Posted on 03/22/2020 5:45:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
This economic & social upheaval is getting scary bad. Trump please wake up!!! We need you now!!
” New coronavirus-related hospitalizations should fall a week or two after the number of new cases declines,”
Seriously? How many years of medical school did it take to come to this conclusion? My grandkids could have come up with that one.
The only people I know OF that have it are the D-list "celebrities" who want to be relevant again. Of course, these are the people who can most afford to be holed up in their caves for a month or two without any financial effects.
Unlike many of us for whom the effects of this lockdown are only the financial effects.
“another peak may be on the way the following month”
One factor I don’t see mentioned is that medical equipment and hospital space can also be increased week to week, exponentially. This will allow more people to be treated, reducing the death rate, and permitting a higher peak number of cases before the health care system is overwhelmed.
As I understand it, this is the “flatten the curve” idea. It’s a race between virus spread (bad) and increasing medical infrastructure (good).
And a final thought: measures to decrease virus spread hurt the economy; measures to increase medical infrastructure help the economy. So a balance is called for.
I agree.
The big bosses are telling us that someone will find dry land very soon (allusion to the movie, “Waterworld” in re. “normal”). They don’t want the contemporary populace of adult children, lacking in the fatherly influences of over two generations ago, to panic as a result of knowing something about reality: our natural world and the way that it sometimes works.
We don’t really know what will happen or when.
Yay you.
Midwest here. A sister’s dear friend is in critical condition. And someone I had contact with 16 days ago tested positive.
I believe I had this the end of December. Thankfully, just a week’s worth of fever and symptoms.
Please don’t think that just because no one you “know” has experienced this that it’s a farce or you are immune. Most people get it and survive. I wouldn’t want to be the person who gets it and has a cytokinic storm.
Interesting question! Will a few of our “laboratories of democracy” change into something new and different? Will some of the cities ruined by decades of Dem mismanagement become authoritarian and scary as hell?
Time will tell. This pandemic is sure to leave changes behind and there is no telling what they may look like.
Illinois? Sorry, hope everyone gets well.
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