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This does fall in line with the initial guidance when they went on lockdown on March 9 that they were about 2 weeks away from their peak. I’d be interested in seeing their ‘flatten the curve’ progress/point of the curve.
Hopefully we keep up the social distancing (and more people comply) over the next several weeks so we can also start a better trend.
I'm in the defense industry, and so far, we are considered "essential." Our parent company is supposed to send us a form letter than employees can show police or anyone who questions whether they should be out or not.
He declared a national emergency, is trying to help those that get impacted by the fallout (brink of economic collapse) of the decisions being made at local levels, is working towards getting more resources, pushing hard to try and find a treatment/cure. What other sorts of solutions are there beyond the whole "shut down the world for 3 months" solution?
Appreciate your response. As essential as this part of the conversation is, I'll withhold further comment because, well, "politics"
It's not about how much take out people were doing before the crisis. It's about how much dining they were doing. By eliminating the dining, a ton of food distribution was shifted over to grocery stores. People need to replace their behavior of dining with takeout/delivery or else the burden they put on grocery stores is more than it can handle.
*Sigh*
I don't disagree with you but this thread will quickly get bogged down with fighting if we go this route. We already have enough arguing as is in this thread and a long thread in PSF re: government response to crisis.
So medical advice is ok but prep advice isn't? Where exactly is the line on what you believe is acceptable and how did you arrive at it?
This sounds like a character from an alternative-universe James Bond movie in which Bond is gay.
Yeah, and I do understand that human life is extremely valuable. But there's obviously some sort of limits here. Otherwise we would just spend infinity dollars every year trying to make sure everyone is happy and healthy.
It's the half measures that are hurting us right now. Hurts both the medical and economy side.
I would love to end social distancing sooner than later. That doesn’t make me a destroyer of science.
Can we talk about govt. response in the PSF? People have varying views on it and would rather avoid this thread get swamped with it when there is a whole thread in PSF dedicated to that stuff.
No,.but your aren't the President of the United States who has incredible influence on tens of millions of people and the responsibility to keep all of us safe.
Yeah, that's fine, just there's a lot of overlap being social distancing is a huge theme and mandates on it are part of the government response.
I think the retesteds are reserved for healthcare workers who are urgently needed back to work.
Agree this is good news even if seeing 600 deaths is heart breaking. The worldometers site hasn't updated their graphs for new info but clearly looks like it is leveling off in last two days. This week is very critical.
Just listen to what Fauci and the other experts have to say during the daily briefings. It’s generally very good information.
And the administration was already behind the 8 ball because of things like the Federal stockpile of N95 masks were depleted in 2009 for H1N1 and never replenished
If it’s vague and likely to cause unnecessary panic I’d suggest not posting it
Why wouldn’t I? On Friday night I posted that the state of Virginia would be going to a shelter in place circumstance soon. The Governor comes out midday Monday with the order. You’re welcome for the heads up.
There would be more cases of teachers having been infected from kids from school. Or even parents getting it from kids.
PT is essential in many cases. People who need it or they will lose strength and or range of motion is important. My dad's home PT shows up. At the door he sanitises, masks up, gloves on. He is a healthcare worker who's helping people not become disabled, more disabled or bedridden.My son is a Physical Therapist and he's still being asked to work. Boss says PT has been deemed an essential service. Pisses me off. He sees dozens of potentially infected patients a day and then brings it home
Agree - Not saying there is a mystery, just that someone was cautioning about the low official “recovery” count vis a vis deaths, and that it will probably be understated for awhile due to possible lack of follow up testing
They are way too close to each other but at least they are food shopping for produce which is a lot different than going to the beach IMO.
Think they are saying you need two negatives tests to be recovered and clear you can't spread. Imagine that is awhile even after being symptom free. Also, not sure they really know if you can still spread once you become symptom free so being very cautious on this stuff.
Good gosh people. What will it take? We could be ahead of the curve by now, but every day this nonsense happens we fall farther behind, extending the time it will take to bend the curve and increasing the hospitalizations/deaths.
This is a non-sequitir -- are you trying to say that neither asymptomatic carriers nor symptomatic carriers are particularly dangerous?
If marijuana laws are any indication, people will default to the local rules, right?
Yes, other than the Trump portions it's usually very good info. Just let Pence run the show so Trump can go back to his Twitter feed.
The briefings are basically Trump reading prepared text, then giving some unscripted rah-rah and blah-blah, then he turns it over to the experts. The press Q&A is borderline unlistenable unless the experts are weighing in, since the reporters don't feel the need to ask them "gotcha" type questions.
Trump's gonna Trump, so I just tune him out for the most part.
Well overall I don't think either are all that dangerous and I'm not worried about getting infected. But if I were to get infected, I suspect it would be far more likely from someone that wasn't showing any symptoms. One reason being because they are less likely to seek medical attention. They are less likely to avoid people. Just because all people with symptoms don't behave universally doesn't mean it's not a significantly lower percentage.
Fine. Consider young adult carriers with lesser, allergy-type symptoms. Or 30-somethings in the same symptom boat.
Well, I didn’t say either of those things, but whatever. (I did initially use the term lockdown, immediately changed it to “shelter in place”). If you were able to get things from impacted stores over the weekend before this affects them, good on you.
I think because it can start basically with any symptom. Yesterday a rn thought for a few days it's a cold with her sneezes and other cold symptoms. Then a couple days later, body aches. Then it went on from there to testing positive for cv-19. She is being retested today so she can go back to work. One thing I like about CNN is they have a lot of how someone got cv-19, what was the timeline of symptoms, what their journey has been.
