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[DonH]

19 cases is hardly an outbreak. Plus all it shows is 19 people who voted in person also tested positive for covid. It doesn’t mean they got it while voting. And how many tens of thousands voted that day? Pretty much everyone including our state officials have now conceded voting in person did nothing to move the needle. I hope you are still looking at things scientifically KML and not just in a way to prove your beliefs.

Juju while I have watched all of this very carefully and just by chance took on a new contract that has me rubbing elbows (figuratively) with some of my state’s greatest healthcare peeps, I’ve not delved deeply into the recent antibody testing reports. From what I’ve been able to find this is actual novel covid 19 antibodies they are testing for and showing near 1 in 5 have the antibody for covid 19 - not just the general Coronavirus. They still don’t know but most believe this strain has not yet mutated. So I would say if you get tested it will be for the actual novel covid 19 antibody.

The “greater New York area”, however that is defined, has had 52% of all USA covid deaths. So it’s clearly way way worse out there. Although thankfully still not as bad as feared. The NY governor asked for 30,000 to 40,000 ventilators. Trump and others told him he’d never need that many but of course they told trump he has no clue what he’s talking about. So the vents were provided, including mandating, was it GM? To build them. In the end vent use never topped 6,000 and they have now shipped the vents to,other places. Same with hospital beds. 140,000 was the number predicted to be needed. Instead it’s never topped 20,000. Off by a factor of 7. Again, 6,000 people on ventilators and 20K in the hospital is a serious deal - no two ways around it. But compared to my state with 350 patients in the hospital and less than 200 vents it’s just not comparable. NY is clearly way harder hit - so much so it’s really not comparable. You mentioned mass transit. I’ve heard that as a very likely carrier. Just the numbers of people one on top of the next... it’s hard not to transmit it. I was going to say hope you test negative but I guess it’s the opposite- hope you test positive for antibodies! You’d be safe and clear and never knew you had it!!!