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My wife is already going crazy with just the thought of the kids being home for a month. I sent her the length to the Japan school link. She may single-handedly figure out a cure just to keep them from being home for a month.
Not known for sure, but so far it's thought that these re-infection cases are very rare -- not indicative of the illness in general.
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Abolutely true. I don't forsee a scenario where there are widespread or persistent water delivery issues. Even power will be kept on unless this has gone apocalyptic.Korea is absolutely killing it. They have drive-thru testing stations around town now. You pull up to a tent, get tested, park, and get your results without getting out of your car. Brilliant. Meanwhile the CDC is still not even ALLOWING hospitals to test suspected cases unless the person has Wuhan tattooed on their forehead and on their deathbed.
I've not gotten to the buying a solar panel point, but I did realize my emergency weather radio (we're in tornado alley) has a small solar panel + handcrank and internal battery that can be used to charge phones if needed. Pretty slick for $20.
Yeah, the fact that his guy sat in a hospital for over a week with COVID-19 and the CDC kept refusing to test him is insane. If he was badly symptomatic he could have been caught this in the wild anytime between Feb ~5th and Feb ~15th.
9000 sqft Brick Cabin or GTFO.
IV and Saline are a bad idea for the average person for sure, but keeping fever down, mitigating coughing, and staying hydrated seem to be critical. Having supplies on hand to handle that is smart, as shortages will likely present themselves.
A mutual friend's family owns a chain of pediatric clinics and set him up last year sometime. Awesome that Delta is doing this. My flights to Canada in 2+ weeks are on Delta. Good to know if it gets worse there, I should get credit (~$1k)
Love how Japan / China are handling this. Unfortunately their average citizen is way smarter / more responsible than the average american. I see a lot of numbskulls ignoring any CDC guidance to shelter in place, etc.
Did a bit of reading on this. Apparently similar to Dengue Fever where some folks don't develop proper antibodies, then when exposed again, the weak antibodies actually "help" the virus attack healthy cells... perhaps cytokine storm scenario? I'm no expert. @Terminalxylem prob can explain.
My Infrared BBQ Thermometer might come in handy!Water isn't one of the things I'm worried about.
South Korea is militant about this kind of stuff and the public does what they are told. Messaged with me friend on base just outside of Seoul last night, base is screening everyone coming and going at gates, restricting travel off post, shut down schools/church services/social gatherings last week and went virtual.
Smart move, can't see Olympics happening given the current backdrop. We may have weathered the worst of the storm by may/June but I don't think we'll be anywhere near declaring victory of this thing by then. You should be preparing for this in the States as well, virtual school should be one of the first things done if this starts to pop up in communities.
Bingo...
by JTC.This kills me. Earlier in this thread I posted about a coworker Suk-Lee who went home to Malaysia as this was kicking off. Flew back via China. Self quarantined less than the mandatory 14 days because "I have onsite meeting!".
Damn.. best wishes GB. I'm sure she's fine. Teachers have killer immune systems
Spitballing:
Yeah, but that's just general guards against transmission. I don't get how these measure prevent the cases they do have from going critical.
Thanks for posting this. It was a great listen and points a bad picture of the testing situation here in the US, which is probably the only thing we can really be doing at this point.
Just listened to this podcast quoted earlier, I recommend we all do https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eric-feigl-ding-the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-inevitable/id1438148082?i=1000466793429
Their government has been pretty unimpressive the past few years, but, the will of the people, etc.
I’m hearing reports that Mezcal in conjunction with low level induction of electrical currents has shown promise in studies.
Based on my son's experience with swine flu in 2009, I totally buy into this. He had a fever and cough. That was it.
Am I a bad bad person for laughing really hard at this? (Stupid voice in my head that "acts out" quotes) 
I'm traveling down to hospitals in Florida twice in March. RIP Nashville, with my luck I'm sure I'm some horrible super spreader.
Sorry, man -- you're buddy is going to be featured on a NatGeo program at some point.Before it's asked, yes my buddy with the house has a full Med kit with case or two of saline and all necessary IV gear + Training to administer.
The test right now is a ####show, they basically have to do a full dna workup on you. This should scale down soon. In theory.
1) Catching viral infections a second time is not common, but it's not so rare as to be suspicious. Some people's immune systems don't build immunity after one exposure.
She is VERY "FOB-ish" Thick Thick accent. So your mental reading is likely very accurate. And yes, in context it makes me laugh too.
It's a surprisingly difficult habit to break.why is it every time this gets posted and I'm reading it, I find myself scratching my nose or rubbing my eye or something?
Not to be difficult, but I can't/don't fit podcasts into my life (really ... it's like that). Can you (or anyone) give the Cliffs here?
Something is off -- I thought people weren't getting tested merely for the asking?
He's definitely on the high side of the scale. He's not one of those weirdos with bug out compounds and bunkers or shipping containers filled with shelves of weird canned crap, farm animals and such.... But he's definitely got his house loaded for bear (but stashed away, you'd never know if you were there).
A pandemic is going to happen and community spread is likely already here. More infectious then the flu. The US system of testing is ####ed up and way behind the game compared to what S. Korea and China are doing. Don't go panic shopping but not bad idea to stock up on some non-perishable goods. Masks aren't really necessary or helpful but he wouldn't say don't buy them if you can find them. Guy was worried on scale of 6 of 10 and major focus was testing needs to be significantly improved so they can slow spread until vaccine is ready. Biggest risk is overstretching the health case system which is not designed to handle such a load of cases. We can't just go build a hospital in a week like China.
Not to mention, going to the hospital for a week in the US costs way too much for your average person. Let alone someone without insurance.
And most people can’t take time off work without getting fired/being broke. Our whole stupid country is so ill prepared for this.
You should have answered him back "I won't come knocking, I'm coming guns blazing!" just to see the guy blow a gasket.
The parts in red actually make it WORSE.
"Secret crazy" trumps "known crazy" seven days a week.
I went to Whole Foods last night; I had to make two trips for all the water, then loaded up on canned goods. People were looking at me like I was insane
Trump wants him out as VP so that if somehow he gets impeached he has fresh blood in that seat to take over. /conspiracy
I get it GB, they aren't for everybody. A lot of info in there to summarize. You do Twitter? Follow this guy https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
Thanks for posting this, Redwes. So ... Dr. Feigl-Ding has been reading this thread?
I believe he said one of his colleagues at Harvard said that with in a year 40-60% of the world will be infected.
Considering you can get it more than once, like the flu, I'm not sure this would make sense.
