Coronavirus

All I am saying I doubt we get 50 million people dying. That would mean there was allot of people with bad immune systems and prior sicknesses. Worst case probably by I think 100,000 by the type this is over. I know thats still a sad bad thing. I just doubt we will see the kind of death toll The Spanish Flu had. I m being optimistic and nobody knows how many people will die here no matter there best guess.

Ohio got a stay at home order. Now how is that possible. People have to have food and go to the store. Or if doing liver or cancer treatments.

Again, there are exceptions here for health care and food and other essentials. Even exercise is usually allowed, if done prudently.

I don't know why you read a headline or hear a rumor and immediately start saying things like this, when you could easily Google the basic facts and then react. Please take a moment to look into it before posting this stuff, as I previously requested.

No, it would not necessarily mean that, since this is a novel virus nobody has an immunity to, and since the primary fear is about people not getting access to healthcare if too many people are infected simultaneously.

You can't just sort of theorycraft around this, people. Please stop speculating wildly, especially if you're not taking even a few minutes to learn the basics about what we're up against. I realize we're all stressed, but externalizing that stress doesn't help, and can in fact hurt.

I hear you, but I like to be busy. Archbishop of CT has clamped down severely on any “social gathering” so this has eliminated a lot of my activities. Thank goodness I can still take my long daily walk. I would go bonkers otherwise.

Doubt it. I expect Trump to have a 2nd term. Unfortunately.

Same thing happened to me last year. All psyched up to vote in the primary & was v. p****d to find out I’m not a registered Democrat. I had no idea.

My girlfriend works at Walgreens & what is happening here is that hoarders who bought tons of toilet paper, etc. are now returning to the store asking for refunds since they have no work. Apparently now, Stop and Shop & Walgreens have a strict no refund rule. This sounds reasonable to me.

Some dope at our food pantry (before it closed) left one of the fridge doors ajar & 6 dozen eggs had to be thrown out.

My internist & his PA are not seeing anyone. Annual physical postponed until November and I expect my dermatologist to call any day to cancel my annual visit.

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West Virginia Just Announced Stay At Home Order Unless Going TO Get Food Medicine and To Appointments. So Its an order to Limit your travel not really no one go anywhere. So same people will be working Walmart and Food Store Main chains. Cops Utility workers hospitals EMTs Fire people MAIL ups AND trash company and people that work to send people there checks be it social security or retirement.

I like this to be taken out of context.

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Geez, nailed it, reso. Wish I'd thought to post that. What a scene.

I didn't do my research. Were we ahead of the Italy situation ourselves?

I guess it depends on what you mean. We're "behind" in the sense that they had it earlier and it's ramped up there earlier. Their response was very slow and bad, but has been very stringent since. Our early response was also slow and bad, and I'd say we're also not responding as forcefully, in part because I'm not sure we can.

That said, one of the reasons we can't is because we're more decentralized and naturally spread out, which is also sort of a good thing in some senses. So we can't necessarily use Italy as a model in either way. But honestly, any country finding a potential "peak" here would be very encouraging news, given the range of outcomes.

If nothing else, it would make a strong argument for a swift and stringent lockdown to bite the bullet as quickly as possible, I think.

Currently in the U.S.

Coronavirus cases: 41,569

Deaths: 504, R.I.P.

Recovered: 187

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

And yet 41,000 plus are still living. Having it and surviving or having mild cases is good thing. I think the USA should be lucky death is only under a thousand deaths in this country after how badly it wasnt taken seriously by the president and other people.

Some evidence suggesting that something close to a total lock-down, while obviously a huge inconvenience, will actually work:


Both India and UK are doing it, too. I think it's a matter of time here, and the sooner we do it the sooner we can hit the peak and start getting things under control.

⬆️ “Total lockdown” would consist of what?

You can read about it here, and a number of other places, but I think the short version is that only essential business can stay open, with meaningful enforcement of same, and you may not be allowed to travel in public without a reason.

Picked up a test from a prison last night. 10 minutes later my wife texts me that 3 inmates and a guard from that same prison tested positive. I didn't touch anything.

Longest trip I've made in 11 days now is to the bins in the garden and back. By June I reckon I might have totally forgotten how to walk

I got a call about my test results this afternoon. They told me I am negative. This is definitely a relief as I still feel a little under the weather but I can handle that. I would go out to celebrate, but um....

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So glad to hear that, Dionne. Stay in and keep it that way.

BTW, apparently Germany seeing similar results to Italy. Grain of salt, of course, but would be significant evidence that a two-week lock down might really avert the worst-case scenarios. Here's hoping. And if so, here's hoping we do that sooner rather than later. I'm behaving as if it were happening anyway, and a lot of others are as well.