Posted on 03/22/2020 6:18:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Eventually we all are going to die. That is a fact and has nothing to do with that Chinese virus.
We do know what they did and the author probably does as well. They mobilized resources to track cases. Sacramento admitted they couldn’t last week. The author probably knows this as well. Sort of disingenuous but why ascribe malignancy to what should rightfully be attributed to incompetence. Which is fine. Root is a lawyer IIRC, not a doctor.
THAT is a very good question. Let’s get through the next week and we can deal with it. My wife says “Never borrow trouble from tomorrow.”
None of the flubros will answer my questions about that.
If all of those declared bankruptcy what would that do to the hospital system.
What will this whole thing do to the insurance companies if we take the ‘power through it’ method of dealing with it?
Seems like the ‘save my restaurant and portfolio’ people haven’t thought about the long term consequences of this.
Because the power through it method is a perfect way to get single payer. Simply because all the insurance companies would outright fail.
And when THAT happens, because of the linked nature of finances and underwriters...what would THAT do to the market and the economy.
Unless we completely deny hospital admission/medical care for anyone who has this and needs more than chicken soup and tylenol...
No, what she said made sense. If you don’t feel well you should stay home. What if she had a wreck with her car while she was driving because she got dizzy?
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_35531ff4-66d9-11ea-95b0-7797f71d169a.html
This guy will likely survive.
What will his medical bill be?
Can he afford that?
What will paying that off do to his consumption habits going forward? Will he be able to afford a car anytime soon? Or eating out? Or a vacation anywhere? What about his mortgage?
If he bails on the medical bills by declaring bankruptcy, who untimately eats that?
If a lot of people who get this and survive do that...what will that to do the economy?
Seems like Trump’s advice may HAVE included all the possibilities.
If insurance companies fail from this, we WILL have single payer.
And the way risk is underwritten...it WILL destroy the economy too.
For some reason I had Erick Erickson in mind. You are wrong that he is a Never Trumper. He was upset with him because of what he said about a certain person, and I can understand that. I also thought Donald Trump was wrong about that. Erick Erickson will vote for President Trump in November. Read his Columns
My son had a bad motorcycle accident and spent a week in a coma in ICU another month in the hospital and another in rehab. It came to $40,000. His lawyers advice was to declare bankruptcy so he could pay off his debts which he did over the next few years. Of course, HE decided to ride a motorcycle. If anybody should get financial assistance these people should and will.
No. I heard his comments that so many are questioning. He did not call the virus a hoax.
He specifically called out the lying news media's reporting of his comments which they deliberately reported out of context as being a hoax.
It was undeniable what the President really said. He told the truth and once again the lying news media is pitching a fit that he called them out on it.
He swings to the President's side when he feels it will benefit him and then quickly chastises President Trump over any little problem.His radio show is insufferable (especially his fake hysterical laugh at something that really isn't that funny.
Last week on his show he was in full End of the World mode and a guy who was a head EMT called to correct him on some the medical claims he was making. Erick shut him down fast and said "I have the facts on my side".
That being said,I guess I could be considered a "Flu Bro". The response is wildly out of proportion to the danger.
Everyone is running around like chickenheads, buying up everything and spouting Doomsday scenarios. Where the reality is quite different.
FUEE
You useless POS
Here is another fact: the Kansas City Chiefs won the Superbowl in 2020. Now tell me who is going to win 2021.
Pretty sure it will be a football team.
While I agree South Korea has done better than most, their numbers, PER MILLION of population are still quite high, current daily deaths at .16 per million compared with .09 per million in the US.
“ The number of new deaths everyday is not a “model”. It’s a fact.”
Yes, and the fact is the numbers are very low. Especially when compared to, say, a normal freaking flu.
One word. Tamiflu.
Why? If the most at-risk self-quarantine then having tests day 1 is irrelevant. This is about changing the behavior of specific people to reduce risk.
I’ve been saying the same thing. We can reduce the total deaths by getting through it all as quickly as possible while quarantining the most at-risk. Thousands die of the flu every year and we don’t come close to behaving this way. Will some that are not part of the typical “at risk” group die? Yes, as usual. Destroying modern society will also kill people.
One of the most important variables is the *duration* of the virus life. The longer it lives the more will die. We are causing it to live longer.
“The leftist policies of open borders and reckless welfare spending caused the Wuhan virus to proliferate in NY and CA the way it has. And the economic effect is already devastating. God only knows how long it will take to recover.”
From “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”... by Kipling.
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
“As of Saturday evening, the U.S. had conducted more than 182,000 tests total, yielding more than 23,000 confirmed positive results, according to the COVID Tracking Project. As of a week ago, the number of tests conducted was just over 20,000....
...New York City is now in dire straits, with more than 7,500 confirmed cases in the city alone as of late Friday, according to the city’s Department of Health.”
How much of the growth of cases has been due to testing? And roughly 30% of all cases are in New York City. Hmmmmm...
20,000+ vs 205.
No contest.
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