Coronavirus Is Indiscriminate

[Blumlein 88]

So far, other than being a little more careful on my few outings, nothing has changed in my routine, such as it is.

Still going to need to find some hamburger buns.

Or, I can fire up the breadmaker after I read up on how to make hamburger buns. Already have the ingredients for that little chore.

Good luck to all those not so lucky.

Well I was unlucky. No bread of any kind including hamburger and hot dog buns. And the ingredients needed to make bread were also wiped off the shelves today. Fortunately a relative happened along another store as the bread was being put out. So in the end I have bread and was lucky.

 

[Blumlein 88]

"You take the risk and we make more money" culture is resisting the current pandemic action plans:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/18/tech-execs-who-dont-agree-coronavirus-measures

I've had the same thoughts as these guys. If we didn't care about old people no longer working, just go right along without hurting the economy. Now before someone goes nuts, I didn't say I thought it is what we should do just that it was an option that might seem less onerous in aggregate.

 

[digicidal]

"You take the risk and we make more money" culture is resisting the current pandemic action plans:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/18/tech-execs-who-dont-agree-coronavirus-measures

My favorite bit from Elon Musk:

“As a basis for comparison, the risk of death from C19 is *vastly* less than the risk of death from driving your car home,” Musk wrote in an email to SpaceX employees, according to BuzzFeed News.

My thought: "Especially if they're driving one of your cars..."

 

[Wombat]

Well, the TP hoarders can.

 

[Wombat]

There are political outliers who seem to be comfortable sacrificing the older citizens for the sake of reduced economic risk.

It is ironic that these oldies form a significant proportion of their voter base. More die, fewer votes.

 

[Wombat]

I was waiting for a good while at an ATM for a flustered senior to finish his failed efforts at conducting his transaction. Meanwhile, the queue grew.
An impatient woman in the queue decided to share her impatience, close-up, with me and said "I can't be expected to wait around, I have the flu".

The ordinary 'flu' she added. Sheesh.

So much for voluntary distancing.

 

[andymok]

My favorite bit from Elon Musk:


My thought: "Especially if they're driving one of your cars..."

Every plane makers and car manufactures would said the same about grounding and data

 

[captain paranoia]

He used 1% for the fatality rate.

Not here he didnt:

"If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths."

 

[Blumlein 88]

Not here he didnt:

"If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths."

Pedantic reply. He used different rates in different parts of the paper, discussing various possibilities. And like I said if instead 20% of the population is infected then even his estimate results in huge death tolls.

 

[captain paranoia]

I'm just pointing out the source of my initial observation.

Yes, of course there will be a huge variation in the numbers, depending on what the actual figures are. The problem is, we don't have the actual numbers, and, due to the way infection spreads, it's hard to get them accurately. Random sampling over a wide geographic area won't do it.

But the practical situation in Italy is probably in the minds on decision makers.

 

[Wombat]

Younger adults hospitalised:

https://www.theage.com.au/world/nor...-in-us-europe-data-shows-20200320-p54c0o.html

 

[Wombat]

Hits Playboy: https://www.theage.com.au/world/nor...-in-us-europe-data-shows-20200320-p54c0o.html

 

[Wombat]

Internet bandwidth management:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...an-to-reduce-data-to-avoid-broadband-overload

 

[Wombat]

Sadly, too many of them:

 

[Wombat]

Can you get Coronavirus twice?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-22/doubt-over-contracting-coronavirus-covid-19-twice/12075878

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

Two doctors informed me coronavirus likely slammed into Vincennes and Washington, Indiana area in late December and early January. Schools closed early. My son was sick for 5 or 6 days. Wife had mild symptoms for 2 days. I was asymptomatic. Symptoms were similar to corona. All testing was negative for influenza. I suspect overreaction on the safe side. We have several Japanese owned manufacturing plants in the area. Management could have brought it in.

 

[VMAT4]

Sadly, too many of them:
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I consider it unneighborly, and it is the norm in South Central Pennsylvania as well as many other places in the USA.

 

[andymok]

Two doctors informed me coronavirus likely slammed into Vincennes and Washington, Indiana area in late December and early January. Schools closed early. My son was sick for 5 or 6 days. Wife had mild symptoms for 2 days. I was asymptomatic. Symptoms were similar to corona. All testing was negative for influenza. I suspect overreaction on the safe side. We have several Japanese owned manufacturing plants in the area. Management could have brought it in.

Do you have shortness of breath?

 

[mansr]

Do you have shortness of breath?

That's a poor test for covid-19:

 

[Wombat]

WTF. Old patriots, put the market first:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...wn-harm-us-economy-texas-official-dan-patrick

You couldn't make this up, could you? Shades of past(defeated) euthenized-for-the state-ideology. Maybe one has to be my age to remember why we fought WW2.