03-08-2020, 07:09 AM
Where you are now 2006alum, I was three weeks ago. Not trying to pat myself on the back, just been following this very closely since January.
I saw a KPIX news report on YouTube from last night. Guy was reporting on store traffic and supply levels and actually said this: It looks like store traffic is down today, like people have already gotten over the shock and aren't panicking anymore.
While it is good to not panic, you better have some significant stores of food where you live, because you very well could be locked inside for weeks. Stores may have their supplies interrupted because the people who would be producing and delivering it could be home too. There simply won't be enough food to go around with supply cuts.
I just read a report from a hospital nurse in Missouri, where they had no cases at the time she made it (St. Louis got on the board after posted), but still had made plans for dealing with it. Here's the terrifying thing. Her 200 bed hospital is ALREADY at capacity, with no Coronavirus patients yet.
This isn't about you have to be spooked about going out in public per se, it's about making sure the virus doesn't collapse our medical system.
The fatality rate will go way up if there are more people needing serious intervention than there is capacity. The economy must take some kind of hit to preserve the healthcare system so it can function.
This is why we as a global human society must do everything possible to slow the spread. I just read 10% of Italy's health care workers are infected. Think if the strain this puts on the healthy health care providers. China had so many sideline at one point some of the workers doing double duty collapsed from exhaustion. If SXSW can be cancelled, March Madness sure AF can.
No matter what happens, it's going to be catastrophically bad, worse than anything any of us have ever experienced. So many hourly workers living paycheck to paycheck, giving us the illusion of low unemployment, are going to lose their jobs. They aren't going to be able to pay rent. Landlords with mortgages to pay won't be paid. Then there are all the people who do need medical treatment and who aren't made of money and/or aren't adequately insured, who will be faced with crushing medical bills. Insurance companies are going to have to pay claims without people paying them. It's just going to be horrific if we don't take the most drastic measures to stop spread when things aren that bad.
I saw a KPIX news report on YouTube from last night. Guy was reporting on store traffic and supply levels and actually said this: It looks like store traffic is down today, like people have already gotten over the shock and aren't panicking anymore.
While it is good to not panic, you better have some significant stores of food where you live, because you very well could be locked inside for weeks. Stores may have their supplies interrupted because the people who would be producing and delivering it could be home too. There simply won't be enough food to go around with supply cuts.
I just read a report from a hospital nurse in Missouri, where they had no cases at the time she made it (St. Louis got on the board after posted), but still had made plans for dealing with it. Here's the terrifying thing. Her 200 bed hospital is ALREADY at capacity, with no Coronavirus patients yet.
This isn't about you have to be spooked about going out in public per se, it's about making sure the virus doesn't collapse our medical system.
The fatality rate will go way up if there are more people needing serious intervention than there is capacity. The economy must take some kind of hit to preserve the healthcare system so it can function.
This is why we as a global human society must do everything possible to slow the spread. I just read 10% of Italy's health care workers are infected. Think if the strain this puts on the healthy health care providers. China had so many sideline at one point some of the workers doing double duty collapsed from exhaustion. If SXSW can be cancelled, March Madness sure AF can.
No matter what happens, it's going to be catastrophically bad, worse than anything any of us have ever experienced. So many hourly workers living paycheck to paycheck, giving us the illusion of low unemployment, are going to lose their jobs. They aren't going to be able to pay rent. Landlords with mortgages to pay won't be paid. Then there are all the people who do need medical treatment and who aren't made of money and/or aren't adequately insured, who will be faced with crushing medical bills. Insurance companies are going to have to pay claims without people paying them. It's just going to be horrific if we don't take the most drastic measures to stop spread when things aren that bad.