but, if they are getting it from each other then the sample size is only 30…
Just think of all the players, team employees, media members and fans athletes have been in close contact with. They are potential super spreaders.
Everyone else knows people and is doing stuff with people too. I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s more informative than just testing sick people.
I have a full head of curly locks. None of that jarhead army nonsense for me.
I would like to see tests for people with corona symptoms from potential community spread. this is more useful to me than “I just got back from Wuhan/Italy/Iran and might have corona”… yes, of course you have corona.
I want to know if the guy working at Walmart has corona.
My county has done 8 tests so far with a 500,000 population
THANKS MOTHER FUCKERS
I wish his neighbor would beat the shit out of him again. Every fucking time with this asshole. How has he not been punched on the Senate floor yet?
Yeah I’m just gonna let it grow for six months and see what happens. Not doing anything anyways.
Nostril hair is the real problem. I don’t have much but I am totally incompetent dealing with it and prefer waxing but I’m not doing that myself. I’ll probably just trim the real hangers.
Australia still only tests incoming travellers and contacts of known cases and has very few unknown origins cases. I would qualify on symptoms as I have cough and a low fever, still unlikely it is corona virus and can’t get tested if I wanted to. The spike of cases is mostly travellers coming home to avoid travel restrictions and testing positive. But if we don’t get serious on restricting gatherings we will go from doing better than most countries to being just as fucked pretty soon.
Not if we don’t test people!
I’m kinda curious what sort of mental and practical preparations my fellow single and living alone folks have made for if (when) you catch it. Don’t want to clutter up the thread, but my DMs are open…
A useful statistic beyond testing would just be available hospital bed and available ventilator.
Interesting. Japan seems to have one of the higher proportions of A and it’s inexplicably doing ok. I still say it’s the masks. And cleanliness.
If nobody with unknown origins is ending up in hospitals, which is still the case in Australa, then you don’t have the community spread that requires full scale testing. Contact tracing and testing works as long as numbers are low. Italy got caught out with cases from Iran and then didn’t respond fast enough when the first unknown origins hit the hospitals. Australia already had more restrictions than Italy had at that point. However I am not sure if Morrison will shut down Sydney or Melbourne the moment contact tracing failed and it will fail eventually. He still talks to much about avoiding the economic impact of shutdowns.
Stupid questions: have you checked to see if the bulb is just burned out or a circuit breaker is tripped?
Made a trip today to a downtown area of Western Japan. While the rest of the world is barricaded inside their homes, economies ground to a halt, panic level Code Red, here in Japan it is literally business as usual.
If you were suddenly dropped into the middle of downtown Tokyo, there would be no hint that a global crisis was underway.
Japan has either figured this virus-containment thing out WITHOUT upsetting its economy or even the flow of daily life, or it is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
Yes it’s the work of Ferguson’s colleagues at ICL that shocked the UK gov out of its previous laissez faire position, posted earlier.
The new position here is don’t go out unless absolutely essential and don’t go to bars or restaurants, but we won’t close those places because we don’t want to upset our insurance industry funders.
The absolute ■■■■■■
They need to 3D print an enormous boot to shove up the asses of the people who filed that lawsuit.
Better make that two enormous boots.
So I’m currently on a very small Caribbean island called Little corn island, off the coast of Nicaragua. Im single, healthy, have no real obligations back in the US, so I’m thinking about just riding it out here. Does this sound dumb?
The island has less than 1000 people, is spread out, and it would be very easy to self quarantine. On the downside I’m probably screwed if I get any serious complications, and I suppose there’s always the long term threat of the island running out of basic supplies at some point. Hmm. But man I really don’t want to be in the US right now.
A few causes for potential optimism - the report doesn’t consider a summer pause - which often happens with these kinds of viruses. The summer killed SARS. The Spanish Flu paused then mutated and came back much worse.
Also it doesn’t really get into improved suppression strategies. It kind of assumes the same spread as in the beginning when we knew much less and had less examples of what works (S. Korea, Japan, China).
From everything I’ve been reading - the countries where everyone wears a mask (not just symptomatic people) are doing a lot better. China requires masks. Czechoslovakia is requiring them. In Japan, which seems to be doing inexplicably well right now, everyone is wearing them. But you also have to keep infected people who live in large households from infecting everyone in the house - that’s been by far the biggest source of spread. Masks don’t work for that - only isolation.
IMO we should try a combination of masks, all the other social distancing stuff, and pervasive testing (then don’t send positives home to infect their households). Maybe we can keep the R number below 1 w/o full lock down if we do that.
Just my personal guess but I could see restaurants opening back up with lots of room between patrons - no more of those hipster places where you’re like 6" from the table next to you. Bars however may have to stay closed for the duration. Drunks hanging out for 6 hours sharing the same space getting progressively more touchy feely. Disaster.
I really hope a bunch of smart people are studying Japan right now.