How does Coronavirus COVID-19 alter our workflow?

After that joe Rogan video, I'm absolutely terrified to expose my family, just from accepting checks and trying to wrap up jobs. Even getting diesel this morning was stressful. First time in my life I almost didn't even want my change back.
Best wishes from my family to yours. We are all in this together.
 
Good luck to your family, @evo.

First case showed up in my county.




I wonder if the two sets of stats jive.

Was the mortality rate calculated with to few infections reported? If so, the percentage would be too high.
 
southsoundtree said:
Good luck to your family, @evo.

First case showed up in my county.




I wonder if the two sets of stats jive.

Was the mortality rate calculated with to few infections reported? If so, the percentage would be too high.
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This is hearsay only, but from what I've been hearing, its hitting elderly the hardest, especially those with existing respiratory issues. Overall the mortality rate appears to be around 5%, which can easily overwhelm health facilities and care providers. Most infected people don't experience severe symptoms and recover completely, but not everyone. Drive by testing stations, if available, seem to be helping to mitigate the spread, since it mitigates transmission otherwise occurring during office visits. The spread by careless individuals who may not know they're infected will increase the spread, so the best advice is to avoid crowds, and all unnecessary personal contact with others, as well as, keep yourself and your surroundings disinfected.
 
John@TreeXP said:
Drive by testing stations, if available, seem to be helping to mitigate the spread, since it mitigates transmission otherwise occurring during office visits. The spread by careless individuals who may not know they're infected will increase the spread, so the best advice is to avoid crowds, and all unnecessary personal contact with others, as well as, keep yourself and your surroundings disinfected.
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good advice
 
John@TreeXP said:
This is hearsay only, but from what I've been hearing, its hitting elderly the hardest, especially those with existing respiratory issues. Overall the mortality rate appears to be around 5%, which can easily overwhelm health facilities and care providers. Most infected people don't experience severe symptoms and recover completely, but not everyone. Drive by testing stations, if available, seem to be helping to mitigate the spread, since it mitigates transmission otherwise occurring during office visits. The spread by careless individuals who may not know they're infected will increase the spread, so the best advice is to avoid crowds, and all unnecessary personal contact with others, as well as, keep yourself and your surroundings disinfected.
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I’m not tripping too hard, his classmates parent shook hands with a person who was diagnosed a few days after.
Kids do get it, and spread it, but seem to luck out and not get seriously ill.

This country has their heads up their ass with managing this outbreak.
 
Our governor just shut schools down for 3 weeks so those of us who work and have kids are going to have to get creative and use a bunch of sick days. Wife can mobile work from home but I only have so many "desk" days to pull that off. Gonna be interesting
 
Joe Rogan’s guest leaves me confused. He says it’s 10 to 15 times worse than the flu. Perhaps an attempt to make people realize the seriousness of the situation. Fair enough.

But then he says he estimates 96 million cases and 480,000 deaths. Which is .005. Half of one percent. And the vast majority of those will be elderly or infirm.

To be clear, it sucks if you’re one of those 480,000. But for the rest it’s really just a few rough days. As of now I think we’re overblowing this. Too many of our fellow citizens seem eager to be infantilized and panic because Savanna from The Today Show told them its super scary.

My kids are out of school till April 13 and March Madness is cancelled. At this point I’d take a teaspoon of Coronavirus.
 
China saying peak infection has come and gone, 3200 people have died there so far. Mike pence said a few thousand more in USA will get virus. erico crunched the numbers and estimates 2-5 million deaths in USA alone. It'll be an interesting summer.
 
From over here in Europe, if you're wondering why it hit Italy so bad.

Many Italians traders in Northern Italy sold their leather goods and textiles companies to China.

Italy then allowed 100,000 Chinese from Wuhan/Wenzhou to move to Italy to work in these factories, with direct Wuhan flights.

Result: Northern Italy is Europe’s hotspot for Wuhan Coronavirus.

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From the article above, cited by Rico: The WHO says "Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died.”

True, but a couple of issues:

1. Many of these deaths occurred in countries with vastly inferior hygiene and health systems as compared to the U.S.

2. The 3.4 percent mortality is a percentage of reported cases. There are obviously MANY more people infected than have been tested and thus reported. Thus, the 3.4% is likely dramatically overstated. I guess we'll find out.
 
They should do a study to see if anybody's predictions about a disease actually stops you from dying from it.

A small percentage of people who jump out of airplanes survive their parachute not opening. Personally, I think I'd wear one, anyway.

I'm a lot more worried about the fact that yet another crappy disease is running around that weakens your immune system enough to make you more susceptible to all the other crappy diseases that have cropped up over the years. I would think that the cumulative effect will start making the common cold a dangerous thing to contract, eventually.

Lots of people contracted the Bubonic Plague in the middle ages and didn't die from it. Of course, most of them came close.. they had symptoms a bit worse than the sniffles... but, nobody who got it knew in advance whether they would be one of the lucky ones.

It always seems to be "just another dead person from disease X" until it's you or someone you care about that's doing the dying part.

I believe that the majority of people have the common decency to treat a potentially lethal disease or natural disaster as a serious matter. I also think that they barely hold onto the majority. I think that if you made a game at the State Fair that allowed you to shoot any random person in the crowd, most people would be horrified... but the tickets would sell like hotcakes, anyway.

I believe that if something looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and smells like a duck... it will get elected to public office.
 
ppsavage said:
from the fox article-
“I think we really need to be careful with those kinds of predictions, because that's based on a model," Fauci replied.

do you even read the articles or just the headlines?
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Yep I read the article, and posted the link to correct the record. It was Dr. Brian P. Monahan and not Dr. Fauci who stated that he believes 70-150 million Americans will contract the virus.
https://www.axios.com/congressional...ses-fec69e77-1515-4fbc-8340-c53b65c22c53.html
Dr. Fuaci's views on things-
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/fau...etermine-us-death-rates-from-coronavirus.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...it-it-fauci-says-coronavirus-testing-n1157036
 
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Bucknut said:
Joe Rogan’s guest leaves me confused. He says it’s 10 to 15 times worse than the flu. Perhaps an attempt to make people realize the seriousness of the situation. Fair enough.

But then he says he estimates 96 million cases and 480,000 deaths. Which is .005. Half of one percent. And the vast majority of those will be elderly or infirm.

To be clear, it sucks if you’re one of those 480,000. But for the rest it’s really just a few rough days. As of now I think we’re overblowing this. Too many of our fellow citizens seem eager to be infantilized and panic because Savanna from The Today Show told them its super scary.

My kids are out of school till April 13 and March Madness is cancelled. At this point I’d take a teaspoon of Coronavirus.
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I get that, but something like 22 out of 27 deaths in Seattle are from one nursing home. That’s a pretty hard hit
 
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