Its called efficiency. A negative test is a wasted test.
Age and comorbidity are exclusion criteria from the maneuvers. Now we have to intubate the forties. If tomorrow I come with diabetes, for example, I come after him. There is a lot of discussion about euthanasia, but these are people who, if we had the principals, could do it
JFC
Louisiana is up to 257 out of 597 tests, or 43%. 6 dead, although 4 were from the same retirement home.
Do you speak Italian? Ive been looking around for some direct accounts from Italian health care workers but have only found a few like the above and they are Italian.
Now discouraging numbers out of France for the day, I guess we knew those were coming. Italy I had some hope for.
Wow, a cruise that doesn’t move is still a floating petri dish.
1,000 beds but how many respirators?
Edit: Good plan Econophile (But it’s 1,000 and I wonder how much per ticket?)
From what I understand, the plan is to move non-COVID patients to the hospital ship in order to free up space for COVID patients in normal hospitals
And what’s it called when you drastically under measure something because you aren’t testing for it?
How are you holding up? Still feeling unwell?
RE-EDIT - Putting 1,000 hospital patients on a boat still doesn’t sound like GTO.
One gets infected, well we know the rest. Wonder if they’ll be priveleged enough to get a test before boarding.
Defo a policy to keep numbers down (I suspect they’ll already have COVID-19 if given a magic ticket to the US boat). Trump gonna sail them to Puerto Rico or wherever infected numbers not included in the count (Guantanemo)
All you guys that used your one time for Trump having the Corona or Bernie getting there nomination, good news - you can use it again, maybe for a treatment plan that cures people quick.
One time, dealer!
Please don’t expect old people to self quarantine. I just pulled out the beach cam here and it is packed with senior citizens YOLO.
I used chrome translate.
Things will change quick if they see someone they know clinging to life.
Pretty horrible week for me on this subject honestly.
Some of you might have read the story I told in the Virus Tales thread about my son getting out of his Dorm in New Rochelle the night before the National guard moved in.My son apparently had the virus approx 2 weeks ago now.
A doctor looked at many students and staff at IONA pronouncing the ones that should self quarantine…no tests on hand.
My son was told to self quarantine in his room.
So after it had passed my son was symptom free for three days prior to coming home we all felt we should keep him on a leash for another week.
Its not easy to completely self quarantine your 20 yr old son in his room.
So there was a small amount of interaction.All is fine until about 4 days ago when I noticed a light cough & my breathing became a bit shallow.
I ask my wife and other son does anybody have a cough or anything?
They did not.
But here I sit the guy in the house that never gets sick feeling a bit shitty hard to breathe…
So I begin to wonder if the news is right & my son would’ve been contagious for at least 7 days after being home & like I said we did keep our distance.Then my cough turned into aches…then laziness… I’m not a Napper…but nap I did.
My son rattled off in order how the symptoms came when they left which ones stayed the longest.
It happened just as he said.So will my wife(55) get it or my youngest is the question & I could be contagious for 10 days After the symptoms pass.
I wanted to add like you hear on TV a lot… I’m not feeling THAT bad…the Aches suck…cough is a little annoying.
So my Dad passed a few months back & my mom(78) is alone in a house in the boon docks & we don’t dare put in a visit or help at the moment.
& yes we find people if she needs something but still.
The rest of my family lives hours away.Then there is the economy.
Like many I’m not even going to look up any stocks or my 401k I’m dumb founded how much I’ve lost as so many have.
Yeah a yr from now it could be back…we’ll see.Then there is my work manager of a Red lobster.
The decision to go to take out only is idiotic.
I’m not saying I disagree with Shutting down but to go to takeout.
My store had to decide who to layoff who to schedule.
Now were learning there just isn’t enough takeout to bring in anyone(hourlies). As we suspected would be the case.
So this morning we put out a text/Email letting everyone know not to report in.
It’ll be unemployment for most… the 64 million dollar question…is this going to be for one month or four?
One? Thats fine lets get on with this and see what happens.
Four to six months and I’ll be more than worried for a whole lot of people across the Nation/World.Then there is looking at how the different people are handling this.
Not good not good at all.
My area is ridiculous… I walk my dog usually at night 8 ish…and lately it felt like it was midnight.
No traffic…nobody walking…as were walking my boys and I’ll try to spot curtains or blinds being peeked thru.as they look at us like zombies…its hysteria.
Again I’m not a the virus is fake guy…but seeing what its reduced so many too …it blows my mind.Again I ramble…but if not here then where?
My wife kicked me out of the garage and told me to go lay the **** down & rest drink fluids etc… so here I sit and type…self quarantined in a county practically shutdown.
Oh & both my kids are home finishing their school yrs on the computers.
From Chiefsplanet - standard story that’s probably playing out all over the country right now.
Not sure where you get your stats on Italy my friend but they are on the piss i.e. fake news (deaths not levelling off over 3 days)
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What’s the latest from Italy?
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It’s worth remembering that Italy has been one of the hardest hit countries by the virus. The latest stats - which have just been released - make clear just how devastating it’s been there.
Despite a raft of tough measures and a strict lockdown, deaths in Italy surged by 475 over the past day to 2,978. The number of cases also shot up to 35,713 from 31,506.
That’s the biggest increase since the outbreak began.
The majority of deaths have occurred in the northern Lombardy region, which contains the capital Milan. Hospitals there are reportedly at breaking point and retired doctors and nurses are being asked to return to work.
“I make a heartfelt appeal to all the doctors, nurses and medical personnel who have retired in the last two years… to help us in this emergency,” the region’s governor, Attilio Fontana, said earlier today.
It’s a similar picture across the rest of Italy. The government is trying to plug gaps in its stretched healthcare system, and it’s even pushed 10,000 student doctors into service nine-months ahead of schedule.
More widely, officials have not ruled out extending the full lockdown beyond the start of April. Bars, restaurants and most shops in Italy have closed as have schools and universities. Nearly all Italians have been told to stay at home.
But even with these restrictions the number of cases continues to rise. “The contagion numbers are not falling, they continue to be high," Mr Fontana said.
“We are asking people to make sacrifices to save lives."
This is exactly the situation that applied to everyone in China’s newest affected cities, minus the moving people part because that’s how people there live anyway. 
I just checked a bunch of cams in the LA area (Venice Beach, Santa Monica Beach/Pier, Walk of Fame) and was prepared for disappoint. But surprise, nobody’s out. LA keeping it socially isolated.
FoxNews is a helluva drug.