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Yeaup... dropping like a stone the last couple days. I'm not worried about it.

Yeah. It tends to go down after an initial outbreak, since usually there are a lot of un-counted cases at the beginning of an outbreak (for instance, otherwise healthy people who get COVID-19 may just think they have the normal flu and recover from it after bedrest. This can happen with a lot of people before the first person ends up at a hospital with a case that simply isn't going away.... so the death rates are higher in the first weeks. Until people know to look for the symptoms and report them).

But KotC is correct, if the number of cases gets high enough (and that's still a BIG if) then it can overwhelm existing infrastructure and the death rate can rise because the sick aren't able to be properly treated.

But I don't think it will get as high as he thinks... mainly because in the end it's a virus. There isn't a lot of medical treatment that is necessary other than hydration and keeping the body temperature reasonable. Otherwise healthy people can survive this, as they survive the flu with in-home care. It will be the elderly or otherwise sick who really need the hospital care.

This is one of those diseases that could really make a lot of vacancies in a nursing home if one person brings it in. (I remember the home my mother was in one year had a lot of flu deaths. They just couldn't stop it, even though everyone was vaccinated. Watched them wheel a person right out the front door in a black plastic bag on a random visit).

Low percent death rate doesn't mean much if you are one of the unlucky ones.

Yeah, but it's chimney season and those damned things are heavy!

^Good wif wurds...

Well we're all good.
Apparently today twitler told us that "It's going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear,"

Told you guys it wouldn't be an issue.

https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106413795-1582854284897cv740pxflatmapfeb27.png

How DARE you make an accusation as vile as that............................Comrade!

Currently running rampant through an elderly care facility in Kirkland. 2 dead and possibly 50 showing symptoms. That place is going to have a VERY high death rate.

Corona virus may have been here longer than realized. It may be more virulent than initially suspected. It may have unrealized as of yet vectors. We may be seeing an initial spike. It may have mutated. I think the only thing obvious right is how critical tracking is.

Had to go to Wally World yesterday. Shelves were cleared out of Anti-Bacterial soap. Plenty of regular soap left, though.

The irony of people using antibacterial soap to try to kill a virus.

Just wash yer damn crumb grabbers!

https://www.theonion.com/panicked-who-officials-not-sure-how-to-respond-after-co-1842060711?utm_source=TheOnion_Daily_RSS&utm_medium=email

It is really cleaning out that nursing home though. I would guess there's 50-75 residents and already 7 are dead.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/nursing-home-covid-19-outbreak-highlights-close-quarter-spread-200303220606434.html

we're toast, Spey...

never compromise

edited for clarity and brevity

Corona Virus Problem solved!

So now the idiot president is fighting over twitter regarding whether he told sick people to go to work.

Sigh.


He's technically correct. He didn't say they "should" go to work. He said:

This is not saying that they should go to work. But this is clearly indicating that going to work can be considered "safe". ie "Hey, look, all these people (hundreds of thousands even!) went to work and feel better".... For anyone who doesn't have sick days to use this is likely good enough.

ironically, I bet those employees at the retirement homes don't get a ton of sick days, and likely don't have much opportunity to not go in (they are frequently very understaffed).... so it was likely this thinking that led to the deaths in Kirkland.

We have an extraordinarily dumb president, who is completely unfit for this sort of scenario where messaging must be precise and coordinated.

Like 3 years ago?

I'm talking about consistent messaging. As in the president supports and reinforces the statements from their CDC, and does not contradict the statements of trained scientists.

This is not rocket surgery. I'm not asking twitler to even understand what the people with PhD's after their name say. I'm just asking him not to publicly contradict them.

....I have to assume his supporters do.


His supporters repeat his statements. They cheer when he makes these statements. I have to assume they are listening to what he says and responding to what he says.

I would have to assume they are even dumber than I currently assume they are if they also don't take his statements literally.

Keep in mind, if this just impacted his supporters I'd just sit back and laugh as Billy Bob went to his job at the Jiffy Lube with the coronavirus. But BillyBob may sneeze on the invoice he hands to someone's innocent little grandma who isn't a trump supporter.

It's dumb for him to contradict the CDC (even though I think he's half right). It's dumb for him to suggest people have gotten COVID19 and gone to work and been fine (even though he's probably half right here too, just not the magnitude). This is NOT how you message to control a virus.

So is it brain science?

Hmmm. I wonder where most of the cello comes from.

Good read:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/

Just talked with a guy having some custom fabrication done in a factory in China. All workers have been instructed to stay 6 feet apart from each other with no talking or group meetings.

This after they all returned after their trips back to their home villages for Chinese new year.