Posted on 03/06/2020 12:19:11 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Continuation of Thread
No 10 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3821921/posts
“Half the Congress?”
I was trying to figure those numbers out the other day. How many people in Congress above the age 70.
NC
North Carolina faces shortage of test kits
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — State officials confirmed Friday night that they have tested 19 people for the coronavirus, with two of them testing positive. Gov. Roy Cooper said he expects the numbers to go up as testing increases.
But he also said more supplies are needed.
Thanks for the first hand account.
KS
KS: Johnson County has first case confirmed
Today, 07:04 PM
fox4kc: (Mar 7) ...She said the woman is under 50 years old and lives in Johnson County. The woman is in home isolation.
#ChooseWarren #TeamWarren #Warren2020 #WashHands @pop_popculture · 4m4 minutes ago
#ChooseWarren #TeamWarren #Warren2020 #WashHands Retweeted Gregg Gonsalves
& all the kids who rely on #schoollunch to eat! #Hunger #Poverty issues are intertwined too. #COVID19 #Covid_19 #coronavirus we need #emergency #paidsickleave for longer than a few days & without #employer being able to require a #doctorsnote to prove ur sick by going to doctor
May be efficient to use unemployment insurance to mitigate covid 'shutdowns'. Just a little federal help would be needed there.
A topic for another thread. Just throwing out what's going around.
19 people tested. 19. WTF. This is unbelievable.
This data is incomplete but interesting nonetheless:
https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/the-115th-congress-is-among-the-oldest-in-history/175/
I think all states would say “more supplies are needed”. Sigh. I have a lot of family in NC (as well as Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon and Germany. Double sigh.
The CNBC gal, who reports from Beijing, had said last week that her driver cars have some sort of sanitation seal on them.
I’ve also seen the vids with the Chinese drivers in full PPE gear.
People are furious with the CDC and by extension, the President. He needs to clean house
Full data dump for House:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
More than half of the US Senate is over 70.
I think I did finally convince her when I said something like how the CDC doesn't want to cause panic. It may also have to do with the viral loading. Standing next to somebody that breathes or coughs in your face you get more of it than what is floating in the air.
Although in a crowded area if a person breathes out and say 80% of the stuff falls to the ground within 6 feet, but 10% lingers for a few minutes, and another 10% lingers for 8 hours floating in the air. Start multiplying that 10% by all the people that have been through the area in 8 hours and it adds up!
Hence the previous suggestions (by you perhaps?) of getting to the store early in the a.m.
“From what I have read you are correct. You can get some of the “virons” into your body and your body fights them and wins. You get too many (I think they call it viral loading) and the body is overwhelmed and the virus wins.”
That’s why having masks is important - even if you only catch 50% of the virons in the mask, you wind up, for example, doubling your allowable exposure time, for a given concentration.
A lot of states are like that—only 12 here in CT.
No, not to the extent I can. I bring a few extra things home every time I shop for dinner etc.
I should do more, I guess.
I have it from very high up.
Despite their public "no aerosol" statements, they are recommending Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms (AIIR) for confirmed infections and Airborne Precautions for providers. These are single patient rooms with negative pressure and no exhaust without HEPA filtration. For medical purposes, Airborne is aerosol, while spray is droplets. Droplet protocols are significantly easier than airborne.
There are also studies for MERS and SARS that indicated aerosol transmission, so assuming aerosol transmission until proven otherwise just makes sense.
Jars of peanut butter, crackers, soup, etc.
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