I’m at work and I’m starting to wheeze a bit, which isn’t too uncommon for me since I have allergic asthma and my allergies flared up last night. My office still hasn’t said anything about their plans in response to this and I’m pretty sure the guy in the office next to me has it or something similar. I’ve been hearing his dry cough all week and yesterday he said something really stupid to me along the lines of people freaking out and overblowing it and even he may have a mild case, but he’ll just stay away from old people. Anyways, I’m going home soon and I’m trying to decide what I’m going to do going forward. It’s a small office and if I miss work it will be a big hit since we’re in the middle of busy season and I’m the second most experienced employee, but I also want to be smart since I’m higher risk. Any thoughts on what I should do or am I just overreacting?
Good read but this feels like it’s a little late. I don’t think we have a snowballs chance in hell of containment at this point in the US. He is likely right that efforts to flatten the curve will still fall short of actually keeping the peak below capacity, but we should still be doing everything we can to flatten it as much as possible. this is not an either/or situation.
SECDEF issued a stop-movement for all military moves until May, including personal travel out of your local area.
One of our neighbors is a surgeon at the hospital around the corner from us. He just moved out of their house (wife and two young kids) so he could stay at an extended stay right next to the hospital and keep the family from exposure. Pretty sobering in a couple ways: 1. The sacrifices some people are having to make to serve others. Guy literally isn't going to see his family for weeks to months. 2. How serious someone whose in the trenches is taking the situation
This is gonna crush many jobs. I am at the car place now. I am literally the only person here buying a car, and this place is usually a mad house. No one knows what’s coming.
The data on hydroxychloroquine for preventing the cytokine storm without causing clinically significant immunosuppression is pretty legit so far. Interesting to see if that picks up in the US as cases ramp up.
The other day I got the "I won't be seeing you for 2+ months" super short haircut. Fortunately, the shop had already added a bunch of extra sanitization protocols. My girl was freaking out because her already not huge income is about to get fucked.
Why? He seems to be advocating for a pretty drastic response and saying that what we're doing is insufficient. Agreed. Did you read the article? I didn't read it as an either/or situation. More like what we're doing now will fail and we need much more drastic measures.
When this is over all of these assholes need to be shamed to the very fringes of society like when Randy Marsh was forced to go into hiding with Mark Fuhrman & Michael Richards
A good friend called me. He works at a Walmart distribution center. They told employees the attendance policy is on hold until sometime in April. No black marks for not showing up. A normal day said they go through 120,000 cases/pallets/something. They had 260,000 to go through today. He said they can't keep up right now.
It was interesting watching them carefully issue force protection measures at a time when the virus was being called fake news by the administration.
I thought Deborah Birx's comments were very good. Just b/c you test negative today, it only means you are negative right now. You still might have it, and so you would subsequently test positive in following days. We're going to have to stay away from each other for quite a while. Also, you can still be contagious after your symptoms subside. Used as a preventative or as an 'anti-viral' when you get symptoms?
This is perhaps the worst take I’ve read in the entire pandemic so far. “We don’t have the hospital beds or ICU beds to handle any surge in cases so let’s not even try to prevent a surge at all if we can’t contain it.” we’re way past containment, brother.
Wil be interesting if this goes on for months the people and industries that are going to need massive government handouts
I am going home now and will use my inhaler. To be clear, I think this is related to my allergy attack I had last night. Assuming my breathing goes back to normal and stays normal after I use my inhaler, do you think I should come back to work on Monday?
Everything is closing - I was hoping there would be more of an announcement about what they were going to do for the hospitality industry so we could correctly outlay everything for staff (they cant go a month without making tips and maybe 10% of the restaurants in the city can afford to support a month long closure and an open ended labor expense).
To be clear, it won’t treat cytokine storm once a patient has it. It raises pH in endosomes reducing viral entry so it may be good to show viral replication
It's really hard to stay home from restaurants and bars when I know the people who work there rely on my patronage.
Kinda SOP for the military and this administration. Admin: Climate change is fake news / Military: prepping to move bases due to flooding, defend polar regions due to melting ice. Admin: Covid is fake! / Military: min-manning procedures put in place, prepare to go into lockdown Admin: Russia is no threat! / Military: Russia is a threat
Has anyone seen or read a good summary of the house bill that got passed? I tried reading through some of it last night but realized that I’m too out of my depth to understand the nuance of a 120 page document.
While Ive been contemplating/isolating for the last week my silver lining is that at least I'll have immunity early and will be able to help. But since it seems unlikely I'll be able to be tested further before whatever I have is gone, and I don't think they're is anything that will test for antibodies, it feels like a waste.
I don't read it as "let's not even try to prevent a surge at all." I get that we're past where we would like to be. Isn't he really just saying we need a more drastic response than what we're currently doing?