CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEW MEGA THREAD
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Anonymous
True, but to throw a cloud in front of your ray of hope - those beds aren’t empty just waiting for people. I’d suspect at least half of the have critical care people in them. To do otherwise is wasteful from a business perspective. This is the problem with the virus and why such drastic steps are taken —— the healthcare system isn’t structured to support as many critical care patients as there will be if everyone gets sick at once. Hence ‘flatten the curve’. Otherwise hospital have to triage - or choose - which patients get a bed. |
Anonymous
No, it won’t. But wouldn’t it slow the rate and flatten the curve. Fewer people coming into a country means introducing fewer cases and having fewer people to infect 2 new people. Also, what about large gatherings? Same thing, I guess. Doesn’t matter, it’s already there, herd immunity. |
Anonymous
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-military-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan-chinese-diplomat-claims/ar-BB117L5m
US military brought coronavirus to Wuhan, Chinese diplomat claims |
Anonymous
Well Spanish Flu did start in Kansas. But this is probably tit for tat. |
Anonymous
| D.C. schools closed until 4/1. |
Anonymous
PR game- https://thehill.com/policy/international/487308-china-pushing-conspiracy-theory-us-army-bringing-coronavirus-wuhan?amp China, pushing conspiracy theory, accuses US Army of bringing coronavirus to Wuhan |
Anonymous
We are seeing clusters here in the US right now. You can say were are not testing enough, but the reality is, if that were the case, our hospitals across the country would overflowing with very sick and dying people, which means if it IS widespread, then it’s mild for most people, i.e. does not require hospitalization. That’s a very good thing. Stopping travel helps to stop new clusters as it’s quite clear per the CDC that it got here that way. I agree the UK should be encouraging more social isolation. I told my older kids that their older brother is at risk, so they must be more careful about where/who they socialize. I put up a sanitation station by the main entrance so they can sanitize their hands BEFORE entering the house, cutting down on sanitation freakouts INSIDE the house. Non-ill friends can come in so long as they sanitize, but not in large groups. Go take a walk with your friends - the weather is getting nice! Precautions not complete isolation. My husband and I will practice a more austere form of social isolation, because we are in our late 50s. My kid got pissed at me yesterday because he had to make two trips into his dorm room to get the things he is taking home. I didn’t want to go into the dorms, as it was a large group of potential carriers. My response to him was essentially GFY and get your stuff |
Anonymous
Yup. I said this days ago. After a statement like this, you’d think that the media would stop going after the President and realize where the real issues are. Nope. |
Anonymous
5% of the ill patients need critical care. 35 beds per 100,000 is very different than 5% (5,000 people). |
Anonymous
Why doesn’t the Spanish flu have another name like Clovid-#. |
Anonymous
Changing the narrative. |
Anonymous
| This would be great to have some manufacturing jobs back. https://www.wsj.com/articles/altus-capital-co-founder-says-coronavirus-could-drive-more-manufacturing-back-to-u-s-11584053085 |
Anonymous
This is a good article explaining the (Chinese) forces at play: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-china-cause.html |
Anonymous
Apparently the WHO test kits are not FDA approved. |
Anonymous
FDA restrictions were lifted after the cluster in Washington State. Singapore has developed a rapid result test with 99% accuracy even in asymptomatic people. They open sources the technology and said they want everyone to be able to access it for the good of humanity. Yet here we are with our botched kits and we get excited every time some random university or lab says they’ve figured out a way to test it. |