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When my kids’ ear infections were bad it wasn’t that hard to see it just looking in there with a flashlight.
Watching the live update from the Australian Chief Medical Officer. Australia has actually been doing random testing all this time and is not finding many cases when doing this which is good news. Reason for the increased measures is stuff like that wedding that has now lead to 38 confirmed cases.
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This guy who knows a lot more than most seems to think it’s pretty likely a vaccine will work:
Flatten the curve.
By slowing it down or flattening it, we’re not going to decrease the total number of cases, we’re going to postpone many cases, until we get a vaccine—which we will, because there’s nothing in the virology that makes me frightened that we won’t get a vaccine in 12 to 18 months. Eventually, we will get to the epidemiologist gold ring.
Made me feel a lot better.
I worked at a place that made software for helping kids rewire their brains to be able to better hear rapid changes in sound. Their deficiency in that area led to speech and reading impairments and was often caused by severe ear infections during important developmental stages.
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We all remember that iconic scene in Independence Day when Bill Pullman lied about the aliens’ defenses being down, refused to take responsibility for anything, touted the stock market, called the media mean and nasty - then sent everyone off to certain death.
Gets me in the feels every time.
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And yeah, 100 deg for a 1yo is not, in and of itself, anywhere near a trip to the ER.
While I understand your frustration with the news conferences, there’s little chance they won’t be aired live. For one thing, multiple media outlets are not going agree among themselves not to carry the news conferences live. That would be criticized as collusive, deep-state media manipulation, and it would be hard to argue otherwise.
So then what? CNN or MSNBC decides not to carry them live, but FOX and OAN do? You’d be able to hear the clicks of the channels changing in your audience which has been locked inside all day waiting for new information. You’ll just give it to them later after some quick fact checking?
This is WW2, the Spanish flu and the Great Depression rolled into one. And though you’re right that we rarely hear truthful or relevant information, there’s always a chance we will. Its the dominant story every day and its all you’re talking about on your media outlet. And then when the only update you get from anyone in the federal government comes along you opt not to carry it live? What are you airing while you’re not airing this? Yesterday’s sound bites and more panel discussion? And what happens when he announces a national lockdown or that he’s caught the virus? You scurry to get the soundbite and scream into the anchor’s ear that we have to stop and join the news conference that we just said we weren’t carrying because its always a load of shit?
I think media outlets like CNN and MSNBC realized they gave Trump’s rallies way too much coverage in 2016 and now the world is paying for it. So they don’t carry the rallies live anymore. Props for that. But this would be a bridge too far at this time in my opinion. You have to put yourself in the position of the news executive(s) making the call, and right now I don’t think opting not to carry the news conferences live is a call any of them would make.
I think the MSM will start showing “digests” of them if Trump insists on turning them into defacto rallies.
That article sent me into a blind rage. It’s god damn 2020 and I still end up reading an article in Wired by useless boomer tech writer Steven Levy who interviews a fellow boomer in Marin county and they still to this god damn fucking day have to mention that the dude used to follow the Dead and post on The Well. I hate that god damn insular circle jerk and everybody in it so fucking much.
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Yeah I can take full breaths there’s just a little bit of resistance to it. Just a little tightness. No coughing. I mean the normal amount of coughs in a day. No wheezing. No fatigue, aches, or fever. And my county has no reported cases and I haven’t traveled. So it seems pretty unlikely to me that this is the COVID, and me not going to work would be pretty disruptive since I’m filling in for a shift supervisor right now and working a shift schedule. Maybe I’ll try to go get tested tomorrow but I’d hate to go to a place that has a bunch of sick people right now.
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Switch to the New Yorker where you can read about Park Slope nannies and Dad catching the virus at University Club.
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Yeah if there was some benefit of getting tested other than knowing for sure to self isolate - maybe it would be worth the risk. But I would think going near any congregation of sick people right now is super risky.
Where are you located? I’m in NY and I’ve already found out of a lot of people who have laid off because of this. Bartenders are all out of a job. My cousin is a baker for a chain of local coffee shops, laid off. Another cousin works retail for a clothing store, shut down. Another aunt works in a bakery and kept her job, but they let the guy she works with go because they saw a huge drop in wholesale orders and only needed one of them. I’ve got a friend who is a pediatric physical therapist who got let go because there’s no kids to go see anymore at schools at daycares. My sister is a nurse practitioner in Manhattan and they let all the office staff go because everyone has cancelled all their appointments for the foreseeable future. Apparently the doctors who run the place only had enough cash on hand for a couple of payroll cycles now that their cash flow has effectively dropped to zero. This is a tsunami that’s coming, and if it hasn’t reached your state yet, just wait
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This is interesting to me. Is/Was there ever any reasonable chance (say .5%) a vaccine would take > 24 months? I never considered that possibility.
Dunno but 12 months would be super duper awesome.
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NYC could really use the Ghostbusters and some mood slime about now
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