OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

Lol, how about we not? We don’t need to re-litigate that dead horse...

 

I think the states maybe refused shut downs because by this info, they make the lowest wages and so would be hit the hardest if they did shut down. Combine that with the lack of dense population in those states and its a rational decision to not shut down or not as quickly.

What is striking to me is the payroll disparity of the midwest versus the coasts.

To me its obvious they need the most help.

 

Sure. Isolated and controlled in one region overall without a lockdown and a jump in unemployment with a rash of people potentially not able to feed thier children or themselves.

But obviously that's worst case scenario.

As I read someone else post... poverty will change a person into something they typically don't want to be. go a few meals with out eating and not knowing when you might be able to eat again and see how that sits.

 

I personally think the stay at home orders need to be kept in place. I get what this is about though. There are a lot of wide open spaces for running and other outdoor activities. You can choose somewhere lightly trafficked. But, people flock to the same popular beaches for sunbathing and all that kind of shit. You get 3000 people on a beach (and that is what would happen) and I guarantee you won't be able to keep distance from people.

 

There were a couple posters in here a week or so that claimed they thought they had covid-19 in November/ December and i recall both my wife and i had a head cold upper respitory issues for over a week. Nothing real serious but enough to make you feel incomfortable. I know several other people reported similar symptoms but no way do i think it was even remotely attributed to Covid. It was just a typical fall/ winter cold.

 

These numbers have to be encouraging for our State.

He identifies as an MD like all the others that are all over the place with this virus.

So the Gov/Mayor of Washington State are wrong for opening up parks under control criteria. I assume they are leaning on advise from qualifies MD's, whatever that is?

 

HA !!!

That horse ain't dead...he's asleep in the barn. We both know that he'll run again.

 

SHHHH!!!!
Don't tell @SlyPokerCat

Where did @SlyPokerDonkey go BTW?

 

CORONAVIRUS in the lungs of a pot smoker.

 

but what you proposed seemed kind of experimental. Putting kids back in school to try and create a portion of herd immunity. I'd be surprised if many parents would volunteer their children for this program. Further, you'd be forcing teachers to risk exposure to covid, as well as other school staff

as I said, this seems experimental and is based upon lots of assumptions in a time of very limited data

Oregon is definitely doing well with the policies in place:







but if you look closely, while the curves are flattening, we are still on the uphill side of them. I'd think it would be prudent to give in 3-4 more weeks to see where we are than. More than that though is we need a lot more testing. I've seen a couple of epidemiologist say a minimum testing baseline would be at least 5% of the population and it would be better if it was 10%. A 5% baseline would be 210,000 tests for Oregon and we've only done 33,000

 

I understand what you are saying, but I never indicated or the article to put kids back in school, he was talking about exposing then quarantining for 14 days and those that are over it could be released.
As of yesterday Oregon Health Authorities daily report indicates that less than 1.5% of all Emergency Room cases were virus related.

 

It's an invisible enemy folks not a visible enemy.

 

As long as it's just elbows it's okay.

 

I was sick as hell in early December. I had a horrible cough and fever and I could barely catch my breath sometimes at night. I'm assuming it was just a bad flu bug but you never know.