Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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jason1637 said:
An elderly couple from my church got the virus and are in the ICU. :-c

The irony..
Guess they lacked enough thoughts and prayers on facebook.

In all seriousness, if you ignore lockdown rules, place yourself in groups/gatherings... You are putting yourself at risk... And this is an example that not even the religious are immune, the virus doesn't discriminate.

Australia has closed down churches and church gatherings for that very reason.. Why hasn't the USA?

NightlyPoe said:

In theory, I don't disagree. However, I think that the administration is acknowledging the inefficiencies of the federal government itself. They feel more confident about being a backstop than controlling the whole supply chain. You can see in examples such as the whole testing snafu at the start that the federal government is good at tripping itself up. As for moving equipment around with flexibility, watching the daily presidential briefings, that is a part of their plan.

Also, for what it's worth, New York is never going to have 150,000 people hooked up to ventilators at the same time or anything even approaching that. Some of these big numbers are pretty crazy even in a worst-case scenario. Even the 40,000 Cuomo said he needed last week is way too high.

Edit: Just to give some data to that last statement. As of this morning, New York had 16,479 hospitalized and 4,376 patients in their ICUs total (I assume due to the virus) according to Cuomo's briefing. Presumably, people on ventilators makes up some percentage of the ICU patients.

Given that we're approaching the peak for New York, the ventilator crisis in that state seems vastly overblown.

Trump for months has downplayed the Coronavirus, saying it's a non-issue, they are on top of it, they have control of the situation... And obviously the flow-on effect to that is many agencies haven't bothered to prepare to the extent that they should have, the problem starts from the very very top.

Hopefully New York has hit a peak, but don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched... This could continue on for another 6+ months, there might be more peaks to come and allot more people will certainly die before we have a viable vaccine in bulk.