Coronavirus (No politics)

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#3,726
OL SMOKEY said:
That’s a pretty broad assumption there. My daughter is an elementary school teacher and would much rather be in the classroom with her kids than “cooped” up at home collecting as you say. She is interacting with her students on a daily basis but realizes the time away from school that they are missing out on. She is also fortunate that she is getting paid while not at school but also feels terrible for the people who are not able to go to work and get paid!!!!
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Just imagine how she'd feel if she weren't getting paid.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'd like to see all public education permanently shifted to virtual learning. We could cut the cost of public education to a fraction of what it is currently and give home owners' the property tax break they all deserve. There are many good teachers, some good public schools, and a few good public school districts. Mostly though, it's taxpayer funded day care. Make parents decide between the actual cost of paying for all-day child care versus going to work and I can pretty much guarantee that as more and more parents elect to stay home and be a caretaker the shrinking labor market will drive up wages to where we can get back to families being able to maintain a middle class lifestyle with one working parent.
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The educational benefit, too, is that you don't have kids being bored when they're intellectually ahead. Dividing educational attainment and intelligence by age seems totally arbitrary to me.
 
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IPleadInsanity said:
That will last until his competition sends in the beautiful blonde salesperson to compete face to face.
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That happened about 20 years ago, and yes the men in the field complained and moaned that they "didn't have a chance".
Since much of the. Country has gone to corporate medical practices physicians don't seem to spend as much time listening to and looking at the sales person.
 
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#3,729
Go aeiou said:
That happened about 20 years ago, and yes the men in the field complained and moaned that they "didn't have a chance".
Since much of the. Country has gone to corporate medical practices physicians don't seem to spend as much time listening to and looking at the sales person.
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I bet they make time for attractive blondes!
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'd like to see all public education permanently shifted to virtual learning. We could cut the cost of public education to a fraction of what it is currently and give home owners' the property tax break they all deserve. There are many good teachers, some good public schools, and a few good public school districts. Mostly though, it's taxpayer funded day care. Make parents decide between the actual cost of paying for all-day child care versus going to work and I can pretty much guarantee that as more and more parents elect to stay home and be a caretaker the shrinking labor market will drive up wages to where we can get back to families being able to maintain a middle class lifestyle with one working parent.
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Public education is a sacred cow. Not going to happen.
 
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IPleadInsanity said:
I don't understand how this works on the start up? Our Knox County numbers could be perfect and 1 person from the infected area near Nashville (or any other area of the country) could come in with no symptoms and reverse that situation in 1 day. Don't we still need to stay in place in city, county or some other limited geographical area for this to work?
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Introducing a few active cases won't reverse the situation and cause a flare up if the numbers are heading down because the numbers are heading down due to contact patterns, etc. that prevent the number of active cases that are present from causing a flare up. So, a few active cases doesn't dramatically change that.

However, you don't want large interaction between infection centers and recovered centers, for sure. And I know this must be a challenge right now for governors in reopening. There are areas that are fine to reopen. There are areas that aren't. How do they reopen some without causing a lot of people from the infected areas seeking commerce in the reopened areas?
 
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SmokyRiverDog said:
Yeah; wide open spaces, salt air, sunlight, the ability to move around. It's ****ing insane! Someone there will catch the Wuhan Cold and end up immune if he's not careful.
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The pictures I saw of the beaches that Yahoo showed were definitely crowded, and people were in close proximity of each other. But hey what the hell do I care if we lose gator fans?
 
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#3,739
overseasorange2 said:
The pictures I saw of the beaches that Yahoo showed were definitely crowded, and people were in close proximity of each other. But hey what the hell do I care if we lose gator fans?
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You didn't answer the question about grocery stores being just as crowded or home improvement stores. I guess we should just shut everything down?
 
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#3,741
overseasorange2 said:
The pictures I saw of the beaches that Yahoo showed were definitely crowded, and people were in close proximity of each other. But hey what the hell do I care if we lose gator fans?
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Are you aware that almost all people can be near one another, even in direct physical contact, without creating mass death or even singular death events in almost every interaction throughout mankind?
 
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TennTradition said:
Introducing a few active cases won't reverse the situation and cause a flare up if the numbers are heading down because the numbers are heading down due to contact patterns, etc. that prevent the number of active cases that are present from causing a flare up. So, a few active cases doesn't dramatically change that.

However, you don't want large interaction between infection centers and recovered centers, for sure. And I know this must be a challenge right now for governors in reopening. There are areas that are fine to reopen. There are areas that aren't. How do they reopen some without causing a lot of people from the infected areas seeking commerce in the reopened areas?
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Wh hold them underwater and if they scream they are infected then we burn them!
 
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After having worked here in NJ for a week, I can understand the level of panic in the early days, as well as the concerns about when to return to some semblance of a normal life. From what everyone here has said, the peak (locally, at least) seemed to have been a couple weeks ago, although were still getting probable new cases each day, some of which have been quite sick. I think the unpredictability of how this virus affects this person vs. that person, as well as how quickly someone can crash, is what is scariest. I know I've seen more cases in four days here than I'd seen in three months back home, which is not unexpected, but at no point while I've been here have we been overwhelmed. However, the ER I'm working in here in NJ on one of their "bad" days had 12-14 patients at any one time that had to be intubated and placed on vents. That's basically half of the entire ER, so yeah, that would have been A LOT for a normal staffing level to try and deal with. I have no idea of what the numbers are on the inpatient units, but based on how long patients are having to board in the ER while waiting on an available bed, they're running at capacity.
 
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Regulator said:
After having worked here in NJ for a week, I can understand the level of panic in the early days, as well as the concerns about when to return to some semblance of a normal life. From what everyone here has said, the peak (locally, at least) seemed to have been a couple weeks ago, although were still getting probable new cases each day, some of which have been quite sick. I think the unpredictability of how this virus affects this person vs. that person, as well as how quickly someone can crash, is what is scariest. I know I've seen more cases in four days here than I'd seen in three months back home, which is not unexpected, but at no point while I've been here have we been overwhelmed. However, the ER I'm working in here in NJ on one of their "bad" days had 12-14 patients at any one time that had to be intubated and placed on vents. That's basically half of the entire ER, so yeah, that would have been A LOT for a normal staffing level to try and deal with. I have no idea of what the numbers are on the inpatient units, but based on how long patients are having to board in the ER while waiting on an available bed, they're running at capacity.
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How’s the Latino guy doing?
 
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#3,748
davethevol said:
How’s the Latino guy doing?
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He finally got moved up to ICU yesterday morning after having spent 48+ hrs in the ER. I'm not working today, so I don't know what his status is at the moment. He was stable when he went up yesterday morning, but still sedated and on the vent, not appreciably better or worse. Big picture-wise, he's still alive and not doing worse, so....
 
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#3,749
Aesius said:
More info on it: CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) DRIVE THRU TESTING REGISTRATION




It's a finger prick blood draw.
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Yeah so good news is you have antibodies and no symptoms then you may be good. Bad news is if you have antibodies then 14 day quarantine in case you are still contagious even without symptoms. If you need to or want to work then basically, you have to quarantine or you can still for sure catch it.
 
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#3,750
Reminder Tennessee is offering free COVID testing this weekend as they continue to do an incredible job of dealing with the virus outbreak. Nearly 6k took advantage yesterday.
Tennessee COVID update
97,098 completed tests (93% negative)
7,070 total cases (48% are in Davidson and Shelby counties)
3,344 recovered 47%
3,578 active
148 deaths 2%
East Tennessee active cases (81)
Knox County 52
Roane County 1
Loudon County 5
Anderson County 3
Blount County 2
Campbell County 2
Sevier County 0
Jefferson County 2
Grainger County 0
Cocke County 6
Hamblen County 2
Greene County 6
That's a total of only 81 active cases for the 12 Central valley counties.
 
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