Posted on 04/25/2020 4:04:53 AM PDT by RaceBannon
I’m concerned about the supply chain not because of the virus, but because of people’s reaction to a perceived shortage, just like we saw last month.
And what with the elections coming up this fall, I expect the left to foment social unrest.
As stuff has been appearing on store shelves, I have been buying a little extra each time. And I am not using my store cards or debit cards to pay for it.
Cash and no way to identify me as having purchased it unless they want to chase down the store security videos in places that so that.
Well, then, a vaccine would be useless, wouldn’t it?
If getting sick does not confer immunity, then a vaccine would not either.
I thought the shutdown measures were actually prudent to do initially, when we knew less about this virus, but they really should have been done on a county-by-county basis, unless 3/4* of counties were affected — THEN shut the state down.
*2/3 in DE and RI, which have only 3 counties apiece.
Different strains, maybe?
Winnie the Flu was reported to be deeply saddened by this WHO deviation — that is, questioning the lifting of countermeasures while Winnie the Flu is lifting them.
That true as far as it goes.
But at no time in all of recorded history were the people who could only be proved to be infected by sophisticated laboratory procedures counted in the denominator.
For every epidemic EVER only people ill enough to seek medical care were counted as cases.
EVER!
If you want to feeeeel good about this pandemic, add as many people as you like to the denominator. Why stop at those who are sick? Why not add everyone who tests as exposed even if they never get sick? Why stop there? Why not put the population of the whole country in the denominator? After all, they might have been exposes! Hey! How about the entire population of the planet, don't they deserve to be counted???
That'll make the death ratio really low!
And really false, when compared to every disease that has ever swept through a population in the past, when those ignorant, benighted people only counted the overtly sick in their reckoning of how many died of the disease...
You may have missed the exodus from NYC to other counties, including to places where the summer communities had not even turned the water on yet and no grocery stores were open.
Also essentially bringing the virus to places that had no adequate health care.
I’ve just been wondering vis a vis the food supply chain disruptions.
Last summer was dreadful in the upper midwest.
let’s hope, for everyone’s sake, this summer is much better.
And it was bloody damn hot. 90s, we are reaching 100 in the next few days.
One result of everyone who can exiting NYC: speed demons in hot cars and motorcycles racing around the empty streets in an apparent attempt to make up for all the lost time spent in traffic jams.
Cops too stretched out to worry about this goofy stuff. Pain in the rear to those at home though.
“The Economy Will Reopen Sooner Than You Think - Soon we’ll have to face our Hobson’s choice: take what’s available or nothing at all.”
- see https://spectator.org/the-economy-will-reopen-sooner-than-you-think/
The tested sample of the 1918 flu was recovered from the Alaskan Brevig Mission, a tiny isolated Inuit settlement.
During the five-day period from November 15-20, 1918, the 1918 pandemic claimed the lives of 72 of the villages’ 80 adult inhabitants.
So my question is, was the recovered virus genome from the first generation? What's the best guess as to the properties of the second more deadly wave of a mutated virus?
GSM? 407 entries for that acronym...
grand solar minimum.
LOL.
It’s like Rican day w/o the crowds!
Is it the heat or is it the sun that is most effective in combatting the coronavirus? Either way, people don’t go outside when it is super hot because we have air-conditioning, something we did not have in 1918.
Analysis looks correct, although I think herd immunity wont happen until 2021.
A chinese report stated 10 % have been reinfected. So 10 % reinfection in 2 months means what across an entire year ?
Only if the infected are tested positive. If you just assume a certain percentage of the population has been infected, you are talking an entirely different metric.
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