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Ouch. So, do us a favor and have your pillow partner follow up with whoever sent her that info, tell them it's false and, yadda yadda, stop spreading.
An idea that has been floated is drive ups at schools. You get 4 meals worth and can come back every other day. How the kid gets to the school is probably trickier, but I imagine that a lot of the parents that have problems providing food for kids will also be out of work soon as well.
Well it was a doctor who sent it to her to be fair.
Doctors are not much different than anyone else here. The average doctor does not have much training in this arena, if any at all. Scientists don't have enough data on this virus to make any valid conclusions. So there is a lot of false information circulating from even people that are supposed to be "respected sources".
Not official yet, but it sounds like many Milwaukee area school districts will be closing starting on Monday. Teachers are preparing packets of "work" for kids to deliver tomorrow.
Read Angela Merkel's statements from earlier today. An actual leader talking to her citizens like adults with scientific facts. Ohio is doing what the US should be doing. Social distancing is the answer but Americans are too set in liberty and freedom to believe it. It's the one of negative effects of our society is that we believe in ourselves too much and don't follow rules or care for others in our community.
Didn't Merkel say that 70% of the population would be infected? What science is that based on?
I'll answer my own question on this one. The article below helps explain some of the numbers that seem to be creating so much fear/panic/concern right now.The way I understand this is that containing the virus may be extremely difficult, especially with so many unknowns regarding transmission and treatment. And if that does prove to be the case, the virus may become part of the annual cold and flu season. If this is the case, then sure, I can understand the idea of a majority of the population becoming infected. But there seems to be a very important caveat to that message. There could be a possibility that you will be infected ***at some point in your life*** The message that seems to be coming through and that has been repeated often is that these high rates of infection are likely to occur all at once and soon. If the high infection rate message coming from experts refers to the idea of a new cold and flu season developing over a number of years, this should be clarified by researchers and leaders. Panic might help to achieve the needed results in the short-term, but education is important for the long-term. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/[url]]]https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/[url][/url]
Still feels extreme, a lot of kids depend on school meal programs, etc
I guess it depends on what you mean by "concerned". I am concerned that a lot of people are getting sick and probably many will die. To me, that's just a natural human concern. I am not particularly concerned that this virus will have a significant impact in the United States. So, if you're asking about the first of those, then yes, I am concerned. If you're asking about the second (which, in my opinion, is what a lot of people are asking), then no, I'm not concerned.
Yeah, you dont want to follow the krauts on this one.
Its really reassuring to see that a lot of people's information and understanding is weeks behind. That article is two and a half weeks old. You know, back when Italy had a grand total of 229 cases.You're going to get it, but the time to trust government responses, and not take precautions, and prepare is well passed.Once you start reading a bit more, you'll probably agree.
I see the ODH Director's statement that 100,000 have it in Ohio is getting some national attention. While I do admit to having some doubts about her statement - and particularly how definitively she presented it - I also note that if she's correct that he existence of seeing community spread means that "at least 1%, at the very least 1% of our population" is carrying the virus..." then the fatality rate is not nearly as high as many of the estimates. By her theory, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.3 million have been infected in the US. We have had 36 deaths in the US. If 1% of the country is already infected, that would make the mortality rate very, very low -- 0.00001. So, something obviously is off. I suspect she's very high. (*Edited: I suspect her estimate is very high.) Data from everywhere else this has spread shows that there is a death rate considerably higher than the common flu. It would appear that it's somewhere between 0.7% (which is still considerably higher than the flu) and 2 or 3%. Any estimate of total cases that would suggest a mortality rate that is much lower than the flu is, presumably, a bit off.
I think the long incubation period complicates the math. If she is correct, the majority or all of those 100K may be asymptomatic right now and if they all become symptomatic around the same time that is pretty problematic (theoretically at 1% fatality that means at least 1,000 critical patients within days of each other)What I can't get a sense of with stories out of China from a couple of weeks ago and Italy now, how many of the deaths are infrastructure based(the overwhelming of) and how many are "inevitable" because of the disease.The next 10 days will be interesting because if we say 1M people are currently infected but asymptomatic and the conversion rate from infected to requiring hospitalization is 2% that means 20,000 hiting the hospital systems within a matter of days. If the infection volume is 5M at the same conversion rate its 50,000. If its 1M but a conversion rate of 20% we're talking 200,000. So how spread the infection is and what the conversion to hospitalization rate is is critical to whether the US can handle it. And I don't think we really have any idea right now regardless of what the OH health director says.
I think the long incubation period complicates the math. If she is correct, the majority or all of those 100K may be asymptomatic right now and if they all become symptomatic around the same time that is pretty problematic (theoretically at 1% fatality that means at least 1,000 critical patients within days of each other)
...disclosure, I am using conjecture here...
In light of recent events, it's kind of interesting to look back over the early pages of this thread and see some of the hot takes...including my own.
Because of the lag between contracting it and showing symptoms, we have no idea what the real number is. Hers might very well be high, but the actual number is unquestionably much, much higher than have been diagnosed.