My wife told me that during her shift sunday..they had multiple car accident patients, multiple motorcycle accidents, bike accidents, multiple stabbings....sure sign that things are getting back to normal.
Hey Paul, can you expand on this a bit?Ok... doom & gloom... look away now!
Looks like 2nd wave is going to hit hard from the sound of things.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-china-asia-countries-resurgence/Hey Paul, can you expand on this a bit?
Hey Paul, can you expand on this a bit?
It hasn't gone away. MorganStanley predicts that 1/2 their employees at most will be back in offices by summer and they won't hesitate to pull the plug if there's a second wave in the fall.noticing a change in mentality from coworkers and neighbors. Neighbors are having parties, coworkers are seeing family members, things like that.
if i'm comparing the last two weeks' cycles - this week is worse than last for the non-ny/nj crowd.
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Saw a parking lot fight video in Atl... Earth is healingMy wife told me that during her shift sunday..they had multiple car accident patients, multiple motorcycle accidents, bike accidents, multiple stabbings....sure sign that things are getting back to normal.
mountain out of mole hill - basically flat for a month now. Expect cases to go up as testing increases and more asymptomatics found, but deaths will decline. To get an idea about testing (USA totals):
April 14 - 150,000 tests, 17% positive
May 5 - 259,000 tests, 8.5% positive
hard to call it a resurgence when only 5% (estimate) of the population has had it, and it hasn't been eradicated.....
Plenty of fertile ground out there.
Should we be talking herd immunity when they are not even sure immunity is possible?Exactly.
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I think we (more specifically our government leadership, but it's easier to just type "we") need to identify and communicate what our long term strategy is here. Are "we" certain a vaccine will be successfully developed at some point in the reasonably near future or even at all? If the answer is yes then it seems the current way of life is prudent until the vaccine is readily available to all of us. If the answer is no then I think the strategy should be to try and achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible while those in high risk groups take extreme precautions to not get exposed.
All I know is that the current "lockdown" isn't sustainable for indefinitely for many reasons and I haven't heard any serious talk about what our exit strategy is.
Exactly.
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I think we (more specifically our government leadership, but it's easier to just type "we") need to identify and communicate what our long term strategy is here. Are "we" certain a vaccine will be successfully developed at some point in the reasonably near future or even at all? If the answer is yes then it seems the current way of life is prudent until the vaccine is readily available to all of us. If the answer is no then I think the strategy should be to try and achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible while those in high risk groups take extreme precautions to not get exposed.
All I know is that the current "lockdown" isn't sustainable for indefinitely for many reasons and I haven't heard any serious talk about what our exit strategy is.
Exit strategy seems to be disbanding the Covid 19 Task Force, go campaign and leave this crap for the Governors to deal with.
that is just about the same number. and they only test suspected or exposed - so that kinda self selects into the worse case percentage.
I think we (more specifically our government leadership, but it's easier to just type "we") need to identify and communicate what our long term strategy is here. Are "we" certain a vaccine will be successfully developed at some point in the reasonably near future or even at all? If the answer is yes then it seems the current way of life is prudent until the vaccine is readily available to all of us. If the answer is no then I think the strategy should be to try and achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible while those in high risk groups take extreme precautions to not get exposed.
All I know is that the current "lockdown" isn't sustainable for indefinitely for many reasons and I haven't heard any serious talk about what our exit strategy is.
That was yesterday. Today the plan is for the Task Force to go on "indefinitely".
-Panera in NYC (Queens) let's you fill your own cup of coffee, sweetener/milk etc, inside the restaurant. No sitting and have to wear a mask, but I thought that was interesting especially being NYC.