Re: COVID19
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:50 am
I'm with you, shout it from the rooftops, live blog it daily.
HIding it seems dangerous to the general public.
HIding it seems dangerous to the general public.
Actually the highest risk jobs are currently working. I would like to see the statistics of healthcare workers, convenience and grocery workers exposure to this virus. If you are not being exposed at a c-store why would you be at a higher risk at an office or factory?kas1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:05 am Incidentally, what I've read is that unspecified people in the White House have been drafting plans for gradually easing restrictions in some sort of common-sense way by starting with low-risk jobs and then progressing from there as long as the situation remains stable. However, the Cheeto rejects these proposals out of hand and wants an all-or-nothing approach. There's pretty much only one way to completely fuck this situation up, so of course that is what we will get if the states don't continue to control the narrative.
I didn't mean for low-risk jobs to be interpreted so narrowly -- I was referring more to a risk:reward analysis of the industry as a whole. EG, nightclubs would be the very last thing to reopen, even if the employees themselves were just as protected as a typical store worker.zlohban wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 1:24 pmActually the highest risk jobs are currently working. I would like to see the statistics of healthcare workers, convenience and grocery workers exposure to this virus. If you are not being exposed at a c-store why would you be at a higher risk at an office or factory?kas1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:05 am Incidentally, what I've read is that unspecified people in the White House have been drafting plans for gradually easing restrictions in some sort of common-sense way by starting with low-risk jobs and then progressing from there as long as the situation remains stable. However, the Cheeto rejects these proposals out of hand and wants an all-or-nothing approach. There's pretty much only one way to completely fuck this situation up, so of course that is what we will get if the states don't continue to control the narrative.
This morning the IMHE projection reported Missouri peaking a month earlier April 19th, it was mid May last week. The bed count looks fine.
I believe it had already peaked in early February being called by my doctor the “Strange Flu”.
Another puzzle is the disappearing “Vaping Illness” the CDC website shows the symptoms as very similar to COVID.
It's very frustrating to argue with you because I don't feel like you actually address my arguments head-on. I never said that we'd be able to implement contact tracing right now. Literally my entire argument was that we need to work to create conditions where contact tracing can be effective.earthling wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:25 am Contact Tracing is ideal but is any state actually able to pull it off?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN21I324
edit: Oregon claims they are trying but ultimately are not...The health director for Ridgefield, Connecticut, says there is no way that he and his staff of two can identify and isolate all the people who have interacted with an infected patient, not at the rate cases are multiplying across the town.
“Tracing exposures of exposures of exposures. It’s just impossible,” Briggs said. “The cases are to the point where we can’t possibly trace everybody back now.”
But the health officials in charge did not communicate with all Oregonians who had a positive test let alone all of their close connections, the newsroom found.
And after publicly touting the monitoring system as a way to keep tabs on the spread of coronavirus and help protect people, state officials abruptly stopped reporting a key set of tracking numbers without explanation.
No criticism, I just think the current working population would be a good sample to use to determine our risk which I believe is low if everyone uses simple safety measures.kas1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:05 am
I didn't mean for low-risk jobs to be interpreted so narrowly -- I was referring more to a risk:reward analysis of the industry as a whole. EG, nightclubs would be the very last thing to reopen, even if the employees themselves were just as protected as a typical store worker.
tracing people is only effective when someone knows they came into contact with someone with a virus.kas1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:13 pm
It's very frustrating to argue with you because I don't feel like you actually address my arguments head-on. I never said that we'd be able to implement contact tracing right now. Literally my entire argument was that we need to work to create conditions where contact tracing can be effective.
My response head on was that the US as a whole likely can't effectively pull off contract tracing at *any* point due to cultural and discipline differences vs. Asia - the two links provided were examples why. And that blitzing enough PPE for workforce along with testing could help cautiously bring workforce back faster (do not support Trump's reckless approach).
Contact tracing is not some sort of rocket surgery that was just invented by aliens in Korea. It's a standard part of containing an outbreak of any disease. That's why local health officials in the US immediately started doing it even without any direction from the federal government. Your entire defeatist attitude is that it can't be done perfectly, so therefore it shouldn't be done at all. Any level of success at all is better than not even trying. R only has to be held below 1 in order for the virus to eventually die off, which allows for a pretty significant margin of error. And it's not hard to believe that most people would immediately go get themselves tested if they find out they've been exposed to someone who is infected. The majority of the work that's needed for contact tracing is making the tests available and telling the public what to do. Something like 80% of the transmission in China was reportedly between family members (though it wouldn't surprise me if that figure is inflated a bit due to missed cases). I refuse to believe that there's some sort of "cultural difference" that will cause Americans to not want to get tested when others in the family are sick.
I got it that you refuse to believe on cultural differences being a factor, we disagree and that's fine.I refuse to believe that there's some sort of "cultural difference"
Wow, OK.There's no great rush to get the workforce back -- most of what "the economy" produces is completely superfluous.
Will be interesting to see what levels are determined to be needed here and harder hit countries in order to lift lockdown, open borders and the long term impact. Such as if most who can work from home continue to, will that become a new norm and office market hit hard long term as lease renewals are adjusted?But eliminating the virus completely is a different matter. And in an effort to get those hundred-odd new cases a day down to zero, South Korea has actually increased its restrictions despite the virus appearing to be under control.