Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

[Jaxbuck]

Agreed cats outta the bag now if we had better testing in the beginning or even actually screening coming into the country it woulda made a difference.

re:funding this is the general thread but proposing budget cuts doesn’t LOOK good right now. Getting rid of the epidemiologist board (or whatever it was called) and removing global health from the NSC seems pretty freaking stupid right now....

The testing can be developed and executed at the local level much better than it could ever be done at the federal level. To me it's a case where we need less federal government, not more. Doesn't matter if the red hats or blue hats are in charge.

 

[OHSportsFan]

By the way, I thought when the Ivy League shut down their sports we were good to go. Let the nerds figure this out while the real athletes keep playing.

 

[Best Buckeye]

"that's what old people do, damnit, they die."

Gee, Thanks for telling me this, now my day is ruined!

 

[OHSportsFan]

So is this thing slowing down in China already? I know they are 2-3 months ahead but gotta be news worth calming the panic.

Also, since it’s sometimes easier to ask BP than scour social media- can you get COVID after you’ve already have it?

I’ll hang up and listen.

 

[exhawg]

So is this thing slowing down in China already? I know they are 2-3 months ahead but gotta be news worth calming the panic.

Also, since it’s sometimes easier to ask BP than scour social media- can you get COVID after you’ve already have it?

I’ll hang up and listen.

China force quarantined 60 million people to burn it out. Good luck doing something like that here.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

China force quarantined 60 million people to burn it out. Good luck doing something like that here.

I think it was closer to 100+ Million people quarantined

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

China force quarantined 60 million people to burn it out. Good luck doing something like that here.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/12/us-cities-wuhan-coronavirus-covid-19

 

[Jaxbuck]

I’m surprised the Chinese didn’t just kill a 100 million people to say they effectively contained the disease.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Maybe that's all that coronavirus is?

The freezers in morgues seem to disagree. Anyway, regardless of what the eventual severity turns out to be, if, at minimal inconvenience to myself, I can take simple steps to insulate others who are more vulnerable than myself to this new thing for which there is not yet a vaccine than a basic modicum of respect for other human beings suggests that I should do so.

 

[Buckeneye]

This is the viral "killer" we're fearing people.....

"Coronavirus is scary: But the flu is deadlier, more widespread"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...virus-we-answered-them/ar-BB1165Sh?li=BBnba9O

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sophie-grégoire-trudeau-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeaus-wife-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-BB117EwN?li=BBnb7Kz

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/vo...-been-the-hardest-part/ar-BB1178EI?li=BBnba9O

Be our BP liaison then, champ. Take a couple week sabbatical to Italy and let us know how that works out and what you find. Because they would really seem to disagree with your assessment.

 

[Jagdaddy]

I'm just going to leave this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

 

[wadc45]

Sex Workers Bracing for Income Loss During Coronavirus Pandemic

 

[AKAK]

Sex Workers Bracing for Income Loss During Coronavirus Pandemic

Oh, look who's standing with Wade now.

2 meters away.

 

[wadc45]

Oh, look who's standing with Wade now.

2 meters away.

They are the real victims.

 

[Bucklion]

So is this thing slowing down in China already? I know they are 2-3 months ahead but gotta be news worth calming the panic.

Also, since it’s sometimes easier to ask BP than scour social media- can you get COVID after you’ve already have it?

I’ll hang up and listen.

As to the second part of your question, we don’t know yet. Viral persistence varies widely by virus. Key facts we don’t know yet are a) how long does the virus persist in people once they are “over it”, b) can you get it again, or does it act like a self vaccine after you’ve had it, and c) how long is a person still contagious after being “over it” (directly related to a).