I factually know almost nothing directly. I do filter a lot of news. I have done it professionally for a long time. no system is perfect but I can usually find something worth actually reading towards my ends vs. skip skip skip. I make mistakes.
it is crazy contagious whether aerosolized or not. not holding my breath for the cdc to chime in here. the protein spike really is a devious piece of art in terms of facilitating infection with a relatively small viral exposure. hope we can agree it is very contagious regardless of aerosolization.
the ‘dont wear a mask’ thing is quite orwellian. we dont have enough masks so to make you feel better about not having one - they won’t help anyway. obv. having everyone in a mask would be ideal. asymptomatic carriers would spread a lot less. oh well.
not sure what fema is about. they did such a good job in katrina, looking fwd to them here (not).
we won’t get good info from the CDC in a timely fashion. they are reactive by nature and their priority isn’t giving us the best info to protect our health, individually. we have no choice but to dare to read 3rd party reports (often foreign case reports) to try to sort out what might be going on.
has a govt. md talked about possible annual epidemics yet? does that mean we shouldn’t? credible virologists say they don’t see why there shouldn’t be annual element here. this is a terribly concerning point beyond the current crisis. it is almost unthinkable in the implications.
a lot of talk about vaccine, but I think some of it is just give the public something to grab on to in a situation where by definition you feel completely helpless. hopefully we do get some meds that control the virus’ ability to replicate at not too high a cost to our bodies.
Think we are getting the two step on the mask. They will nationalize all production for first responders, care, military, etc.. So to make that palatable, you first tell the public they dont really need them. Then once the feds have locked up their stash, a mysterious report will be found, stating masks are effective. Oops. Okay now you all need them to be in public. Just like China. Over there you get beat up if you refuse the mask.
I think your comments are spot on. This has the potential to change almost everything about the way we go about our lives for decades to come. Or, it could blow through, take its toll, whatever that is, and hopefully be a lesson.
We do not know yet. It is pulling back the curtain on a lot of things.
There are great people there, but remember, they work for YOUR politicians and under normal circumstances the only way for the CDC professional staff to lose their jobs is to make anyone mad or sad, or both.
Every time they give a press conference, there's a politician behind a curtain waiting to stab them in the back - until that politician emerges two weeks later to say they didn't do enough.