Polar Bear Phan wrote:

Wheels Tupay wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Announcement coming regarding Delco later this afternoon

Announcement: It is as dirty as ever.

Announcement: It is still bullshit Delco NIMBYs forced the Blue Route to drop from 3 lanes to 2.

swishnicholson wrote:Weird, the JHU coronavirus map now doesn't list any cases in the UK. Three in the Faroe Islands, sure, but none in the UK although there were over 400 listed just the other day.

Polar Bear Phan wrote:

Wheels Tupay wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Announcement coming regarding Delco later this afternoon

Announcement: It is as dirty as ever.

Announcement: It is still bullshit Delco NIMBYs forced the Blue Route to drop from 3 lanes to 2.

Bill McNeal wrote:This is from March 7 but just saw it now

THE PRESIDENT: And, by the way, NIH, what they’ve done — I spent time over there — and I like this stuff.

You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump.

I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, “How do you know so much about this?” Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President.

But you know what? What they’ve done is very incredible. I understand that whole world. I love that world. I really do. I love that world. And they should be given tremendous credit. And the whole world is relying on us.

momadance wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Weird, the JHU coronavirus map now doesn't list any cases in the UK. Three in the Faroe Islands, sure, but none in the UK although there were over 400 listed just the other day.

They didn't have Italy and Iran up there earlier.

CalvinBall wrote:Man 17 cases in MontCo. They're fucked.

I’m in Audubon. My 6 year old daughter has developed a fever of 101.7 and a slight cough. She says she’s fine, although a bit cold.

As a responsible citizen, it’s my belief that she should be tested for COVID-19. She’s been at school all week, and my wife has been at work in Camden with a high-risk population. Both the public schools and the non-profit my wife works at should know ASAP if V has this virus.

I called the doctors office. They referred me to the emergency room because they do not have the ability to test, and then admitted that they weren’t sure that the ER even has the ability. I then called the office of our state reps, who also referred me to the ER. I expressed surprise that anyone with a fever is advised to go to the ER, as it seems likely that that would quickly overwhelm the ER, thus potentially depriving quick care to actual medical emergencies. Do I really want to go sit in the ER all day with a feverish child? Do I want to risk the economic shock of a trip to the ER for a non medical emergency? Hard no.

I got a call back from the state reps office. I was told that the only tests that are available now are for people that are in a bad state; patients that are having respiratory failure. I was told that this is what has been directed from the CDC. There’s simply not enough tests for everyone.

So that’s where we are at. We have no idea what’s going on, truly. I’m so frustrated.

Ace Rothstein wrote:

Polar Bear Phan wrote:

Wheels Tupay wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Announcement coming regarding Delco later this afternoon

Announcement: It is as dirty as ever.

Announcement: It is still bullshit Delco NIMBYs forced the Blue Route to drop from 3 lanes to 2.

Fucking Swarthmore

heyeaglefn wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Man 17 cases in MontCo. They're fucked.

If Ohio thinks they have 100,000 PA surely does too.

TenuredVulture wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Man 17 cases in MontCo. They're fucked.

If Ohio thinks they have 100,000 PA surely does too.

Here's the thing--South Korea, which probably has the most thorough testing of any nation, has 8000 confirmed cases. That would make the 100k number from Ohio ridiculously high. They'd be seeing 1000s of people needing hospitalization, whether they'd been tested or not.

heyeaglefn wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Man 17 cases in MontCo. They're fucked.

If Ohio thinks they have 100,000 PA surely does too.

Here's the thing--South Korea, which probably has the most thorough testing of any nation, has 8000 confirmed cases. That would make the 100k number from Ohio ridiculously high. They'd be seeing 1000s of people needing hospitalization, whether they'd been tested or not.

Or the hospitalization rates aren't right because of lack of test kits. I don't know if South Korea has tested anyone without noticeable symptoms but if you are young and healthy you may not even know you had it.

momadance wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:Weird, the JHU coronavirus map now doesn't list any cases in the UK. Three in the Faroe Islands, sure, but none in the UK although there were over 400 listed just the other day.

They didn't have Italy and Iran up there earlier.

“Sleepy Joe Biden was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record,“Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!"

In his tweet, Trump did not cite the source of the high approval rating. He may have been referring to a Gallup poll, taken nearly a month ago when there was only a single American case, that found 77 percent of Americans were “generally confident in the federal government’s ability to handle a potential coronavirus outbreak.” That number, while it pertained to the federal government as a whole and not just Trump, topped similar polling figures taken during past outbreaks of Zika, Ebola, swine flu and bird flu.

A more recent Quinnipiac poll released Monday asked Americans specifically about how Trump is handling coronavirus and reported that 43 percent approved while 49 percent disapproved.

TenuredVulture wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Man 17 cases in MontCo. They're fucked.

If Ohio thinks they have 100,000 PA surely does too.

Here's the thing--South Korea, which probably has the most thorough testing of any nation, has 8000 confirmed cases. That would make the 100k number from Ohio ridiculously high. They'd be seeing 1000s of people needing hospitalization, whether they'd been tested or not.

Or the hospitalization rates aren't right because of lack of test kits. I don't know if South Korea has tested anyone without noticeable symptoms but if you are young and healthy you may not even know you had it.

Sure--but if say 1000 people went to the hospital with serious respiratory distress, it would be noticed. They might not count as confirmed cases, but it wouldn't fly under the radar. Even if S. Korea, which has been doing a good job of testing people, is only catching 10% of the cases, that's still less than 100k. Finally, last I saw, there are 120k cases world wide, so 100k in Ohio seems remarkably high. Now, if I'm misinterpreting it, and the actual claim is that 100k people in Ohio will get it, that's scary enough.

The real numbers are scary enough--this is more infectious and more deadly than the flu. I don't think people really get what a 2% mortality rate means. I don't think people understand what it means when each infected person infects 2 others. And those are conservative numbers.

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