Posted on 03/23/2020 5:57:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Do it post haste. Or stat for you MD types.
Pelosi is tearing down this country and tearing up our livelihoods and our life savings...
Agree but how would that support further Agenda 21 and the removal of our God given rights?
How dare anyone speak common sense?
Try to talk some common sense into the old retired MD wastoute. Thank you.
Oh yeah, there’s no plan on when to end it, or how to even gauge metrics that would signal it’s time to end.
My question is: What are they going to do when the looters start rolling through the major urban areas? I’m guessing we’re only a week from that at this point.
Once those blue state governors get a taste of having their own army to order around, I’m going to imagine it will take quite a bit to shake them of their newly discovered toy.
Scott is right on the money. What is happening in this country is pure madness. Isolate the vulnerable, put money in hospitals and medicine (not Planned Parenthood), put the country back to work, reopen schools.
Celebrating by staying in a local hotel and getting a meal from a local restaurant will go a long way from our hospitality industry friends. They are in excruciating pain.
‘Try to talk some common sense into the old retired MD wastoute. Thank you.’
I’ve noticed that poster on these threads...quite the agitator, isn’t he/she...?
... prescribed ...
Amen. A viable treatment (may not work for everyone) is out there. But just sitting back waiting to be infected is not going to work. There are some who will, unfortunately, die regardless when they are infected.
Trump said the cure cannot be worse than the disease. There’s no way anyone can guarantee your good health.
Absolutely correct. I saw an article in the WSJ worrying about the non-symptomatic “carriers” and also about how many people are now being revealed to have had it. Well, if it’s non-symptomatic, that means it’s pretty mild, and also that the “herd” is building up immunity. That is, the disease may be communicated to another person, but because most people already have the antibodies from prior infections or vaccination, the virus is limited in the number of people in can spread to in one jump.
So why lament it? That should have been the strategy all along. Isolate the vulnerable if appropriate (and most of the elderly or already ill would have been perfectly willing to self-isolate, as long as they were assured they could get food and care), quarantine people who have active cases, look for treatments and a vaccine, and practice good hygiene.
If people are worried about hospital facilitie ( although ultimately they would be probably less necessary), build field hospitals and quick-train medical technicians. But it probably would never come to that if handled sanely.
And keep going to work, engaging in social activities, going to church, etc., although let people who are nervous stay home for a while. But don’t destroy the economy and all private society to “save” them.
Me and him/her have been at it all morning. He is smart but lacks any kind of reason, common sense or proportion to this faux crisis.
The best vaccine against those causing COVID-19 panic?
Throw USA influenza statistics in their face - every hour, every day.
Make them prove that COVID-19 - in the USA - is more deadly than a bad influenza season.
Bottom Line...
(1) Protect the elderly and the infirm to the best of our ability.
(2) Do not destroy the American economy and our standard of living.
Herd immunity WITH THIS PARTICULAR EVENT does not work. You can be re-infected with any of the multiple strains that have already mutated into existing around the world. Just like what happened in 1918, there were 3 primary strains that swept the world all off the one original strain.
We have to find that fine line balance on how to deal with Covid19. Turning everybody loose isn’t the correct answer.
If this pandemic follows the patterns of previous ones, there will be peaks and troughs. Perhaps loosening restrictions during low circulation times and then “tightening the belt” during the peaks is the answer?
It would be wonderful if this just disappeared, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It appears that this will be become endemic until a vaccine can be found.
Trump’s over night tweets and retweets indicate that he’s all in for the 15 days. He’s not one to pick an idea or solution and be wedded to it just “because”.
Perhaps someone will define “herd immunity” and just how in the absence of a vaccine it is achieved. However do have a pet peeve. Neither the CDC nor the WHO are releasing the race and detailed underlying medical conditions, medications being taken, vaccination status and habits of those who become infected, go on to become ill, then go into respiratory failure and die. Such detailed categorization while not politically correct, is essential in understanding the population genetics and environmental factors that will dictate how this and any other pandemic plays out. Political correctness is willful self delusion and a very bad trait for scientists.
The problem is at least half the people who are asymptomatic or mild will never seek the test or by the time they do they have spread it. This is much more contagious than a cold or the flu. It’s anecdotal but I have seen one case where a resident and the surgeon operated on one sick patient and they both got it. I have never seen that kind of thing. Two doctors infected at once., incredible.
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