Quote: @suncoastvike said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ suncoastvike said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/WFLA/status/12396186...59975?s=19
So high school and college kids aren't in school and probably won't be for the rest of the school year....flights are DIRT cheap right now.....its not surprising. Dumb, but kids are bulletproof. There are definitely some Floridians in that mass but many are also Spring Breakers from out of town.
I seen some kid on the news this morning saying. Well it only kills old people so I'm not worried. Great kid, since you've chosen to make yourself nothing less then a carrier. You should be obligated to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction of any seniors you might cross.
Aahh yesss bullet proof indeed.
this is what I am scared of, the arrogance of America, coupled with the ignorance of youth, being fed by the misinformation that is social media. the disease doesnt really scare me for me, its the 15% of our population that is in the "high risk" category and the fact that the longer we take to really just bite the bullet and shut down our social gatherings the longer this is going to take to get a handle on and the more people that will get exposed and die. Not to mention the higher likelihood that it will mutate into something that is more difficult to control and/or more deadly in terms of who it really knocks down.
Just heard one. Damn smart@ss kids are referring to this as the boomer doomer...
I also heard boomer remover. There is a great divide in regard to the approach to this. Some people are limiting their movement to help others and some people are selfishly doing whatever they want. Both options are found in all age groups.
Quote: @Vikergirl said:
@ suncoastvike said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ suncoastvike said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/WFLA/status/12396186...59975?s=19
So high school and college kids aren't in school and probably won't be for the rest of the school year....flights are DIRT cheap right now.....its not surprising. Dumb, but kids are bulletproof. There are definitely some Floridians in that mass but many are also Spring Breakers from out of town.
I seen some kid on the news this morning saying. Well it only kills old people so I'm not worried. Great kid, since you've chosen to make yourself nothing less then a carrier. You should be obligated to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction of any seniors you might cross.
Aahh yesss bullet proof indeed.
this is what I am scared of, the arrogance of America, coupled with the ignorance of youth, being fed by the misinformation that is social media. the disease doesnt really scare me for me, its the 15% of our population that is in the "high risk" category and the fact that the longer we take to really just bite the bullet and shut down our social gatherings the longer this is going to take to get a handle on and the more people that will get exposed and die. Not to mention the higher likelihood that it will mutate into something that is more difficult to control and/or more deadly in terms of who it really knocks down.
Just heard one. Damn smart@ss kids are referring to this as the boomer doomer...
I also heard boomer remover. There is a great divide in regard to the approach to this. Some people are limiting their movement to help others and some people are selfishly doing whatever they want. Both options are found in all age groups.
true, but I think the older John Wayne types are starting to get it.... the kids are a little slower on reading the potential severity of their extended spring break.
Mitigation vs Supression Policies...I think it's inevitable they will have to shut-down all but essential services soon.
A study by UK epidemiologists predicts that attempts to slow, or mitigate -- rather than actively halt, or suppress -- the novel coronavirus could overwhelm the number of intensive care hospital beds and lead to about 250,000 deaths in the UK and more than a million in the United States during the course of the current pandemic.
The study, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, was released on Monday by London's Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, which says it is advising the UK government on its response strategy.
The study says it used modeling that has informed the approach of the British government in recent weeks; on Monday, the government abruptly called on vulnerable and elderly Britons to isolate themselves for 12 weeks, and introduced a variety of social distancing and quarantine recommendations that days earlier seemed distant prospects.
Also on Monday, President Donald Trump unveiled a 15-day plan to slow new infections in the United States, including more stringent recommendations about staying home and avoiding groups of 10 people or more, among other steps.
An author of the study, Imperial College Professor Neil Ferguson, said in an email to CNN on Tuesday the study was given to the White House Coronavirus Task Force over the weekend and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/health/co...index.html
I have been working from home(posting) yesterday and today, my wife had a fever, spiked Sunday night, and we had recently traveled to DC. So she went to the doctors office today, they have no test kits, the hospital has a "few" but they only use those when they are getting ready to use a ventilator. Folks we are flying blind, got a feeling triage care is gonna be a highly used phrase befor this is all said and done.
Quote: @BigAl99 said:
I have been working from home(posting) yesterday and today, my wife had a fever, spiked Sunday night, and we had recently traveled to DC. So she went to the doctors office today, they have no test kits, the hospital has a "few" but they only use those when they are getting ready to use a ventilator. Folks we are flying blind, got a feeling triage care is gonna be a highly used phrase befor this is all said and done.
I hope she's ok...
It's crazy stupid and sad that testing is still so erratic at this stage of the game. IF you look at the amount and type of testing we're doing here vs the booth testing in Asia and elsewhere? You'd think we're in a 3rd world country.
Sadly, this country is about 2 weeks behind Europe. We aren't doing enough yet. Look what France, Germany and others did - they shut the show down sans essential services.
Again, I hope she's ok.
Quote: @BigAl99 said:
I have been working from home(posting) yesterday and today, my wife had a fever, spiked Sunday night, and we had recently traveled to DC. So she went to the doctors office today, they have no test kits, the hospital has a "few" but they only use those when they are getting ready to use a ventilator. Folks we are flying blind, got a feeling triage care is gonna be a highly used phrase befor this is all said and done.
Good luck big guy. I hope the Mrs is going to be OK.
Yeah what we don't know and what we are not prepared for Im only now starting to grasp.
We will be fine, it's most likely a viral infection associated with a cold. We were just trying to do the right thing and go by the protocols. Very disappointed with our infrastructure, nowhere near ready for this. Like I said previously, my company has been prepping for this since early January, this is not something that just appeared last week.
One thing that keeps getting clearer is that the response in Korea was much more than just passive testing. The Asian countries that were hit by mers and sars went after this in a sophisticated way, they learned and were prepared. And that information wasn't a secret to the rest of the world, we just chose not to listen to the experts. They used rigorous information technology, ie. cell phone data, to track and head-off the threat. They didn't let it come to them. Hope we can learn the value of somethings.
Quote: @purplefaithful said:
@ BigAl99 said:
I have been working from home(posting) yesterday and today, my wife had a fever, spiked Sunday night, and we had recently traveled to DC. So she went to the doctors office today, they have no test kits, the hospital has a "few" but they only use those when they are getting ready to use a ventilator. Folks we are flying blind, got a feeling triage care is gonna be a highly used phrase befor this is all said and done.
I hope she's ok...
It's crazy stupid and sad that testing is still so erratic at this stage of the game. IF you look at the amount and type of testing we're doing here vs the booth testing in Asia and elsewhere? You'd think we're in a 3rd world country.
Sadly, this country is about 2 weeks behind Europe. We aren't doing enough yet. Look what France, Germany and others did - they shut the show down sans essential services.
Again, I hope she's ok.
it would be a lot easier to shut down one or two states ( texas and new mexico are about the same size as france and germany) than it will be to get the entire United States to fall into line....especially those that dont feel threatened.
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