Chances of Getting the Shit (was: Being offline is the new luxury)
 

On 12:50 19 May 2020, Sqwertz said:

> On Mon, 18 May 2020 11:18:35 -0400, Gary wrote:
>
>> Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/18/2020 7:35 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 10:31:18 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> WTH is with all this urgency for healthy people waiting in long
>>>>> lines for hours just to get tested? WTF?
>>>>
>>>> To see if they are asymptomatic carriers of the virus. Or to see if
>>>> they have antibodies, meaning they had the virus without knowing it
>>>> and are now perhaps (just perhaps) immune.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>>
>>> Or to be exposed to the virus while waiting in line.
>>
>> Even if your test shows virus free, the very next time you go to a
>> store or anywhere around people, your test result is moot.
>
> In my county there are/were 2,171 confirmed cases. So let's almost
> double that to 4000. Minus 713 confirmed recoveries. I'll bump that up
> only 50% to 1000 for a net guestimate of 3000.
>
> With a 1.274 million population in my county, that means .23% of the
> population is infected - or 1 in 4,000. 2,000 of them are staying home
> and ordering everything from delivery services, making it 1 in 8,000.
>
> So if I walk past 50 people a day and lick their faces, my chances of
> getting Covid-19 virus are only .0065%.
>
> I'm gonna take those odds to Vegas.

Squirt, do you have an update on Covid in Austin? Mayor Adler isn't
recommending you lick any faces he http://www.mayoradler.com/