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I know. Just bored and playing.
Too true man
JayKubzz Thank You for your service on the front lines helping those who are fighting this thing.
Just in case anyone was concerned about us being on the same trajectory as Italy...looks as though we may not be.
Not trying to start a fight, just trying to spread some positivity. Hopefully everyone is staying home. Literally no better time to be staying at home with the entertainment options. Order out local if you can. Tip 100% if you can.
We got this and go dawgs
Yep, hopefully these drastic measures are paying off
Thanks for sharing @Kasey - a promising update, for sure.
Incidentally - Medium took down the article you shared earlier..404 Error -.”violation of Medium’s rules”. I guess data is bad! /s
They better be. The cost is enormous. Hopefully the benefit is commensurate.
Midnight update: things are fine right now. All non-essential business are closed in Connecticut as of Monday, but as long as the grocery stores and take-out places stay open, we will manage. My job is remote every day now, but we're staying fully operational as far as I can tell. It's a third-party insurance admin company, and I think we're all finding out just how much can be done outside of the office.
We got our 5th death in the state tonight. The governor said we're testing about 1000 people a day, but that seems painfully slow. There was a drive-thru testing site that opened up at town hall in a town called Darien, an exceedingly wealthy part of the state. They shut down the test site after four hours because some pearl-clutching neighbors complained. That drew some national media attention, and rightfully so.
My wife went and bought some supplies from Joann to sew some makeshift masks together that we're gonna donate to a local hospital. We're trying to help in whatever we can, and it hit home when a nurse came in and told her that they're basically out of supplies.
I'm just restless. There's only so much TV I can watch and video games I can play so I think sewing these masks will give me something purposeful to do. Y'all just stay safe and sound and don't take the family time for granted. Big talk from a 27-year old, but I am enjoying the time with my wife and dogs.
Go Dawgs!
I'm not making any judgments but that article was written by a former Mitt Romney staffer who isn't any sort of scientist. When it was taken down he namedropped Brit Hume and the Fox crew for help. I didn't read it so not saying it wasn't valid...I just saw the guy complaining to medium on my twitter feed...and Brit Hume/Fox have been on the "let's downplay this" side of things. TIFWIW.
Pretty sure being connected to Mitt Romney doesn't carry any weight on either side of the political spectrum at this point. 🙂
I wasn't sure whether I should put this here or in Funny Pictures.
Truly informative read. Never hurts to be educated on what we’re facing. Please stay home.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/20/21179040/coronavirus-us-italy-not-overreacting
Alright looks like this thread is starting to get off the rails. My fault, I apologize. I forgot how everything gets legislated in the internet these days.
anyway, let’s get back to checking in with each other and saying how we’re doing. Keep it non-political going forward if we can. Thanks again
I'm over 60 on medication for exercise induced asthma, a dermatologist/Mohs surgeon employed by a multispecialty group. I have implored them to take this more seriously. Last week I was removing a 6mm facial cyst off of a young man (his mother seated in the room) when they revealed that they had just returned from Switzerland! "But the area where we were wasn't affected" as if the flight back couldn't have a possibility of exposure. The next day I had the same situation with an older woman who was coughing and sniffling. Neither of these tiny cysts were inflamed nor had any urgency for removal. Thankfully, the governor issued an executive order mandating the postponement of all non urgent procedures, but already the state medical and dermatology societies are "interpreting" this to mean we should still be seeing routine patients. I have told my employer that I will excise the two melanomas I have pending, and examine those due for suture removal, but everything else will have to be by teledermatology. They have yet to respond.
Just needed to vent a bit.
Stay safe, y'all.
Oh, and thanks to whoever taught me a new word, "pwn". Might be breaking out the Scrabble® board...
@Kasey You didn't take it off the rails. Most of us can ignore it when someone goes a little political. It's part of us all trying to keep the forum as it should.
A cooler morning in the Upstate of SC. Gonna watch our church service online soon. Again, still very quiet here. Most people are staying home a lot, which is good for the spread, but has to just **** for all the businesses around. Lesser of two evils right now, I know.
For what it's worth - I think the Italy comparison fits parts of our country too well (Northeast), but doesn't fit others as well. I fear for and pray for those people!
The geography, population density, socioeconomic status, healthcare systems, and public transportation options are so DRASTICALLY different across our country. Not sure you can lump the entire US in with numbers (when 1/3 of the cases are in NY) and compare them to other places lacking the variety we have. Italy is jam-packed compared to MOST of the US. It's older. And their culture is much more friendly.
I have worked with stats enough to know that you can make them say a lot in either direction. Some of what we have seen has been a little inflated. Some is no-doubt worse than what we see.
For instance... 20% of the infected are supposed to require some type of medical help/hospitalization, according to most I read. The incubation period looks to be close to 4-5 days. 9 days ago, I was told that 100,000 in Ohio were "probably" already infected. Have they hospitalized 20,000 COVID-19 patients this week? I haven't heard that. By now, those 20,000 should be in the middle of some tough days. I think - maybe - that specific "modeling" number may have been a touch high to justify some decisions. Now, I am not saying that decision was wrong. Not sure if the "information" was a bit of an oversell...
i agree with most of the measures that are happening. Not sure if locking down parts of rural Kansas like they are in San Fran makes sense. We just don't know cause all this is new to everybody! All I know for sure is that my house is CLEAN. I would eat off just about every surface there is. My hands are drying out. My windows and doors are open, and I ain't going anywhere to bunch up with people anytime soon.
Sorry to ramble! I lean glass-half-full most of the time, and Go Dawgs!
Was hoping to get the boat out today, but it's looking cloudy and pretty windy. The beaches are closed, but the water is still open.
By the way, the predominant seasonal flu strain this year is H1N1 (Swine Flu). 200-300 Floridians die each week from it this year...just to put things in perspective.
Great read in the AJC from a doc in Albany, where it really is tough right now...
HEROES!!!!
ok posting this light of new info I always try to react to new info just taking a fine tooth comb to the earlier article