US reached 17k new cases today and the day is still not over....
It seems at this rate, new cases for tomorrow will be around 20K.
Next week total cases will reach 200k.

Still not worried. Still no confirmed cases in my region.
Missing the Gym though, that is probably the most upsetting part of the shut down for me personally.

Everything else is just life as normal while trying to reduce risk. - The fire station has initiated a clean-cabin policy now, so we have to strip off in the truck when we get back to station, bag it all and it gets professionally cleaned and/or destroyed depending on exposure risk. (Could get costly with our PBI Gold being $3,000~ a set!)

Then we spray Glen 20 disinfectant on everything before hopping out.

The reduction in vehicles on the roads has had a direct correlation with the amount of vehicle accidents, I have actually had the time to go through my games backlog now.

I complemented your return from panic earlier so I feel compelled to now say your are starting to spiral again by the looks of your last several posts. Panic rarely does any good for anyone.

Oh my god...

This social distancing is killing me rn too. Idk how people are going to handle this for months more.

This graph is sketchy as hell. The black plague that ravaged Europe started in china? What are the sources for all these?

It turns out our goverment (in denmark) is/was being silly.

Why didnt we test more? apparently because we were trying for a "soft" herd immunity buildup.
We didnt even really "try" to stop this thing in its tracks.... apparently they thought that would be impossible.

Takeing about waves of this thing returning, and how the first wave will be the worst but not the end of it, so its important to get the less at risk, to build up herd immunity.
Facking hell.... even in denmark, we re likely going to sacrifice our elderly for the economy (though in a controlled manner).

source: https://politiken.dk/forbrugogliv/sundhedogmotion/art7727704/K%C3%A5re-M%C3%B8lbak-er-uenig-med-WHO-Det-er-%C2%BBtotalt-pass%C3%A9%C2%AB-at-indd%C3%A6mme-smitten


"thats just it, this is the problem with what WHO is saying,. They imagine that you can contain all cases of infection, however I believe that to be wrong" - Kåre Mølbæk.

"at best state serium institute, believe we can halve the transmitting, following the shutdown meassures we've taken, and thus have the "curve" flatten out, which will allow for the hospitals to keep up with it"

"if we tried to follow WHO sayings, we wouldnt reach any meaningfull sort of herd immunity, were a large enough amount of people get the infection and build up herd immunity, and thereby become immune to the virus in the future. If we did that, we would risk a secound wave, following to potentially be just as bad as this first one"

About home isolation:

"precisely, they shouldn't bring the infection outsides, infecting others outsides their home. However thats not the goal of the danish strategi, we dont want to stop infection. We need to build up a certain amount of herd immunity, this is a common goal amoungst all of europe"

"if we do this right, the virus wont be makeing a return"



Reporter: You say the infection cannot be contained.... why?

"You can, in the start of a infection chain. There you could try to contain it, as long as there is a very limited spread and your sure you can find everyone infected. However this is a illness that often has very mild symptoms, and you cannot with certainty identify, easily if a person has Covid19, it might well be other possible breathing related illnesses"

reporter: If we had gotten hold of all the early infected, these people that went on holidays, skiing in italy...and all their contacts, could we have done so?

"Yes, but then the infection would have just gotten in some other way"

reporter: How can you be so sure? this is hard to understand, why didnt you try?

"Because its too infectious, and it infects before you have any symptoms. There is nothing characteristic, thats easy to "know" this illness on. The problem with some of these experts from WHO, is that they are takeing their experiance from fighting SARS and Polio and other illnesses to this, ignoreing that this illness is differnt, it has no easily spotted characteristic patern. Therefor theres no way around it, we need to build up a certain herd immunity in our population. The first wave will be the worst, and the next will be milder, and at some point 40-60% will have gotten it, it will find a balance and end up a natural infection amoung all others"


Reporter: What exactly is it WHO arnt right in, when they say isolate and test everyone?

"How is that ever going to happend in a country like india? or in a country on the african continent? I cannot for the life of me, see it, not with the resources they have. Thats something possible probably only in small island societies or extremely reource rich societies. However if you look at "whole" continents, thats never going to be a real option. The virus outbreaks will keep comeing on and on. You would need to make a form of border countroll, that tested for immunities or sickness, before entry. Even if such a thing sounds do-able, its actually not something possible to put into practis on a global scale, in the world we live in"

This is what you see in the UK too, they also went for a herd immunity route.
Sweden as well.. hell I suspect even in the US.

Why did trump go on tv and say :
"dont worry people, its only 15 infected, a week from now, the numbers will drop, they ll recover, its like a miracle, it ll be gone"


He was probably told, to say something calming to the people, so it would start to spread.
perphaps all the larger nations / continents, are chooseing a controlled herd immunity strategy.

As someone who is working at the pharma business I want to explane a few things here to make clear why its not possible to force companies to produce something at once: 

- If you want to produce a medicine, you have to show very clear that you are able to produce it without problems. That means you have to produce 3 lots of it without mistakes, have them tested by gouvermental laboratorys and make stable-tests to show that they don't get bad after short times. (Not to mention studys for new meds, lets assume that at your exemple, that is done before.)

- Machines are very different depending on what you are producing. To make an easy example: There are liquida and solida. You can't produce a liqida vaccination on machines that are build for solida tablets. 

- Your workers have to be certificated to produce a med on a specific line. This is no 99% work, it is always 100,00%. If you make mistakes, people die. So pharma producers have to make sure that there are no mistakes. You can't chance production line and product from day to day. 

Experts believe it came from there but reading about it I wouldn't blame anyone for the black plague, the plague of Justinian and so on. 

I thought you stopped instantly going into doom mode whenever you see a bad headline.

Just enjoy your time at home and have some nice hot tea. Because you know what's the number 1 thing that will bring down any economy? Doomsday theories. They cause people to hoard money, which will exponentially accelerate economic collapse.

Mayor in Italian city of Bergamo suggests higher death toll due to coronavirus: 446 residents died between March 1 and March 24, which is 348 above the average (98). Only 136 deaths were officially linked to coronavirus

— BNO News (@BNOFeed) March 26, 2020

"They all coincidentally died from pneumonia and lung infections, but it wasn't related to coronavirus, promise!" - Twitter user comment.