Florida is another dog that didn't bark! It is a very odd thing to watch
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Replying to @Pinboard @1boring_ym
They're not reporting stats. Again, there's a lag.
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Replying to @Pinboard @PigInZen67
I do think that all cause death data suggests a lot of deaths not captured, so to me seems relevant, but would agree that doesn’t seem to entirely explain some of the variability and that Florida hospitals not reproducing Italy. Especially given the density of elderly Floridians.
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Replying to @1boring_ym @PigInZen67
There's a point in the death rate when you start to see stuff happening like happened in Italy and Iran—mass graves, hospitals running out of morgue space. That that hasn't happened in Florida suggests a ceiling on the possible numbers, no matter what is reported
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Replying to @Pinboard @PigInZen67
Agree. I would love to see a skilled science journalist do a long form piece on what is happening in Florida. The North appears to have taken pretty strong local action but The Villages did not AND had folks doing a lot of international travel AND is an entirely 55+ population.
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Can it not just be blind luck?
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Chance accounts for a lot of disparities, but there's an awful lot of places staying lucky for an exceedingly long time right now.
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Yeah, but some of the intranational disparities are just as glaring as the intentional ones. Sicily has hardly been touched, and if it was going to spread rapidly anywhere in Italy you'd assume it would be there.
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Replying to @PinsonRing @Pinboard and
there was speculation about air pollution being a factor, keeping the virus airborne. Something Wuhan, Milan, Iran (?), NYC have in common.
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Then you'd have to explain New Delhi and Baghdad
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