Posted on 03/22/2020 10:17:36 AM PDT by Mariner
Daily thread #23 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826809/posts?page=1
Better to let states shoulder as much of the load as possible. Could mean a tax increase, but most of them are REQUIRED to balance their budgets.
“Amazon’s hiring workers. It’s a rough trade, and hopefully they can provide PPE, but that might get you through the next year.”
Amazon is for the young, fit and smart.
Right now their warehouse/delivery arm is working at least 12 hour days, on their feet, with management putting in 16.
If you don’t have all of those things, you won’t make it.
They’re starting a trial in NYC on Tuesday according to an interesting article floating around FR that I don’t have handy. The FDA is apparently supplying 10,000 doses of the HCQ+AZT combo. I wonder if that hospital may be a recipient.
Time for a brief field report (N CT).
Apparently the state has an 8PM curfew now in effect. CVS gave my wife a note to keep with her (on CVS stationery) indicating she is an essential employee and needs to travel after 8PM.
The store had normal traffic this evening, and remains out of TP, hand sanitizer, and thermometers.
The store now closes at 8PM—because of the curfew.
think of it as joining the army.
Of course Amazon has ton of trucks, they are still dinging me for their auto orders. Wake up Amazon ! We are shutdown.
You may know about this already, but on 9-11, a number of flights were diverted to a fairly small town in Canada. The people there got to work serving the passengers food and providing accommodations and doing other good deeds until the wayward guests could return to the US. On the other hand, these inbound folks didn’t have amongst them carriers of a virus that could kill off between one and seven percent of the villagers. And therein lies the problem in rural California.
Six was the long-standing estimate. In any case, it’s far more contagious than the flu and really likes proximity.
But R0 is an average, so you’ll see stuff all over the place for individual cases.
We just don’t have enough data, yet.
No. The New England Journal of Medicine is.
“They should test the HCQ+AZT treatment on the coronavirus patients currently slamming that large hospital on Long Island. The medical folks are overwhelmed there, and there is a shortage of proper PPE, so they’re in danger of contracting the virus themselves. A real-life experiment under Right To Try.”
I think they are.
If I get this, no matter how severe, I’m stapling a note to my shirt “HCQ+AZT for this patient is authorized.” Then if I end up in the hospital, maybe they’ll give it to me regardless.
I had it done a few weeks ago (long story, and I came out negative). It’s a very weird feeling, but it’s quick. The doc says “don’t wince”, but it’s hard not to.
The place for these masks is is in keeping nurses from getting contaminated by patients in isolation, in a room with laminar flow. They are essentially useless and wasted outside of that context and it’s a shame to see people greedily wasting them in a failed effort when the people who need them can’t get them. Shameful.
Italy’s percentage of new deaths still declining.
https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1241704177811607553
“Wuhan begins to remove intracity traffic controls”
Still pretty strict, and just intracity.
But...
Good news for NY! In 6 months maybe they can too...
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