COVID-19 is four syllables. China and virus are common words in English. So is nineteen, but COVID is not.
If a virus was a good thing that you wanted to sell and people would buy, do you think people would remember it more if you named your product China virus or COVID-19?
Sure, but it’s been in the news for months and it’s been all the news for like a week. Now, suddenly, ‘China virus’.
They should have just called it COVID, putting a preemptive 19 in there in case there’s another novel coronavirus pandemic starting in December is a solution in search of a problem.
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Cuba said it is allowing the passengers to transit as an act of humanitarian solidarity.
Meanwhile when Trump was recently presented with a similar situation
Nothing matters. George Bush and Dick Cheney murdered a million Iraqi people and got re-elected. The media is impossible to overcome and this country is a complete disgrace.
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What should we do with people who get the coronavirus and then make a full recovery verified by testing? I’m thinking you get them to the local hospitals and get them some on-the-job training as caregivers.
I took care of my mom in the late stages of her life. Eventually we had a hospital bed at home and she had a daily IV antibiotic drip in her arm for ten days. On the first day, a nurse came and taught me how to change the IV bags. Each day after that I changed out her IV bags. There are things that these recovered patients could be used for to help the health-care professionals and they would do it with immunity to re-infection.
Ehh, I don’t believe that. I voted for Gore in 2000 and got suckered into voting Bush in 2004. But I learned my lesson. Others can too. You just need to be on top of it. If people didn’t constantly point out Bush to me in 2004+, I’d probably be bleating about MAGA/KAG too.
Panic buy #4: a laptop to stave off boredom. Usually In would spend weeks researching that of thing, spent like 5 minutes chatting with the salesman.
Panic buy #5: oatmeal cookies. Haven’t done serious stockpiling, but did have the possibility of take out shutting down on my mind.
Forgive me for being cynical. I became eligible to vote in 1999. My entire adult life, and really my entire life period, has been marked by the bad guys winning over and over and over and over again. The one time the good guy won (and had both houses of Congress!) he gave the bad guys hundreds of billions of dollars and passed a GOP health care plan.
I think you would have plenty of volunteers. I would do it for sure if I recovered from it, and I’m pretty sure my employer would agree to a leave of absence for this. We definitely need that test for the antibodies so we can identify those who had it already.
Someone at my work tested positive for coronavirus, apparently. At least they worked on a different floor than me!
Did he cancel evictions, or just new court cases - like the a-holes in Missouri?
Nobody seems to agree on the number of coronavirus cases there are in America. An article published 9 hours ago by Buzzfeed says it’s over 5,000. MSNBC posted an article 23 hours that says it’s over 6,000. Four hours ago, USA Today said it’s more than 7,700. Also four hours ago, CNN reported over 7,500.
It’s shocking that nobody knows the actual count. It’s always over a certain number while other countries know the exact number and don’t have to round to the nearest hundredth (or thousandth for that matter). It shows how disorganized America is with this stuff. Pretty much everything is now too little, too late there.
Yeah. Even if its just cleaning and changing bedpans and so forth it may help the nurses and techs. There’s got to be some role for people who become immune to the virus by virtue of already having it.
The awesome thing is nothing can be learned from that and now it’s been misdiagnosed and running wild in nursing homes across the country because there’s no tests and no - the 88-year-old who can’t walk did not recently travel to China or Iran.
Yeah I voted for Bush twice and used to think it was ridiculous that people said Republicans were racist. Took a group of my liberal climbing buddies years to break through to me, and then the old 2+2 politics forum completed the transformation.
i think the problem is that the cdc only updates numbers once a day with a lag, and some outlets cite that number. but many states publish their numbers much more quickly, and some outlets are more diligent about compiling all of the state-level sources.
for example, cdc is only showing 7,038 cases right now: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
but a more updated compilation of state-level data shows 9,345: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
We have to be drawing live to “Yellow Fever” within a week as the body count piles up.
It seems that countries that have gone to full-on quarantines in Europe are posting 15 to 20% increases every day (some maybe a bit higher). I suspect that the most recent cases aren’t the result of new infections but rather people who were infected days ago showing symptoms.
I’m really optimistic that countries that implemented full-on quarantines early enough will see the number of new cases decrease dramatically as time goes on. The Czech Republic is performing more and more tests every day and the percentage of positive tests is decreasing not increasing.
The question is, “How long can a country do this?” The Czech government’s full-on quarantine is ending on the 24th for some places and the 26th for others while places like schools still remain closed indefinitely. I suspect that more time will be needed to have those numbers peter out than the economy here can handle.