Posted on 04/04/2020 6:58:35 PM PDT by david1292
Dr. Deborah Birx said Saturday that Americans should especially focus on social distancing guidelines in the next two weeks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe,” she said.
Birx noted that Pennsylvania, Colorado, and the Washington, DC, metro area were starting to have an increasing number of cases.
“We’re hoping and believing that if people mitigate strongly, the work that they did over the last two weeks will blunt that curve,” she said.
She pointed to really bad hotspots in New Jersey and New York, where cases of the virus and deaths were still going up.
“The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,” she said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci also said three or four hotspots were continuing to rise, but that certain areas could flatten the curve by social distancing.
“Just make sure everybody does the at least minimal amount of that physical separation, because the virus has no place to go if you’re physically separating,” Fauci said.
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Birx to America: Let them eat cake!
I’m thinking of getting a 7.0 cu ft freezer to supplement what I already have.
Good luck.
Have you tried ordering a freezer, of any size, lately?
I told my sis...who has PLENTY of room for a freezer....months ago...to order one.
She didn’t.
Me, to Birx.....I have cake in my freezer!
I bought MiniMoos, too!
That’s for if things really hit the fan.
Yes...try the freezing of the half and half. Get a vacuum sealer. Easy peasy.
It does mean that CCp-19s are dying at a high rate.
I have no idea how many will die, and neither does anyone else.
Yep, I generally go after 900 am.
Our seniors go from 800-900 at Winn Dixie, and I don’t want to crowd them.
I’ve got deliveries coming, but they will be a while yet.
I’m enjoying driving all around New York City with traffic that’s the equivalent of Louisville on New Years Day....it’s a once in a lifetime experience
We have two masks, that is all we need. You wear them to the store, come home and put them in the microwave, then iron them. If the Wuhu flu can survive that, it deserves to kill me.
I have thought of doing that. Doesn't it separate when you thaw it?
Oh, that’s great. So, we’re destroying the economy and crapping on fundamental rights on the basis of your “hopes” and “beliefs”?!
I’m enjoying driving all around New York City with traffic that’s the equivalent of Louisville on New Years Day....it’s a once in a lifetime experience
I was thinking that same thing....while watching live cam corders and vids taken of all of the empty NYC streets.
When will THIS ever happen, again? Is what I was thinking.
We’ve spent a LOT of time in the city (family and friends who live/lived there).
Just surreal to see it shut down, like this.
Same thing...for the entire world.
It can...you have to mix it up a bit, after thawing.
I’ve found freezing in ice cube trays works best.
But, in a hurry, or pinch, freezing the entire quart into a quart FREEZER bag, will do.
In the investigation of a disease outbreak, public health officials do a process called "contact tracing" through which they identify anyone who might have been exposed through a known case. Also, if someone shows up to the doctor and has known risk factors--i.e. they traveled to China within the last 30 days--they will be tested. The goal is to cast a wide enough net to identify the infected persons. In other words, there are not vast numbers of undetected cases walking around.
In order for there to be uncounted numbers of asymptomatic cases, the disease would have to be far more contagious than it actually is. The reality is that there are around the number of cases one would expect from its known transmissibility--each infected person spreads the disease to about 2.5 others.
This disease kills over 5% of those infected--so far--with so many still sick, the death rate has a lot of room to increase. Unfortunate. A young woman, my sister-in-law's neighbor, mother of two young children, died of Covid-19 a little while ago. Youth does not protect from death. And with the high mortality, it is unlikely anyone will be untouched if it continues to spread the way it's been going.
Young woman in ICU with Covid-19.
Your best bet? Don't go with the grasping at straw narratives that millions of people really got Covid-19, and only a small fraction of them became seriously ill. Instead, protect yourself. Stay at least 6 feet from other people, don't touch anyone, wash your hands frequently, don't touch your face. Wipe packages with disinfectant wipes. You can wash produce in a 1% bleach solution--1 tsp bleach in 2 cups water--to kill any viruses.
Staten Island is probably the best place in the country to be spending this lockdown in..... The pizzerias are still open for take out, and there’s more good pizzerias there per square mile than anywhere outside of Italy
Thanks! That’s good to know. Last time I went to the store the milk was ravaged but there was plenty of 1/2&1/2 which is all I buy. I’m glad no one else wanted it.
[[My wife is on alot of prescription medicines.]]
Our pharmacy is now having customers call in their orders, pay with credit card over phone- then pick up outside the store-
I live in a state that has roughly 300 infections per 1,000,000 population. Do you honestly believe that is a threat? I’m sorry you are so easily manipulated by the government, and, I do try to conduct myself in a manner that lets the sheep feel comfortable. But I am not going to stop living my life just because someone else is afraid.
Jesus these people are impossible. Don’t get food for the next month and don’t get your prescriptions...
They are acting like this is Ebola, rather than respiratory virus in which 85% of the folks deal with it with OTC meds if that.
Reality is the NYC metro corridore is not remotely what most of the country will see.. lower population density and far less dependence on public transportation etc. yet they want to treat rural Nebraska like it’s manhattan. Ridiculous.
Not sure where you got this graph but for the 2020 season as of last week in the U.S. reported by the CDC, there have been 23K to 63K deaths from flu out of 39 - 55 million flu illnesses. The CV deaths are at around 8500 as of the end of March. That does not map out as even close to what that image shows. Influenza over the same period is 10x as many deaths with cases in the millions. The volume of panic driving crap news is incredible.
I’m working 6 days per week now. I have one day for errands, housecleaning, laundry, etc. Last Wed. I went to the grocery store, purchased gas then ran to the hardware store. I was in and out because there were very few folks around. But, of course, there was no TP.
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