At what point did you / will you take the coronavirus epidemic seriously?

[Walter Sobchak]

I remember being worried when Bush pushed the total debt ceiling past 10 trillion and again when Obama pushed it past 15.

Can't fault Obama for that... blowing up brown people is getting more and more expensive!

[myboynoah]

Everyone gets a 90 day extension on taxes... and you don't even have to pay an estimate! (Unless you owe more than $1 mil. I think that might apply to some of you here.)


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/trea...y-90-days.html

What is this "state tax" they talk about?

lol

[myboynoah]

I think social distancing that confines people their their homes is way over the top. I don't see why people can't go to parks, talks walks in the neighborhood, ride bikes, etc. Just don't congregate in closed rooms.

[old_gregg]

What is this "state tax" they talk about?

you know that big check you write every year to the state for the privilege of owning property there? kind of like that

[Walter Sobchak]

So, are we willing to temporarily clamp down on the economy to stem the spread of a new, highly contagious virus that will take 1 percent of those that get infected? It looks like the world is saying yes.

1% is exaggerated. It will be closer to 0.1%. More than half the deaths in WA can still be attributed to a single nursing home where most people already had one foot in the grave.

Patients who have been tested for the virus here in the US are those already with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. No one has any idea if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of 1 or 1000. Any statement of a fatality rate should be treated with suspicion, yours included.

[Sleeping in EQ]

This pandemic may be the end of the handshake.

[BigFatMeanie]

This pandemic may be the end of the handshake.

Good riddance. It's a stupid custom. Even more stupid are those cultures that kiss on both cheeks.

[Northwestcoug]

1% is exaggerated. It will be closer to 0.1%. More than half the deaths in WA can still be attributed to a single nursing home where most people already had one foot in the grave.

Patients who have been tested for the virus here in the US are those already with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. No one has any idea if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of 1 or 1000. Any statement of a fatality rate should be treated with suspicion, yours included.

Including your opinion that decreases most accepted fatality rates by a factor of 10.

[myboynoah]

Scary story.

Coronavirus Patient Recounts Coming ‘One Inch From Death’

Marc Thibault was groggy and surrounded by beeping machines, but he was alert enough to know what it meant when he looked up and saw a priest, wearing protective gear, by his bedside at the Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island.

“Holy cow,” he thought to himself. “I’m 48 years old and I’m getting my last rites.”

. . . . . . . .

“Something is wrong,” he told his wife when he finally got home to Rhode Island near midnight on Saturday, Feb. 22. He went straight to bed, and then the next day, went to a walk-in clinic. Mr. Thibault has asthma, but he exercises everyday and said he rarely gets sick.

He said he told the clinic he had been to Italy and wondered aloud if he could have the novel coronavirus. He was told he didn’t fit the criteria at the time for the test because he didn’t really have the symptoms, which can include a fever or shortness of breath.

He stayed home from work, but just got worse, with growing fatigue, a dry cough and something that resembled bronchitis. He went to a hospital but was again told he didn’t meet the criteria for the test, he said.

Doctors there were concerned, however, and Mr. Thibault said he quickly got a call from the Rhode Island Department of Health, which told him to get tested immediately.

What does it take to get a test in America?

We need data to track this thing.

[SeattleUte]

This pandemic may be the end of the handshake.

Meh. the tech bubble killed suits and ties. Not a bad thing.

[Surfah]

No. The Lakers who played the Nets last before the season was suspended are only now being tested because of the Nets players testing positive.

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[Uncle Ted]

Oooohhhhhh, poor Trump and the UK. Being saved from disaster.

On Trump, my theory is that someone went to him with this:

You're getting killed right now. Old people dying will not play well for the election (and there will be plenty of old people dying stories on TV, and even a few young people dying stories). Act now with bold action. Take credit for anything good that happens and you'll get reelected.

His ears perk up and he's a convert.

Yes, we need medicare for all (like Italy's National Health Service) now!

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Then we will have no problem killing off the old that are just a drain on the system. You got to love socialize medicine!

#FeelTheBernMittHappens2020

[Uncle Ted]

This pandemic may be the end of the handshake.

Well at least Italian cheek greetings.

[SeattleUte]

Scary story.

Coronavirus Patient Recounts Coming ‘One Inch From Death’



What does it take to get a test in America?

We need data to track this thing.

This article is unusual because usually the underlying condition is not disclosed. He has asthma.

[swampfrog]

Interesting thread response (a good follow for this particular subject) with a linked article articulating the problems of lack of solid data.

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