LinvilleGorge

It's on the rise because they tried to return to something resembling normalcy. They'll get it back in check again. We failed miserably because while the rest of the world was showing us our future and we should've been stockpiling PPE and sourcing testing, we were instead proclaiming the pandemic a hoax. When the rest of the world took test provided by WHO, we said no thanks we'll make out own. Those tests were faulty. We completely missed the window to avoid a widespread outbreak here. Keep thinking we did a great job. Nothing about it was great. It was completely and utterly botched every step along the way and now we get to pay the price.

That's not accurate. South Korea was. They saw SARS and they were ready for it if it happened again. Both South Korea and America had their first case on January 20th. Fast forward three and a half months and South Korea has a little over 10k cases and has lost a total of 183 people. Meanwhile, we have nearly as many deaths as they have total cases and we have over 330k diagnosed cases despite terrible access to tests. That number is almost certainly MUCH higher. We failed catastrophically. When we should have been preparing, our President was calling the pandemic a hoax. It's unforgivable.

It's everywhere. I hope this doesn't get as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, but I'm not sure if there's any logical reason that it won't. That one killed 50 million globally and 675,000 in the U.S.

poo is about the hit the fan virtually everywhere

That's basically how I understand it here in CO too. If you think you have it but you're not having trouble breathing, just stay your ass at home and isolate. We'll probably never really have a clue how many people actually had this thing.

Maybe in the medical response but I don't think that has anything to do with how well they've handled the spread.

The interesting one for me is Washington. Early on it looked like the Seattle area was going to be what NYC ended up becoming. Instead, they'll be dropping out of the top 10 states very soon. They're barely hanging on at #10 as it is.

Brace for impact. At the current trajectory, we're looking at 100,000 dead Americans 10 days from now. Let's hope that curve begins to flatten. The last two data points indicate that we may be seeing the beginnings of that.

A lot of health insurance plans already have some things like this.

Yeah, there's always going to be a huge need for one on one attention, especially in that area. I just think we can do much better with our current technology connecting people remotely for both education and work.

I think this will only accelerate the adoption of working and educating remotely. There will be some really cool poo on that front that emerges from this IMO.

Because they have state sponsored commercial espionage programs to steal everyone's poo and rip it off.

Wait, you mean our government consisting of professional politicians bought and paid for by wealthy financiers and large corporate donors don't care about anyone who doesn't have the disposable income to finance their campaigns and line their pockets? I'm shocked.

That's what I said a long time ago. The problem is that in the link I posted awhile back from the South Korean expert, he specifically said that up to 20% of carriers are asymptomatic. You'd still have a lot of people out and about after those 14 days who were unknowing carriers. At the end of that day, that's why the only real way to get ahead of this is very widespread testing, you know like the countries who have actually managed this situation well did from the very beginning. With the disease already widespread here, we're basically left with no choice but to try to limit people's movement for long enough to allow the disease to completely run it's course and for people to no longer be contagious. These stay at home mandates will likely end up lasting into mid-summer.

I just think it would be a reckless move right now considering we're struggling to provide our healthcare workers and other front line types with the necessary protective equipment they need due to their higher risk of exposure. Save that stuff for those at the highest levels of exposure. Karen and her kids don't need to be wearing N95s to walk their dog around the block.

Good luck with that. We don't even have enough to properly supply our healthcare providers, much less if all 330 million of us are forced to try to source them for ourselves.

I honestly expected these mandates to last into the summer. What I didn't expect is for that to be announced now. I expected it to just keep getting extended by a couple of weeks or a month or so at a time.

If you're going to watch any one thing on the coronavirus, watch this: South Korea has handled this outbreak as well or better than any other country out there, so I'll take one of their leading expert's opinion on the matter over just about anyone else's.

I just think the lab designed virus theory is tinfoil hat stuff. This isn't the first time we've seen a novel coronavirus jump the species barrier in Chinese wet market.

China is calling for the trade in wild animals to be strictly prohibited. Peak irony... we've achieved it.

If you have lung issues, I'd be staying your ass at home.

Meanwhile, in Italy only three weeks into their lockdown it seems like the people might be about to their breaking point. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italy-becoming-impatient-with-lockdown-and-social-unrest-is-brewing-11965122 This is why it's so dangerous to mislead people that thinks are going to be back to normal in a matter of weeks. They're not. You gotta set proper expectations. The UK is setting 3-6 month expectations for social distancing protocols. Not to say things are going to be completely locked down that long, but we're going to be dealing with a "new normal" for quite some time.

Yeah, my dad's father passed away this morning. Sucks, but it was time. He had advanced emphysema from a lifetime of working in a carbon plant. I really feel for my grandmother right now. Funerals are sad, but the gathering of people and sharing of stories does help the healing process and that's just not possible right now and people of their generation in that area aren't exactly the most tech savvy to make a virtual funeral much of a possibility. I'm just worried that as word gets out the community is going to start flocking there anyway.

Well, three just became two. :(

LOL! Nah, I hoarded beer. I think about half of my total was beer.