Posted on 02/28/2020 1:09:49 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Continuation of the thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3820145/posts
Steve Lookner
@lookner
Letter from school system in Washington where presumed coronavirus patient is a student. Says student was briefly on campus this morning. Also says student has a sibling who attends a different school (a middle school) who’s asymptomatic & being tested.
I suspect those comorbidities probably cover a majority of those over 60. Most “cardiovascular disease is un-diagnosed, and plenty of people live into their 80’s and 90’s with it. Also many with hypertension treated with medicines.
Most all are over 80
if this is accurate, those countries who have massive aging population and don’t give a damn about human life will embrace this virus as readily as abortion while making nice noises about being against it.
Who said ‘ritzy’??
The problem isn’t going to be the universities. The problem is going to be the nursing homes.
Lefty states wanting more funds???
I’m shocked, I tell you!
You're describing the United States.
Thanks but the only thing I can afford to invest in is what I may need.
I get a distinct impression that state health orgs are not doing their job!
Under our system they have to.
Agree because of their age.
I wouldn’t doubt that.
Death panels, coronavirus-style. :(
I’ll be there with a P95 on, CV won’t stop me :)
A red-neck from South West Oregon. I used question marks.
I’m sure it ain’t Mercer Island, but I bet their two leading growth industries during the 90’s weren’t the unemployment office and U-Haul.
Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Eugene, and D.C. can go F themselves.
I ended up about 2000 miles away from where I grew up, and my parents about 1700 miles.
No bitterness here (sarc. on)
And China, and about another 40-100 countries.
Likely including the True North Strong and Free.
Correspondence, Feb 27:
Secondary attack rate and superspreading events for SARS-CoV-2
Yang Liu, Rosalind M. Eggo, Adam J. Kucharchi
“If transmission is stratified by contacts within and outside of the household, the relationship between R0 and household risk is: R0=SARHNH + SARCNC, where SARH and SARC are the secondary attack rates within household and wider community (ie, outside household), respectively, and NH and NC are the numbers of at-risk contacts made, respectively.3 An infection with a high household SAR but a modest R0 would therefore suggest transmission is driven by a relatively small number of high-risk contacts. A large household SAR further suggests that between-household transmission risk is lower; otherwise the observed R0 would be larger....”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30462-1/fulltext
Like our “just in time” supply chain and logistics systems, our hospitals eschew an excess inventory of anything, including beds, ventilators, etc. Even if hospitals cancel all nonessential procedures (which would cost them a huge amount of money), there won’t be enough beds. There will be nowhere near enough ventilators. Best hope is to slow this down, or find a drug/treatment that averts crashing our healthcare system.
So far everything is in the parameters of “cluster analysis”.
Hope it stays that way.
Invest in rare and precious metals.
Gold and lead. Especially lead.
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