2% number doesn't include people who haven't been tested. Folks can get tested lots of places now - even at home with a $20 antibody test kit. I've thought about getting tested but keep asking myself, "Why would I want to?" and I just can't come up with a good reason. Out of curiosity, I just searched for "How many Americans have been tested for COVID?" with no authoritative results returned. Weird. According to Worldometers, There have been 34 million positive tests in America, which works out to roughly 10% of the population. So know at least that many tests were given. But they don't say how many tests were negative, or how many people took multiple tests. These numbers should be so difficult to find.

#1 snopercod on 2021-06-12 09:04 (Reply)

"positivity Rate" is a bad statistic generally. The big problem with it is that there are three distinct populations of people getting tested and the results are comingled.

Group one: those with respiratory infections who suspect that they have the viral infection. This group is likely to have the highest rate of positive tests.

Group two: people who have been informed they have been in contact with someone else who has tested positive and are testing for tracking purposes, but are otherwise asymptomatic.

Group three: medical workers and other required to have regular tests for occupational reasons. These people are presumed members of group 2, but may not have actually come into contact wtih the virus.

Unless you account for or separate these three distinct populations, the results can swing based on the proportion of each of the groups in the total sample.

What bothers me is that this number is being treated as though it were an estimate of the actual prevalence of the virus in the population, where the presence of people in group 1 would clearly positively bias the result

#1.1 Another guy named Dan on 2021-06-14 09:31 (Reply)

The enemy of the Left are people who pay attention and think for themselves - and people who are having their lives trampled on, start doing both. Here's another Lady who has 'had-it-up-to-here' with her school board.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1403414523663425538

Confrontation, focus, preparation and plenty of sunshine work wonders. You think school board members across the nation aren't feeling a little uncomfortable and pressurized? Parents have had a whole year to see what their kid's educators have wrought so far.

#2 Aggie on 2021-06-12 10:02 (Reply)

The 1776 Project PAC has been set up for the purpose of electing sane people to school boards. Their website is here: https://1776projectpac.com/. We should all send them some money!

#2.1 mudbug on 2021-06-12 10:10 (Reply)

Merritt Garland is going to try to prosecute anyone who investigates the voter fraud in the presidential election. Imagine that! Why? Because this is the new normal; intimidation and "lawfare" against the right. Mr. Garland is a piece of work but he almost became a SCOTUS judge. We dodged a bullet there but apparently there is still a risk to our republic from this "little Eichmann".

#3 Anon on 2021-06-12 10:04 (Reply)

Did you know apple pie is racist? Well, what isn't?

Thought Police Goes After Bird Names: Birds poop everywhere; thought police poop on people.

Why the Early Progressives Rejected American Founding Principles: As I keep saying, the word "progressive" always reminds me of the word "cancer", which killed my wife. The "progressives" want to kill our country.

The Media Didn’t ‘Get It Wrong’ On Lafayette Park, They Lied To America — And They’re Still Lying: It's "WHAT THEY DO"

#4 Sam L. on 2021-06-12 10:52 (Reply)

Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale off Provincetown

Jordan Peterson, call your office.

#5 I Am Who I Am on 2021-06-12 11:55 (Reply)

That ain't such an old Dylan poster. Mellencamp had already dropped the "Cougar" from his name by that time.

#6 Brother John on 2021-06-12 12:33 (Reply)

All Dylan posters are old Dylan posters.

#7 Dougie (Link) on 2021-06-12 15:54 (Reply)

August 15, 2009

Set List:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-dylan/2009/banner-island-ballpark-stockton-ca-73d7aea1.html

#7.1 feeblemind on 2021-06-14 21:53 (Reply)

Hey, Cancel Cultists, do you realize that we are breathing the same air that all of those racist oppressors breathed?

You know there is only one solution and the quicker you do it the better.

#8 Galway Boy on 2021-06-13 09:22 (Reply)

"For the first time during the pandemic, U.S. positivity rate drops below 2%"

Public health person here - in fact a former outbreak investigator. Back in outbreak training school at the CDC, I was taught that when the % positive of new tests drops below 2.5% it is no longer considered a generalized outbreak and that efforts should shift from general prevention in the population to identifying and putting out the individual hot spots. In other words the Covid pandemic is over in the US.

But since this is a very special epidemic, I'm guessing that those action steps will get ignored.

I have high hopes for the new CDC director but institutional change takes time.

#9 jm01 on 2021-06-13 13:20 (Reply)

Hey, now - let's not rest on our heels quite yet. Now we have the Delta Variant. Dun, dun, duuuunnn!

Seriously, I'm done.

#9.1 Maniac on 2021-06-14 10:00 (Reply)

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Saturday, June 12. 2021

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