Covid19 PSA

PA update. New cases of 1,751 declined compared to peak of 1,989 on 4/9/20.

 

Wait a minute...

Didn't you just "Send the ol lady off to work this morning, and I gave my youngest child permission to take her new car to pick up her BFF to go shopping at Target" while you hide at home posting on the beeb.

Just messing with you. Stay safe regardless of where you are!!!

 

Kiss it nappy you know what I meant.

 

There was a line at HD this am.
50 customers inside max

so you could get infected by less people inside but by more outside in line



Makes total sense to me

 

The Home Depots in my area are doing the same. I went the other day to pick up an online order around 5pm and there were a bunch of people in line waiting to get in. However, with my online pick up order, they had a table set up outside the entrance, gave them my order number and within 5 minutes I was back in my truck.

Fast forward to today and I went just after 10 and there was no line to get into the store. Avoid the peak hours and you can avoid standing in line.

 

Man, I miss the tubs. They were lots of fun back in the day.

Of course, they made it easier to spread HIV, too.

 

Ian Fleming wrote about that...

 

Yeah, that newspaper on the left looks real credible. No one would have had any doubt if it weren't for the one on the right.

 

The fact is people were dropping dead like flies in China, then in Italy. Anybody with any brain would take that as something serious, even if later turns to be less.

 

Not really.
If, as I have been saying, the data down the road shows that COVID-19 has a mortality rate similar to H1N1 (and it's starting
to look like it may even be lower) and the basic reproduction number is in the same range, then we can compare what was done
then (2009) to what is being done now and the results of each approach.

This shutdown is an experiment that has never been tried before, and it's a stupid experiment that is failing miserably
with disastrous results for millions of workers and businessmen and the last thing that the people who championed this
approach can afford is to admit that they trashed our economy for nothing.

 

The main purpose of the shutdown was to prevent an overloading of the healthcare system and probably cause the infection to come in waves rather than an all out attack, it likely did that fairly well. I use 'likely' because we'll never know for sure.

Learning from a first attack and applying it to the 2nd wave and other waves isn't a bad idea.

BTW, the Sweden-Norway death to population ratio, for what it is worth, is 4 to 1.

 

There is big difference between people dropping dead daily from known reasons and people start to drop dead from new reason with unknown result.
Chinese ignored it at first and where that got them? Others reacted based on it and here we are.
I am not saying any of ways to deal with it is good or bad, just that decisions made were based on information they had. Statistics are used for that. It is easy to look back later and see what could have been done different.

 

Not if you had to sell your retinas to afford toilet paper.

 

And it took a year. He was 13 when he died the first time and 14 the second.