Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

[The Rube]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

Will you ever stop downplaying the severity of this thing? You might as well be Trump.

Predicting MORE shutdowns is downplaying this? Saying this sort of cycle will continue for a long time is downplaying this?

You sure are one obsessed moron.

 

[rufus]

Predicting MORE shutdowns is downplaying this? Saying this sort of cycle will continue for a long time is downplaying this?

You sure are one obsessed moron.

I'm the moron, Mr. "go out to the bars and have fun" " Just like chicken pox"?

You might want to re-assess your entire thought processes. That is, if you have any.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

I'm the moron, Mr. "go out to the bars and have fun" " Just like chicken pox"?

You might want to re-assess your entire thought processes. That is, if you have any.

That is what some scientists are speculating. IF one gets COVID, and gets treated, their body will start to build an immunity to it. They are not sure, of course, but that is their theory.

Now, f* off.

 

[psych]

This doesn't surprise me. I have a friend who was working towards being a vet a few years ago and stopped when life interfered. With the nursing shortage in my hometown last year, she took the nursing exam, and scored higher than those in nursing programs.

Which nursing exam? The entrance exam (HESI) or the exit exam (NCLEX)? The HESI is high school math/reading, so anyone can do well on that without having to go to nursing school. The NCLEX is pass/fail, so no one knows how they did in comparison to others.

 

[Handyman]

I'm the moron, Mr. "go out to the bars and have fun" " Just like chicken pox"?

You might want to re-assess your entire thought processes. That is, if you have any.

Just admit you read his post wrong...cause you did. He was not in any way downplaying this.

 

[aparch]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

Which nursing exam? The entrance exam (HESI) or the exit exam (NCLEX)? The HESI is high school math/reading, so anyone can do well on that without having to go to nursing school. The NCLEX is pass/fail, so no one knows how they did in comparison to others.

It must have been the entry one then. Now that is not quite as impressive. Haha.

 

[SJHovey]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

3/18 in the books. New cases by date:

3/01    0
3/02   25
3/03   24
3/04   34
3/05   63
3/06   98
3/07  116
3/08  106
3/09  163
3/10  290
3/11  307
3/12  396
3/13  550
3/14  696
3/15  737
3/16  983
3/17 1748
3/18 2848

That's roughly one decimal place every 10 days. That will have to start to plateau before we get to 3/28 (28,000 a day) or 4/07 (280,000 a day). Presumably a lot of the increase is the expansion of testing, not the illness.

<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e6LOWKVq5sQ/hqdefault.jpg" height=200>

I would really love to know how many people in this country have the virus right now. I think that would be a real eye-opening number to see.

The other thing that occurs to me is that this virus almost seems to act in "hot zones." It hits the Kirkland, WA, area and immediately there is a huge spike in cases in that immediate area, but not necessarily in surrounding areas. The NYC metropolitan area right now is the worst of those.

It's almost like there are some super-carriers of the virus who if you come across them you are almost certain to get sick.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

Right now we’re not isolating from the sick- were isolating with sick people. I’d love to know how many have it right now and are holed up with 4 other people

 

[Kepler]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">[Cake voice]<br><br>We’re KEEPING our DISTANCE <br>We’re all QUARANTINED<br>We stay alone (ALL ALONE), for our friends in their time of NEED</p>— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) <a href="https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1240399458149548039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's very good.

 

[unofan]

That's very good.

Now I want to binge watch Chuck again.

 

[psych]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

It must have been the entry one then. Now that is not quite as impressive. Haha.

No doubt that she's still smart and shouldn't have any problems getting through nursing school. We need all the nurses we can get, and not only because of this current crisis.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

The other thing that occurs to me is that this virus almost seems to act in "hot zones." It hits the Kirkland, WA, area and immediately there is a huge spike in cases in that immediate area, but not necessarily in surrounding areas. The NYC metropolitan area right now is the worst of those.

It's almost like there are some super-carriers of the virus who if you come across them you are almost certain to get sick.

<img src="https://indiescifi451.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/screenshot_20171121-091255.jpg" >

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

It’s spreading so fast in NYC because of mass transit. Imagine sharing your car seat with 500-1,000 people a day.

Yeah, that **** is not helping.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

It’s spreading so fast in NYC because of mass transit. Imagine sharing your car seat with 500-1,000 people a day.

Yeah, that **** is not helping.

Mass transit in NYC scales with everything else. If you ride an elevator in a NYC office building you've just breathed the air of 2,500 people.

Density is a challenge. Yet, Singapore is doing fine. So a lot of it is prophylactic measures -- those very actions which the cynics and fools among us are blowing off.

 

[RaceBoarder]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

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This is the biggest flaw in what we have so far. Everyone wants to attach numbers to the situation and extrapolate from there. The problem is that this is nowhere even close to being a full data set. And because of that, both sides use it to blow holes in the other side while saying their numbers are spot on. It's quite a paradox we have going on.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

This is the biggest flaw in what we have so far. Everyone wants to attach numbers to the situation and extrapolate from there. The problem is that this is nowhere even close to being a full data set. And because of that, both sides use it to blow holes in the other side while saying their numbers are spot on. It's quite a paradox we have going on.

I’ve got a grad degree in this and I’m hesitant to go too far. It’s funny watching others do it though!
Looking forward to my next meeting with WHO docs to get some info

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I’ve got a grad degree in this and I’m hesitant to go too far. It’s funny watching others do it though!
Looking forward to my next meeting with WHO docs to get some info

It’s a message board, we’re all glued to everything about this, and we’re stuck in our homes for the next several months. It’s kind of going to happen. We’re all trying to learn.

Either we talk about stuff we know nothing about or we go Lord of the Flies.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

It’s a message board, we’re all glued to everything about this, and we’re stuck in our homes for the next several months. It’s kind of going to happen. We’re all trying to learn.

Either we talk about stuff we know nothing about or we go Lord of the Flies.

No, I get that. I wasn’t criticizing but sometimes it’s funny when people with no background whatsoever say things like it’s fact.
I need this medium to communicate too, so not criticizing

 

[SJHovey]

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It’s spreading so fast in NYC because of mass transit. Imagine sharing your car seat with 500-1,000 people a day.

Yeah, that **** is not helping.

But Chicago has a ton of mass transit, and I think the second case in the country was in Chicago, way back in January, and started spreading from her to people she contacted. NYC didn't see it's first case until March 1, iirc.

 

[RaceBoarder]

Re: Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

I’ve got a grad degree in this and I’m hesitant to go too far. It’s funny watching others do it though!
Looking forward to my next meeting with WHO docs to get some info

We're still only testing people that are showing obvious signs of being positive at this point however. That isn't a super comprehensive number. The obvious cases are obvious, but it's the unseen cases that are going to do the damage and we aren't seeking those out right now. It's going to be an artificially high rate for "positive" tests (say 800 of 1000 people tested have this just to have an example number). That is significantly higher than the number of people that actually have it in the general population. That's reality right now, isn't it?