Posted on 03/11/2020 8:06:12 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
Time to stay calm and continue on....
Yesterday's thread is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3823193/posts
Which is why all of us have been hollering for the last six weeks to take stronger measures upfront to avoid this! It would have made a much smaller dent on the economy than having to shut it all down.
Why our borders were left open so long will forever confound me.
Baylor U extended Spring Break a week so they have time to go to online classes.
Thank goodness for globull warming. Mid 80s today and similar tomorrow. Naw, doubtful it will help.
Can you imagine Biden, or Pelosi running this?
Sweet Jesus...
The world has been too late on this.
I expect my daughter’s school, Texas Tech, to do the same. I basically told her to bring enough clothes for a month.
Montanan in Maryland Tests Positive for Coronavirus
ABC FOX Montana Staff
Mar 11, 2020 Updated 1 hr ago
MARYLAND- A Montana woman in her 70s has tested positive for coronavirus.
Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland said Wednesday, that while the case will be classified as a Montana case, Maryland health departments will take the lead on the investigation.
The Montana resident was reportedly in close contact with a confirmed case. She was tested at a Maryland hospital.
Governor Hogan said he was been in communication with Montana Governor Steve Bullock about the case.
Governor Bullock released the following statement Wednesday afternoon:
“Public health officials are working closely with Maryland to confirm case details on when this individual was last in Montana. We are committed to providing Montanans with accurate and transparent information and will be working around the clock to ensure that those details will be provided as soon as possible. Lisa and I are sending all our good thoughts and love to the patient.”
Taking the temperature is a classic “half measure”.
More than half of the people who have been infected will have no symptoms.
Test before they come in...or anyone inside that building will be at high risk.
Ack, forgot that.
As I predicted on Jan 24th...on this site...governments will fall. Economies will collapse.
In the aftermath, war is far more likely.
The only effective containment we have seen thus far, and it’s suspect, has been the severe and draconian measures taken by a few Asian countries.
It remains to be seen if western governments have the will for it. And whether people in western societies will put up with it.
At this point (could change tomorrow, of course, with an 89 y/o), there’s NO other reason for Mom’s PCP to see Mom, except for that bloody prescription. Maybe I can drive there & Doc can walk out to my car... Or maybe they have a rear entrance. REALLY want to avoid that doggone waiting room / lobby / registration area — this time of year it’s full of hackers & coughers anyway.
The math on my claim—”more than half the people who have been infected will have no symptoms”.
If the latency period is greater than the doubling period, that is what you get...
Three day doubling period—start at 100 cases:
100 now
three days—200
six days—400
Since the latency period could be as high as a week, even if all 100 folks had a temperature (which they won’t btw) then you would still miss the 300 latent folks showing no temperature.
Will they do a phone consult? My FIL’s doc just sent an email today that he is doing phone appts with his geriatric patients.
During Ebola, I researched canna leaves. Not going to thin them this year.
I’m reminded to plant luffa
In Italy, btw, they just gave up testing medical professionals—if they are not too sick to work, they work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFhjMQrVts&feature=youtu.be
Italy announces all shops except pharmacies and food outlets will be CLOSED as coronavirus death toll climbs by 31% to 827 in 24 hours
and country’s top doctors say intensive care units should stop treating the elderly.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
“Why our borders were left open so long will forever confound me.”
They were left open because thousands upon thousands of companies and millions upon millions of personal incomes depended on that travel and transport across borders. Take away those companies and their ability to provide an income to that many of your citizens - the income they must have to survive - and you collapse your economy. And your government then collapses when you make your people destitute and unable to maintain a basic standard of living.
It’s a Catch-22. There are only wrong answers. And when the panic sets in and you are forced to collapse your economy then, you arrive at the same place. Had the borders been closed before this, Trump would have been removed from office, one way or another, when the economy collapsed anyway.
Bring home her textbooks and everything she’ll need, just in case.
I'm going to try, but in the past that's been ok for all Mom's prescriptions except the opioid. For THAT the Dr. has to see the patient in person, each month.
I understand the "why", in general, but it's ridiculous for an 89 y/o with an obvious chronic condition, even before all this.
We do not have to “guess” what it would look like. Look at countries who are proactive vs. those reactive. The proactive ones still have a functional economy and is not completely shut down.
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