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58 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

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.

Medical research is huge in Seattle, they were probably the most ready for this

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19 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Medical research is huge in Seattle, they were probably the most ready for this

They shut stuff down pretty early on.  I work with a supplier out of Seattle and they shut down the facility and were working from home (where possible) before it was even a thought in my mind that other areas would start doing the same.

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30 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Medical research is huge in Seattle, they were probably the most ready for this

My friend is a nurse in Seattle. They were anything but ready for this. His hospital had 6 masks for the entire hospital when this started. They still don’t have enough PPE. The only place that could handle testing was the university of Washington. For a while, they were closing on the weekends. Total WTF stuff.

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I wouldn’t even look at an overall chart of American cases. I’d look at each state as an individual country. There’s gonna be peaks at different times across the country. 
 

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/chicago-er-doctor-explains-why-coronavirus-pandemic-scares-him/

 

here’s another vid from a doctor in West Chicago.

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2 hours ago, raz said:

from talking to friends in the healthcare industry here i don't think that's the case.    people are being advised to not get tested, and to not go to the hospital if they can still breathe.   

This was the advice given to me.  Stay home unless I have trouble breathing, then head to ER immediately. Pretty much don't waste a test and medical staffs time if I'm not in serious trouble.  

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Just now, Wyank said:

This was the advice given to me.  Stay home unless I have trouble breathing, then head to ER immediately. Pretty much don't waste a test and medical staffs time if I'm not in serious trouble.  

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.

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21 hours ago, Tbe said:

True story. I have a friend that owns a company that works with large pieces of granite. It is far cheaper for him to import these large pieces of granite from China and ship it to Georgia than it is to buy the same granite from a quarry in West Virginia. He hates it, but he’d be out of business if he didn’t do it.

Also, knowledge work is not a joke. Someday, China’s economic model will be replaced by robotics. Everything will be manufactured in fully autonomous factories strategically placed near population centers to cut down on transport costs.   That would be the case now, but slaves are cheaper than robots at the moment.

That was what I explained earlier too. Build big ton-age dump truck beds that take up loads of surface area, ship them across the world, unload them, and transport them to your operation. THAT is WAAAY cheaper than local production!?!?!?! That is wrong, plain wrong. 

Right now China is already replacing slave labor with robotics in some fields. Its already happened is a few areas, the problem is start-up cost. A robot arm doesnt need sick leave/vacation, doesnt need a union, works 24/7/365, much faster, etc etc.  

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26 minutes ago, Basbear said:

Right now China is already replacing slave labor with robotics in some fields. Its already happened is a few areas, the problem is start-up cost. A robot arm doesnt need sick leave/vacation, doesnt need a union, works 24/7/365, much faster, etc etc.  

This is part of what companies have found out by locating operations in Mexico.  Obviously they are not like a robot, but Mexican labor forces tend to be more reliable (less complaining, less sick days, less vacation) than American labor.

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