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Australia Rations Toilet Paper
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LAX Screener Tests Positive
Seattle a Ghost Town
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1235128530444439552
Other than those kinds of things, It’s Just Like the Flu ™
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
a good thread on some people in Seattle who can’t get tested and the effect on their lives
Big takeaway–to be tested you need to be connected to a confirmed case…..it’s nearly impossible to be connected to a confirmed case since very few people have been confirmed
checkout #CDCwonttestme
Same in UK. NHS being too rigid. Woman called into news show this morning, husband ill for days, fever, hacking cough, shortness of breath. NHS helpline said “we won’t test you, you’ve not been abroad” and continued to repeat the same advice even after the wife said:
“No, but he spent two days last week in a meeting with four Iranian businessmen”.
I’m sure they have how they are going to manage regarding the epidemic planned out in detail, all we have to do is fit in :/
Sleepless In Seattle…….Have a look at the markets….everything is GREAT, the Fed will do whatever it takes…..
Compared to what’s happening in my neighborhood, China did a stellar job, despite being the early case. These clowns need Chinese justice.
As of right now, restricting who to test is likely the most efficient option. Simply because they have to save their scarce testing ammo for the most pressing cases.
That’s what being poor, as well as living in a third world country, looks like: You work in a coal mine, even though you know you are breathing nasty stuff You eat McDonalds, even though you know Thomas Keller could cook you a better, and healthier, meal…. And you face your Ebola and Covid-19 symptoms unaided, even though you know those rich bastards over in China, have access to better care.
Passed by the TV during the press conference of numerous government officials declaring a state of emergency in L.A. County. Mayor Garcetti was mentioning something about elevator buttons at the time. Just think of how many people used the touch screen voting system the day before declaring a health emergency.
….and then went to MacDonalds or KFC and used the touch screen ordering.
We are all likely to get this virus sooner or later. Most of us will probably recover, assuming we ever feel sick.
Unless you are really old with a heart condition. Will Bernie Sanders curtail his campaign? Will any front runner survive their Covid 19 encounter? (Assuming you are right and we all catch it.) Will they live until November? Will they live until inauguration day 2021?
Seriously, how can these elderly candidates campaign like it is 2015?
This doctor has some good info on the prevention side with vitamin D. Backed up by a study done before all this happened. He also posted one early on during the “crisis” about the importance of getting plenty of sleep about 3 weeks ago and I think I re-posted it here, not sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmqgGwT6bw0
thanks, went to buy some 1/month ampoules…..
My long held theory of disappearance of respiratory diseases during the summer, is abundance of UV light, as well as theory of critical mass for infection. We’ll see what happens.
As I understood it, hospital cannot use or develop their own testing kit once the CDC gets involved. Sort of a bureaucratic loophole. Can someone shed more light on this?
It seems the FDA outlines the protocol, presumably as advised by CDC “for who to test” parameters. All hospitals and physicians seem bound to follow this protocol.
” Aside from the delay in getting functioning kits to labs, coronavirus testing has been saddled with restrictive guidelines for who can be tested under the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “emergency use authorization” for labs allowed to conduct the assessments. The restrictions mean only those patients who meet specific criteria as a “person under investigation” can be tested, such as those who recently traveled to Wuhan, China, where the epidemic started, or those with certain symptoms who came into close contact with someone confirmed to have been exposed to the virus.”
And in other news, government will government…….
Absolutely correct!
One day, the big question will be…Why didn’t the CDC purchase kits from the WHO, Switzerland or S Korea back in early February?
The manufacturing capacity of these 3 producers could of put 1 million kits in our hands in 3 days. Every hospital could of had kits by Valentine’s day.
I hope HHS Sec. Azar is questioned. After years of being president of Eli-Lily and a lobbyist for big pharma, if the US taxpayer pays private labs over $10/kit it’ll be obvious that he’s helping out his old buddies.
Will MSS agents try and the deploy the bioweapon/virus in DC?Will Beijeng suddenly have a vaccine after all of DC/northern Va. is wiped out except for dems/CIA who just all happened to be out of town when the virus was unleashed!
I was at Home Depot yesterday. Shelves full of sanitizing wipes and spray. Today it is ALL gone. Most of paper towels and TP too. They had to have sold 1000 units in a 24 hour period.
I live in Seattle, that ghost town story is not true. Not yet at least, no change from what I have seen.
My nephew works for Amazon in downtown Seattle and lives there too in one of those high-rent studio apartments, and he says it is very quiet there.
Buddy of mine went to the Seattle international district this afternoon, next to downtown. It’s almost entirely Asian shops and grocery stores. Said that without the headlines nobody would guess anything was out of the ordinary and everything seemed crowded as usual.
I work downtown as well, pretty much business as usual. I do think that will absolutely change in just a few days though. Most co workers still act as if this is an ‘over there’ problem.
And … we were told this evening by our company to work remotely until further notice
Beijing is back to normal. Not sure what that means, but we’ll see if it was an economic or ? move in a few weeks I guess.
A curious thing is beginning to appear in the daily WHO Situation Report:
There are 33 China regions reporting outside Hubei. They had a total of 13,004 cases between them as of report number 37, for 16.6% of the total China cases, but for the last 7 days, they’ve only reported 10 deaths. During the same 7 days, Hubei has reported 256 deaths on a base of 65,187 cases on report number 37.
Two obvious explanations come to mind:
1.Thirty three regions are conspiring to under-report.
2.China has gone to school on the disaster in Wuhan, drastically reducing fatal outcomes.
Wuhan/Hubei is different enough from the rest of the world, and even the rest of China, to make comparing it to anywhere else pretty pointless.
I think people still don’t realize it. The Communist party is very much willing to sacrifice the entire Wuhan if necessary to save the rest of the country.
If you try that in America, you inbox will be filled with emails from self quarantining lawyers.
My thought is China’s draconian controls have been very effective. The combination of not allowing people to leave their homes very often, with requiring them to wear a mask when they do, gives people few opportunities to spread the virus. Wuhan was totally out of of control and had excess casualties because their medical system was overwhelmed, plus they weren’t able to identify all the cases, so they are continuing to come in from Wuhan, though even there they continue to slow
Bruce Aylward, WHO head of mission, said that China’s response, and the effectiveness of its healthcare, dwarfs anything that the west will see. He was quite clear he expects poorer health outcomes here in the west because China is very good at what it does.
Six weeks into the outbreak, the Chinese had released the 6th edition of clinical guidelines. All the hospitals they visited (outside wuhan) were using that 6th edition the DAY AFTER it was issued.
I think its time to acknowledge that the Chinese are better at healthcare than we are, rather than subscribing to conspiracy theory.
In general, you get better at anything, by pursuing it directly, rather than sorta-kinda, indirectly and half heartedly.
That holds for communism/governance as well.