Posted on 03/10/2020 6:23:50 AM PDT by C19fan
The first phase of the coronavirus outbreak was a domestic challenge for China and a border containment one for the United States and others. Now we are in the second phase: community mitigation. Math and history must guide our next steps.
The near-term objective should be to reduce the acute, exponential growth of the outbreak, in order to reduce suffering and the strain on our health-care system. That will require significant effort, but it can work, as we have seen: Hong Kong and Singapore have achieved linear growth of covid-19 cases, staving off the terrifying exponential upward curve confronting Italy and pushing both the infection rate down and new cases out on the timeline.
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I sincerely hope your right. I bought extra food and other things on my shopping trips for the past few weeks. I’m not too worried about catching it myself. I think I’m healthy enough to pull through without the awful symptoms some other people get. I’m prepping mainly for quarantines and the probability of shortages due to broken supply chains. Some sanitizers do not hurt for workplaces and other applications, though.
My hope is that y’all “flu bros” are right about it burning out as the weather gets warmer, as most of these things do.
I’ve thought about that, but with the estimated 20% of cases being serious*, I’m guessing that our health care system would quickly become overwhelmed, just like northern Italy, if the spring and summer temperatures don’t burn it out.
*I’m guessing serious cases would be more like 10% over here, due to our healthier baseline and younger average age, but those cases would still overwhelm the health system. 10% of 330 million = 33 million. No way our hospitals could handle all that over a few months.
I’m well aware of who he is and his various positions.
Makes me wonder what the average age of freepers is. If it’s 60 plus then I guess we are expendable.
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I posted similar, earlier, today.
What happened to the value of our elders?
I’ve seen multiple posts about how this doesn’t kill/effect the young.
And, I wonder how close (or over) 60 some of these folks repeating this are.
Your 10% serious/hospitalized is closer to the mark:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/asia/south-korea-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html
On a lighter note...getting real in Memphis:
https://twitter.com/HOT97/status/1237346021895790593
Great video from Memphis. That’s why we in the South love the South — it’s real!
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