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

[Jake]

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

It doesn't really matter if they're unusually awesome to their employees. That's not a useful comparison to the real America.

Mainly just curious if his 220 person company negotiated better plans than my 50k+ company that pays MUCH more on their end and we pay much more on our end.

 

[BayBuck]

Shit, my library closed. I should have gone and grabbed a few books a couple of days ago, I don't do e-books.

But there's a shit-ton of stuff on Netflix I haven't seen yet, so I'll survive.

Your public library may also have some service like Hoopla that includes shows and movies, and you just sign up with your regular library credentials. Lots of good comic books on hoopla too.

 

[heisman]

Mainly just curious if his 220 person company negotiated better plans than my 50k+ company that pays MUCH more on their end and we pay much more on our end.

BCBS IL PPO. Probably depends on your demographic. We are mostly young to middle aged males. I checked our last renewal and our employees pay just under $40 per paycheck. 26 paychecks per year.

 

[Bill Lucas]

There are also the potential long term health issues for those that survive to consider. Living with lesions on your lung is no laughing matter.

 

[Dryden]

 

[heisman]

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENC...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[heisman]

Can’t stop St. Paddy’s day in Chicago...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/s...-of-recklessness/ar-BB11bBnp?ocid=hplocalnews

 

[shetuck]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/

 

[shetuck]

Interesting approach on how to tease out whether countries are over-reporting or under-reporting the number of cases...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-d...ates-suggest-covid-19-is-being-under-reported

...To estimate the number of undetected cases, scholars can make use of patterns in more complete data. One model, built by a team at Harvard, used the number of people flying from Hubei province in China, where the outbreak began, to various countries to predict imported cases. Such data are less relevant now, because Hubei has been locked down for a month.

To derive fresh estimates, The Economist built a similar model. We tested the link within the OECD—a club of mostly rich countries, which should have strong detection capacity—between Chinese tourism in 2019 and confirmed covid-19 cases. As expected, OECD states that swapped lots of tourists with China, such as Switzerland, tend to report higher infection rates than do ones with small flows, like Belgium...

 

[Honor&Glory]

could it be under reported because its a cold and most people don’t run to the hospital with a cough, runny nose and 100 degree ‘fever’?

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[jwinslow]

could it be under reported because its a cold and most people don’t run to the hospital with a cough, runny nose and 100 degree ‘fever’?

Also if you medicate the fever, you eliminate one of the only ways to qualify for said test.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Or, if nothing else, maybe people will get a bit of perspective on what real problems are vs. what we think problems are.

Every time you trade some freedom for some "safety" you are trading it for a more comfortable cell.

 

[Best Buckeye]

First confirmed case in Lucas County tonight. (Toledo)
Sure do hope no one I know gets it.