Coronavirus

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New York City is in serious trouble--how can it not be.

Everyone is locked shoulder to shoulder, sharing door surfaces, transit system surfaces, etc.

[blueeyes]

Kurt
I wouldn't approve of a wall being built by any president. It is a waste of money and resources in my opinion. So I really don't give a s hit about the videos you posted.
I don't approve of children being separated and held in conditions I saw on TV by anyone. Just because the president's predecessors did it doesn't make it okay.
Sorry I am not sorry you don't like my gut feeling. But this country will not be "opened up and raring to go by Easter"
I stand by what I said. Especially after listening to the video I posted on the GHS index that you put so much stalk in grading the US ability to deal with a pandemic. Just because we scored 83.4 doesn't make us more prepared for COVID than any other country. Proof in the numbers of the graphic you just posted above.
Here you go this is why I think S. Korea is handling this epidemic better than the US. (Oh and I apologize it was the MERS outbreak they learned from, not SARS, my bad.)
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/coronavirus-cases-have-dropped-sharply-south-korea-whats-secret-its-success

Lessons from MERS
South Korea learned the importance of preparedness the hard way. In 2015, a South Korean businessman came down with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) after returning from a visit to three Middle Eastern countries. He was treated at three South Korean health facilities before he was diagnosed with MERS and isolated. By then, he had set off a chain of transmission that infected 186 and killed 36, including many patients hospitalized for other ailments, visitors, and hospital staff. Tracing, testing, and quarantining nearly 17,000 people quashed the outbreak after 2 months. The specter of a runaway epidemic alarmed the nation and dented the economy.
“That experience showed that laboratory testing is essential to control an emerging infectious disease,” Kim says. In addition, Oh says, “The MERS experience certainly helped us to improve hospital infection prevention and control.” So far, there are no reports of infections of COVID-19 among South Korean health care workers, he says.
Legislation enacted since then gave the government authority to collect mobile phone, credit card, and other data from those who test positive to reconstruct their recent whereabouts. That information, stripped of personal identifiers, is shared on social media apps that allow others to determine whether they may have crossed paths with an infected person

Not sure how I feel about that last paragraph, but that is how they have managed to slow the COVID-19 epidemic in S. Korea. Anyone else anywhere doing that? Nope so I think that puts them a head of...well in this case below the curve.

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Kurt
I wouldn't approve of a wall being built by any president. It is a waste of money and resources in my opinion. So I really don't give a s hit about the videos you posted.
I don't approve of children being separated and held in conditions I saw on TV by anyone. Just because the president's predecessors did it doesn't make it okay.
Sorry I am not sorry you don't like my gut feeling. But this country will not be "opened up and raring to go by Easter"

This was horrific

Jose Antonio Vargas
✔@joseiswriting





This is what happens when a government believes people are “illegal.”

Kids in cages.

[oldno7]

Sorry I am not sorry you don't like my gut feeling. But this country will not be "opened up and raring to go by Easter"

--I think the common belief, shared by most is to open the Country piece by piece as is reasonable by data and facts on the ground in any particular area.

Everyone paying attention is well aware of the decimation that is about to occur in New York and other large metro areas.

Utah??? Not so much

Idaho?

Most Nevada?

Most Montana?

Eastern Oregon/Washington, etc, etc,

Many rural places are not going to be affected in any degree compared to the big cities.

Open them up for business, only makes sense.

[blueeyes]

Lessons from Singapore that took stalk and learned from the fist SARS outbreak.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/23/...d-19-response/

I particularly like there transparency in the numbers. Like Acca keeps asking how many hospitalized, how many recovered.

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New Yorkers are seriously arrogant.

deBlasio

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For Savanna

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