Originally Posted by
FromMyColdDeadHand
It isn't the disease, it's our lack of resources to treat it. We have a bucket to bail our boat. A small leak we can deal with a big hole and we sink. It isn't that 10% of the population will die, it is that 10,000s could die that could have been saved.
I agree...there was a thread on our tx hunting forum where somebody suggested the feds reimburse / compensate owners of hotels & help make room if needed. I agreed as long as it was voluntary from ownership & got ripped by a respected gal who is a nurse asking where all the medical support was going to come from this pipe dream. Was kinda surprised & retorted that it was my impression we were already preemptively producing make shift facilities in hot zones on football fields etc & why make them if no personal support & why wouldn't empty hotels work the same way having AC / individual rooms vs tents. I got crickets
I also mentioned how well S. Korea had responded to this issue during their initial attack & read where that country has like a crazy 5x or more the hospital beds per capita compared to the US. I'm mostly curious about the 20/20 hindsight to compare this cootie to the various annual flu / swine flu / etc deaths. I don't think the initial projections / spread will be any more significant than any other cootie only because we test those with symptoms. My entire household was feeling icky about 3 weeks ago with cold / mild flu symptoms & there are a BUNCH of folks reporting they were really sick back in late Jan - early Feb who went to the doc & tested negative for the flu. I simply do not trust the % of cases to death #'s & that is all.
Hidalgo Co went SiP today.
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