Posted on 03/11/2020 7:12:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
When are there ever hurricane warnings “out for weeks”?
Yes, when the hurricane hits, it is too late.
But if you moved out of florida last fall because of the predictions of widespread, intensive hurricanes, you wasted your time.
The hurricane predictions are actual science, and happen when we have actual weather patterns that show an impending possibility of a hurricane, and we have a decent idea of the path.
I can tell you that, if you live in New York, you should be bracing for problems with your local hospital system.
But I don’t think a person living in Kansas should be canceling their scheduled surgeries because this guy says hospitals could have trouble in a couple of weeks.
The question is, will the number of cases in our country exceed the number of cases China reported, and will it exceed the number of cases in ANY other country that have reported so far?
If we hit a million cases, we will still be fine; 10-15% require hospitalization, and we can hospitalize 100-150 thousand people over the next few months, if we just hold off until the flu season starts winding down.
But Trump’s position on this is that we should be testing EVERYBODY, and his policy is for the CDC to make enough tests for everybody, and make the tests for FREE.
Does he disagree with that, or is he just upset that the CDC was not able to meet Trump’s expectations?
This reminds me of Katrina — like the democrats and the media seem to argue that it was Bush’s fault that the levees broke, and that Bush WANTED new orleans to flood.
And it didn’t matter that Bush tried to get people to evacuate, and that they fully stocked an emergency facility in the superdome, where everybody had food, medical treatment, and beds.
Instead, it was “why are we leaving them stranded on their own”, as if there was ANY place to take them to that was better than that facility. As if it was the job of the federal government to make sure hospitals on land 10 feet below sea level didn’t put their emergency generators in the basement.
The problem is that when you’re at the top you gotta take the bricks people throw at you, along with the flowers. Goes with the territory.
I understand that many hospitals will have tents set up in one week to handle the panic. I believe that is the directive and guidance most hospital admins are receiving.
OMG this hysteria has to stop it has become ridiculous absolutely ridiculous!!!
Looking at the latest, March 10th stats from Worldometer, I see that there are currently 970 active COVID-19 cases in the US. Out of those 970 active cases, 960 of those cases are categorized as being mild and 10 of those cases are categorized as being either serious or critical.
Assuming those statistics are correct, and assuming that our hospitals are just treating the serious and critical patients, can anybody explain to me how this load level portends that "We are 10 days from our hospitals getting creamed"?
This mass hysteria is like nothing I’ve seen. I have to believe it’s planned to torpedo the economy, the only hope to stop Trump.
It’s no different than any other flu. So you get your head out, troll.
But that works!!
Worldometer is saying that there are only 10 serious or critical COVID-19 patients in the entire country.
Can you document with real numbers from real sources that Seattle has "more severe/critical cases than ICU beds"?
Thank you.
Well...an educated guess...is that will not happen here. This country has probably way over 120k vent's.
Hi there, Vector
So, you are suggesting people ignore hurricane warnings? Nice. (I am kidding.)
My point is that anyone who was paying attention in late December and January knew this was coming, it was going to be systematically bad, and quite disruptive.
I guess it’s akin to going into hurricane season without a plan to at least board up your windows. Most people are just thinking about where to buy the plywood. By the time they get there...it’s gonna be gone.
The question is not how many cases today, the question is how fast does the number grow. Italy went from two cases to 9,000 in a couple of weeks, and that was WITH aggressive quarantine measures.
We have not even done that much.
No, the question is how many deaths per day? Is it growing?
And the answer is that since March 1st, the death rate from COVID-19 in the US has been fairly flat.
It's been about a little over three per day, plus or minus a couple.
The numbers are very small. Do the math, quit panicking.
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