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[NEO]

We shall see. When I see big business making drastic moves it’s a sign. For example Disney.

What’s going on in Italy hog? They are slightly ahead of us in this. You want to live in that world? Are they over reacting?

Italy and Europe as a whole are much more condensed and not spread out like the us.

They are literally stacked on top of each other in many areas. It’s basucally nyc but a country.

 

[hog88]

We shall see. When I see big business making drastic moves it’s a sign. For example Disney.

Big business is reacting to the threat of lawsuits and the increasing awards being handed out. This is lawyer induced not facts.

 

[NEO]

I am 100% certain that your comment is in no way helpful to the conversation or relevant.

Most of what I say isn’t helpful but it’s based on truth.

See, you didn’t say it wasn’t true. You just said it wasn’t helping.

 

[NEO]

Big business is reacting to the threat of lawsuits and the increasing awards being handed out. This is lawyer induced not facts.

This is the post that needs to be stickied!

It’s all because we are a sue you society and the companies can see it coming miles away.

 

[NEO]

We shall see. When I see big business making drastic moves it’s a sign. For example Disney.

What’s going on in Italy hog? They are slightly ahead of us in this. You want to live in that world? Are they over reacting?

Another part is these businesses will write this off as a loss and they also know this will create massive demand once they are open again.

 

[volfanhill]

Big business is reacting to the threat of lawsuits and the increasing awards being handed out. This is lawyer induced not facts.

In your estimate, what’s the most number of US citizens who die from this?

 

[volfanhill]

Another part is these businesses will write this off as a loss and they also know this will create massive demand once they are open again.

Wrong. This right now is all about cash on hand. Can you weather the storm. It’s going to be ugly for small business and cash poor companies.

 

[NEO]

In your estimate, what’s the most number of US citizens who die from this?

2 percent of however many get infected.

How many get infected is the X factor and other than martial law and home lockdown being implemented nothing would change the eventual infected number.

 

[NEO]

Wrong. This right now is all about cash on hand. Can you weather the storm. It’s going to be ugly for small business and cash poor companies.

Some small businesses are booming right now. Grocery stores are loving it. Liquor stores are loving it.

This has actually spiked some.

Our government has also maxed out its oil reserves at bottom dollar due to this.

 

[NEO]

Wrong. This right now is all about cash on hand. Can you weather the storm. It’s going to be ugly for small business and cash poor companies.

I am not worried

 

[hUTch2002]

Could be that I speak Alcoholic, in Pelosi's case, and ADHD in Biden's... but I've not mastered Idiot, yet. But, I'm working on it.

Keep listening to AOC. You’ll get there.

 

[joevol33]

Had an interesting thought pop up after evening meditation..where are the families of the dead nursing home patients in Washington State? If your family member died because the government mishandled a serious virus outbreak wouldn’t you be raising a ruckus about something? Have any of them been on the orange man bad news channels? That’s a serious question as I don’t watch tv news channels.

Interesting point

 

[bnhunt]

How you spinning this one, righties?
News from Samsung disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

 

[Weezer]

People who fell healthy will make others sick. Which is why some on here who claim they will not do anything different in their lives as long as they don’t feel ill are dangerous dumb F’s.

I disagree. Life is dangerous. Tomorrows aren't guaranteed. It's not reasonable to shut everything down in fear and panic. Yes, people have died, and yes, more people will die. Hell, I'm in that high risk group of dying if I get the nasty form of this bug. But you can't stop living your life while you still have it. And the onus of this virus spreading falls on no one.

 

[Weezer]

We shall see. When I see big business making drastic moves it’s a sign. For example Disney.

What’s going on in Italy hog? They are slightly ahead of us in this. You want to live in that world? Are they over reacting?

I don't think it's a sign that they know more than anyone else. I think it's a sign that they're giving in to the fear and the panic.

 

[Weezer]

How you spinning this one, righties?
News from Samsung disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

 

[mannclaubray]

I hope someone somewhere tracks the suicide rate among men and how it correlates with the loss of a massive portion of people's lives after something so critical as the cancellation pf sports. Who knows how many people have absolutely nothing to do at all right now. I'm not suggesting anyone is killing themselves as a conscious response to this but depression is not something to be trifled with. People don't always know why they are depressed, and they don't always have a direct reason why they want to take their lives. People should find some other interests but their are millions who don't have any other interests and don't have anything else to do.

 

[InVOLuntary]

This is from a poster I the recruiting forum.

Apologies in advance. Long post-night-shift observations coming.

My main fear is that we're more on-course to be like Italy. As I've revealed in prior posts, I'm an ER doc in the San Francisco area. We had our first positive at my hospital in January. The testing criteria were so geographically strict initially that we were basically shut down from testing anyone aside from critically ill, admitted patients for the next month and change. We could see on the ground that we were letting through suspicious cases, and so it was no surprise that we had community transmission when we did with the degree of business travel from Silicon Valley to China (similar in the Seattle area). I have implicit trust in the CDC - the folks I've interacted with from CDC in the past have been nothing short of spectacular. Based on what I understand, they tried to make a comprehensive test - a COVID component (which functioned perfectly) and a much, much broader PCR viral panel that likely mirrors a test I have available at my hospital (testing for 15-20 common respiratory viruses and a few bacterial pathogens) which we use frequently to avoid invasive workups in small children and which is also useful in the elderly. That would allow hospitals that didn't have the capacity to run a PCR test on their own to not only get a +/- on COVID, but would give some confirmation to a negative COVID test by potentially providing an alternative explanation for symptoms with diagnosis of another viral illness. The viral panel was evidently the problem, as it returned inconclusive results. That forced a recall, and set us back by weeks. They tried to make it perfect for all settings, but proved once again that doing something very complex, for the first time, at speed, is very hard. The only real knock I have on the initial plan was that I think that there was a false sense of security that in concert with the very draconian response in China, we would be able to catch cases with airport screening, and that locally-based testing - versus a 3-4 day turnaround to send a test to the reference lab in Atlanta - wouldn't be necessary. I think that they were expecting much lower numbers of tests initially, and the lack of available test kits forced them into very restrictive testing criteria.

As a result, we missed our chance at any significant local control of infection here. An earlier declaration of a national state of emergency would have at least loosened the reins on University medical centers and private labs to get their own tests approved sooner. That has finally happened, and the news today was positive, though far, far too late.

I don't have exact numbers, but I would imagine that we are in the mid-teens in terms of positive tests in my medium-sized hospital. A couple deaths (one as-yet unreported, likely due to coroner review). Five or so positives in the hospital. A number of recovered patients discharged. A number of pending tests in the ED this morning with very suspicious stories.

Testing has definitely improved in the last week, and I am now able to be a doctor again and make testing decisions based on my clinical thinking, which is a definite plus. My gripe is that if we all had been able to do this a month or two ago, we might have been able to slow community transmission with strict quarantines for positive patients as opposed to a catch-and-release method with a hopeful self-quarantine. Much less effective if you as a patient can convince yourself that you might not have the disease and you aren't really that likely to kill your neighbors accidentally if you go out.

This is very much hub-and-spoke transportation-based spread. Initial cases largely clustered around major international airports. Now new cases cropping up in regional airport cities. Soon to arrive in rural areas. We aren't likely to be as good at strict quarantine for hard-hit geographic areas as the Chinese. Lots of cat-herding would be necessary to make that happen, and a nation of 330+ million unruly, self-important and indignant cats will make that quite difficult, until the cats are well and truly concerned.

We found out thursday evening that today is the last day of school for my three kids until April 20th. While that really, really sucks for a household with two full-time physicians and no local family support, I'm in full agreement. Each day in the ED over the last two weeks has had just a bit more flavor of exponential spread - more and more suspicious cases each day. My hospital is still coping relatively well, but even before this started, we were running at close to capacity with general medical illness and wintertime flu, pneumonia and other viral illnesses. The hospital has definitely hired up and tried to open new areas that were previously underutilized in other roles, but the fact remains that we (and most other hospitals) don't have that much unused capacity left over.

The whole idea of shutting everything down is to decrease the rate of transmission and flatten the exponential growth curve. The same number of people will contract the virus, but over a longer time period, hopefully leaving us in a situation that we can flex up to handle. The alternative (which is feeling more concerningly real by the day, at least in my area) is that hospital resources are at some point suddenly outstripped by the flood of patients and we are in an Italy, Wuhan or Katrina-like nightmare situation, making horrific decisions because we have no other options.

That's the rationale behind all the seemingly knee-jerk closures. If you're in East TN, behavior change and expanded testing still have a chance to help out significantly given the likely small degree of local spread to this point. This isn't some horrible disease that will kill us all. It is far, far worse for those in my parents generation than for me or my kids. But given the prolonged recovery time, even five of those patients per day admitted to most hospitals will quickly outstrip our capacity to keep things under control. The real challenge now is to see if we can mount a coordinated public response to limit the rate of spread to avoid a worst-case-scenario. If we can do that, the next step will be looking outward to try to help keep the rest of the developing world (just now starting to be touched by COVID) from arriving at the worst-case-scenario, with far more dire political stability and societal consequences.

In the meantime, this is going to suck for at least the next few months. The economy is going to take a huge hit. Try to support local businesses - get take-out even if you're too concerned to go out to dinner. Small businesses are going to need all the help they can get. The other group that is going to be absolutely (and legitimately) terrified by all this is the over-60 crowd. Offer to run errands, get groceries, so that they don't have to run the risk of doing it themselves. You may save a life. At the least, you'll take some of the fear out of their daily lives.

This was always coming, regardless of governmental missteps on both sides of the Pacific. And something like this will always come again - it's just a matter of time and chance. I think that the lesson is that regardless of political divisions and the hyperpartisanship of the last few decades, we are, together, facing a stark threat. If we can pull in the same direction as a group (and more broadly, as a species), we can muddle through, hopefully without too much personal or societal damage. If we can't, this gets much uglier and the fallout reverberates around the world for years.

 

[zeppelin128]

What I always wonder with things like this, especially now that Trump has confirmed the Democratic hoax, is two things. Will Red Hats be able to criticize Dear Leader, and will progressives be able to compliment Trump on things he does well regarding coronavirus?

 

[Electric Orange]

What I always wonder with things like this, especially now that Trump has confirmed the Democratic hoax, is two things. Will Red Hats be able to criticize Dear Leader, and will progressives be able to compliment Trump on things he does well regarding coronavirus?

One can only hope

 

[Electric Orange]

"Covid-19 Is An Exponential Threat" - Why Global Politicians & Business Leaders Must Act Now

There are a lot of things that need to change AFTER we get this under control.

 

[Stew Cook]

What I always wonder with things like this, especially now that Trump has confirmed the Democratic hoax, is two things. Will Red Hats be able to criticize Dear Leader, and will progressives be able to compliment Trump on things he does well regarding coronavirus?

It's good that Trump is relying less on his "hunches" and listening to experts. I believe some here are still running with his initial claims of media/Democrat hoax. Maybe they feel Trump caved to media pressure or something.

 

[Sandman 423]

Of course. One chose to listen to the WHO and one didn't. To suggest it's not part of the job because Trump is ignorant, is expected. That dumb F said Doctors were coming up to him asking how he knew so much about it. Has Trump convinced you he is not an idiot?

No and neither have you,but I am convinced that if Trump pooped out a golden turd, you would complain that it smelled like sh8tski.

 

[Sandman 423]

How you spinning this one, righties?
News from Samsung disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised

How well did that unit preform with H1N1?

 

[Stew Cook]

So, Italy is at 7% fatality rate of confirmed cases. I guess that number is inflated considerably, given that healthy infected probably aren't being tested.

Even so, this ain't the flu, folks.