revenant

hexclock said:

asdasd said:

hexclock said:

seanismorris said:

‘It’s just the flu’

P.S.  ‘All flights to the EU is cancel’ & ‘all meetings on the coronavirus are classified’

Everything is fine.  Nothing to see here. Please stop selling stock, it’s making me look bad.

How about some tax breaks?  That will make everyone feel better...

Ok, so what are your suggestions? Everyone is so quick to criticize everything. What would YOU do?

Mass mobile testing and self isolation for those who have it.

Yeah sure, one of the criticisms is that there are not enough tests. How the hell are they supposed to have enough tests when 3 months ago the virus was completely unknown?
Where was all this handwringing when just ten years ago, H1N1 infected 60 Million people with 300,000 going to the hospital in the US alone!

SpamSandwich said:

revenant said:

seanismorris said:

So no quoting President Trump?

From CNN:

Trump continued by discarding his own administration's advice to stay home if you're feeling sick: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better, and then when you do have a death, like you've had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York." No deaths have been reported in New York.

"You know," Trump said, "all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4%, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1%. But again, they don't know about the easy cases because the easy cases don't go to the hospital. They don't report to doctors or the hospital in many cases. So I think that that number is very high. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1%." 

to be fair:

"Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this?' Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."

the lack of consistency on this terrible, yet not so bad, virus is weird. sit around and go to work does not need apple and other tech companies to help.

Here’s the thing. This virus is far more transmissible than the flu, even though it has a narrower group of people it might kill than the standard flu (it affects people who are older and with impaired lung function. Smokers seem to be affected more also).

And the initial very low numbers of people affected in the US gave the impression that it wouldn’t spread as fast as China. Clearly that was incorrect. Even so, should more have been done in the very beginning of the spread to the US? That’s a pointless exercise because there was no consensus that such a thing should happen right away. And it’s almost certain that the entire population will eventually be exposed to the Coronavirus.