Corona Virus #6

[rswyan]

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[/pine]

All should stop and take a deep breath...er...while you can...(sorry could not resist)

There does seem to be a lot of merit less links being posted...many look like they come from "The Henny Penny (drudge) Report"...

 

[the old grind]

This whole thing is like we're watching the first day of the Olympics and everyone is handicapping which country will have the most people medal.

How many contributors to this thread have been on ventilators or have died so far? We have as much to go on to predict who will.

I suspect this will be remembered like the Y2K thing. 98% what might happen and ~2% long term effect..

Fret on, folks.

 

[ultrarunner]

Story in the SF Chronicle said homeless shelters told NOT to maintain 6 feet distance...

SF’s most vulnerable are packed into homeless shelters with coronavirus distancing discouraged - SFChronicle.com

 

[shooterdon]

All should stop and take a deep breath...er...while you can...(sorry could not resist)

There does seem to be a lot of merit less links being posted...many look like they come from "The Henny Penny (drudge) Report"...

Agree.

One reason it is difficult to believe what is propaganda or the truth. I was just as bad I suppose...but now I am looking at numbers...and we have more numbers. Plus I am a numbers guy more than a touchy-feely sort.

There needs to be a lot of arse-kicking when this runs its course. How can 1300 deaths and 2100 serious/critical cases completely overwhelm the medical infrastructure of the richest country in the world? A country that put men on the moon over 50 years ago. WTF has happened to us! I could understand if 100k were dead, and 200k needed to be hospitalized...but this!!! With 6000 hospitals in our country? **** we lost 100k during the 1968 H3N2.

At this point....it is a given nearly every person that gets critically ill going forward is going to die. The brave people on the front lines are fighting this battle with a paltry supply of PPE. PLENTY of blame to spread on that one. Starting with hospital administrators and up to the top of the food chain...makes me sick to hear them all blame others. I blame them all!

Not much is adding up.

 

[ultrarunner]

^^^Maybe because PPE are much more the norm today than 50 years ago?

This country also had more ventilators years ago due to Polio... if it had not been for the scare several years back there would be even fewer ventilators today...

 

[k0ua]

And do we have a good number on the people that have died from say Feb 1 to now from the seasonal flu in the US?. I don't but I suspect it is in the thousands. All of this is based on "what is projected to happen" NOT on what has happened. It is all about computer modeling folks. And we ALL know how accurate computer models are.

 

[IslandTractor]

For those of you who still believe this pandemic is just another "flu" type epidemic:

Here’s a comparison of the first 65 days of the 2009 swine flu in the United States and first 65 days of the 2020 covid-19 outbreak. (from WaPo and CDC)


Swine flu

April 15, 2009 — first infection detected
June 19, 2009 — 21,449 cases, 87 deaths

Covid-19

Jan. 20, 2020 — first infection detected
March 25, 2020 — 69,344 cases, 1,050 deaths

Full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/27/those-covid-19-death-toll-figures-are-incomplete/

 

[Citydude]

How’s the toilet licker kid doing? Surly some ambulance chasing reporter has the “scoop”.

 

[k0ua]

How’s the toilet licker kid doing? Surly some ambulance chasing reporter has the “scoop”.

I am sure he will survive. He is young and obviously very dumb.