nCoV 2019-2020 Outbreak

[BassAle]

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We really need to do this with fire departments.

before municipal fire service there was a history of property insurance companies creating their own fire brigades to protect property they insured

There would be a profit-motive for insurance companies to get as many people vaccinated as possible.

[Russell Jaslow]

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In all seriousness what would prevent this from happening? Let's assume somebody is in a high risk position. I dunno, maybe he's a test engineer at Acme Spittoons. If the version B mutation moves the virus outside of the scope of whatever immunity fought off version A, why couldn't he catch version B?

That's what I'm saying. If this virus is mutating this quickly and then reinfecting people this quickly, who may already be weakened by the initial bout, we may as well watch The Stand, because that's what we're heading towards... (I know I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but it is a scary scenario.)

[mookie1995]

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suspend the elections..

oh, you laugh

[Slap Shot]

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Japan just closed schools for a month. If you're a parent with school-aged children: think for a second about how massively disruptive this would be. This is the kind of thing that Dr Messonier told Americans to prepare for and it's also totally at odds with the President's tone.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 27, 2020

This could be read as one reason why Japan is on the list of "most prepared" but from a glass half empty perspective you could interpret this as, "Even as prepared as they are they're having to shut down their schools entirely?".

She’s gonna be fired. This could be start of a cdc purge as closeted veep and his prayer beads move in

I’m told the president’s anger about the CDC briefing yesterday is focused on Dr. Nancy Messonnier, who said it’s not whether, it’s when the virus will hit the US. “She never should have said that,” a senior administration official told me. “it’s bad.”

— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) February 26, 2020

The never-ending lesson: Don't anger Herr Führer.

By the way. Anyone catch how Pence was put in charge? After what he did in Indiana you could not have picked a worse person.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...LbXAZIu1q2YR_M

Just owning the libs!!

[Russell Jaslow]

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That's different. That's getting version A repeatedly (or, I assume far more likely, all signs of the virus going dormant, which would be f-cking terrifying because it would mean once you have it we never know if you're clear).

I agree. It's like the chicken pox virus staying in you and then causing shingles later on.

[Kepler]

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I'm not sure about this but my impression is Japan still has a fairly large number of housewives. That may make it less impactful.

You certainly couldn't do this in any American city unless you sent the kids to someplace out in the country with clear fresh air please forget I said anything.

[Russell Jaslow]

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oh, you laugh

I don't think he's laughing...

[Kepler]

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oh, you laugh

Nobody's laughing.

[ticapnews]

There would be a profit-motive for insurance companies to get as many people vaccinated as possible.

Only for their customers.

[alfablue]

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Most insurance companies pay for a flu vaccine. Why wouldn't they pay for a coronavirus vaccine?

You mean we all do. They don't pay it, they increase our rates so that they can maintain profits and then let us have extra coverage. Which just adds to my question of why do we have to make everything a profit center?

What ever happened to doing things for the common good?

[Russell Jaslow]

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You mean we all do. They don't pay it, they increase our rates so that they can maintain profits and then let us have extra coverage.

Well, that's the nature of insurance, whether it's health, life, auto, property...

[BassAle]

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Only for their customers.

that's true.

Medicare/Medicaid picks up the tab for those covered that way

that leaves the uninsured, who assuming the government doesn't intervene to make it free for everyone, will be able to get the vaccination at their local Walgreens for $20-$40.

our healthcare system is a mess, but I don't think there is a big barrier from widespread vaccination once it is available

[ticapnews]

that's true.

Medicare/Medicaid picks up the tab for those covered that way

that leaves the uninsured, who assuming the government doesn't intervene to make it free for everyone, will be able to get the vaccination at their local Walgreens for $20-$40.

our healthcare system is a mess, but I don't think there is a big barrier from widespread vaccination once it is available

Not a big barrier, huh? So you're going to cover the fees at Walgreens for the millions who can't afford it? That's very generous.

[Kepler]

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Not a big barrier, huh? So you're going to cover the fees at Walgreens for the millions who can't afford it? That's very generous.

TBH if it were just the vaccine that would be 20M x $40 = $800M a year, and that's nothing in the federal budget. I'm sure Dump has cost us more in fraudulent billings for his golf clubs during his presidency than that.

But it isn't. As with the cost of aircraft carriers, the solution that best makes sense is to eliminate insurance completely and have doctors directly bill the USG. The patient gets sick and goes to the hospital. She never sees a bill. We don't get personally billed when the air force drops bombs on weddings in Pakistan.

[aparch]

Heard on beebs that attempts will be made to rush testing () but still perhaps next Feb-April at earliest.

Great, then we'll have a generation of people who claimed their kids caught The Autism because of rushed vaccines for Coronavirus.