Cynic
997
UK is essentially piloting this for you, we shall see how it ends up.
Gov Cuomo saying they expect 40-60% of New Yorkers to get the virus. With a 10% hospitalization rate, that would be over 1 million people needing hospitalization.
There are only 50,000 hospital beds
Do you not understand how large the population above 50 is and how engeained their lives are in society? What, we are going to segregate the entire population above 60?
And you are saying closing non essential commerce is drastic??
There is a flip side to the non essential commerce being drastic. I am assuming a fairly significant proportion of these people have to pay mortgages, bills, etc⌠If we start seeing foreclosures going up again and there is another housing bubble burst which has been up for a long time it could have horrendous consequences. People have to eat they need a roof over their heads. If everything is shutting down what follows and is happening is lay offs, and worse since everyone is behaving like the we are in the Walking dead hiring is freezing. This could get way worse and way past politics. What does the Fed have left to stop and outright panic other than papering money adding trillions to the debt, but at a time when people canât leave the house and everything is shut down.
Last week there was two people I said I know personally who are in the red in their small businesses they will have to shut down a few more weeks of this and one of them employs 20 people.
JayJay
1002
They havenât confirmed yet whether theyâve actually gotten it a second time or whether it remains dormant and then you have another bout.
The latter would be consistent with the findings some people have a significant viral load up to 37 days after they were first infected.
STODR
1003
Wow northeast putting clamps on
Demon
1004
Take care of yourself! I hope it passes soon, and that your fiance doesnât get it.
The ear thermometers thoughâŚwe have a forehead/ear scanner that I used this morning, as Iâm coughing, etc (donât think itâs corona though). Across my forehead, it read 97.8, which is my normal, give or take a decimal point or two. But in my ear, it read 99.4. I have no idea which is right, but I think itâs the forehead scan. Might have to go back to an old oral thermometer! 
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Axxowiz
1005
I have a fever and headache since I woke up. It hasnât got above 101.7. I keep taking my temperature every 5 minutes 
Love this thermometer a good purchase. Not going to take any fever reducers let the fever do itâs work as long as it stays below 103. I still have the itch in the back of my throat I guess itâs a little sore it is red but not horrible. Still no cough. It feels like any regular seasonal virus as of now except one difference I have this compression feeling in my chest.
Waiting for my fiance to get tested, she is taking it much worse than me. Yes work from home if you can I am full time work from home but I was wanting to leave this area for awhile until it passed over at the time I had to put in two days a week at the office then three days remote since then I got the stupid virus.
Neighbors are in the same age category as me, 34-40 both of them are experiencing about the same conditions but the husband is coughing, I donât have that yet. Unless this thing kicks into turbo gear I am feeling pretty lucky if this is as bad as it gets.
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Damn. Keep us updated. Hope you feel better. I might have to buy a thermometer just in case
Axxowiz
1008
Thank you, I am binge watching the T.V. show Lost figure that will take a few days off of the waiting I havenât watched it since the final season ended around 2012 I think.
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Axxowiz
1009
Thanks . Ya I I highly recommend a good digital ear thermometer it is almost instant reading.
Thanks again 
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JayJay
1010
Sorry man. Get better quickly.
I have been personally concerned for some time that I have it as well. Iâve had a cough for a whileâŚbut have chalked that up to early onset allergies.
However today I felt a little light headed and SLIGHTLY flushed. But when I take my temperature I donât have a fever.
Occasionally I feel like someone is sitting on my chest but it goes away.
No sore throat either.
Hate that it could be a million things and I donât know which.
Did yours start out so intermittent/hard to gauge that way, if I may ask?
conan
1011
I see you got new badgeâŚI hope youâre the only one receives it.
Stay safe man. Itâs little freaky out here in our area.
Keep us informed of symptoms.
Fever and headache are symptoms. How do your lungs feel?
JayJay
1014
They just went on total lockdown a week or so ago.
Based on Chinaâs experience, it will take a few weeks to slow down.
Also, what we are seeing is partly an artifact that the number of officially reported cases is always much lower than the number of real casesâŚmany people have this and donât report it, and we canât officially know someone has it until they get sick enough to require a doctorâs visit and tests.
Hereâs a good article explaining this, and also explaining what we may need to do the next few weeks.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
Right, there is a latency which has to play itself post lockdown.
GWH
1016
Do Justified next. My wife and I loved it.
