So sad to see ego above caring for people. I agree with your assessment. Too little too late.
Also … Local labs are taking 7-8 days to get test results back to health care folks. Too many think this will just “blow over” and not affect them.
Idiotic asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers will pass the disease on and cause a much longer period of health and economic impact. Grrrrrrrrrrttt.
Well, it is pretty much a statistical certainty that most of them will be right. The problem is the other side of the statistic…
9.00 p.m. Thursday night, British TV channel ITV2 is screening “Contagion”.
"Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure. "
That’s showbiz, folks.
yeah our main “cable”/satellite tv services started 2 weeks ago digging out that and with other movies like:
If this is anyone’s cup o’tea there have been many recent postings with advice on what to watch like these:
Wasn’t that Contagion movie applauded for being well researched and plausible? I haven’t seen it, hope I’m not mixing it up.
CNN: Prince Charles tests positive for novel coronavirus.
Apparently Charles has so far exhibited mild symptoms. I’m not a royalist, but I wish the guy well.
I had to laugh, though. There was an announcement that he and Camilla were “self isolating” at Balmoral.
Balmoral is a 52 bedroom castle, set in 50,000 acres, with a staff of 150, and its own whisky distillery. So he’s really roughing it.
The county I live in now has 2 positive cases in a nursing home. And obviously, the 80 year old couple did not go out and pick it up someplace. We have a spreader…
My county has 116 cases and growing fast. I’m now counting days – April 1st (yeah, April Fool’s Day no less) marks day 15 since our last contact with anyone outside the house. We are high risk cases, so a bit concerned. The state governor is not following experts’ warnings and advice … no lockdown, still allowing small groups, etc. Arrgh! Political $$ more important than people’s lives.
If I was the Supreme Leader of the World, I would cancel everyone’s debt and reset the world economy. 
Ultimately, most everything will change anyway. The world is turning a page.
My worry is that when things really reach crisis - when the world’s most powerful nations are stretched to breaking point, with all their state resources, both civil and military, committed, that some lunatic will see that as an opportunity to start a war.
It’s certainly possible.
Cyberattacks by criminals have already begun. As some nations recover, cyberattacks by nation states may increase. An absent local protective presence could easily increase the number of conflicts.
And now you broke it… It sounds easy, but unfortunately economics are not just a human constructs. Oh sure, we have added enough constructs on top, but at their very core they are a law of nature.
I see you like tautologies. Very convincing, for sure. Not quite as convincing as all the overworked nurses and doctors at hospitals around the world, though. Without which that mortality rate would be higher, I might add.
yes they are being over worked, the problem being the BULLSHIT.
Or have you not heard that the city in china where it all started is no longer in lock down.
Yes there are bad areas.
Tis the way the flu works also.
We have made the crisis when there was no crisis.
The hospitals were “forced” to do the things they have done due to the “FEAR”
Which was pushed by the media.
That’s because the intense lockdown worked…that’s the whole point.
No lockdown, infection rates increase to the 3rd power (approximately).
Infection rates increase & health systems get overwhelmed.
Health systems overwhelmed means more deaths, including from non-COVID19 as there are no more ICU care points.
The longer a country suffers through the pandemic the worse its economy will suffer let alone the cost to lives.
No economy = more suffering.
Easy solution: everyone locks down for 2 weeks & this thing should burn out. Don’t do it & we may never come back from this mess.
Straight forward, simple maths.
Social distancing helps. Lockdown is even better.
The countries riding this out the best are the countries with the strictest lockdowns.
The proof is in the result.
I totally agree! Please stop it!!!
Latest news from New York:
At first, patients skewed toward the 70-plus age group, but in the past week or so there have been a number of patients younger than 50.
“I don’t think they understand the severity of this disease,” the doctor said of the younger patients.
“Two weeks ago, life was completely different.”
People who are infected but show no symptoms or who are in the early stages and show no outward signs are, like ignoramuses, walking around and infecting others.
So please! Yes. Let’s stop the Bullshit!!
that is a laugh
how do you stop a virus from spreading?
you can’t
Facts from previous virus that have spread through population
it was BS
ya all don’t get it do you?
no virus that has gone around with similar problems has caused the bullshit of destroying the economy so easy by shutting it down, if the infection rate was 75% i could see it, oh ya numbers
look at
this was found in september 2019
it is no pandemic
Cases in NY double every 2-3 days largely because there is no shut-down
@zsigmond may feel a bit removed from the situation because as of right now, Alaska is barely touched by this pandemic but, there are now 37 cases there.
