the flu isn't a hoax, but the response to it is. open everyone up for business! ISOLATE THE MOST VULNERABLE everybody else, isolate yourself or take your chances. it's called life.
Part of this story is that a fair number of New York City residents left town. Various people keeping estimating this....suggesting as much as 10-percent of people are gone.
It’s not the end of the world. People who made bad business choices can find work if they really want to work. Many will be glad to pay willing workers for doing odd jobs like cleaning toilets and mowing yards. What was good enough for factory workers and other tradesmen put out of work by the so called service industry is good enough for anyone.
The raw numbers don’t reflect that NYC has unloaded COVID-19 patients from private and public hospitals to the Javits Center and Comfort ship, both fully staffed by feds. As stated above, NYCers have fled the city to infect Upstate NY, the Hamptons, and other states. Cuomo said he is taking up running again. Whether that means jogging or campaigning or both, we shall soon know.
Its not just social distancing.
In many places it is also the use of HCQ based therapy.
Yo, Travis, I know it hasn't been 14 days yet, but, you said to get back to you...
You have gone silent, are you OK, have you been taking your hydrochloroquine?
Do you have that new downward hockey stick graph ready yet?
It was never a hoax it is a pandemic, but it was media driven, assisted by know it all gear heads like you, that have a working knowledge of data, charts and graphs and are always looking for the worst outcome.
This pandemic is bad, it is not the spanish flu of 1917-18-19.
This corona virus modeling has similarities to the Hillary Presidential election polls and projections!
The hospitals are all running low inpatient numbers because all elective surgeries are cancelled, and people are generally afraid to go to a hospital that they may become exposed and or infected.
The reason for the shut down, is not to stop the virus.
People will get this virus. Exposure will happen.
The shut down is to ease the number of people becoming sick all at the same time. A slow and gradual spread can be dealt with in most hospitals.
A 1,200 bed hospital can Not deal with a sudden rush of 2,000 people needing inpatient help.
It’s really not a matter of “taking your chances” because it’s expected that we’ll all get infected sooner or later. Of course later is preferred as more drugs are being used and various other therapies are being tried.
No one wants this.
Small businesses are the backbone to this country. They are indeed being harmed the most.
I think it depends on what any given small business does or is.
I mean, if we were just letting this virus run it’s course and people were dying in mass because the hospitals were truly full and maxed out.........I doubt a small business that’s a bakery would be doing well anyway.
This virus was going to break some things no matter what. The government is trying to make it be a controlled break.
Trump winning again.
Great news.
Personally, I shall be happy to see the back end of that freak Fauci.
Hope he plans to retire and SOON.
Is the 75% “drop” in the headline an actual decrease in the number of hospitalizations, or a reduction in the estimate?
You're not concerned about the 'elites' taking chances.
Nope - you come across as a liberal 86 - YOU want the people who make the elite's lives nicer to take the chances. Can I assume your wealthy parents spoiled you and now you're eternally pissed?