silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Person to person hantavirus spread is extremely rare.
Two feet bad, four feet good.Like animal farm except no-one ****s it up
there was only one way this was going to go...it was just a question of when...The Olympic Games have been postponed for a year. Sanity prevails.
Jeez mate, hope it turns out ok and he hasn't had contact in the relevant timeframeI just found out that the dad of one of my work mates has Covid-19. Still waiting to find out if he had any contact with his dad between when he got back from the states and before we were sent home last Thursday. One of the people I'm living with is in the high risk category. Might have a tough choice to make about moving before lock down tonight.
Thanks, alert over, his dad flew in on Saturday, so no exposure risk. Was a scary hour though.Jeez mate, hope it turns out ok and he hasn't had contact in the relevant timeframe
You laugh but they followed TNT’s strategy of doing nothing and it workedBahnz, your other option is to speak with TNT about your potential problem. He's a real outside the box thinker, and I'm sure he will have a ready made solution no one else has even contemplated that fixes the problem in a trice.
Thanks, alert over, his dad flew in on Saturday, so no exposure risk. Was a scary hour though.
Fortunately they have a lot of schools and therefore many, many potential new nurses and operating theatres/ ICU beds which can be transformed in a week or so.Just to emphasise how utterly irresponsible the talk of opening up the US is right now:
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This is deaths by day.
I suspect - and really hope - that this rate will decrease soon and that the linear fit will start to consistently overestimate the actual # of deaths in the US. But having three days in a row above that linear fit is a bad sign, and I've been hoping similar that for three weeks re: cases and the case trajectory has barely moved from when since I posted this two weeks ago, which is about three decades in pandemic time. Granted the case data is somewhat dubious because it's partially a function of the huge increase in testing, but the incredibly high positivity rates in many states is really worrying.
It will be very patchy. California and Washington could well have some semblance of control in the next few weeks and the NY outbreak will probably have burned itself out by mid-summer too.Whatever happens I think the US needs to remain shut off from the rest of the world for a period of a couple of months, possibly 6 months. Based on the numbers I suspect the US is now a super-spreader and have completely uncontrolled community transmission that's probably worse than that in China, Italy or the UK.
I think when countries start opening up their airports and borders the US will need to be excluded for quite a while.
Italy has freely admitted that they're just not bothering to test people if they basically aren't in the hospital so they aren't counting a big chunk of mild/asymptomatic cases like, say, South Korea is. I don't think anyone actually thinks the true mortality rate is 9%.I think a lot of people are susceptible to anchoring bias with respect to the Italy numbers. Just about everyone at work looks at the death numbers and says 'we'll at least its much lower everywhere else'
The incomplete information all presented together by the aggregation sites is probably causing more havoc than good. It makes for great daily headlines though. Just add the word 'surge' in front of it.