Corona virus

[Nick87]

I’m getting way off track, but my son came home from school last week and told me that a kid in his class believes the world is flat and the kid says so does his mom. There’s a lot of stupid people in this world.

A few years back I was on a job with a guy who brought this up too. I thought it he was joking around or something. He insisted otherwise.

 

[hossblur]

This will make me popular.

Anyone else notice how panicked we should be. How we need to shut everything down. And those decisions are being made by people with gov jobs who are in no danger of losing businesses, homes, careers?

So far I've yet to see one gov office shut down. One gov employee lose their livelihood.

Yet they are super quick to destroy the lives and dreams of non gov employees?

How many folks just went bankrupt tonight because some beauracrat decided "better safe than sorry"?

I could care less about Tom Hank's, or Rudy Gobert.

But that guy trying to survive driving uber. Or the single mom trying to raise kids working her second job at the refreshment stand, or that immigrant living in his tiny restaraunt by the stadium.

Those people just got told they don't matter. That they need to lose it all, because...... Well because some assistant to the director of some government office says it's worth it.

It's great to talk about sacrifice, "Merica", yada yada, yada. But perhaps I'm a little sick of hearing it from folks for whom a disaster is getting back paid from a 2 week shutdown.

Told you it be popular.

Hope all you small business, gig economy, folks get through. At least half as well as the beauracrats who just sacrificed you.

 

[TheJason]

#keepwinning

 

[mtmiller]

Anybody skip the gym because of this yet?
Kinda getting freaked out.

I was going to skip the gym, but then realized I would just go the the brewery instead. I rolled the dice and did them both. McKean presentation, so that was my excuse.

 

[Threedognight]

 

[Doublecluck]

I once used the arms of a Sitka base layer for toilet paper..it’s a tank top now..

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

Doesn't anybody save their corncobs anymore?

 

[jryoung]

Here in silicon valley there are efforts by the local authorities, but the vast majority of restrictions are coming from the companies themselves. Most have moved to have people work from home. Small businesses and gig economy folks just got sacrificed by big business.

 

[Sawtooth]

Doesn't anybody save their corncobs anymore?

Only in Richland, Brittany, only in Richland.

 

[Sytes]

Good news for Richard (devon deer). You will be allowed to come visit us! Other European country folks, guess not. No more incoming flights starting Friday, I believe. Guess they will have to do an end-around? How can we prevent someone from say, Italy from coming here by them going to Canada first? Or through Brazil? Should be interesting.

Travel with a nexus to any country CDC holds concern w/in "x" timeframe is a trigger mechanism.
If (example) an AU citizen routed through a country of concern then routes to U.S. within "x" timeframe, that's a trigger for Officers to conduct further inspection, CDC counterpart accessible.
Health concerns are grounds for inadmissibility.

 

[Tradewind]

Wait a month and ask this question. The flu is already established in society, Coronavirus is just now spreading. Coronavirus spreads much faster and is much deadlier. WHO is estimating 20% to 60% worldwide contamination. Current death rate is 3.4%. Cut the death rate to 1% of 20% of 7.8B people and you have 15M dead.
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That's like asking why anyone would panic when only the fuse has been lit because there hasn't been an explosion yet.

Estimates are that we are 3-4 weeks away from the peak in new cases on a weekly basis.
And the infectious disease specialist I read says we likely have a lot a people walking around who already have the virus
but have not been tested. So the 3.4% mortality rate will fall to something closer to 1%, heavily skewed towards the older
population who typically have other health issues.

For comparison here are flu numbers for 2019 from the American Hospital Assoc.
35,500,000 infections
490,600 hospitalizations
49,000 ICU admissions
34,200 deaths

A little early , I'd say to start panicking. But feel free to stock up on TP

 

[Trial153]

My regular flight to Chicago is dead, i would say its at 50% the typical capacity

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Dumb

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

She has spoken all is well now.

 

[Dave N]

 

[rmauch20]

She has spoken all is well now. View attachment 130592

They spelled high school dropout wrong.

 

[Trial153]

.......

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-answers-covid-19/

 

[noharleyyet]

Young lady is right tho, but which expert?

 

[VikingsGuy]

.......

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-answers-covid-19/

And this is the concern underlying those who push for early lock-downs -- quarantines won't put the genie back in the bottle but they can smooth out the curve to allow the med system to manage the influx. I don't know where the perfect balance lies, but I don't think the recent rash of cancellations of large aggregations events (sports, schools, meetings, etc) is an over reaction - it is probably the minimum prudent step.

 

[TheJason]

Young lady is right tho, but which expert?

Probably not Trish Regan.