Florida. GOP governor. Media assaults expected through Election Day.
Not to mention cruise ship passengers and other perpetual vacationers.
Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks [Make your own face mask.]
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3826324/posts
Can DIY Masks Protect Us from Coronavirus?
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/diy-homemade-mask-protect-virus-coronavirus/
Half of Texas goes skiing in Colorado and New Mexico over Spring Break.
When do the snowbirds migrate back to their northern homes?
Oregon Coast was hit with tourists last weekend and leading up to it. Most of those communities now have their first cases of Wuhan flu.
If we can get a vaccine soon, fine. If chloroquine, or so something else works and we are soon able to distribute it widely, fine. However I suspect we will have to rely on some form of “herd immunity.”
If young spring breakers get the virus and STAY HOME, there are some advantages. It is my understanding that they will quickly recover. From that point on, they are immune. They will no longer be a walking petrie dish of virus - just the opposite; they will be a fire break. We can’t isolate forever. This thing will have to roll through to a point where it is no longer a threat. IMHO.
Just looked it up - according to nces.ed.gov, roughly 18% of college majors this year are in STEM subjects.
Let’s allow half of the remaining 82% of the majors to be in humanities courses that are actually intellectually useful and productive.
So, roughly 59% of the students are actually learning useful things in college and will go on to benefit civilization in science and the arts.
We all know what the rest are doing - throwing their parents’ money or government loan money into the sewer - whilst pursuing courses in underwater lesbian dancing, fart art, or journalism. And a good number of these will flunk or drop out and not even be able to gain (useless) degrees - but they’re not worried, Democrats will make sure that you pay for their loans.
Why do people keep paying attention to this guy who never been right about anything?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I curious, do you know that the total nation wide serious/critical cases is 2,436?
That the daily rate of increase of serious/critical cases in the USA is pretty steady at 250?
I will do the math for you 250 x 100 days = 2,500. And that is total number of case so while that number is added to daily it will also be reduced by the number of resolved cases as people move out of the serious/critical category.
Do you know if you are under 60 with no underlying health issues your recovery rate is 99.96%?
The risk group for this is about 2% of the population. I am in that 2% high risk group and I see what an absurdity is being done here
This is like watching a slow motion train wreck over and over, everywhere.
Mardi Gras
Spring break
Neighborhood barbecues
Birthday party’s
....
GOVid-535, their agencies, and propagandists are orders of magnitude more deadly. Witness history. Ours. The debt, taxed-into-death and wars undeclared, make this nation the #1 killing machine in the world since the ‘60s, 1973 and forward. Hard kill, soft kill continues. Today’s “war against an invisible enemy” = more subjugation, less Constitutional rights. An electromagnetic curtain has descended over the republic. Tune in to the spectrum for further demands.
First, I want to say that I am an engineer with no medical experience. However, I do understand numbers and statistics quite well. I think I understand how a flu would spread.
This analysis is predicated on the idea that people with mild cases do develop antibodies. This was clearly not the consensus early in January, but now seems to be accepted as the case.
So, my “pure speculation” is this: When presented with the possibility of a pandemic, one could cause the population to go into quarantine or lock down TOO SOON!
Assume that President Trump had ordered the borders to be entirely secured in late December and assume that that had been soon enough for no cases to disperse anywhere in the U.S. Also, assume that governors everywhere had asked people to stay home and not socialize beginning in January.
The results of that action could have resulted in NO U.S. cases, if effectively applied. However, it would have also resulted in nobody developing any antibodies. Thus, as soon as the quarantines were lifted, any infected person entering the formerly quarantined area would have been our patient zero and the pandemic would be on. The only advantage to such a scenario would be if a vaccine and/or drug treatments had been developed during the period of quarantine.
On the other hand, if one allows the virus entry and waits until a small number of cases develop. Some of these will become serious and there will be some deaths. After some dragging of feet, one then exerts some degree of control on the borders and adopts quarantines and social distancing. This strategy only works if the virus is allowed to spread over most of the geography being managed.
The result should be that further spread of the virus is reduced. The existing cases should not overwhelm the medical system. Thus, unlike in Italy, choices about who gets a ventilator should not even be required.
Meanwhile, while the population is quarantined, those with mild cases are building antibodies and recovering. Remember, these are the people who contracted it, in the first place. So they would be the prime suspects if a second wave were to occur. But now, they have antibodies!
So after a suitable time, one can lift the lock downs and reduce the quarantines. Unlike the first scenario, when new cases arrive at your borders, there are already a lot of your own people who will not be at risk and not be in a position to pass it on to those in the second tier of socialization.
So, this is totally my speculation, for what it’s worth.
Near a Taco Bell yesterday. Saw a dark young worker come out the back door, and talk to another guy that came out of a truck.
They ended with a bro shake and a bro hug. Worker went back inside.
I believe most of our youts don’t give a crap about covid19 prevention. “Ain’t gonna hurt me. And maybe get me some of grandpa’s money.”