CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEW MEGA THREAD

[Anonymous]

I can't find information on this anywhere, but maybe some of the DCUM folks with health backgrounds have insight.

My kids, their nanny, and my spouse all have mild symptoms of COVID-19. Decent chance it's just a cold, but we're living in an outbreak area (and DH and I in particular work right near the epi-center of it)...so we figure we should be extra cautious. We are willing/able to self-quarantine, but for how long do we need to do this? 14 days? When their symptoms clear? I can't find information on this anywhere...and especially since I'm not even sick, I'd really like to understand what's reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Fauci giving a press conference now. Sounds like he’s encouraging closures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this disease is just another version of the flu

you don't see people going ape s%^ over the flu

the mass hysteria is entirely the fault of the media hyping this thing

Raheem Kassam said what he had was 3X worse than normal flu. He's early 30s. Was at CPAC in close contact with infected person.

Sounds like pre-existing conditions.

Absolutely none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fauci giving a press conference now. Sounds like he’s encouraging closures.

Thank GOD!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the flu guy yall are pathetic

come back when this thing is killing over 10,000 people

50,000 people die of the flu every year and people don't panic

Yeah, we're just going to sit and wait. That's the strategy? And then what are you going to do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't find information on this anywhere, but maybe some of the DCUM folks with health backgrounds have insight.

My kids, their nanny, and my spouse all have mild symptoms of COVID-19. Decent chance it's just a cold, but we're living in an outbreak area (and DH and I in particular work right near the epi-center of it)...so we figure we should be extra cautious. We are willing/able to self-quarantine, but for how long do we need to do this? 14 days? When their symptoms clear? I can't find information on this anywhere...and especially since I'm not even sick, I'd really like to understand what's reasonable.

Raheem is getting better but they just put him on 14 even though he has been isolating himself

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very real question: Seattle is theoretically ~7 weeks into community spread. Coastal cities should be into their outbreaks. Shouldn't we already be seeing major increases in hospital admissions, ER visits, ICU overruns? It isn't happening at this point. The situation at the LTC facility has been an absolute nightmare - total hell. But outside of that, are we seeing the doomsday scenario? Should we take some comfort in the fact that this has not become a widespread disaster at this point? Perhaps it simply isn't spreading here the way it has in Italy, or the strain has not been as lethal?

Also agree. I've been telling myself over and over again in the past two weeks, keep an eye on Seattle and the numbers coming out of Seattle (and now New York). Outside the unfortunate nursing home, there seems to be minimal spread of the virus. Yes, numbers have gone up for positive cases, but there doesn't seem to be a rush to the hospitals for critical care. The virus exploded within that one nursing home, but outside that Seattle is not showing the Wuhan style mass explosion of infection and deaths. If anything, it's closer to South Korea, which had a lot of infected people (and high testing levels finding the infected people) but very few deaths, around 54 out of 8000 infected.

Likewise, in NYC, the virus has been spreading but the numbers of deaths is still zero and very few people have been hospitalized. I can't believe the unfortunate man was just the first man to catch the virus and there must have been others.

Ha. Read this
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/nyc-coronavirus-cases-are-coming-in-so-intensely-now-mayor-de-blasio-says.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the flu guy yall are pathetic

come back when this thing is killing over 10,000 people

50,000 people die of the flu every year and people don't panic

Yeah, we're just going to sit and wait. That's the strategy? And then what are you going to do?

not panic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this disease is just another version of the flu

you don't see people going ape s%^ over the flu

the mass hysteria is entirely the fault of the media hyping this thing

Raheem Kassam said what he had was 3X worse than normal flu. He's early 30s. Was at CPAC in close contact with infected person.

Sounds like pre-existing conditions.

Watch:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1OwxWQbMwWZGQ

[Anonymous]

I want to know how the Walmart employee in KY was infected?

We were told no possibility of “plague goods”. Did this worker go on a cruise? An Italian ski vacation? A bar mitzvah in NY state?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very real question: Seattle is theoretically ~7 weeks into community spread. Coastal cities should be into their outbreaks. Shouldn't we already be seeing major increases in hospital admissions, ER visits, ICU overruns? It isn't happening at this point. The situation at the LTC facility has been an absolute nightmare - total hell. But outside of that, are we seeing the doomsday scenario? Should we take some comfort in the fact that this has not become a widespread disaster at this point? Perhaps it simply isn't spreading here the way it has in Italy, or the strain has not been as lethal?

Also agree. I've been telling myself over and over again in the past two weeks, keep an eye on Seattle and the numbers coming out of Seattle (and now New York). Outside the unfortunate nursing home, there seems to be minimal spread of the virus. Yes, numbers have gone up for positive cases, but there doesn't seem to be a rush to the hospitals for critical care. The virus exploded within that one nursing home, but outside that Seattle is not showing the Wuhan style mass explosion of infection and deaths. If anything, it's closer to South Korea, which had a lot of infected people (and high testing levels finding the infected people) but very few deaths, around 54 out of 8000 infected.

Likewise, in NYC, the virus has been spreading but the numbers of deaths is still zero and very few people have been hospitalized. I can't believe the unfortunate man was just the first man to catch the virus and there must have been others.

Ha. Read this
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/nyc-coronavirus-cases-are-coming-in-so-intensely-now-mayor-de-blasio-says.html

“ Dr. Mitchell Katz, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said local hospitals are bracing for an onslaught of COVID-19 cases, adding that local hospitals are preparing to discharge current patients to handle incoming coronavirus patients. ”

I think the implication here is that patients who would otherwise stay hospitalized are being discharged early. I hope this doesn’t get really bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the flu guy yall are pathetic

come back when this thing is killing over 10,000 people

50,000 people die of the flu every year and people don't panic

Yeah, we're just going to sit and wait. That's the strategy? And then what are you going to do?

not panic

That’s good, it’s just not a strategy.

[Anonymous]

OPM needs to implement a 2 week mandatory closure/telework now. That could stop the spread in much of the dc area before it takes months of closure when it’s more widespread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the flu guy yall are pathetic

come back when this thing is killing over 10,000 people

50,000 people die of the flu every year and people don't panic

19 people died from one nursing home in a matter of weeks. This is no flu. The workers who are sick can’t even get tested. Yet they are sending in the National Guard for one street in NY.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:neither my parents or parents in law appear to be changing their behavior, despite my recommendations. every day is a new excuse to go out somewhere in public, a separate reason that "its ok" and some sort of exception to the need focus on social distancing.
yesterday, a new trash can at wal mart was a crucial need.

and these folks are at moderate risk because of a few run of the mill underlying health conditions.

multiply this by a zillion non-employed old folks (they are ~73-77) who are just restless and need 'go somewhere everyday' because its habit.

these old folks ARENT going to change. we're in for a bumpy ride

I just got off the phone with my 79 year old mom in Florida. She and my 80 year old dad haven’t changed a thing. She went to church this morning. They went to dinner last night. Planning on meeting up with my aunt this afternoon for some shopping.

Same with my parents and every one of my friends parents. All the 70+ folks are currently itching to fly, travel and hang out at large gatherings in public places

Maybe they are tired? DH’s uncle keeps joking that pneumonia is an old man’s best friend.