Posted on 03/17/2020 10:42:50 AM PDT by Perseverando
This is a long post addressing two underlying issues with the current response to the pandemic that leave me concerned. It’s the longest post I’ve ever written.
For those of you not taking action, or believing the pandemic to be “over hyped”, you can make fun of me as much as you want now or when this is over. You can make me the subject of memes and post it everywhere. I will pose for the picture. I am not trying to convince you, but I do feel compelled to share information that I deem critical to all of us, which is why I am posting this at all.
WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE 5 MINUTES TO READ AND CONSIDER THE INFORMATION I AM SHARING:
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For those of you who don’t know me well, I am analytical and metered. I don’t freak out nor do I respond emotionally. I also don’t post a bunch of bullshit or political or controversial stuff on Facebook. I founded and am CEO of a successful software company that provides SaaS based data, analytics, and dashboards to recruiting departments at companies we all know. As you would expect, I am data driven and fact based. Before founding my company I held executive roles leading very large recruiting teams at some of the world's fastest growing companies such as Starbucks and Google. At Google I was fortunate enough to report to Sheryl Sandberg before she took the Facebook COO role. I was a Chemical Engineering major in college and have
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Yea we are all going to die, there will be not a person alive over the age of 70. It will be a scene out of the 1984 movie “The Day After”. Coughing, blood spitting people gasping for air in overcrowded hospitals, exhausted doctors covered in spit and feces scrambling from patient to patient. You have not read a word in this thread have you doomer? YOUR ASSUMPTIONS ON THE MATH maybe wrong. F*ck you people are tiresome negative pearl clutchers and dumb lemmings at that. How about we take a bet, I’ll bet you real $1000 dollars this thing is essentially over in 90 days and we have TOTAL fatalities of under 5000 and there will be no chronic, consistent overflow of sick patients at ANY hospital in America. Want to take that bet...yea I thought not...so shut up with your dumb opinions and wishcasting. Turn off the news and read a book.
Yeah, I noticed he is a Prepper, too. /sarc
I’m convinced that the government was going to be taking minimal, reasonable measures that would be comparable to what you’d see in a bad flu season ... and that it was the large-scale cancellation of sports events that triggered the panic.
BTW a I got an email with this same BS (same arguments including the 5th grade arithmetic) except it was "written by a doctor from the Cleveland Clinic" .
Korea had a method of distancing that didn’t shut down their country, and it seems to have worked well.
I don’t know if this guy understands america, but most of us are socially distanced anyway, or we socially interact in pretty tight circles.
I feel like there was a place somewhere between “ignore this”, and “shut down the world”, that would have helped.
I mean, we needed to stop most traffic, since we can’t test at every airport, and the europeans with their socialized medicine seem to be handling this very badly.
But here in this country, we see companies stepping up, we see insurance covering stuff, we see manufacturers stepping up, we just need to train people.
Disney in florida was closing on monday. Sunday night, their parks were packed, while Disney threw a “celebration” for their customers. This is why we might have needed more forced social distancing, because people are not very bright about it.
On the other hand, I bet there were no coronavirus cases at disney, and none from their celebration.
You win the internet today!
I can't touch anything? OH MY GOD!!! Are you freaking nuts?
Just asking..........
What are you talking about?
No, not at all.
You assume that asymptomatic cases "wander in the wildness" separate from hot hotspots. That's a false assumption. There's no reason to think that they would be clustered in the same hotspots.
“I was a Chemical Engineering major in college and have a business degree from a top undergraduate business school.”
So was I. But, I actually made it through ChemE, and have the degree. Business courses were easy. Congratulations, pal.
I’m not panicking at all. This is just more a result of the hysteria generated from the National Enquirer level crappola media these days.
I’m fine, and will continue to be fine and haven’t adjusted a single thing in my life, nor will I.
500 or fewer people in the US will succumb to this (unfortunately) when it’s all said and done by mid-May.
I realize now that the people are stupid. If everybody was like me, we went WAY overboard. I already socially distance. I monitor my health, and don’t go visit old people if I have a sniffle. When they told me about COVID, I started testing my temperature twice a day. I do the cleaning hands.
I go to the gym, I stay away from people. I swim, which disinfects me. If I used equipment, I wipe it down before and after — and ALWAYS HAVE.
I go out for pokemon, and we have a group, I stand to the side, and not downwind or upwind, and avoid any contact.
I go to restaurants, but I dont’ touch a bunch of stuff, I don’t grab my server, I wash my hands right after dinner before I leave. I am not a slob. I always washed my hands for 20 seconds after bathroom breaks.
But apparently, most people are idiots. Knowing that, I guess I should have been more supportive of the forced isolation crowd. But I just didn’t realize that the average american, told they need to stay away from everybody, would immeidately stand in a 1-hour close-packed line waiting to get into a fully packed grocery store to buy toilet paper, ignoring the people sneezing and coughing all around them.
You guys should read a book about how shit works. Because your 1960’s view of the world has changed a little bit.
It will be a pleasure watching you sit on the lawn outside your local hospital when you have your heart attack. Your wife or child pressing on your chest.
Don’t worry, your family will get your ashes. Well, they will be someone’s ashes.
I can barely contain my glee.
Now you did it - I agree with you on this precept.
Shouldn’t be too hard to set up some temp ICUs and allow medical professionals to rake in some overtime if supplies hold out and can be moved to where they are most needed...ICU is basically open areas with curtains between in a number of places (or partitions with wide entryways), but set up for convenience of access by a smaller number of professionals than would be required for regular rooms.
Biggest problem is that “like President “Trump” they haven’t stockpiled all the equipment and supplies for a “what if” event.....and people who have no real need/use for masks have bought them up so the folks who it would benefit most as far as handling the bug don’t have as ready access as they need....a case of panic buying causing more harm than good.
Hoping the actual spread is more as I envision it so there’s enough facilities even if some have to be “shipped” across town or to the next town....and those doing the shipping are astute enough to take proper precautions.
Stay well.
Nah - he’s a panicker.
May have to start converting Hotels to CoronaVirus Patients.
So too this current crisis. The reason that I accept - for purposes of argument - mortality rates approximating 5% of the total population (and yes, I well understand the exponential growth estimates), is to shift the debate towards an ethical/philosophical basis. That is, in essence, what price - if any - is too high to alter this nation's social, cultural and economic traditions, freedom & liberty?
Some seem to think martial law is more likely than adopting a "let 'er rip'" policy. (That is, letting CV run through the general population to establish some base level of herd immunity.) Reducing the people to the status of inmates in a giant collective gulag, ruled over by empowered bureaucrats, all for the sake of saving some relatively small % of the people, seems contradictory to existing principles.
The debate is mounting - fueled perhaps by data indicating actual lower overall rates of infection and/or acute experiences requiring emergency medical care, as well as possible disparate generational impacts - as to why the US is abandoning all semblance of adherence to civil rights in a republican form of government.
“I do not care much for most people in the first place and would rather be around my dogs.”
How do you know they want to be around you?...LOL stay healthy!
RE: 86% Don’t even know they have it.
Where are you getting that 86% figure from?
Why isn’t South Korea totally wiped off the map? They seemed to have gotten a handle on this fairly easy. Every statistic shows progress in a good way. And a vaccine hasn’t even been released yet.
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