Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.