BungyBang

I hope in a month this virus is gone.

Pad

Hate to be a pessimist, but that isn't going to happen. We'll be lucky if it is gone this time next year.

zzyeahok

froggerxp,

Sadly, there is no way around the economic impact. Thats only going to get worse. And I hate to say it but if we really want to stop this we're going to have to follow the Chinese model. Maybe we in the west are different and will act responsibly and stay away from each other for a while. But from what I've seen so far I don't think thats going to happen.

Imagine what the homeless are going through right now (if they even know about it). Once the virus gets into that population it will be really difficult to get rid of the virus (may even become a reservior). It will spread amongst them and even wider. The powers that be are going to have to do something about this very real problem.

Saw a similar article yesterday about these detention centers along the southern US border which will have the same problem. All those refugees stored in cages with all kinds of other people coming in and out all day long. Once the virus is in there will be a bloodbath amongst the refugees and their jailers. The article suggested they be let go immediately or this will turn really bad very quickly.

allworkboy

3244 now.

JustKelli

^^^^^ There are over 200,000 presumed cases in the US according to my hospital's literature. Not all will test positive.

We installed hand sanitizer dispenser in every common area in my building today. If people want to fill their own containers they are welcome to it.

What's the first thing up do when you go into.the bathroom to wash your hands, you turn on the lights. What's the next thing you do, you turn on the faucets. What's the next thing you do, you turn off the faucets and dry your hands. What's the last thing you do, you turn off the lights.

Quiz time, what 2 objects that you touched didn't you clean before you washed your hands but you touched them afterwards

Fallon

that's a no-brainer

When I do my math based on the official numbers, the US would have a ten times (!!!) higher mortality rate than Germany, a chronically over-aged country. That wouldn't make any sense at all.

So either the number of infected persons or the number of deaths must be wrong. And since it’s absolutely impossible to say, how many people exactly have been infected, you need to take a look at the number of corona-related deaths to extrapolate the number of infected persons.

And since Germany started testing at a very early stage and is testing a lot more than the US, I assume that its numbers and mortality rate of 0.2% are a lot more accurate than those of the US.

With that being said, if you take this 0.2% mortality rate, there would be more than 30,000 corona infected people in the US, based on the 62 deaths right now.

zzyeahok

JustKelli,

Really, really sadly, that number is going to rise way higher unless the government decides to take really drastic measures (along the lines of what China had to do). If the researchers are correct that number will rise into the millions.

All of us are going to have to develop procedures to protect ourselves. My thought is that you create a world inside your house and another outside. Before you touch any doorways going outside you have gloves and sanitizer handy. If you go outside to anyplace you use the sanitizer liberally on your car door handles, steering wheel gear shift and anything else you touch. When you get back in the house you first wash your hands. If you've picked up groceries then wash or disinfect what you can and put away. Then wash your hands again. When you pick up your mail, open it if you must and wipe it down if you have to keep it. Otherwise outside to the recycle bin. Then wash hands again.

So far this seems to have worked for me. The key is to view the outside world as full of virus while the inside of your house is clean (if you keep it clean).

Put together a procedure and try not to forget it. None are perfect (we are humans after all) but if you keep at it it might work for you.

firekind

Airlines in the UK are looking the government to bail them out. Considering the disease is worldwide because of airlines they've a fucking nerve.

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zzyeahok

Pad,

You're probably correct but lets hope you're not.

Since this is a "novel" (new) virus there are a lot of questions scientists just don't know yet. From what I've read and seen the closest analogy we now have to this virus is the 1918-19 Spanish flu. It started about the same time of year and had many of the same properties. It did go away for the summer but came roaring back in the fall when it killed most of its victims.

Will that happen here? Scientists just don't know yet. Maybe it will be affected by the summer but maybe it won't. Hopefully its not as bad as that flu but we just don't know enough about it yet.

So I do hope you are wrong, but fear you aren't.

zzyeahok

Fallon,

Can't argue with any of that.

Only a slight quibble here. Some researchers are suggesting the death rate for this virus could be up to 0.34%. Really hope they're wrong about that as the math is exceedingly frightful.