This affects so many people, in so many ways. I live with someone who has been tested; we are awaiting results. We have been told it could take 2 to 10 days to get the results. Per my company's policy, I need to stay home until the results are known; I work eldercare and this is critical. But all is well. I have a part-time job that is all computer that I already do at home. And that company ( also healthcare related) reached out to me this morning and wants me to take on some additional assignments for tracking related to Covid-19. I am going to keep the TV off....keep working and making money from my part-time " at home" job.....and count my blessings.
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You see, since some think government is totally responsible for this, and their actions control all thats happening, well, the problem is, the virus didn't vote for either 'side'. To the virus, we're just food.
Same could be said about only sharing the doom and gloom and the less than 1% of bad **** that happens. It's a message board and you are going to get both sides.
Here is a story in LA times as far as Washington they have some testing sites up but very few
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-19/coronavirus-patients-not-tested-not-counted
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Mythbusters, why social distancing is so Important
https://www.dmarge.com/2020/03/mythbusters-contamination-experiment.html
Mythbusters, why social distancing is so Important
https://www.dmarge.com/2020/03/mythbusters-contamination-experiment.html
Not following the rules is one thing. Constantly pushing fear porn and rooting for our administration, country and economy to tank to achieve a different result come November is entirely different.
If you can't see the difference, I don't know what to tell you.
That article is a week old, and didn't say they stopped testing. Rather, they were using the tests on those who were older or at higher-risk. Since then, more labs have come online and the number tested in California has gone from 8,000 to 70,000. They also have conducted 49,000 additional tests where the results are still pending and should be known in the next few days.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-033.aspx
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One is putting lives in danger, by flat our lying and spreading misinformation. The other, you fear, hurts your chosen political party.
Those percentages will come down once the actual number of infected people is determined (if ever). Right now, the testing has been slanted to the more extreme symptomatic people. The number of asymptomatic/mild symptomatic people that haven't been tested is probably a rather large number. I have no scientific data to back that up, just logic/conjecture, so take that for what it's worth.
Agreed. Which is why it should be called what it is:. The Wuhan virus. Stop with all the disinformation, downplaying, and fear mongering.
This is a typical response to criticism. Only the most extreme leftists or anarchists are hoping for the president to fail...many people hate Trump, left and right...I have a number of Republican friends who voted for him but hate him because he is an adulterer, exploiter, liar, manipulator, irreverent among other things. I am smart enough to know that great leaders are often VERY flawed in in their social lives, that how they treat their wife, or whether they eat meat, or drink a bunch has no bearing on how they will lead 350 million people in a crisis. So I am hoping that he does well for the sake of thousands and millions, I would gladly vote republican for the first time in November if he lead us through this crisis in what experts deem a responsible and enlightened way. Trumps persona though keeps him from dealing with this in the best manner..he can't be vulnerable, he can't care about lives more than business. I bet deep down he is deeply disturbed by what is going on, but he has built his entire administration on never admitting failure, or a misstep and keeping the appearance the he is in control of everything. Sadly this doesn't work in a major generational crisis. For our sake we have to hope the UNITED STATES are stronger than Washington.
Who is saying ignore social distancing? Everything is closed, where are they telling others to go?
C’mon, man, use some common sense.
It is a cold, maybe not the common cold, but a cold none the less. It is a viral infection to the upper respiratory tract in which the symptoms are mostly due to the body's immune response to the infection rather than tissue damage caused by the virus itself.
i stand corrected hopefully you are right but somehow I do not see california doing well especially with the amount of homeless
Also looks like vast majority of tests have been down since Monday
Newsom reported that as of Tuesday, 66,800 tests for the novel coronavirus have been conducted in California. It’s a massive increase of 39,200 since Monday,
48000 of these tests are still pending California's numbers are going to go up very dramatically
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Somewhat good news. Fauci says today that we have to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible because he thinks this will become seasonal. Hopefully he knows how much more quickly it can and should be done than the FDA's protocols call for.
You believe all viruses are the common cold, or that all viruses are same thing? Sometimes the ignorance on here is shocking.
I held my nose and voted for Trump. Given that the Dems' ran off Tulsi Gabbard I'll probably have to do it again.
The scary thing about Nebraska is in 1918 the schools shutdown in October but the wave didn't actually hit nebraska until 1919...my grandpa got "le grippe" in the spring of 1919 and they think his parkinson's was tied to the nerve damage he got from the virus. Nebraska is going to have to be really smart about this...fortunately the summer will make it easier...but it is going to take a lot of foresight to do the right thing in the fall. I imagine we will start school in the fall at some point but then have a hard stop button once cases start to rise...I do think the virus will "slow" in the summer as 90% of all infections have occurred at temperatures between 20-50 F. This might be caused by lack of people or testing in the southern hemisphere but everything we know about respiratory viruses tell us they are much less potent in the heat and humidity, not extinct.
The China communist party was responsible for 50 million deaths in the 20th century, they were solely responsible for supplying arms and troops to the North Vietnamese in Vietnam, and Chinese troops defeated American troops in North Korea in the Korean War....you are just getting that the regime is dishonest and an adversary to the U.S? We fell for the age old trap of sharing technology and our nation's wealth so a few billionaires could get exceptionally rich by using china for cheap labor. That cheap labor has given us mostly useless entertainment materials while they have grown exponentially and can now rival us...their party will eventually be their undoing but for now it has been a quick equalizer.
Did I say all viruses are the same thing? This virus can be categorized the same as the numerous other cold viruses, because it infects the upper respiratory tract, the virus itself doesn't really do any damage, and it is the body's response to the virus that causes the damage. Those are the facts. Do you have facts that differ from that?
As I type this, the US stands at 74,573 cases and 1107 deaths. So a death rate of 1.4%. With our shortage of tests, the percentage would presumably be lower if everyone was tested, but....we are also only about 3 weeks into this, so the death rate still could go up.
Roughly 327 million people in this country, 1.4% is 4.5 million. Even if we went with the estimate that was going around that 56% of the population (183 million) would get the virus, that's still 2.56 million.
Death rates in other countries:
Italy- 10%
Spain- 7.37%
Iran 7.59%
France 5.27%
If no precautions were taking place I've felt 2 million was easily attainable. We have precautions in place, and it isn't slowing.
We're early on and it doesn't appear to be slowing because we just now really got rolling with testing. In fact the Surgeon General AND Cuomo said it appears that they may be peaking earlier in New York than they first thought. Give the things being done a chance to work. I'm pretty confident that this thing will get slowed down. Not stopped but slowed down tremendously and that will save thousands of lives. Places like New Orleans, Houston and Dallas were doing virutually nothing to stop spread so they're going to be 3 weeks down the road probably before they peak then start to fall off. Cases testing positive now are reflective of what was going on 10 days or more ago.
Stop basing your numbers off of these confirmed cases. Those are not accurate. Do you really think that there have only been 74K cases in the US? I'd guess that number is minimum 500K for our population size. That alone puts the death rate at .2%. You can do the math from there. This is the problem right now is numbers are just being run off of what we have tested. Wait for the dust to settle a little before you fear monger. There are plenty of people way more educated on this subject than you and I are starting to come out and say our numbers are way higher the death rate a could potentially be substantially lower. This is scary because it is new, seems to spread fast and can wipe the floor with the elderly and the very sick, but pump the breaks.
1. How do we know it has only been around 3 weeks?
2. Going from 0-60 in testing, of course the numbers are going to ramp since literally no one was tested 3 weeks ago. There is no way of determining the contagion rate, this ramp is just the testing rate.
3. Why don't you have Germany or S. Korea in your death rate numbers?
If there is one saving grace of our liberal deceitful media in this country - It that they are making a fortune sensationalizing this this - They have everyone scared shitless except the drunk college student to the point where they are staying home.
Not coming in contact with infected people is the only thing slowing this
JMHO we have to get rolling with testing and fast IMHO here. I know people who were "clinically diagnosed" and told to quarantine at home, but has never been tested. Last I knew, Nebraska was the 38th most populated state, but there are only 6 states with less "confirmed cases" than Nebraska. Nebraska 1.9 million people, Iowa 3.1 million people. Nebraska 68 confirmed cases, Iowa 179? Those numbers don't sound proportional.
IMHO Nebraska's numbers due to lack of testing is creating a potential false sense of security.
Again, NYC is not representative of the entire U.S. Even Dr. Fauci and Governor Cuomo are saying not to treat every area of the country like New York City.
1. Because we have all been pretty much stuck at home with preventative measures for about 3 weeks. Duh.
2. No kidding, that's why I just put the rates from the available numbers at the exact moment I was typing.
3. Why didn't I put those countries? How many did you want me to put? It's 4.5% for the whole world does that make you feel better? My point was as I noted, IF NO PREVENTATIVE MEASURES WERE BEING TAKEN.
And would NYC be a pretty good representation with its close density as to what could happen with no precautions being taken? Hmm. Did you also fail to read the last sentence of my post?
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