Dear All RadStats,
I am in Costa Rica, Centralamerica.
It is actually frustrating to explain people about epidemiological dynamics, when everybody thinks you are over reacting.
At the moment, we have 35 cases confirmed, 5 are foreigners.
But I am worry about not enough testing being performed.
Does any of you have identified information analysing different community strategies? Or data on it?
Any recomendations?
All the best,
Milena Castro, PhD
Biostatistician
Escuela de Estadística
Universidad de Costa Rica
> On Mar 15, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Thomas Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> This was posted on FB by an advanced practice nurse I worked with last summer. Her husband is also a trained health provider.
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> We have had a bit of a flame war over her denial of the severity of this situation, and I think this post demonstrates just how difficult it is going to be to manage the situation in the US. She didn't write it - but she did buy it. I have given up on trying to explain - she just refuses to listen and cites sources like Christian Broadcasting Network as though it was the CDC.
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> I am posting it because I think it must be very difficult to understand, from thousands of miles away, and through different languages, what is happening in the US and the degree of social breakdown extant in the States before this crisis.
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> "I didn’t write this but whoever did nailed it.👌
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> Is it coincidence that just when the economy is booming, the stock market is setting record highs, we are winning the trade wars, school shootings have stopped and our nation is at peace and it looks like Trump is a sure bet for reelection after fending off 3 years of investigations and impeachment, then all the sudden world crisis pandemic. Stock market tumbles, companies are laying off employees, everything is closed and cancelled ect.
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> Now they say there are a couple ways a President doesn't win reelection. Those are an unpopular war or a poor economy. I can't help but think there is something larger going on here driving this sudden outbreak right after Trump beats an impeachment. Especially the fact that it originated in China who we are in a global trade war with brought on by Trump. I am sure China doesn't want 4 more years of Trump either. I am not a conspiracy theorist but it all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election. Couldn't have hit at a more perfect time.
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> With the Democrats running out of campaign talking points in light of no school shootings, no migrant caravans at the southern border, fighting in Syria winding down, North Korea not firing missiles and Trump beating a sham impeachment. The corona virus gave them one last hail mary to try and point fingers at Trump with the clock winding down on 2020.
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> This is almost the perfect fascist playbook. Control the population with fear mongering and panic, control the media and propaganda, and the fan favorite disarm the population.
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> I guess I am a skeptic. Sorry but I don't think we are all going to die. Remember when Ebola was what was going to kill us all, and the media kept showing the piles of body bags that were prepared for the fallout. Then a month later it was totally forgotten. I wish people could just go about their lives until this plays out. I'll worry when there is a significant death toll like nearing a million or something. A handful of deaths out of 320 million Americans and we are in panic tearing down our society and costing our economy billions in the wake. It all just seems fishy, a little too well timed if you ask me."
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> Thomas Cox PhD RN
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