LinvilleGorge

I like this model. Let's hope the folks at the University of Washington are right. https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections The good news is that they're predicting that it's basically over by June. The bad news is that they're still predicting over 80k dead Americans.

I don't doubt it. As much as my wife and kid and I are driving each other crazy, I'm sure glad to have them around. This isolation would be much tougher to deal with alone.

Yes, let's hope that NY has peaked and is beginning to decline. Let's also hope that most other areas implemented social distancing protocols early enough to avoid massive outbreaks. The next two weeks are going to be rough regardless, but let's hope we took enough action soon enough to end up with a situation that's far short of the worst case scenario. Things are bad, but there are glimmers of hope.

I'll admit that I have no idea how to moderate idiocy and ridiculous whataboutism that has nothing to do with the current crisis we face.

I'm morbidly curious, what do you think that link is actually saying in regard to what you were attempting to say, because I honestly have no idea how to interpret that beating you gave the English language in that post I initially quoted with only "what?" as the reply. The "what?" simply referred to your English being unintelligible.

I've ran completely out of patience with idiots on this matter. Sorry, not sorry.

I literally have a good friend who is a professor at Johns Hopkins specializing in infectious disease. I don't think you understand how lost you are. Hint: coronaviruses are a family of viruses. They're not one in the same.

It's amazing how everything in today's society gets politicized. Virtually every contagious disease expert out there says we've done a terrible job handling this, yet a politician says we did a great job and that's who we believe. We're fuged and it has nothing to do with a virus.

LOL

what?

The level of urgency and effort certainly varied greatly. I see plenty of excuses, very little acknowledgement that we did practically nothing to curb this pandemic until very recently preferring to simply assume that it wouldn't happen here.

It's on the rise because they tried to return to something resembling normalcy. They'll get it back in check again. We failed miserably because while the rest of the world was showing us our future and we should've been stockpiling PPE and sourcing testing, we were instead proclaiming the pandemic a hoax. When the rest of the world took test provided by WHO, we said no thanks we'll make out own. Those tests were faulty. We completely missed the window to avoid a widespread outbreak here. Keep thinking we did a great job. Nothing about it was great. It was completely and utterly botched every step along the way and now we get to pay the price.

That's not accurate. South Korea was. They saw SARS and they were ready for it if it happened again. Both South Korea and America had their first case on January 20th. Fast forward three and a half months and South Korea has a little over 10k cases and has lost a total of 183 people. Meanwhile, we have nearly as many deaths as they have total cases and we have over 330k diagnosed cases despite terrible access to tests. That number is almost certainly MUCH higher. We failed catastrophically. When we should have been preparing, our President was calling the pandemic a hoax. It's unforgivable.

It's everywhere. I hope this doesn't get as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, but I'm not sure if there's any logical reason that it won't. That one killed 50 million globally and 675,000 in the U.S.

poo is about the hit the fan virtually everywhere

That's basically how I understand it here in CO too. If you think you have it but you're not having trouble breathing, just stay your ass at home and isolate. We'll probably never really have a clue how many people actually had this thing.

Maybe in the medical response but I don't think that has anything to do with how well they've handled the spread.

The interesting one for me is Washington. Early on it looked like the Seattle area was going to be what NYC ended up becoming. Instead, they'll be dropping out of the top 10 states very soon. They're barely hanging on at #10 as it is.

Brace for impact. At the current trajectory, we're looking at 100,000 dead Americans 10 days from now. Let's hope that curve begins to flatten. The last two data points indicate that we may be seeing the beginnings of that.

A lot of health insurance plans already have some things like this.

Yeah, there's always going to be a huge need for one on one attention, especially in that area. I just think we can do much better with our current technology connecting people remotely for both education and work.

I think this will only accelerate the adoption of working and educating remotely. There will be some really cool poo on that front that emerges from this IMO.

Because they have state sponsored commercial espionage programs to steal everyone's poo and rip it off.

Wait, you mean our government consisting of professional politicians bought and paid for by wealthy financiers and large corporate donors don't care about anyone who doesn't have the disposable income to finance their campaigns and line their pockets? I'm shocked.