Posted on 03/13/2020 11:11:42 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823939/posts?page=1301
You don’t take workers off the plant floor unless they are critically ill.
Italy is going through this right now with medical staff.
You work unless you are so sick you can’t work.
They assume everyone is infected, so no point in testing anyone.
When the spring breakers get home they become spreaders...
Gas is cheap, maybe good time to stockpile gen set fuel?
I don't understand why DJ shows on college radio stations are stopping, though. Unless the colleges themselves are closed up tight?
Although I *swear* I heard yesterday on WTIC 1080 AM that all restaurants in Connecticut will be closed (but supermarkets stay open), apparently that is (happily) NOT the case. Restaurants are still open in CT. I believe CT is also banning gatherings above 250, like in other states.
The Irish bars in New Haven may have curtailed business on St. Patrick's Day though. Last I heard, the mayor is thinking of instituting some rules where only so many patrons can be in each bar/restaurant at a time, and they have to sit further apart than usual.
I really hope all this coronavirus crap ends soon... *sigh*.
Critical national infrastructure needs to be maintained even if some people get sick, particularly when the numbers show that 80% who are infected have minor symptoms
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Agree.
Why have we not seen any power shut downs in China or Italy, over this? Or, anywhere, that I know of, over this?
Thanks.
If Trump’s test comes back positive, can we claim it?
You can actually see this concept in action with WH task force and other top DC officials.
That (imho) is why they are not taking precautions.
If you are healthy enough to work, you work!
Ask her how much gas will be wasted driving to the school and back for a free sack lunch which is normally a little milk carton, a fruit and a one slice of baloney between two slices of bread. The sitter should tell her no and save $ making the same at home.
Walmart.com computation for bologna sandwich, milk and banana = 56 cents each lunch.
Sure, risk a car accident for 56 cents.
“Utter BS.”
Normalcy Bias. CLASSIC CASE!
(this is regarding rolling blackouts in the US)
south america and parts of africa are heading to the end of summer. Wondering if thats why it hasnt spread there very quickly.,
isnt it literally a bar tender in Park City who spread this?
Thanks for checking and posting the timeline!
This is where Trump gets TESTED. Can he do what’s obviously happened in China, which is to FORCE essential workers to go to work, sick or not...or do we start pulling-in essential services.
Will be interesting to watch!
I would believe it, no problem, but I would need evidence—and we haven’t seen any sources or any logic to support the “rolling blackout” claim.
In fact, the folks pushing the claim do not seem to understand the metrics of the disease, the way Italy has handled it under high stress, or the tools .gov has to deal with that type of situation.
If someone briefed the WH with that lack of preparation, they would be quickly escorted off the premises.
Regards this:
>>The age statistics have been posted here over and over >>again.
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>>The death rates drop dramatically in a step-wise fashion.
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>>40 to 60 puts you in the mid-range...
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>>Please, do some research here.
He has.
He is looking at Italian survival rates in a collapsed medical system that doesn’t entubate anyone over 60 or anyone under 60 with a comorbidity.
Why don’t you try the same.
Consider — why do we have a VA hospital system for former military?
Lots of the injuries involve pulmonary damage from chemical exposures, or for ex-submariners, decompression injuries.
Just the sort of thing to get you a triage red card until someone has the wit to realized power plant critical personnel get treatment, period.
The Fed haven’t thought that far.
Biggest place where this would impact is France which is heavily dependent on nuclear power.
How it goes there should be a good benchmark.
I give credit to some of the folks here who called this early on, but I do not share the catastrophic outlook,of the more fastidious preppers.
You simply can’t protect yourself from every eventuality; you have to use available resources to mitigate what appears to be probable.
“Why is this ‘utter bs’?”
Because nuclear power plant workers developed an IMMUNITY to Coronavirus years ago - they can’t get sick from it. Idiot.
Thanks for this information!
((hugs))
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