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Wirat
Groupie Joined: 31 Jan 2020 Location: Florida Online Status: Offline Posts: 67 |
Topic: Urgent Petition To Keep RV Campgrounds Open Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 3:52pm |
The data emerging is incredible. The cruise ships seem to be statistically large enough samples to rely on as they all have been stuck together (controlled) on the ship until everyone is accounted for and tested. Quote from CNN on the Diamond Princess: "Of the 712 passengers and crew members of the ship who tested positive for coronavirus, 331 -- or 46.5% -- were asymptomatic at the time of testing, the CDC said." Who knows how many self-treat at home cases there will be that go unidentified. In many poor countries they have no choice but to ride it out. Let's see what happens in India. I've been in some hospitals in SE Asia where you may as well be at home! Patients lying in bed wearing street clothes and their family brings them food, etc.
Testing negative today doesn't mean you won't contract it tomorrow and be asymptomatic (or even as you leave the testing facility!). I can see how someone testing negative may have a false sense of security. The results of the test are only good for up to the moment the test was taken. I can also see some people who contract it and recover thinking they have immunity then become lackadaisical with social distancing and sanitation because they figure "it's your problem now..." That's why everyone, infected or not, needs to behave as if they are infected until two steps occur in this order: 1) an effective antiviral is developed to treat current cases; 2) vaccine developed to prevent new cases. Not that everyone has to freak out, but do the best with the social distancing and sanitation guidelines. Where I live the only thing keeping some covidiots home is the fact that everything is closed and they have nothing to do or nowhere to go. |
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 4:18pm |
Covidiots, gotta love it...
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Pod_Geek
Senior Member Joined: 04 Dec 2019 Location: Colorado Online Status: Offline Posts: 260 |
Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 4:37pm |
Reports are that the generation being currently conceived will be called, in 2033, the quaranteens.
No, I didn't come up with that one...
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Online Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 5:20pm |
+1 to covidiots.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6288 |
Posted: 25 Mar 2020 at 8:35pm |
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 8:32am |
I'm sure that China's lockdowns have resulted in far less infections. Lockdowns do work to slow this, we know that. If China had continued exponentially as it had originally and as we are right now there would be millions of infections there now and that could not be concealed. Whether or not their current status is as good as they claim is another story. If you have a relatively low level of infections and limit testing this disease is pretty easy to conceal, at least for awhile. There was an article I read yesterday regarding why Russia's numbers are so low, the suspicion being that they are recording covid19 deaths as pneumonia. Of course, it is true that what folks actually die of with this disease mostly is pneumonia. Its the cause of the pneumonia that's important. So if you don't test and so don't "know" the cause of the pneumonia it makes it very easy to put your finger on the scale, at least until the freight train hits you. This wouldn't be the first time either. My grandfather was an iron miner in the UP and his death in the 1930's was recorded by the mining company doctor as pneumonia when everyone knew he had silicosis. I would expect the same reporting issue unintentionally from many countries with weak health systems. The won't know that the higher than normal case load of pneumonia is covid19 unless they have test kits, and they don't. The US is reporting around 70000 cases now, so we are probably within a couple of days of exceeding both Italy's and China's reported cases. |
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GlueGuy
Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2629 |
Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 9:29am |
I heard they will be the Coronials or the Coronial Generation.
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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EchoGale
Senior Member Joined: 10 Mar 2019 Location: FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 461 |
Posted: 26 Mar 2020 at 7:57pm |
Maine State Parks closing:https://www.mainepublic.org/post/maine-closes-popular-coastal-state-parks-beaches-due-overcrowding
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 01 Apr 2020 at 9:51am |
To mask or not to mask, that is the question. Yesterday there was some commotion about a new report arguing that safe distance to minimize covid19 transmission is around 24-27 feet, not 6 feet as per current CDC guidelines. We had Dr Fauci saying on live TV that was "terribly misleading". Here is the actual article in JAMA.
The author is a fluid dynamicist at MIT who leads a team doing physical applied math focussed on the mechanisms of disease transmission. Dr Fauci is a medical doctor. Who do you think understands the physics of aerosols and droplets better? The 6 foot distance is based on studies from the 1930's. Since it is impractical to maintain a 27 foot distance, and obviously impossible for health care workers, the article recommends wearing masks and development of improved mask designs. This and all the buzz that the CDC is "reconsidering" the use of masks in reducing coronavirus transmission suggests to me that we are being prepped for revised recommendations to wear masks when out in public, just like they do in the East Asian countries that have more or less had success containing this pandemic. Many of the public health folks in those countries think we're crazy not to wear masks. Bottom line, I have a few masks available, and I wear one when I'm out. I don't care if people look at me like I've got Ebola or the zombie plague. I might avoid catching this disease or, since 25 plus percent of people who get it never have symptoms, and most everyone is asymptomatic but contagious for a couple of days, I just might avoid spreading this to someone else who could die as a result. Just my $0.02 |
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1994 Chinook Concourse
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Online Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 01 Apr 2020 at 11:25am |
Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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