Coronavirus

[minutemenX]

On the “positive” side, guys who seen infected girls may soon get the message from police to self quarantine:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-netanyahu-coronavirus-shin-bet-track-civilians

 

[2fast2slow]

not to mention that our prime minister (who I beleive is doing his best) is dolling out tons of cash to the future unemployed, hurting self-employed and everybody else under the sun who can fill our a form. Unfortunately, the ones we owe the most to on this board are not in a recognized line of work and get nothing from the government. If some decide to keep working a bit, let's keep that in mind lest we falsely cast stones.

 

[loveless]

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large crowds.Remember to stay calm cause its just a flu bro.

 

[CLOUD 500]

Well said loveless and I agree with you. I do not about about you guys but I am far more worried about the economic collapse and mass recession that will happen then catching this virus. If this goes on too long everyone will be eventually affected. Think of how many ppl are loosing their jobs, stores that will go bankrupt, bars and clubs shutting down, hotels going bankrupt and eventually landlords and banks will go bankrupt to where the government can collapse. We cannot shut down the whole world each time there is some virus. Viruses are inevitable and like all diseases in the past they came and went. We survived the bubonic plague, tubercolosis, cholera, and small pox. These diseases make COVID-19 look like just like a flu. This as I said is the government's chance to install martial law. They will use this to take away our liberty and put more prohibition. I am very worried about loosing liberty and being under government control then this virus.

Check this out -> https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...pandemic-economy-bankrupt-italy-a9394891.html

 

[bigindapant]

The economy is directly linked to the number of new cases/day in the USA. As that number goes up, the economy goes down. There will be no sense of stability until that number decreases constantly and consistently for a good 2 weeks. It’s a question of suffer for the next 2-6 weeks vs suffer for the next 2-6 months.

 

[EagerBeaver]

See the danger of stats... This 9% is calculated on "cases which had an outcome" not on the total of positives.

219101 = 100%
8962 = 4%

Which is still high!

I specifically said in my post a 9% fatality rate in closed cases, your 4% means nothing whatsoever because those cases are still active, have NOT been closed by medical personnel and those positive people could still die. The only meaningful stat is closed cases and documented recoveries.

And by the way today it went up to 10% fatality rate in CLOSED CASES: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The only danger in stats is YOUR post which badly misconstrues or misunderstands the data.

 

[EagerBeaver]

When I went grocery shopping Tuesday at Big Y, the cashier was very careful not to touch my hands when she gave me my change back. It later occurred to me that we all should be avoiding cash transfers whenever possible.

This week at the office I have been greeting my coworkers with Bernie Sanders/Joe Biden style "elbow shakes." Unfortunately yesterday we sent one of the girls home with a hacking cough. I think we will all be working at home pretty soon. I am all set up with remote access and have been for years, but our IT guy needs to configure 4 more employees to make the whole operation capable of running remotely.

 

[EagerBeaver]

US Cases Increased 40% in Last 24 Hours

Yikes:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/health/us-coronavirus-case-updates-thursday/index.html

This is not trending in the right direction

 

[jalimon]

Not good at all.

Look at my post 1026 of yesterday. The testing capacity is improving a lot per day. So of course we see a spike. If you factor in asymptomatic positive case there is around 230K US citizen infected at the moment. And going up.

 

[Mod20]

Guys

I hate to do it but I have already posted a warning in this thread. This is a very important discussion but filling it with long quotes and long articles makes this thread impossible to read, when you do post a link we need your opinion. Please do your best to manage to shorten quotes and articles, when posting a link please give your opinion (saying this is an interesting link or article is NOT an opinion). Those who choose not to respect this will be put in quarantine for two weeks, seriously.

Mod20

 

[charmer_]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/health/us-coronavirus-case-updates-thursday/index.html

This is not trending in the right direction

I wish we could get similar stats info like this for Canada, to keep track (although it doesn't seem quite as bad as the States).

I'm so glad that they're closing the US/Canada border. It's time we stop worrying about who we offend and do what needs to be done to flatten the curve.

 

[cloudsurf]

TNB, please repost your link after adding some of your own comments....thanks.

BTW guys if you don`t like to read dark theories then don`t read further.
If the coronavirus acts like the cold virus in some ways then it will mutate as it spreads. There is no vaccine for the common gold because there are dozens of varieties. When you catch a cold then you have resistance , maybe months or years , but you don`t have resistance to the mutated varieties so you can easily catch a new cold in a relatively short time. I believe that the corona virus has mutated already at least once.

 

[The Nature Boy]

Sorry Mod 20,

this is is an article illustrating what I’ve been saying for a while. We still don’t know everything about this virus. Not sure If it’s evolving but reports out of Europe are indicating it may be. Its not just the elderly with co-morbidities is who it affects. younglings are requiring hospitalization as well. Italy’s patient zero was on a vent for 3 weeks he was in early 40’s, spain had a 37 (soldier I think) who died, no co morbidities. Again, not sure if the virus is evolving or the health care systems are hitting their surge capacities or both? This is what we don’t want in North America

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-people.html

 

[charmer_]

And here are the latest numbers from Canada:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...1WC?li=AAggNb9

A far cry from the numbers in the States (727 vs. 9500+).

 

[Fradi]

It is not such a far cry from the US if you factor in the difference in population.

I do think however that Canadians are reacting with more concern and perhaps isolating themselves better.
You don’t see scenes like the Florida beaches where people seem to be so nonchalant about this.

 

[charmer_]

Fradi

It's a valid point. The USA population is almost 10X(!) that of Canada. Which more or less, is in proportion to the ratio of the number of COVID-19 cases so far.

Good point about the beaches. Florida businesses (bars, clubs, etc) should do their part and close shop in order to dissuade Spring Break partying.

 

[Full Pizdetz]

I wish we could get similar stats info like this for Canada, to keep track

Il y a un site développé par un garçon de 17 ans. Il se rafraîchit toutes les quelques minutes.https://ncov2019.live/

 

[charmer_]

Thanks for the heads up Full Pizdetz. Pretty impressive site for a 17 year old: nice to see all the worldwide stats in one place!

 

[Aspirine]

The Reuters website is also very good to show details for each countries (with graphs).

https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-MAP/0100B59S39E/index.html

 

[GaryH]

I do think however that Canadians are reacting with more concern and perhaps isolating themselves better.
You don’t see scenes like the Florida beaches where people seem to be so nonchalant about this.

If it was summer in Canada now do you think you would see the 20 somethings out on the beaches? As far as I know there are no beaches open in Canada today. I don't believe a young Canadian and a young American are that different in outlook.

Also, Gal Gadot is latest celebrity posting on twitter to get backlash. She was trying to be helpful with posting a supportive video including a rendition of "Imagine" with her Hollywood celebrity friends. Yet many questioned why rich people should be singing a song about "Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can" while so many normal people are losing their income.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/gal-gadots-celeb-packed-imagine-cover-spawns-outrage/