OT: Coronavirus

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Minnesota now up to 115 cases... New York's exploded to 8,400 :o

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@RS Express said:
Minnesota now up to 115 cases... New York's exploded to 8,400 :o

I guess we know where all the test kits are at.  I was talking to a person two days ago that said we have little to worry about since SD only has 11 cases,  but I reminded him that there had only been a few hundred people tested.  That's the biggest thing is there are a lot of people with symptoms that aent actually tested so nobody really knows how big of an issue this is and most won't take it serious until those numbers include somebody that hits them personally. 

Hell my boss returned from a cruise,  amd then left left for a week in Nashville and hasnt sent home a co worker who recently spent a week in the DR or Mexico ( cant remember which)  and shes been coughing and sneezing and sounding like shit for over a week.  If I die from this shit I am going to haunt that place like a MFer.

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@JimmyinSD said:

@RS Express said:
Minnesota now up to 115 cases... New York's exploded to 8,400 :o

I guess we know where all the test kits are at.  I was talking to a person two days ago that said we have little to worry about since SD only has 11 cases,  but I reminded him that there had only been a few hundred people tested.  That's the biggest thing is there are a lot of people with symptoms that aent actually tested so nobody really knows how big of an issue this is and most won't take it serious until those numbers include somebody that hits them personally. 

Hell my boss returned from a cruise,  amd then left left for a week in Nashville and hasnt sent home a co worker who recently spent a week in the DR or Mexico ( cant remember which)  and shes been coughing and sneezing and sounding like shit for over a week.  If I die from this shit I am going to haunt that place like a MFer.

This is the problem, Jimmy, as you say: people STILL aren't taking this seriously. Its mind blowing. This is going to get a LOT worse. Healthcare workers and doctors are already under immense strain. Stay the fuck home and flatten the damn curve.

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@JimmyinSD said:

@RS Express said:
Minnesota now up to 115 cases... New York's exploded to 8,400 :o

I guess we know where all the test kits are at.  I was talking to a person two days ago that said we have little to worry about since SD only has 11 cases,  but I reminded him that there had only been a few hundred people tested.  That's the biggest thing is there are a lot of people with symptoms that aent actually tested so nobody really knows how big of an issue this is and most won't take it serious until those numbers include somebody that hits them personally. 

Hell my boss returned from a cruise,  amd then left left for a week in Nashville and hasnt sent home a co worker who recently spent a week in the DR or Mexico ( cant remember which)  and shes been coughing and sneezing and sounding like shit for over a week.  If I die from this shit I am going to haunt that place like a MFer.

I have been home for a week, I chronicled my wife getting a cold/viral something with a fever.  No test for her, Tuesday.  I have been working from home and watching the daily news conferences, seeing our Governor nervously explain her valiant efforts with no results, I actually feel for her, but she wanted the job.  I speak daily with the plant manager, and since I work 50 miles away in another community, I will continue to do so, till an emergency requires my support.  I made him nervous when I introduced the term vector to his vocabulary, I have three PHD and a microbiologist with backgrounds in epidemiology that I am doing a lot of face-time with, lot of morbid humor and discussions about how simple PCR could be used to triage general cause.....
So the Iowa report, we now, as of Friday afternoon, have 640 tests available, but these are only being used for the sickest and hospital workers.  No ideas on how many ventilators, but all is well.  The City of Des Moines is giving employees an additional week of sick leave, but they must provide documentation of Covid-19, how they do that with low a priority for the tests.

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@RS Express said:
Minnesota now up to 115 cases... New York's exploded to 8,400 :o

NY is now the epicenter of the crisis in the US.

1/3 of all Covid-19 cases come from NY State. 

We all know the 115 in MN is comically understated. When the Fed's mandated the testing system now in place (the pods) it move capabilities away from lower pop areas like the Midwest...

Our MN Gov (who's been pretty damn spectacular to date) knows its heavily, heavily understated.

Which is why our MN headlines blare a shelter at home order is imminent. 

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Today, learning from another month of experience from around the world, particularly China and South Korea, we recognize a third phase of the response: suppression of episodic outbreaks.There are five priorities essential for successful implementation of the third phase of this strategy.
Extensive testing and contact tracing. China has tested millions of people and traced more than 685,000 contacts. Contact tracing requires skilled public health professionals -- and sophisticated data management. Testing is required in multiple venues:
Health care facilities. 
Contact tracing. 
Drive-through. 
Surveillance. We need tracking systems, including the Influenza-Like Illness system, to find spread and monitor trends

Prepare for health care to surge safely
Preserve health and routine health care functions. We need to increase the resilience of both our people and our health care facilities, as rapidly as possible. 

[*]Massively scale up telemedicine. We need to reduce the number of people attending health care facilities while at the same time preserving and improving health.[*]
[*]Fix supply chain weaknesses[*]Learn intensively. If there is one key lesson from past epidemics, it's that getting real-time data is essential for a great epidemic response. 

• Most urgently, we must learn how best to protect health care workers from infection. 
• We need to know who is most at risk for spreading the infection,
• Who is at the highest risk for severe illness and death. 
• What works to reduce infection?
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• https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/health/co...index.html

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^^^^Yep, good summary of what I am hearing, from family.  Without testing and contact tracing we are just incubating pools of contagion,  pretty bleak.  I need to distract myself.

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@BigAl99 said:

^^^^Yep, good summary of what I am hearing, from family.  Without testing and contact tracing we are just incubating pools of contagion,  pretty bleak.  I need to distract myself.

The exponential nature of the virus for growth is frightening. My son, who has a Physics degree and understands things from a mathematical perspective said that's the worst part of this: how quickly an exponential virus can spread. 

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@StickyBun said:

@BigAl99 said:

^^^^Yep, good summary of what I am hearing, from family.  Without testing and contact tracing we are just incubating pools of contagion,  pretty bleak.  I need to distract myself.

The exponential nature of the virus for growth is frightening. My son, who has a Physics degree and understands things from a mathematical perspective said that's the worst part of this: how quickly an exponential virus can spread. 

Without control it's exponential, testing and contact tracing.  If you can isolate than it will be a linear curve.  Guess that's what's meant by getting ahead of the curve.