Kolek planning to go pro
I believe the economic fallout is going to be the biggest part of the story. I have zero idea on how serious the virus is, but know that it is already causing major economic headaches. While I hope it is remembered like SARS, I am hoping the economic damage is not too severe.
I believe this will be what we remember this time in history by and I also think it will be a major inflection point in the diversification, redistribution, and automation of the global manufacturing footprint.
I know you guys are pros, but the rest of the public will just buy whatever they see... or probably whatever is left.
Found this website to have interesting data:https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/81% of the cases (reported) are classified as "mild". 14% are 'severe' (developing severe diseases including pneumonia and shortness of breath.) 2% fatal.If you don't have heart disease, diabetes, respiratory issues, hypertension or cancer .. the fatality rate is .9%. That's further lower if you're under the age of 70.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Here's where I think we have to find a better way to cover these types of things.....obviously the right information and details about Covid-19 is going to be slow moving, it is the nature of virology specifically and science generally, but the cadence of news coverage moves much faster than that so the content machine must be fed resulting in overstated or conflicting information. This is further exacerbated by the fact that these viruses are going to emerge in what I would term "information restricted" locations. Either due to infrastructure (developing or war torn countries like Syria, Congo, etc) or politically repressive countries (ie Iran, China, etc) useful information is not made available to where it can be consumed which leads to news coverage trying to fill the gaps with problematic/unverified information which leads to further misinformation.
C'mon, man. Where's the cynicism? What's with all the level-headed elegance?
If China is under control and vaccines in the works
We’re not seeing spread here in the United States yet, but it is possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen. Our goal continues to be slowing the introduction of the virus into the U.S
Therefore, it is possible that some of these people were already incubating the disease when they left japan. That is similar to, for example, what we’ve seen in just some of the travelers in the U.S. I’ll remind you that some of the U.S. cases were asymptomatic when they came back in the U.S., and then developed symptoms several days later.
Depends if you believe the Chinese. I don't. Look what this thing does to countries like Iran without the resources that China can throw at it. I have also heard that asymptomatic carriers are likely. That is part of what is making this very hard to slow down. They can't find patient zero in Italy.
it was the secrecy of the Chinese that allowed this thing to get out of control. they could have corralled this thing way back with a little bit of humility and transparency.
The lockdown was unprecedented, and something the US will have trouble doing when it starts to spread here.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-24/who-says-china-lockdown-blunted-new-epidemic-leading-to-decline
They probably could have handled it better, but I'm not so quick to judge. With up to 14 days of incubation, and it being a new virus I can see it being hard to get a handle on the fact that it's even happened. The lockdown was unprecedented, and something the US will have trouble doing when it starts to spread here.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-24/who-says-china-lockdown-blunted-new-epidemic-leading-to-decline
Today's CDC transcript for those that like to read ... Or listen!https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0225-cdc-telebriefing-covid-19.html
probably a little room for improvement here
You should ask your children’s school about their plans for school dismissals or school closures. If ask if there are plans for teleschool. I contacted my local school superintendent this morning with exactly those questions. Ouch.
This comes straight from the CDC:Those Scoopers with a Fu Manchu had better change their 'stache to the Zorro or the Zappa or their new respirators won't work properly:
The toothbrush? Who on earth would even grow that after Hitler?
I toured a house the other day and the selling agent had one... it was uncomfortable