Red Mosquito

i wish there was a reliable at home test

the denominator on this thing would explode

and we’d be able to see how low the % of serious cases really is

might actually change some of the mainstream dialogue

there are still horrible deaths happening

but we could focus the quarantine on high-risk-profile-people (for their own safety until a vaccine is ready)

rather than shutting down everything for all people and things

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I have some kind of head cold. Flying home from Denver today, people looked at me like I was patient zero every time I sniffled or coughed.

ruddo: "A-choo!"

Everyone else:

96583UP wrote:i wish there was a reliable at home test

the denominator on this thing would explode

and we’d be able to see how low the % of serious cases really is

might actually change some of the mainstream dialogue

there are still horrible deaths happening

but we could focus the quarantine on high-risk-profile-people (for their own safety until a vaccine is ready)

rather than shutting down everything for all people and things

Common sense post.

96583UP wrote:i wish there was a reliable at home test

Act like if you are breathing you have it.

96583UP wrote:we could focus the quarantine on high-risk-profile-people (for their own safety until a vaccine is ready) rather than shutting down everything for all people and things

That's the right solution but the math doesn't support it. There is a desperate need to slow the infection rate or all health services will be swamped way past the point of breaking. If only 5% of those infected require hospital intervention and 50% of the population gets C-19, that would be 10M people requiring hospital care. We do not have the resources to manage that all at once. It is this 10M that the 'bend the curve' narrative is trying to address.

Basically, they are scrambling and don't have a real plan.

high severity cases are the ones that overload the hospitals

high severity cases are correlated with age and health history

you can slow the rate of high severity cases by quarantining those with the correlated age and health history

if the 55 and under norms are out living their lives spreading low severity cases amongst themselves they will not overhwhelm the hospitals

the ones predisposed to having high severity cases should be squirreled away under precautionary measures

economic stability is achieved

once a vaccine is created and administered to the old farts

you can release them from their cages

case closed

#CageTheBoomers

All IMP shows after tonight (9:30 Club / Anthem / Lincoln Theater etc) closed down until at least April 1st per the DC mayor.

96583UP wrote:#CageTheBoomers

Now this I can get behind

My 6th grader is insistent that if one kid in his middle school comes down with this that the entire district is closing all schools. And so my dipshit son and his gaggle of halfwit friends nominated one their own to “take one for the team.” That kid thought that by eating paper made in China you are somehow guaranteed to get sick. And so he did.

Jesus Christ.

Chris_H_2 wrote:My 6th grader is insistent that if one kid in his middle school comes down with this that the entire district is closing all schools. And so my dipshit son and his gaggle of halfwit friends nominated one their own to “take one for the team.” That kid thought that by eating paper made in China you are somehow guaranteed to get sick. And so he did.

Jesus Christ.

Maybe not closure, but this school district deserves an audit by the state at least.

Thin the herd

Chris_H_2 wrote:My 6th grader is insistent that if one kid in his middle school comes down with this that the entire district is closing all schools. And so my dipshit son and his gaggle of halfwit friends nominated one their own to “take one for the team.” That kid thought that by eating paper made in China you are somehow guaranteed to get sick. And so he did.

Jesus Christ.

Hero

Pete Townshend just announced he’s happy to supervise everyone’s kids while schools are closed if their parents want to just have some ‘me time’ to themselves and cease all communication and inquiries about how things are going during that time so they can just disconnect and find their chi

what a great guy

Chris_H_2 wrote:My 6th grader is insistent that if one kid in his middle school comes down with this that the entire district is closing all schools. And so my dipshit son and his gaggle of halfwit friends nominated one their own to “take one for the team.” That kid thought that by eating paper made in China you are somehow guaranteed to get sick. And so he did.

Jesus Christ.

you might want to spend that 529 college fund on something nice for yourself

Chris’s kid is still making me laugh. I love this kid

If Corona takes Hanks, I’m committing suicide.

LetMeSleep wrote:My mate's kid school is closed indefinitely. They have to self isolate their kid and if anyone develops symptoms they all are on lock down.

This guy has my Pixies ticket.

Pixies shows postponed mid-tour, having already played Golden Plains and Melbourne.

Hey, maybe they’ll add an Adelaide date on the rescheduled dates.

Birds in Hell wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:My mate's kid school is closed indefinitely. They have to self isolate their kid and if anyone develops symptoms they all are on lock down.

This guy has my Pixies ticket.

Pixies shows postponed mid-tour, having already played Golden Plains and Melbourne.

Hey, maybe they’ll add an Adelaide date on the rescheduled dates.

Just read that. Hopefully Adelaide is added one day. Those tix will either be used one day or will remind us of the last of days.

Wow. European countries have a better handle on this than the US does currently but anyways

Holy shit