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I don't give a shit if it's flattening or not, open the economy up.

My ski mask seems to be working when it comes to social distancing. No symptoms, and for some reason people keep giving me money.

Seems to me there was an initial spread before we started taking this seriously, but our mitigation efforts are working, just like they are in other parts of the country. I feel pretty confident that we are winning in this struggle. The attention will soon be devoted almost entirely to how do we return to normalcy without undoing all of our gains.

The dems are cooking the books. No deaths of Hinds residents? Right!

Mask wearing, social distancing, and hygienic practices are flattened the curve.

Cue the naysayers who still cling to some political narrative that has long since been abandoned by the person who said it.

The chart showing the date of symptom onset is pretty stable at 120-140 cases per day from March 23-31. The curve is flat, but it needs to start dropping. Symptom onset and test results are lagging indicators. We won’t have decent evidence the infection rate is dropping until next week at the earliest.

So: Dems are (1) exaggerating the dangers but also (2) underreporting deaths?

Deep thinking, bro.

I suspect deaths are being underreported … by the folks in charge of MSDH & state government.

For those of you who believe social distancing worked, why is it flattening across the nation at the same time regardless of when states implanted stay at home/shelter in place orders? and it's also going down in states that did not do stay at home shelter in place.

Why is that? Explain it.

We locked down all of Madison County for 3 deaths. The government overreach is so so bad.

Ambulances steady flying down 55....day and night.

More action sooner and we’d be at the end of this rather than the middle of the beginning.

Keep listening to a guy who wants you to eat malaria drugs which will kill you.

Eat up

What happened to "Better Than Ever" ?

Havent seen him comment in a while.....

It’s not flat until it’s flat.
It hasn’t peaked until it consistently drops from the spike.
No spike or drop is a completely straight line up or down.
No curve is presented with the small variations on a chart. If it were it’d be a wavy line.
It’s too soon to reach conclusions.
Those of you politicizing this or ignoring reality are delaying or preventing a good outcome.
It’s fine with me if you’ve decided your odds aren’t too bad. .only a 3rd were ever likely to die.
What I resent is you be willing to kill others with your irresponsible behavior and for damaging our way of life for the foreseeable future.
Your ignorance , self-centered focus, and bizarre notions of tribal or political loyalty are what has caused this epidemic to be far worse than it had to be.
Still from comments, you have no shame. And , as throughout history, we all will reap the whirlwind you have caused.

@12:29 Because people are exercising social distancing in high enough numbers even if their respective governor is too stupid to not implement an official order. It doesn’t take a genius to see the situation in New York and realize it can happen almost anywhere. Ultimately you’ve got some of the population isolating and another part ignoring it in every state. That is why the nation as a whole is seeing similar timelines even if they are occurring a couple of weeks apart. Just because a governor is ignorant doesn’t mean all the citizens are going to follow him like lemmings.

It's sad to say, but certain Americans just grow dumber by the day by believing the American government can construct and maintain some sort of Deep State agenda when the government can even fix its infrastructure.

But hey, don't stop believing. Keep drinking the Flavor-Aid. Proceed off the cliff.

12:29. South Dakota is not flattening. Alabama's first case was two days after Mississippi's, yet Alabama now has significantly more confirmed cases than Mississippi. I believe you incorrect in your assumption that infection rates are "flattening across the nation at the same time regardless of when states implanted stay at home/shelter in place orders."

@1:05- Louisiana issued orders days before us and are over 1000 deaths. Seems a democrat governor didn’t do any better than ours has (and he waited two weeks).

New York is a shithole. What do you expect there? Prosperity and good health?

1:45 pm
Louisiana has more than twice the population of Mississippi. New York's population is nearly 10 times greater than Mississippi's.

And, they both rank higher than we do in health, prosperity and ( as you demonstrate) education.

1:45, in New York City, the mean household income is $93,196.

In Mississippi, the mean household income is $43,529. Less than half.

In NYC, average life expectancy is 81.2 years.

In Mississippi, life expectancy is 71.8 years.

Those are huge differences, even with NYC having pockets of low incomes and immigrants.

If you don't like NYC, don't go there.

Plenty of Mississippians do, some living there, many prospering there, and many visiting. Have a nice day.

And, if you do visit, come back and tell us what the first two letters of Fuhgeddaboutit are.

We still have almost no testing or PPE and people are dying from Covid before they can be tested and their deaths are not being attributed to the virus. In the end, we will just have to look back at the total number of deaths in these months versus the same months in years prior and see how many "extra" deaths we had.

This is one time when being a rural area instead of a densely packed metro might have actually helped us, but I suspect that when our numbers are compared with other areas in the world with similar population densities, our infection/death rates won't be anything to brag about.

April 14 at 10:46am, Unimaginable ignorance right out of the gate! “I don't give a shit if it's flattening or not, open the economy up”.
First of all, what on earth, with your mentality, do you do for a living that would help the economy? And you would prefer increasing everyone’s risk of death?? Please, stay away from the rest of us with your mental and physical illness.

Tickles me how the dunces on Supertalk talk about 'curve flattening' when in fact the upward moving curve is still upward moving. All that's changed is the trajectory. That does not mean it is flattening or headed down. A vehicle going 110 miles an hour that reduces it's speed to 98 is still speeding. Consider it slowing down at your own peril.

April 14, 2020 at 3:38 PM = Nonsensical comment

To the yankee loving posters at 209 and 151: you need $93k in NYC to rent a rat infested slum. $93k in MS has you eating prime rib out every week. I’ve nothing against NYC, but the liberals there have killed it, like they did in NOLA, a hotspot for the plague.

A lot of fear over something no one here can stop if it decides to visit you. Stay strong.

5:38 - “the Yankee loving posters”. I come on here every few weeks to remind myself how stupid so many Mississippians are. Theanknyou for reconfirming.

5:32 - What's nonsense is your belief that a reduced trajectory actually symbolizes flat. Do you really need a pictorial illustration of 'flat' to understand what flattening means?

Flattening the curve means delaying the spread of infection and expanding the time needed to impose social distancing measures. Neither has been achieved.

Pretend you can draw a baseline across one of the graphs we've seen. When cases fall below that imaginary baseline and stay there (or lower) for a period of time, flattening will have been achieved. Hope this helps.