We should probably nuke em, right?I doubt they can
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We should probably nuke em, right?I doubt they can
I asked that you give us the benefit of your expertise in explaining what should be America’s response to this epidemic. You punted.The articles or my history?
We should probably nuke em, right?
I asked that you give us the benefit of your expertise in explaining what should be America’s response to this epidemic. You punted.
Does that go for overseas shipping as well?
But the numerator also includes an unknown. All the people who currently are infected, haven't recovered, and may still die.
short of closing are borders and stopping international travel, pretty much nothing (other than what I have said is current going on)
I love that imagery. I’m a little turned on.
How will anyone know if there is an outbreak if hospitals aren't testing for the virus? I read there have only been 426 test in the US so far. That doesn't sound like they are prepared in the least.hospitals have already met with their disaster teams to review and make sure meds, equipment, staffing are in place, same with the local fire departments and EMS teams. On a national level, centrally stored extra equipment, meds are being distributed if they already aren’t to strategic locations throughout the country. The CDC already has in place many of the same things and literature/media to distribute to the public if and when a outbreak happens. The US military has also put in place plans to distribute medications, staff, supply, and portable hospitals to strategic areas. The CDC and the military already have the virus and are looking at different treatment options
I love that imagery. I’m a little turned on.
Do you realize the percentage of goods that have at least a partial dependence on foreign supply represents the majority of everything produced and sold in the US today? With your plan we would have to stop production on basically everything within weeks to months. Workers get laid off, companies go bankrupt and we are in the largest recession In our nation’s history.
Net net shutting off foreign trade would have massively more negative consequences than the epidemic. And, since it’s most likely incubating here already it would not stop the spread anyway.
Sure. CT scans are cheap.
Who's paying for it?
There are things that haven't happened yet that are near certainties.The whole notion of "it hasn't happened yet" is such a stunning and ever present approach some people have to potential issues. And no, it doesn't mean panic, it means plan and think ahead. Not the strength of some individuals.
Plan to home school your kids for the next year or so.
There are things that haven't happened yet that are near certainties.
It's beginning to look like the COVID-19 pandemic falls in that category.
How serious it will be is a different question, but it's looking serious enough already.
It could mutate to become more or less deadly, more or less transmissible. Probably better to plan for the worse outcomes than the better ones.
Cripes, you act like nothing is being done by the CDC on this.Indications are that, as noted before, roughly 80% of people may just get a mild to bad cold from this.
But if mortality is still 2-3%, that means of the last 20% (i.e. if YOU or someone YOU KNOW is in that risk category), mortality will be as high as 10-20% (up to 1 in 5 people of that 20% category).
So, who is likely to be in that 20% risk category?
So, for those of us who are reasonably healthy, the risks are likely to be pretty moderate. But for anyone in any 'risk category', the risks may be very high.
- Elderly
- People with respiratory conditions like asthma, emphysema or silicosis (that's you, coal miners)
- People who are obese and in very poor physical shape
- Diabetics (noted as a higher risk group already)
- Smokers (China noted higher mortality in adult men as compared to women, and doctors are surmising this is because most of them smoke)
- Immuno-compromised people; perhaps those onHIV meds, organ transplant recipients on immunosuppressants, cancer patients, etc
Probably means if you're also in the healthy category and don't interact with anyone in the risk categories, then the affects on you, personally, may be mostly irrelevant.
It's no slam dunk, of course, as there's not confirmatory data that ALL the deaths are from someone in that 20% group. Sure would be nice if we had someone running a Pandemic Rapid Response Group who could coordinate sourcing this info and conveying to the American public, though...
What a great way to thin the herd, and cut the costs of entitlements and safety net programs.
- Elderly
- People with respiratory conditions like asthma, emphysema or silicosis (that's you, coal miners)
- People who are obese and in very poor physical shape
- Diabetics (noted as a higher risk group already)
- Smokers (China noted higher mortality in adult men as compared to women, and doctors are surmising this is because most of them smoke)
- Immuno-compromised people; perhaps those onHIV meds, organ transplant recipients on immunosuppressants, cancer patients, etc
Cripes, you act like nothing is being done by the CDC on this.
Well well well it sounds like the President and other department heads confirmed what I have been saying all along about our response
No. They didn't. CDC is waiting for funding to be approved to initiate things that should have been happening 4 weeks ago.
LMAO take some time to go wipe the egg off your face.
It involves science.CDC is STILL WAITING on $2.5B in funding to initiate some of the activities that needed to happen 4 weeks ago. But Trump cut their funding already AND response programs.
So, yeah, I'm concerned about it. Because we're not "out in front", we're lollygagging while Trump claims everything's contained.
How will anyone know if there is an outbreak if hospitals aren't testing for the virus? I read there have only been 426 test in the US so far. That doesn't sound like they are prepared in the least.
If you are dependent on prescription drugs, stock up. Just in case there are supply chain interruptions.
That according to the expert on PBS Newshour tonight.