Posted on 04/07/2020 9:47:41 AM PDT by Mariner
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I have $100 coming from a music gig on March 14 right before everything shut down. Guy with the money texted to apologize for me not having it yet. I told him if he knows of someone in need to just give the money them. He sent back a thumbs up.
Sadly, the practice is sending people home and not admitting them until they are in respiratory distress. By then, it’s nearly too late.
I’d watch it and link to it. What would you make a youtube video about?
The blanket if fully over my head.
I’ve only noted one stat at world-o-meter that has been consistent for weeks.
The percentage of cases classified serious/critical has stayed at 5% as cases and deaths have risen while jumping all over the place.
Speaking of numbers..
I don’t know what to make of these.
“Sadly, the practice is sending people home and not admitting them until they are in respiratory distress. By then, it’s nearly too late.”
That policy was put into practice way too early due to fear of running out of beds.
Incredibly stupid, imo.
I’m fine chillin’. Haven’t been farther than the mailbox since March 13. Am in no hurry to venture out any time soon. Plenty to keep busy with at home. Still need to hand water the little garden and vacuum today. Tomorrow, shampoo the carpet. If we ever get some sunshine, have a few furniture projects. Need to clean out a couple of file cabinets. Need to clear out the junk room. Need to do something with the pile of debris the workmen left. And those masks aren’t getting done on their own. Yeah, there’s lots to keep busy with.
My math brain gets a headache when the numbers being reported don’t add up
it really doesn’t
using that 74% for todays numbers that means 3 times as many people have been been released then what are currently in the hospital
17,500 times 3 is 52,500 total released but that means 70,000 total hospitalizations
70,000/139,000 total cases
50% of all cases end up in the hospital?
no way
I saw that.
The only thing I can take out of this right now is the old “fog of war” situation
Getting accurate numbers right now is very difficult made worse by the imprecise (I’m thinking of labeling) use of the numbers we have.
History repeats itself, sort of.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/colorado-county-shuts-door-to-tourists-amid-coronavirus-crisis/
Gunnison closed to outsiders during the Spanish flu pandemic and was spared for the moat part.
Well, they succeeded.
Truckers have become a new wave of front line responders in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic — starting with Eby, who gets the piglet to the farm to be fattened, and the next driver who gets the fattened pig to the butcher, and the next one who gets the refrigerated meat to the store.
Before the realities of this pandemic, trucks were often ignored. Their impact on our daily lives was considered an annoyance, as they chugged slowly up the winding hills of our back roads on the way to that grocery store, hospital, department store, or Amazon distribution center.
Never mind that they are filled with those essential things we have to have or nonessential things we thought we had to have. Too often, people mindlessly assume what they buy at Target or Walmart or Whole Foods comes from the back room, not from a farm upstate, or a factory four states away.
“I’m glad that our industry is finally getting a little bit of a positive spin,” said Richards, “So many times, you run up and down the highways and all you see is plaintiff attorneys advertising, wanting to sue truckers.”
Michigan with another bad day
1749 new cases
117 new deaths
US daily death tally now at 1522
Prospects for that are not looking good. It’s going to be a bad day.
Unfortunately we've past those numbers. Worldometers is now reporting 12,275 total, and 1,404 so far today, with about 5 hours remaining.
Which country was that? May be related to the number of ICU beds available?
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