Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[rocknblues81]

https://www.ibtimes.com/field-hospit...vid-19-2968281

Field hospitals in NY get dismantled.

[Pondosinatra]

Infection sign in children...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...toes-cases-in/

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Infection sign in children...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...toes-cases-in/

It's not just children. Apparently adults can also exhibit this too.

[MifuneFan]

Looks like Russia's numbers are finally looking a little more realistic. If they're reporting that many, imagine what the numbers really are there. No way their death totals are accurate.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

Yes, they are protesting. The CA Governor originally planned on closing all CA beaches, but after the backlash that began all across CA when word got out he backed off and decided to ONLY close off Orange County beaches while leaving all others open. The beaches on either side of Orange County are still open. The people of OC didn't take too kindly to that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...rride-n1198331

Perhaps they should open up beaches again if there's going to be continued protests like that as the lessor of two evils. Transmission occurs primarily from prolonged close contact, which would be the case with protesters standing next to each other for a while. On the beach, it's mostly just passerby. Besides, the vast majority of infections occur inside, likely over 90% of them.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...nfectious-dose

[Batman1980]

You can't reward stupidity or more people will pull this crap

[bruceames]

They can reopen it with the same restrictions the have in beaches down in San Diego, where you have to keep moving. Sunlight and fresh air is good for you and risk of outside transmission from passerby contact is extremely low.

[Moe Szyslak]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Looks like Russia's numbers are finally looking a little more realistic. If they're reporting that many, imagine what the numbers really are there. No way their death totals are accurate.

[Show spoiler]

[Underworld54]

I've been on hold with unemployment for about 5 hours. This is beyond frustrating. Just open us back up.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by rdodolak

High risk people, such as those with compromised immune systems, can stay home. They won't be forced to go to work. Allow those that are low risk go back to work.

1) At this point we don't even have a remotely accurate count on deaths, so there is no way to evaluate who is low risk.

2) who/how does one determines low risk? -not covid-19 related- my nephew is 23 years old, always did a lot of sports, played for the University Hockey team, jogged every day, in 2018 he decided to train with a buddy to run the 2019 marathon. His competitive nature meant that he tried a bit too hard the day of the marathon and collapsed on the road. Spent a week in the hospital and the doctors found a slight issue with his heart that caused his collapse. Nothing that would change his day to day life but he would need to make sure he does not put as much strain on his heart as he did with the marathon. I don't know if that qualifies him as high risk, but if it does and this was a year ago he would have been categorized as low risk.

3) in your model you have two categories of people high risk and low risk. And high risk should be quarantined while low risk should be able to go about their normal life. But how do those high risk people live? Here in Quebec the first old age home that had an explosion of Covid-19 started by having a low-risk person visiting their family member visiting their relative right after they came back from spring break. Then a bit later there were two more old age homes in the news this time it came from a part time employee that worked in both places. My dad is 85 years old, has asthma, heart problems and takes a lot of meds and is currently living with us. does it matter if my GF, the kids or I are "low-risk" go out catch covid-19 and come back home and because we are asymptomatic he catches it?

That's another issue, people shouldn't make more on unemployment than they make when employed. By doing so, you've removed the incentive for those people to work.

agree 100%

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

Are people going to hide in their homes forever?

No but people are too stupid. A virus needs a living host in order to survive, and our bodies will try and destroy covid-19 if it invades us. for a virus there are three possible outcomes once it invades a person.

1) person spreads it to someone else (and it can start making copies of itself and go on living longer)

2) person dies (and the virus dies with him)

3) person is quarantined does not meet healthy people (kills the virus in himself) and gets well.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by rocknblues81

Maybe the issue is people not just bowing down and accepting silly draconian measures for a virus that will have a 1% death rate or less.

that is true only to people who failed first grade math.


1) Once the whole thing is over you can do #deaths/people that caught it (like we can do today for the Spanish flue in 1918). But you can't do that while an epidemic is happening. The people that got a positive today or died today did not catch covid-19 today, it does not work that fast. It is like staring out into space at the stars, what you see is not the present but the past no matter how up date it is. For an educated guess one should take todays death numbers / but cases two weeks ago ( to put it in a somewhat level playing) and then it looks like it will be more than 1%

2) you do realize there are over 7.8B people in the world and 330M people in the US, 1% is 780M and 3.3M respectively. Glad that you see it as an inconsequential amount of lives.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

California hospitals are running far under half capacity.

well yeah people with serious cases of COVI-19 don't need boob jobs so those are empty. Can you tell us how many ICUs /ventilators are free?

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

totally agree some people are idiots. but why not slowly open, see what happens, and whatever areas see a spike, go back to stay at home orders until it levels off again?

what if things dont go as badly as worst case scenarios. wont ever know if you dont try

the issue is it takes two three weeks, if not more, to start seeing the effects.

[dublinbluray108]

Ireland's business sector is getting a €6.5 billion support package to help them stem losses from the pandemic. Measures would include a 3 month freeze on SME's paying for commercial rates to local City & county councils. However €4 billion of the package is not being rolled out just yet until Ireland gets a new government.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/...virus-cabinet/

There have been 2 elderly people in my locality who died of Coronavirus recently. There were one male & one female. I didn't know them on a personal level because I had never met them before. They had both lived in different housing estates from mine before they both died from the virus. One of them died in a nursing home in Kildare & one died while in hospital in Dublin. They had lived near a major dual carriageway in South Dublin. But I lived up further north from both of them. The one lady who died of the virus last month lived to a fine age of 100 years old. The elderly man's age is unknown at this time.

There is a website currently showing names of people from Ireland who have died during this pandemic. May they all R.I.P.

https://www.rte.ie/irelandremembers/

The rate of transmission of the virus has females as the majority being/been infected in Ireland.

Out of a total of 20,742 cases recorded from midnight on the 30th of April.

Female - 58%.

Male - 42%.

As of last night, however, 70% of cases in Ireland have now recovered from the virus.

[Eye Candy]

Don't be alarmed, it's just the Conoravirus plague Doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVxx...ature=youtu.be

[Ray Jackson]

I went to a small organic food store today and one guy was dressed in a full hazmat suit, with an industrial-grade respirator mask and protective shoe covers.

...things are starting to get weird.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

I've been on hold with unemployment for about 5 hours. This is beyond frustrating. Just open us back up.

Silly question, but why don't you just get a new temp job? Plenty of people hiring out there right now. I ask this of all the people that want to OPEN IT BACK UP, yet I never get a real answer.

Is it the crappy pay or the hard work I wonder?

I've been working both jobs the entire time, hours keep going up and up. My day job, where Management tells us NO OVERTIME, I clocked out with 49.5 hours this week. Add in another hour of some online crap I have to do sometime this weekend.

I'd gladly take a few weeks of sitting on my ass right now.

Perspective.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I went to a small organic food store today and one guy was dressed in a full hazmat suit, with an industrial-grade respirator mask and protective shoe covers.

...things are starting to get weird.

Why yes...yes they are.

[Dollar Colonel]

I wish the IRS answered their phones right now, even if I have to be on hold for a long time. At some point in the past few years they "upgraded" my account and as a result I'm locked out of their system, which seems to be causing issues with the Get My Payment checker as well.