JohnDillworth
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Colorado changing the way they count deaths. I wonder how many other states will follow suit?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-lowers-coronavirus-death-count
I' sure you will see lots of changes in the way deaths are counted or if they are counted at all. Nebraska doesn't count the sick at the meat packing plants because it makes the rest of the state look bad. Not sure if they are counting the dead in those places. Florida only counts you dead from Corona if you are are a citizen of the State of Florida. If you are from out of state you don't count. Florida has hid lots of the nursing home deaths too. FOIA requests eventually get them but they have made a conscious effort to hide numbers. Every State seems to be not reporting nursing home deaths accurately. CDC official numbers are much lower than Johns Hopkins. They say it takes 3 weeks to tally the numbers but who knows? Once there are many truths who can tell any more?
I hate to ask this but I'm totally curious - is this a red state VS blue state thing in regards to reporting? Do you think some states are inflating their numbers?
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I hate to ask this but I'm totally curious - is this a red state VS blue state thing in regards to reporting? Do you think some states are inflating their numbers?
Not sure but don't think so. What is also interesting is what States are opening dispite not meeting CDC guidelines. You might ask why a state would do that? Economics, real or what they want to seem real. A state that mandates closed business needs to pay unemployment benefits to those that are unemployed due to state orders to close business. Don't want to pay unemployment benefits? No problem. Announce that all business are open. Anyone refusing to work in those business, not matter how dangerous, loses their unemployment benefits. Not great choices there
Let us not forget that the CDC and doctors want to fight the virus. They don't have to worry about the economy, education, the public's other concerns, and other things.
If the employee is recovering from Covid-19, taking care of someone who has it, and/or on quarantine otherwise for exposure, they will not lose their job.
I hope that's true, I don't know that's true. Lets take the case of the meat packing plants. Already a dangerous job and now we have added Covid. Everyone gets sick, people die we close the plants. Presidents says meat is essential, invokes the defense production act and forces the plants open. Employees can't claim unemployment, they can't not report to work or they lose their jobs. They continue to get sick and die. State decides that makes the numbers look bad so they stop reporting those numbers. I assume if the numbers were good they would report them no? So, workers getting sick and dying, plant can't close, workers have no choice but to report, still getting sick, not information available as to how sick. What could possibly be worse? Sending Lawyers, and lobbyists and Senators to Washington to make sure the plant is protected against any liability. What protection do the workers have?????? ZERO. This is called exploitation. This is wrong. This is immoral. This is America in 2020
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