About 5%

[jon-nyc]

Maybe 1/20 wearing masks now at Newark.

Mostly Asians and upper class whites.

[Jolly]

If they're not N95, they're just for show.

[George K]

@Jolly said in About 5%:

If they're not N95, they're just for show.

I know we'll never see it, but I'd love to see if N95s made a difference study.

[Copper]

I was at the Norfolk airport this morning. One lady at the American counter wore a mask. That might have been the only mask I saw. I only walked from parking to check-in then to security, maybe 10 minutes.

[taiwan_girl]

Thailand had an indoor and outdoor mask mandate until last week, they stopped the outdoor mask requirement.

Still, probably 95% wear a mask outdoors.

[Jolly]

Why?

[89th]

I flew to dc on Tuesday, back yesterday. In the airport I’d say it was 15% masked, on the flight about 35%. Cool story, 89th.

[Copper]

I was in Norfolk airport again yesterday. I probably saw a few hundred people, I counted 4 masks.

[Mik]

Just got back from the gym and the grocery. Zero masks.

[Jolly]

Yet, COVID is kicking down here.

Masks are few and far between.

[Horace]

Apparently the moral panic is over, and the panic mongers have retreated.

Presumably, at least one person died because not everybody is focused on wearing a mask. That is blood on everybody's hands. Or something.

[89th]

Guess we will see if the fall/winter spike is a seasonal thing or not. We've hit relatively low (death) rates each of the past 3 summers.

[Jolly]

@89th said in About 5%:

Guess we will see if the fall/winter spike is a seasonal thing or not. We've hit relatively low (death) rates each of the past 3 summers.

We have few admissions, but dude, I'm telling you it's pretty prevalent down here.

[89th]

@Jolly said in About 5%:

We have few admissions, but dude, I'm telling you it's pretty prevalent down here.

There's a wave going through my corporate office too. Perhaps these are the cases before the increase in deaths?

[Doctor Phibes]

It feels to me as though the numbers aren't accurate. I know a ton of people who've had it over the last couple of months.

[Jolly]

Numbers are only as good as what's reported. With the advent of home testing, fuhgeddabout accurate case numbers.

[jon-nyc]

Accurate case numbers come from waste water.

You can not report, but you can’t not shit.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in About 5%:

Numbers are only as good as what's reported. With the advent of home testing, fuhgeddabout accurate case numbers.

Yeah, I don't think anybody's reporting it. I certainly wouldn't bother unless I got proper sick.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in About 5%:

Accurate case numbers come from waste water.

You can not report, but you can’t not shit.

Gives you an idea, but not always concrete numbers. How many states report wastewater numbers as Public Health numbers?

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly

My understanding is the CDC tracks a number of metropolitan areas that numbers in the low hundreds.

Useful for giving a national picture but not useful for telling you the state of (say) Peoria IL, Oceana, CA, or Merritt Island, FL