Posted on 03/20/2020 11:06:55 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #21 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826151/posts?page=1
You can believe that 5.7 people for every thousand vanished in the PRC last month, and we're just now finding out about it because of a line graph of telecom users.
Fever is sufficient (probably) but not necessary for a positive diagnosis. So some will slip through with that procedure.
And you can buy groceries in our liquor stores too. :)
Just came back from post office. People staying apart but not everyone leaving six feet.
People yakking like always on their phones. Laughing loudly. Don’t they realize that spreads stuff as much as coughing does? It upped my usual annoyance with phone addicts by about 100%.
Am going to email recipient to tell them to pick up the package with gloves, spray it with Lysol, and then leave it to age for a few days, per instrux from a freeper.
"Some" is a whole lot better than 'all'... We can save our restaurants with a similar deal - everyone gets the test and if anyone fails the whole group is rejected. Mix that with half the tables are removed for 'space' protection and I'd be willing to eat out.
Life is a trade off...
Yes. Stores, hospitals, restaurants and companies have a vested interest in making this work.
A way around your concern - which is valid - would be to require two checkers 10 feet apart... An additional requirement for restaurants is half their tables need to be removed or left empty and all people in a group would be rejected if one person in the group tests positive. Rejected groups are allowed to order takeout...
My neighbors have been shooting 2-3 times a day, daily.
I say they head West. Stage in Iran. Boatloads full of troops heading east in the Pacific would be sitting ducks. Unless they were called ships full of masks and respirators. Lol. I would recommend our subs remain submerged. Cant possible become infected then.
I think they may have the L strain in Albany, GA, it is really bad there...
The system can only work if we have a 14 day ‘shelter in place’ cool down to cut virus carriers.
After that we’re picking off the stragglers. AND we’re saving our jobs and economy. The alternative is a country wide depression that will make the 30’s look like a walk in the park, higher death rates and medical workers who are stripped of protection ...
We can do this.
My husband started temp screening his employees, with their permission of course because he’s not even sure how legal it is.
He had to send one teen home for “sniffles” last week. No other symptoms, but taking no chances. It’s going to be tough with pollen season in full swing in GA.
It’s only 50% with fever of those who have it. So the one who has it with no fever goes in with his whole group and sits and eats with them for two hours, mixing it up with waitstaff besides.
It gives a false sense of security to those without fever and to those with them.
Not everyone reads FR and is up on the facts.
Lots of updates rolling in, so I’m gonna hog the thread a bit...
KS
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Johnson County health officials reported the county’s first fatality from the novel coronavirus Saturday.
Details of the death, the second in Kansas, have not yet been released.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article241398421.html
I have read in several studies now that it is 80% present with fever.
CDC case counts US - 15,000+ cases, 286 fatalities as of March 21, 2020
(FluTrackers)
NY
Two coronavirus-related deaths at RUMC, as number hospitalized on Staten Island grows
Updated 3:17 PM; Today 3:08 PM
By Kyle Lawson | klawson@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— Two patients at Richmond University Medical Center have died after testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), a spokesman for the hospital said Saturday.
The news comes less than 24 hours after Staten Island University Hospital announced two patient deaths — a man and a woman, both in their 80s, according to sources — due to virus-related illnesses.
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Cuomo said New York City saw 1,803 of the new cases, bringing its total to 6,211, but by Saturday afternoon, the city said a total of 7,530 people in New York City had tested positive for COVID-19, including 45 people who died.
Queens has seen 2,077 of those cases; Manhattan has seen 1,791; Brooklyn has seen 2,275; the Bronx has seen 1,005 and Staten Island has seen 375, according to the city.
New York state has more than 8,300 cases and 53 deaths alone; the five boroughs account for about two-thirds of both those totals.
More than 40 people in the city, and 68 across the tri-state, have died. (New Jersey making up 16 of these deaths)
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Albany, NYGovernor Cuomo Signs the ‘New York State on PAUSE’ Executive Order
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-signs-new-york-state-pause-executive-order
NJ
New Jersey - Governor Murphy Announces Statewide Stay at Home Order, Closure of All Non-Essential Retail Businesses
https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/approved/20200320j.shtml
There is no direct evidence of this. It's all circumstantial, and the best of that is the behavior of the Chinese government. We'll probably never know.
CA
The California State Public Health Officer and Director of the California Department of Public Health is ordering all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence, except as needed to maintain continuity of operation of the federal critical infrastructure sectors.
Read the Executive Order (pdf)
https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/
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