Not verified, but still possible food for thought.
Posted on 04/13/2020 2:28:12 PM PDT by RaceBannon
new thread starting 4-13-2020
I suspect my state will be locked down into the 2030’s for this very reason.
‘We’re number 1, we’re number 1...’
I remember doing a presentation at a conference in Opryland. I was sitting in one of the lobbies with my wife and people watching.
I told here there were not many places in the world where my 6 ft 260 pound body would not be one of the largest in the room.
Opryland was one of those places.
That was 20 pounds ago. And I still have a ways to go.
We are not a healthy country.
Not verified, but still possible food for thought.
At one nursing home, the staff moved in to care for the residents. Moved in and aren’t going home. That’s dedication and the right thing to do.
That’s why the flubro comparisons with Iceland and Sweden are a farce.
We’re closer to New Orleans in most of the country.
And we love our food.
We gave up beef due to the price. Now, we’ll have to give up pork because the price will go up. I’d say we’re going to be stuck with just chicken quarters but those will go up, too.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
One of the the demographics that we are not seeing is the work categories of the people getting this (outside of healthcare/cops, etc.)
I bet they are people who work in cubicle farms or face to face service industries.
It will be interesting to see how this impacts office design going forward—I think more people will work from home; and that will allow for more space per person in office settings. I also think that face to face interaction is going to be a thing of the past in a lot of banks, movie theaters, etc.
Fine Dining is going to have to change as well. I doubt you will have three busboys running around the floors of those fancy NY establishments.
Nice list!
That should have been a known. Every time there is a wisp of air, the virus will be lifted up and floated on down the hall. Every time a nurse attends a patient, it will waft up onto the clothing and catch a free ride.
We had a nursing home in town. 180 residents. 21 of them are dead. 93 others are infected. 43 Staff infected.
They are like a little leper colony in our town.
I think the staff is afraid to leave because the mob of families outside will hang the administrators.
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/11/21-residents-dead-jgs-lifecare-senior-home
I agree, but I would be worried about the viral load... otherwise it is like the cruise ship. Maybe better to have a way to house them off site like a college dorm
My son says that the on the covid floor at the hospital he works with, the nurses stations are surrounded by the patient rooms which are all set up as isolation rooms. However, the nurses at the stations in the middle don’t even wear masks.
He says everyone on that floor should be in tyvek suits, etc.
We’ll see.
I suspect, where it’s technologically possible, cubicle farms may be a thing of the past. Ability to be trusted to work from home will be a hiring requirement. Companies will see they don’t need to have the commercial real estate expenditure for huge offices if they can have some (or many) of their employees working from home. This will have downstream effects for everything from coffee vendors to service contracts for maintenance and anything related to ‘office buildings’.
I suspect once we start to see immunity gaining a foothold things will return to normal everywhere. Movie theaters are on their last legs in general. The specialty ones with sit down meals and wine and huge comfy chairs may make it. The chair farms with sticky floors and ten dollar popcorn, maybe not. Restaurants that survive this will likely return to normal.
I would LIKE to see changes in the tax laws that allow businesses to stash away cash and inventory withOUT being penalized by the tax codes. Federal, state and/or local. It makes no sense to hamstring businesses that could put away for a rainy day. In 1918 we didn’t have tax laws that punished ants and rewarded grasshoppers.
I would hope, however, that more Americans learn to cook at home. We were’t as obese a people when more of us ate at home.
Too many in France aren’t staying home. They keep shopping and going to the beach. Just like the US.
I won’t be rushing out when we open up. It’ll be worse than it was before the current lockdown.
Case counts US - 583k cases, 23,481 fatalities as of April 14, 2020 (FluTrackers)
As of 6:41 am
Alaska: 8
Alabama: 62
Arizona: 122
Arkansas: 30
California: 731
Colorado: 308
Connecticut: 602
Delaware: 41
District of Columbia: 52
Florida: 499
Georgia: 480
Guam: 5
Hawaii: 9
Idaho: 33
Illinois: 794
Indiana: 350
Iowa: 43
Kansas: 62
Kentucky: 104
Louisiana: 884
Maine: 19
Maryland: 262
Massachusetts: 844
Michigan: 1,602
Minnesota: 70
Mississippi: 98
Missouri: 117
Montana: 7
Navajo Nation: 28
Nebraska: 18
Nevada: 120
New Hampshire: 23
New Jersey: 2,443
New Mexico: 31
New York: 10,056
North Carolina: 86
North Dakota: 8
Northern Marianas Islands: 2
Ohio: 274
Oklahoma: 99
Oregon: 53
Puerto Rico: 45
Pennsylvania: 524
Rhode Island: 73
South Carolina: 87
South Dakota: 6
Tennessee: 109
Texas: 287
US Virgin Islands: 1
Utah: 18
Vermont: 28
Virginia: 149
Washington: 514
West Virginia: 9
Wisconsin: 154
Wyoming: 1
Total 23,481
True dat.
I think we’ll do a grocery pickup run sometime the end of this week. That will be 2 weeks since we shut down. Our case load is increasing about 5% daily now instead of 15%+ and the number of deaths is only 1 or 2 a day now.
I would like to believe we’re using the HCQ protocol here now and before people get at death’s door. Using it to prevent hospitalizations is the way to go for everyone. I’m not entirely sure ‘we’ are doing that yet. And that will have a big effect on how much our family goes and does henceforth.
The last couple dinners’ chicken bones are boiling right now for one more day of not going out.
From Dr. Campbell’s youtube yesterday, South Korea had 116 reinfections.
They have a mandatory test for everyone arriving to the country. Americans going there account for half the new cases. 228 of 459 imported cases were from US. Yesterday, 25 new cases with 16 of those imported.
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