Corona Virus #6

rswyan · Mar 24, 2020

Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance - Tomas Pueyo - Medium

Gale Hawkins · Mar 24, 2020

rswyan said:
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance - Tomas Pueyo - Medium

I hope we follow the green line.

rswyan · Mar 24, 2020

Gale Hawkins said:
I hope we follow the green line.

I do too.

Credit goes to the Mace Canute for originally linking the article in another forum ...

daugen · Mar 24, 2020

talked with my sister in California. Neither she nor her husband have left their home in ten days.
She has a local organic food coop that delivers, her drug store delivers, and they use the internet.
By now I think they are getting a little buggy staying cooped up.

She told me they let all cardboard packages sit for 24 hours before they pick them up, and the food people leave the food outside.
I haven't done that for all my UPS/Amazon stuff, but I guess I should.

Saw my barber in food store. He said he was going to close down if the haircuts got down to one or two a day, not worth him going in.
IMHO he ought to pack it in for a couple weeks anyway, he's a senior and close to retiring so it wouldn't be a big thing for him.
So far, no one in this county has tested positive, but since they have no test kits here yet, what does that tell me? Maybe not much...

Diggin It · Mar 24, 2020

rswyan said:
I do too.

I post on tractor and other threads here. Do you too?

daugen said:
talked with my sister in California. Neither she nor her husband have left their home in ten days..

That's not abnormal for me. I've gone over 30 days more than once in the last several years since I stopped working, aside from daily walks on this rural road that is where I seldom see another person and only a few cars/trucks.

truckdiagnostics · Mar 24, 2020

truckdiagnostics said:
Asked myself the same question. My guess is there just is not enough and they are going to use in the hospitals and for the care givers protection. I pray they have a way to deploy the PPE to the areas that need it.
I know that there is a real concern and that are looking at plans to isolate EMT's and medical personnel from there families in case they get it. Using one college dorm as hospital and another as isolation for medical personnel.

WI National Guard sends 6 medics to help Grafton senior living facility
Looks like that is what they are having to do. Note the difference in the PPE. IMO social distancing is only going to slow it down. Keeping our medical personnel healthy is going to become very important.

daugen · Mar 24, 2020

Dealerships in China Reopen, but Sales May Take Longer to Rebound, Report Says

this is encouraging to read, though I believe a much more controlled environment than we have.

pennwalk · Mar 24, 2020

Where was Dr. Fauci ?

I wouldn't be surprised if Fauci was gone soon.

Chris

rswyan · Mar 24, 2020

truckdiagnostics said:
WI National Guard sends 6 medics to help Grafton senior living facility
Looks like that is what they are having to do. Note the difference in the PPE. IMO social distancing is only going to slow it down. Keeping our medical personnel healthy is going to become very important.

Social distancing is only part of a comprehensive solution.

See The Hammer and The Dance linked above.

JamesHW · Mar 24, 2020

Man Dead From Taking Chloroquine Product After Trump Touts Drug For Coronavirus

A man in Arizona has died and his wife is in critical condition after drinking a small amount of a chloroquine phosphate product in hopes of preventing a coronavirus infection. Instead of the drug form of chloroquine phosphate, the couple ingested a chloroquine phosphate product that’s used to treat parasites in fish.

“We were afraid of getting sick,” she told NBC News. The woman, age 61, and her husband, 68, were healthy and had no underlying conditions, but they were worried about catching the virus. She had recognized the name “chloroquine” when she heard Trump say it because she had used it to treat her Koi fish.

Today In: Healthcare

They each mixed 1 teaspoon of the chloroquine phosphate with soda. Within 20 minutes, the woman began vomiting and her husband had trouble breathing. The woman called paramedics, and the couple were admitted to a Banner Health hospital.

The couple, in their 60s, are not the first to accidentally poison themselves after hearing Trump’s statements. Just a day after Trump’s press conference, Nigeria reported multiple poisonings from people who attempted to treat themselves with chloroquine and overdosed on the drug. In those cases, they were taking the actual human drug formulation