So let's see, I read my info straight from the CDC and you show up with the wapo! Winston, this is why people laugh at you.
San Francisco has just gone Shelter in Place in 6 bay area counties. The company I was working on Chemical Project just shut down all operations today for 3 weeks. Don't know where I will report for tomorrow yet? Waiting to hear where I will cover or if I need to report. In the bay area companies are shutting all operations down for this shelter in place. It ends early April. My wife works at a corporate headquarters for Investment firm. They are in work from home mode now indefinitely due to a virus confirmation.
Oh What a crock of shit Winston. He has changed his narrative as the facts on the ground have changed.
It's not the death rate we are trying to prevent - its the overtaxing of the healthcare system in the country. There are only 62,000 ventilators in the country - how fast are we going to hit max if we don try to slow this down?
While this is true, the Flu kills in the same demographic and by the same mechanism. How many vents and beds are being taken up by the hospitalization of serious cases resulting from the 20,000 new cases of the Flu each day? Luckily, the Flu appears to have peaked, but there are still a lot of patients in those beds. The real issue is that our system has for the most part evolved to handle the normal load of influenza each year, and there is very little reserve to service a new epidemic of flu like illness. Same thing happens in a really bad flu season, like 2017-18, when 61,000 people died of the Flu. .... with the exception that the Flu often times targets young healthy people as well as the elderly. COVID19 is proving to be a mild disease unless you are over 70 or have complications. The main difference, we are used to losing 20-40 thousand lives to the Flu every year, just another day in the neighborhood. COVID19, OTOH, is like being invaded by aliens .... so we stock up on the toilet paper. I get it, we are trying to flatten the curve. I also see the data, WA state, and NYC/Jersey are the problem spots. Cali is in the mix as well, particularly San Fran. But this scenario doesn’t equally apply to all areas of the Nation. And with the lock down in place, and given that we can get the stupid Millennials to behave and cooperate, for most of the Nation, this COVID19 gig could be behind most of the Nation in a month or so. At that point, you just quarantine the Hot Spots, like China did.
It’s more contagious and the unknown and uncertainty of it all really fucks with the human brain. It’s a survival gene kicking in. Add the 24/7 vaginal networks that one here clearly echoes each day shows it’s effective no matter how stupid. Half the entire population is just as dumb.
I think the whole thing is way overblown. I'm sure I must have been near somebody who had been exposed to the flu many times at bars, restaurants, ballgames, concerts or whatever. Only thing is is what if the doomsayers are right this time?
