kungfoodude

Exactly. We aren't going to do the things that would make things safer for the people and not place the undue burden on anyone but the populace. We are more than capable of funding testing in this country and the government paying for it. But that won't happen. Ever. So, you may as well open back up. If the people are going to be forced to bear the entire burden of the epidemic, at least they will have the ability to decide for themselves how they want to handle it.

You are making an assumption that vaccine is coming. SARS 1 still does not have a vaccine to this day. That unemployment is going to run out. And those people will not have jobs. Those small businesses that closed aren't going to re-open. If you think the government is going to take take of us, you are being willfully ignorant of the history of this country and it's attitudes and actions towards it citizens. As I said, I'm sick of it and I am done with it. If anything, the fact that all those things seem to have been largely abandoned by the populace speaks volumes. People are just over it.

Testing stopped the outbreak at my workplace. Every employee got tested every week. People got quarantined and they did contact tracing. There hasn't been a positive case on site for about 2 weeks now.

I don't like M&M's so I'd just hand them back. We make calculated risks every day. Driving cars, eating processed food, smoking, eating food not nuked to the "proper" temp. It's part of life. I wasn't particularly worried basically at any point, even when at my workplace outside of Detroit they had over 250 positive cases and over 500 quarantined. I am not in the high risk category so my odds of perishing are very low. I wash my hands anyway and I wear the masks because I am required. Other that, I don't give much more of a poo now than I did then. I am not gonna let fear dictate whatever long or short life I have remaining, especially when the risk is so very low. This is going to keep happening. Outbreaks happen. Life can't grind to a halt because of each calamity. Evaluate the risks, avoid the high risks and just keep trucking along.

I have been basically all over Michigan and Ohio for the past 2 months and you can pretty clearly see people are relaxing the social distancing, mask wearing, etc. Honestly, most people are just sort of over the whole thing. I suspect we are gonna see the cases jump very high, the infection rates skyrocket and basically end up with roughly the same result as if we had just simply done nothing at all. TBQH, looking at the way the virus has moved and some of the obvious economic damage to people that actually matter(small businesses and people who are now unemployed), we probably should have simply just done nothing anyway. But, that's probably a callous take. For myself, if it starts going in breakaway mode again, I'm not really going to go out of my way to actively avoid it. fug it, I've seen the statistics, I'll take my chances. I'm just really over all this and I think most people are starting to feel that way.

Yeah for poo like that I always do UPS. If I really need it there on a deadline. USPS cannot get it done. And the Ground is cheap AF. BUT.....if it can fit in a flat rate box....it is hard to beat USPS. And you can't fug with their International rates, either.

Damn. How did I miss that?

Permanent???

What?? When did that change?

Except you charge out the ass for weekend delivery.

USPS > UPS > DHL > Pony Express > putting it in the river in the general direction of the destination > attaching it to a balloon > setting it on fire > FedEx

Lol. Talking about reading into an article what you want. The modeler says they aren't using it correctly and the model clearly comes with a disclaimer about what it is for. Not his fault some dummies in NC can't figure it out or use it properly. "I don't need those fuging directions. I can figure out how to put it together."

I won't say that very early on that I said the economic impacts of staying in quarantine would far outweigh the death toll from this virus but.......

Supposedly those are not very accurate. They scrapped them here after round one of nasal swabs.

The finger prick test?

Yeah, they are gonna make everyone do this three more fuging times. We took antibody tests too. This is partly to salvage a situation in which a power plant is offline and doesn't have enough people to get it operational again but it's also a local university that is doing the testing, so at some level I feel like this is them improving/testing their process, as well. It's unpleasant but I am generally okay with that. Better testing is a net positive. The utility is very lucky the local media has not caught wind of all this, considering they have effectively tripled the amount of infections in the entire county in less than two weeks. The test is unpleasant but we give kids a bunch of shots too. It's just the price of admission. At some point a reliable test needs to be administered that can give more accurate results quickly, however. The lag time in results is a big weakness.

420k? Oh Colorado....even in unemployment you can't get off the weed.

241 positive cases at work now. Pretty solid. Also, the nasal swab test sucks. They try to scrub your fuging frontal lobe.

Had an antibody test(double negatives) and an RNA test recently. Workplace is a huge bloom in Michigan. 75 confirmed cases so far, 260+ quarantined. Expecting to see 100-300 positives from this facility.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/experts-think-we-need-an-army-of-public-health-workers-to-safely-return-to-normal/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-did-the-world-shut-down-for-covid-19-but-not-ebola-sars-or-swine-flu/

See the 538 article posted earlier regarding case counts.

I have been traveling across PA, through OH and now to Detroit. It is funny to see the variations in how people in each area deal with this pandemic.

Probably not many can. I'll wager no one actually read the whole article.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/ A long read(more than the average Huddler can handle) but a good look at why being hyper focused on case counts can be very misleading.

Yeah, it is so fuging strange. Eventually you just accept it and filter basically everything.