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I have a question.
By shutting everything down, how is that helping in the long run? Canceling all these events for 30 to 90 days then go back to normal again. Are "they" hoping that the virus will be stop spreading? I get that canceling large gatherings help stop spreading the virus. But that doesn't mean it will not pick up again once we are back to normal again. Right?
No one knows with certainty how this virus is going to react or mutate. It may burn out over the summer only to re-emerge with a vengeance, come autumn, right before the election.
It is uncertain if those with the virus will have future immunity.
Based on right now, a vaccination will not be available, this year.
About 50% of the US population does not vaccinate against seasonal flu.
Restricting China tourism mitigated risk but obviously did not eliminate the risk.
The issue is that the Trump Admin relied too much on this restriction.
Fair point. Dr. Fauci said the travel ban saved us from massive spread early on. It got here anyway, now we have to reduce the spread as much as possible until it plateaus and eventually declines. Hand washing, social distancing and CDC coming through with improved testing this week will prevent infections. The panic is outrageous and helps nothing, same for kicking the political football around.
Ha ha - how many infected came through the border ? Legit folks on planes and cruises is what will make us sick. I can only imagine some folks live deep in the woods and never leave their yards- and just don’t get it. You need a personal bubble, private mountain top and a moat with gators. You will then be ok.
Most of them in the last few weeks have apparently come from Europe. So, that is "through the border," yes?
Thankfully, President Trump has taken steps to mitigate unsafe border crossings between the US and Europe for the time being. Agreed?
Ha ha - how many infected came through the border ? Legit folks on planes and cruises is what will make us sick. I can only imagine some folks live deep in the woods and never leave their yards- and just don’t get it. You need a personal bubble, private mountain top and a moat with gators. You will then be ok.
Yes, it doesn't matter what your birth place is, or why you're traveling, or what your skin color is, if you're traveling, you can be a disease vector. That is all.
We don’t want tents in hospital parking lots, it needs to be kept manageable.
Why not?
What better way to isolate than keeping people in their cars instead of waiting rooms.
Hospitals in my neck of the woods are setting up tents adjacent to hospitals and diverting people with flu like symptoms from entering the ER. All they need are test kits.
The hope is that people who have it will get better and stop spreading the virus. That means fewer people will have it at the end of the 3 weeks. The idea is to not have everyone sick at the same time because the hospitals can't handle that many people at once.
Confirmed case from a kid from an elementary school about 10 minutes from my house.
When you don't test you don't know, this thing may already be at population level
they must have tested the kid though. right? or did they just take a guess based on symptoms?
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