Corona Virus

[cardboardbox]

I'm pretty sure my selfish, ignorant brother in law already got this. He didnt visit his parents, but that was the only change he made. Said he was going to live his life. Even went to his gym with a slight fever and runny nose. Doesnt believe his actions can hurt anyone. Very frustrating to me. Refused to get tested even though he's on the phone talking to us and saying he's out of breath which is the symptom that gives you a clue that this isnt a cold or flu.

[revo]

My two ignorant sisters-in-law are still trying to book the Mexico trip we all had planned together for June. I don't know if it's obliviousness or just plain stupidity, but it's a sign that they're just not taking this seriously enough. One of them, whose weirdo husband is one of those crazy apocalyptic militia guys, seems to believe this is all government-led hysteria and is overblown. The other just has her head in the clouds and floats around as if nothing is any different.

While most of my FB feed seems to be taking this seriously, I did notice one, an ex-girlfriend, posting pics of her current and ongoing trip to Cancun, showing a resort filled with oblivious and ignorant people (including herself) having the time of their lives. Her caption "No coronavirus here!!" shows she's not exactly taking it serious either, or is just clueless. Yeah, what better place to be than in a country not exactly locking itself down filled with people from all over the globe, many of whom may be carriers of the disease.

This is why I feared that moron in the WH's downplaying of this, because his PR arm (Fox News) echoed that this was nothing with nothing, just another big Democratic hoax. I don't have much hope for America getting through this because of this.

Meanwhile, China announced they don't have any new cases, so they've stalled at 80,000 or so, which for a population of over a billion, doesn't seem too bad. Maybe we can learn something from them. Oh wait, I forgot that moron declared an economic war on them, why would they care what happened to us.

[nullnor]

with all the drugs in the world it's inevitable someone will find an old one that works on this virus until a vaccine comes out. afterwards there will be no changes and it will happen again with a different virus. and the cycle will repeat.

[madducks]

If this is the future of America, we're all doomed:

[Ken]

with all the drugs in the world it's inevitable someone will find an old one that works on this virus until a vaccine comes out.

[Sour Masher]

Yeah, I already posted that spring break video. I've seen students act like that here too. But as CBB and Revo have subsequently pointed out, that sort of obliviousness is not restricted to college-aged kids. Way too many don't care about this thing enough.

Anyone see this story about 3 members of the same family dying of it out of 7 cases in the family? It is possible, as I've posted with some other links, that there are genetic risk factors beyond what has been reported widely so far, that increase the mortality rate of this thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYRI48bXRw

[Sour Masher]

"Two years ago, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 countries, including China, after the Trump administration refused to reallocate money to a program that started during the government's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

At that time, former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden said the move "would significantly increase the chance an epidemic will spread without our knowledge and endanger lives in our country and around the world."

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, "we're two months too late in starting to do this," said Dr. Eric Toner, who studies hospital preparedness at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

"I really think this is a fundamental responsibility of government to have acted on this a long time ago."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us...s2W?li=BBnb7Kz

[In the Corn]

This should piss people off like nothing else...talk about 1%-ing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/u...ing-elite.html

In the eyes of some doctors, prominent figures appeared to be moving to the front of the line.

“As predicted, #COVID19 is exposing all of the societal inequities,” Dr. Uché Blackstock, an urgent care doctor in Brooklyn, wrote on Twitter. “It’s upsetting for me to 1) have to ration out #COVID19 testing to my patients, then 2) have to wait 5-7 days for the results, when celebrities are getting tested with ease and quick turnaround times.”

[madducks]

Netflix is being urged to slow down streaming speeds to ease the strain on the internet.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/...-eu/index.html

[Kevin Seitzer]

The NYC/NJ/Connecticut outbreak continues to be the most concerning for me. Not only does it now have three times as many cases as the Washington state outbreak, but it's also growing at twice the rate. Today the NY outbreak will pass Washington state in case rate per population.

The New Orleans outbreak continues to be on my radar, although it has not exploded the way the NY outbreak has. Louisiana has twice the cases of Texas, despite having one sixth of the population.

The Chicago outbreak is working its way onto the radar, too, although it's nowhere near NY or New Orleans in terms of current case rate.

[Ken]

The NYC/NJ/Connecticut outbreak continues to be the most concerning for me. Not only does it now have three times as many cases as the Washington state outbreak, but it's also growing at twice the rate. Today the NY outbreak will pass Washington state in case rate per population.

The New Orleans outbreak continues to be on my radar, although it has not exploded the way the NY outbreak has. Louisiana has twice the cases of Texas, despite having one sixth of the population.

The Chicago outbreak is working its way onto the radar, too, although it's nowhere near NY or New Orleans in terms of current case rate.

Where are you getting your numbers I want to follow along

[Kevin Seitzer]

Where are you getting your numbers I want to follow along

Mostly from here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

although at times they can be up to a day or more behind in updates, so I will go to the various state newspapers to get more current updates:

New York state: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...mbers/2317721/ (includes updates on New Jersey and Connecticut)
New York City: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-main.page
California: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/
Lousiana: https://www.nola.com/news/coronaviru...12370dd94.html
Texas: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/cor...9-15137466.php

Various other newspapers will publish updates periodically even if they don't have a static page for updates like those examples. And then there are the state health department websites:

Alabama: https://alpublichealth.maps.arcgis.c...a509d82c8cf0f7
Alaska: http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/id/Pa...onitoring.aspx
Arizona: https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/e...ronavirus-home
Arkansas: https://www.healthyarkansas.com/prog...el-coronavirus
California: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID.../ncov2019.aspx
Colorado: https://covid19.colorado.gov/data
Connecticut: https://portal.ct.gov/coronavirus
Delaware: https://coronavirus.delaware.gov/
District of Columbia: https://coronavirus.dc.gov/
Florida: https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/
Georgia: https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
Guam: http://dphss.guam.gov/2019-novel-cor...us-2019-n-cov/
Hawaii: https://health.hawaii.gov/news/covid-19-updates/
Idaho: https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/
Illinois: http://www.dph.illinois.gov/topics-s...st/coronavirus
Indiana: https://www.in.gov/coronavirus/
Iowa: https://idph.iowa.gov/emerging-healt...el-coronavirus
Kansas: https://govstatus.egov.com/coronavirus
Kentucky: https://govstatus.egov.com/kycovid19
Louisiana: http://ldh.la.gov/Coronavirus/
Maine: https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/inf...onavirus.shtml
Maryland: https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/
Massachusetts: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/co...and-monitoring
Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus...173---,00.html
Minnesota: https://www.health.state.mn.us/disea...situation.html
Mississippi: https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,420.html
Missouri: https://health.mo.gov/living/healthc...l-coronavirus/
Montana: https://montana.maps.arcgis.com/apps...adcc2103421d4b
Nebraska: https://nebraska.maps.arcgis.com/app...3ffb58783ffef3
Nevada: https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/
New Hampshire: https://www.nh.gov/covid19/
New Jersey: https://covid19.nj.gov/#live-updates
New Mexico: https://cv.nmhealth.org/
New York: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/latest-news
North Carolina: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/covid-19-case-count-nc
North Dakota: https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-c...onavirus-cases
Ohio: https://odh.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/...irus/2019-nCoV
Oklahoma: https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/
Oregon: https://govstatus.egov.com/OR-OHA-COVID-19
Pennyslvania: https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/dis...ges/Cases.aspx
Puerto Rico: http://www.salud.gov.pr/Pages/coronavirus.aspx
Rhode Island: https://health.ri.gov/data/covid-19/
South Carolina: https://www.scdhec.gov/monitoring-testing-covid-19
South Dakota: https://doh.sd.gov/news/Coronavirus.aspx
Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov.html
Texas: https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/...01e8b9cafc8b83
Utah: https://coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts/
Vermont: https://www.healthvermont.gov/respon...el-coronavirus
Virginia: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/
Virgin Islands: https://doh.vi.gov/covid19usvi
Washington: https://www.doh.wa.gov/emergencies/coronavirus
West Virginia: https://dhhr.wv.gov/COVID-19/Pages/default.aspx
Wisconsin: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/outbreaks/index.htm
Wyoming: https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/...l-coronavirus/

[Kevin Seitzer]

Johns Hopkins also has a Github where they are posting this data, although I haven't tried using it yet.

Johns Hopkins map: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

1Point3Acres site: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

[nots]

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/old-malaria-drug-hydroxychloroquine-may-help-cure-coronavirus-study

[Judge Jude]

I mentioned last week about how I know someone on the key medical calls on all this, and how NY/NJ was already certain to explode - and how it will continue through next week. what was done was already done.

on the other end, there is some hope by them that the end of March starts to show some serious improvement via social distancing (here in NJ we have a statewide curfew of 8 pm to 5 am and basically everything is closed except medical facilities, supermarkets, and liquor stores).

so brace yourself for the NY/NJ wave of bad news. but know, too, that March might - might - go out like a lamb.