Coronavirus Thread Political

[Konssurvative1]

First born? A million bucks, government cheese?

I get ya.

[WuWei]

@Konssurvative1

First born? A million bucks, government cheese?

I get ya.

No you don’t. Do you get the private sector is bailing out GOVERNMENT!!

[Konssurvative1]

Explain?

[mike_c_56]

Overloading the hospitals does no one any good…providers or patients.

If Houston Texas gets 10
Inches of rain, they would rather have it stretched over weeks instead of overnight.

[WuWei]

@Konssurvative1

Explain?

Explain how the private sector is bailing out GOVERNMENT!!?

Did you not see who was executing what during the press conference yesterday? Who is handling the logistics?

Now I don’t doubt some lib will say it’s this GOVERNMENT!! but it’s not, is it?

[WuWei]

@mike_c_56

Overloading the hospitals does no one any good…providers or patients.

If Houston Texas gets 10
Inches of rain, they would rather have it stretched over weeks instead of overnight.

I already said I agree with the concept, what do you want?

[mike_c_56]

I don’t require anything from you.
I think I was typing my “storm sewer system” analogy when you made you made your statement of “no problem with the concept”.

[Konssurvative1]

I was working and dealing with family stuff. I missed his highness.

[WuWei]

@mike_c_56

I don’t require anything from you.

Well good, you won’t be disappointed then.

[mike_c_56]

@WuWei

I agree. There’s only one way to truly handle this… The Texas Way.

Seems a little harsh…but effective.

We can save that for the next Zombie Apocalypse.

[WuWei]

@Konssurvative1

I was working and dealing with family stuff. I missed his highness.

Ah so. Well, it’s all over the place.

[JayJay]

@WuWei

@JayJay

@Camp

Trump did the single most effective thing possible with travel restrictions.

Still not seeing medical capacity stressed.

The next 2 weeks will tell us if the measures have helped.

I already know it didn’t help.

The virus was introduced into the US by several chains not emanating from China…as well as from China.

He locked the door after the thieves had already broken in via the open windows.

I agree. There’s only one way to truly handle this… The Texas Way.

Sneezing In Texas - YouTube

Darwinian Selection- cool.

[WuWei]

@mike_c_56

@WuWei

I agree. There’s only one way to truly handle this… The Texas Way.

Seems a little harsh…but effective.

We can save that for the next Zombie Apocalypse.

Why not the current one?

[MoleUK]

Rough. Gotta hope the steps taken are going to change the numbers the CDC was projecting a couple weeks back. Social distancing in particular.

Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths (Published 2020)

" The C.D.C.’s scenarios were depicted in terms of percentages of the population. Translated into absolute numbers by independent experts using simple models of how viruses spread, the worst-case figures would be staggering if no actions were taken to slow transmission.

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill."

[mike_c_56]

Then we would overload the funeral home business!! Jeez, its always something!

Re: zombies…I haven’t seen any real zombies around here in Ohio, yet.

Just the most vocal Trump haters and Trump cultists. An the other 60% between those poles have learned to ignore them for the most part.

[Konssurvative1]

More than half the population???

I can’t read the article, how do the account for 45% to 60% of the population being infected? That’s not been seen anywhere in the world.

[JayJay]

@Konssurvative1

More than half the population???

I can’t read the article, how do the account for 45% to 60% of the population being infected? That’s not been seen anywhere in the world.

A full accounting? My guess is based on genetic evidence and modeling/simulation.

They are assuming we are massively undercounting the number of people actually infected right now.

Same thing happened with the swine flu. IIRC we only got a few million confirmed cases…the 50-60 million we think actually got infected in the US was an estimate.

[MoleUK]

@Konssurvative1

More than half the population???

I can’t read the article, how do the account for 45% to 60% of the population being infected? That’s not been seen anywhere in the world.

Those are worst case scenarios over a year+, not taking social distancing into account iirc.

There’s two other models also predicting huge numbers. I suspect all this modeling is why world Govts are all in on social distancing and shutdowns. Treating it like the flu would have been a disaster.

[peek-a-boo]

That’s a load of crap and you know it. Trump has not in any way hampered the federal government’s response, which was pretty much already on auto-pilot.

Any claim otherwise is just plain Trump hating.

[LucyLou]

@Camp

It isn’t bad here and doesn’t look like it will get to a real emergency level.

I don’t mind the extra caution. The media rhetoric isn’t matching the level of sickness.

It might. I will hold my criticism for a couple weeks to see if medical centers do become stressed.

What we are doing will keep medical centers from becoming stressed. That the point.
https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1238094544220061696?s=20