The "bad" numbers indicate it's about 30x more deadly than the flu, and I think experts are predicting it'll ultimately come in at around 10x more deadly, which is nothing to sneeze (and cough, and shit yourself) at.
Some of the measures taken are so half assed right now. I went to the hospital for an appointment and was screened at the door with questions such as "have you been coughing or fevered over the last x days." The stuff they are doing at hub's work is totally ineffective. All the mangers are work from home, which is good, but the work sites are on soft quarantines that aren't being enforced and are preventing any work from being done.
Considering the government's absolute failure to get people tested and separated from the rest of the population, the fact that they're just asking if you're sick and not if you've traveled anywhere is a step up.
I mean, it's something. But unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about this and if you're taking it seriously, would stay home. I really don't think voluntary screening questions that have no way of being verified are helping in any way except psychologically.
My daughter’s daycare follows the public school system in the town it’s located. Two teachers in that school system are now in quarantine for possible infection. Great.
NHL is done. NBA is done. Wrestlemania.... not done, probably won’t be unless they force it. Vince McMahon would murder the entire world if it lined his pockets.
In addition to everything else, with all these sports suspending games, I can't see how we're not going to have a massive drop in the economy. My city has an NBA team and all the down town restaurants say a good portion of their annual income comes from when games are played. Not only those business owners are going to be hurting, but all the people who are employed by the arenas. I'm guessing the average cashier hocking $14 beers can barely afford one themselves and now they just lost a good portion (all?) of their income. Some theorize that Trump has been propping the economy up for several years but it's a house of cards. The fed recently cut rates so low* I don't see how they can really cut anymore to help stabilize it. Anyone else see this as a potential major snafu? *We just started the refi process and got locked in at 2.99%! When I bought my first house in 1999, the rate was 7.5%
I work for a top 20 sized city in the US and due to some staffing issues I have been in meetings all week that I wouldn’t normally be in, the city is in prep mode to lose roughly 50 percent of its employees in the event of a school system shut down.
All school and games have been cancelled in Atlanta. Over the top much? Either the media is out of control about this (but doesn’t explain why they weren’t crazy about Ebola, Swine Flu, or any number of other more deadly diseases) or were not being told the whole story about this disease. I’ve read numerous sources claiming it’s synthetic and able to mutate. So either the media is overhyping more than they ever have before, or someone’s hiding something about this disease.
It's the transmission rate. It's contagious while patients are asymptomatic, and it's airborne. That means even when a comparatively lower death rate, you'll end up with a higher total death count because it will infect a much higher percentage of the population if precautions aren't taken. With Ebola it's pretty clear: don't lick the eyeballs of the guy bleeding out of every orifice. With coronavirus it's hard to say "don't stand too close to the guy who will start displaying symptoms in three days."
Probably has something to do with the transmission rate, asymptomatic transmissions mentioned above. Also, see what happened in Italy, China and Iran.
Okay, someone deleted my post about the possibility that Trump may have been exposed to the virus during a meeting with the Brazilian prime minister because it was "off topic," so here's a question that's (hopefully) on topic: With all of this stuff closing down, what do y'all think the odds are that Trump* and the GOP call off the election this year over "public health concerns?" People have mentioned it before, but only in a very speculative way. But now the NBA, NHL, MLB, hell, FUCKING DISNEYLAND are closing down. Do y'all think that the elections would actually be postponed, or that we would do mail-in ballots, or something by else? * If he lives that long.
0. The elections are run by the states. If Gavin Newsome wants to hold California's election, he will go ahead and do so. And if Trump states decide not to hold theirs, well then that's actually a scenario under which California would decide a national election (unlike the common argument against the popular vote).