News Worldwide impact of the novel coronavirus (covid-19)

[Muttly]

@DharmaGirl that's a rough situation. I know a lot of folks who were in rehab centers that got a covid outbreak have gone through the same thing. it's really awful

 

[Justmehere]

They have extended the stay at home order a few times here... This last extension just caught up with me as I read it through to see what we can and can't do now. Not much changed this time.

It is demoralizing. I don't support the protesters, but I understand it. I want to work! But, this damn virus is screwing up our lives. I'm glad to be able to be home and be safe and I know I can make it through May, so I have a lot going for me. After that, we'll see. So much may change, or may not at all.

 

[littleoc]

^But doesn't it? Nature tends to kill off stupid eventually? :hilarious::) :sneaky:

Hahahaha, but no, it doesn't. I'm not gonna get into that here though ? :)

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Daytona beach just reopened their beaches today but people still need to social distances and there seems to be a limit of who can be on the beach. And I believe Jacksonville opened their beaches last week.

So mobile drive through testing sites in Orange County (Orlando) are moving per day. Appointment required. No symptoms required and anyone above 18 can be tested. I wonder why they aren't testing kids. Though its not a lot, kids have gotten this and can be carriers.

What they didnt say was that you have to be an Orange County resdient which is what they said about the biggest one in Orange County, which I think is still open at UFC. And you also need a fever to be tested at UFC and an appointment.

The Villages are opening the Rec Centers and their businesses in there starting Monday. The Villages is a gated town of retiriees. I think they are doing this too soon given that everyone in there is over 60 or so.

Our down turn in Florida did not stay thay way. We are on another up peak. Why all this talk about reopening if we are peaking again? I think it is going up and down with the testing but we seem to always have at least one if not more testing sites open here in Central Florida. Florida seems to be testing a lot. Or, at least that's how it seems to me. So dunno.

 

[Chris-duck]

Can somebody on the forum @Chris-duck - can you please advise - because I've watched them on the telly & there's no change of PPE happening but I might well have missed something?

Here (Scotland) we change between each test, I've been on annual leave for a couple weeks now, but when I was last in we were only wearing plastic apron, gloves, theatre mask, so that takes like 30 seconds to change. I dunno if it's different in countries where they're wearing adequate more complicated PPE.

 

[blackemerald1]

I think it is going up and down with the testing

I reckon the more tests that are conducted, the more cases will be uncovered.
Because this virus can infect a lot of people who will be asymptomatic but then it hits somebody who is vulnerable.

 

[EveHarrington]

@EveHarrington when did he say anyone should take anything?
He said they are looking into a few interesting ideas, of which (The scientists and physicians) can try. He says this while looking over at the person off frame he's conferring with.

It really looks to me that he's including everyone watching the broadcast to witness a conversation he's having with the other man off frame. He's talking to a specific person involved in this research.
He also explicitly stated that the possible treatment involving disinfectants would be something needing to be done with physicians. He still isn't looking at the audience or camera while he's saying this.

He never once said the American people should try... x
He didn't say bleach.

He didn't say anyone should drink anything, or inject anything. Or buy lightbulbs of any wattage.

He gave zero mention of how one could even go about doing anything. There were no details of any kind, for either radiation or chemicals.

How is it irresponsible to say the word disinfectant? He never said to do anything with any disinfectant of any chemical composition, poisonous or otherwise.
It's not his fault if a few people somehow misconstrued this as anything other than a press briefing.
And certainly not his fault for the boatload of other people choosing to be offended by this.

It's also pretty clear from the backlash of this, that most people know full well that bleach is not for human consumption.

Every news headline on the left and right are all screaming the same thing. Don't drink bleach!

So either he has enough respect for the American people to not go drinking bleach, or enough faith in the press to automatically preach the opposite of whatever he says, or he had no way of predicting that the world would hear what he said and somehow think "I need to drink bleach".

You're all entitled to your own opinions, but no, sorry, I'm not buying it.

It was so bad that multiple disinfectant companies had to make emergency press releases saying “do NOT ingest/inject our product!”

It was so bad that poison control centers are getting a lot of phone calls regarding if it’s safe to ingest disinfectants.

And no, I’m not going to quote my sources. I watch the news. I read the news. I get my news from multiple sources. This stuff is easy enough to find.

I think you fail to realize the spectrum of intelligence in society and just how many people are on the lower IQ end of things, and what exactly it means to have a lower IQ. A president shouldn’t even be muttering about this shit because it’s DANGEROUS.

We already had one couple ingest fish tank cleaner because it’s supposedly chemically similar to the malaria drug (that doesn’t even work). He died, not sure what happened to her IIRC.

A leader has a responsibility to be careful with his words.

But this whole “I didn’t tell you to use disinfectant!” crap that he WILL say in a few days is gaslighting that narcs excel at.

Edit.

He’s announced it was sarcasm. Riiiiight. It wasn’t sarcasm as he actually deferred to his medical team about looking into injecting disinfectant. But, let’s pretend that it was sarcasm. A president being sarcastic and trolling the American People is not what we need. His Washington people are trying to do damage control with this one!

 

[Neverthesame]

@EveHarrington I can tell you feel very strongly about this and as I said earlier, your free to have you're own opinion and I respect that.
I personally disagree, but am content to leave it at that.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Everyone is free to disagree. Look, I rhymed! :laugh:

 

[siniang]

@Sideways maybe we don’t need more PPE, maybe we need robots?

Meet 'Spot': The Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients

Easier to disinfect, too (cue: UV chamber it can waddle into after each patient)

ETA: We need EMHs! (Emergency Medical Holograms - where are my fellow trekkies at? ??)

 

[Sideways]

maybe we need robots?

Times like these tend to generate innovation.

Happy hour last night (SBS World News) they reported on how Senegal is dealing with the pandemic. A destitute African nation, testing everyone (yes, you read that right!).

Having dealt with AIDS and Ebola outbreaks already, they've generated a $1 test kit for Covid, and makeshift ventilators that cost $6 each:woot:

Sure, neither the test kit nor the makeshift ventilator would probably stand up to standards required in first world countries. But in a country where they have no money, and a history of fatal disease outbreaks? You're allowed to bend summa those rules to save lives. Hope they get some good outcomes:cool:

 

[rightkindofme]

This is an absolutely terrifying image (it's about how Covid ranks compared to other causes of death in the US): Average Daily Cause of Death in USA - The Big Picture