Corona Virus

[Moo Daeng]

It's stressing the capacity of our hospitals regardless. The shortages of ventilators and protective equipment is real regardless of whatever the rate actually is.

 

[woahfraze]

8 hours ago, 4Corners said:

Please don’t link articles from the National review. We don’t want the huddle to be flagged as a terrorist website. 

Oh, it's largely extreme right-wing nonsense.  I just grabbed it from google because it succinctly showed that Neil Ferguson did not walk back his "doomsday" prediction. His original model covered a handful of different scenarios ranging from zero governmental and/or societal response to a China-style martial law-esque forced quarantine. The media obviously ran with the doomsday scenario for clicks. In his testimony, he discussed the model he felt most similarly described the UK's current response.  Of course, rather than actually searching out the full details of the situation, some of those among us prefer to run with the first inciting or misleading tweet or blogpost that passes in front of their eyes because it confirms a certain worldview.

[stirs]

12 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

It's stressing the capacity of our hospitals regardless. The shortages of ventilators and protective equipment is real regardless of whatever the rate actually is.

 

Real Question

Has anyone actually ran out these things yet?  Or, just don't have as many on hand as they would like at this point?  Most seem to be directing as needed, mostly to NY

[TheRumGone]

Boris Johnson tested positive 

oh weeeeee mayne

[Wes21]

10 minutes ago, stirs said:

Real Question

Has anyone actually ran out these things yet?  Or, just don't have as many on hand as they would like at this point?  Most seem to be directing as needed, mostly to NY

I wonder the same thing.  I've heard alot of what ifs and looking ahead, but not alot of reality.

24 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

It's stressing the capacity of our hospitals regardless. The shortages of ventilators and protective equipment is real regardless of whatever the rate actually is.

 

There appears to be stress in a few hotspots that are densely populated.  Other than that, the "system" doesn't seem to be overly stressed.  Since alot of our media comes out of New York, when they experience something the talking heads have a way of making it seem like the entire country is going thru the same thing.  They are not.

[stirs]

And unless all the reports are wrong, the entire count of death due to coronavirus in the entire world so far, just caught up yesterday to what we here in the US have lost already this seasonal flu season for 2019-2020

[Harbingers]

Linking this over here too cause why not. It’s from the small business part of the CARE ACT, put together by Save Restaurants coalition. 
 

CARE ACT UPDATE 

[Moo Daeng]

3 minutes ago, stirs said:

And unless all the reports are wrong, the entire count of death due to coronavirus in the entire world so far, just caught up yesterday to what we here in the US have lost already this seasonal flu season for 2019-2020

That's great news? We reached in like a month what it took since November to get with exponential growth that is just ramping up . Wonderful!

[Moo Daeng]

47 minutes ago, stirs said:

Real Question

Has anyone actually ran out these things yet?  Or, just don't have as many on hand as they would like at this point?  Most seem to be directing as needed, mostly to NY

yes, all around the world. Luckily we have finally got things orgainized here and industry is now kicking in to frantically manufacture all these things.

They are reusing equipment this week out of necessity. They are making their own equipment and protective ware. Local technical schools are volunteering to manufacture these items as fast as they can using 3D Printers. 

 

Edited March 27, 2020 by Moo Daeng

[stirs]

54 minutes ago, woahfraze said:

Oh, it's largely extreme right-wing nonsense.  I just grabbed it from google because it succinctly showed that Neil Ferguson did not walk back his "doomsday" prediction. His original model covered a handful of different scenarios ranging from zero governmental and/or societal response to a China-style martial law-esque forced quarantine. The media obviously ran with the doomsday scenario for clicks. In his testimony, he discussed the model he felt most similarly described the UK's current response.  Of course, rather than actually searching out the full details of the situation, some of those among us prefer to run with the first inciting or misleading tweet or blogpost that passes in front of their eyes because it confirms a certain worldview.

We have discussed this many times in this thread.

Dr Burks said the other day that the media and their doomsday reporting were scaring people sans facts.  Clicks are kings to a stupid, reactionary public

[stirs]

2 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

That's great news? We reached in like a month what it took since November to get with exponential growth that is just ramping up . Wonderful!

World coronavirus total death 24000

Seasonal flu in US  24000

US coronavirus  1300

[stirs]

3 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

yes, all around the world. Luckily we have finally got things orgainized here and industry is now kicking in to frantically manufacture all these things.

They are reusing equipment this week out of necessity. They are making their own equipment and protective ware. Local technical schools are volunteering to manufacture these items as fast as they can using 3D Printers. 

 

As it should be.

Nobody needs 4 million rolls of TP in their basement, just the ability to get them if needed.

[4Corners]

It certainly looks like that US “leaders” and I use the word “leaders” very loosely for a handful of individuals, have made the decision to just let the virus run its course and then we will have a big party and claim we defeated the virus once it has peaked. Sad and embarrassing. 

[Wes21]

30 minutes ago, stirs said:

As it should be.

Nobody needs 4 million rolls of TP in their basement, just the ability to get them if needed.

As a side note to that, the Wal-Mart around the corner from my job finally has TP in stock.  Its not much, its probably 10-15% of what they normally carry, but you can walk in and choose between about 4 different brands of 6 packs now.  The way they did it was to finally start enforcing a strict 1 pack per customer rule.  Now they are slowly building back up their TP stock.