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Coronavirus

Stebro said:
Some of the western countries share one problem, which is very few hospital beds per capita. Sweden only have 2,22/capita, Canada and The UK have about 2,5/capita, compared to for example Japan that have over 13/capita. Several experts here in Sweden says that if we get a lot of serious cases, we wont be able to handle it well.
I read recently that the US system is currently at 96% full. Part of that is the length/severe flu (or maybe flu+coronavirus) season but still normally nearly full. Empty beds don't make any money so there is little spare capacity built into the system.

Could get ugly here in a hurry, especially major metropolitan areas like NYC, Seattle, etc.
 
This was just published in "The Medium"

With everything that?s happening about the Coronavirus, it might be very hard to make a decision of what to do today. Should you wait for more information? Do something today? What?
Here?s what I?m going to cover in this article, with lots of charts, data and models with plenty of sources:
How many cases of coronavirus will there be in your area?
What will happen when these cases materialize?
What should you do?
When?
When you?re done reading the article, this is what you?ll take away:
The coronavirus is coming to you.
It?s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.
It?s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two.
When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways.
Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die.
They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies.
The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today.
That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.
As a politician, community leader or business leader, you have the power and the responsibility to prevent this.
You might have fears today: What if I overreact? Will people laugh at me? Will they be angry at me? Will I look stupid? Won?t it be better to wait for others to take steps first? Will I hurt the economy too much?
But in 2?4 weeks, when the entire world is in lockdown, when the few precious days of social distancing you will have enabled will have saved lives, people won?t criticize you anymore: They will thank you for making the right decision.
Ok, let?s do this.
 
And as expected the U.K. is not going into any lockdown. Ireland however is. So that adds a fun aspect as we have kids who cross the border to go to school so those from NI who go to school in Ireland have to stay home and those going the other way don?t.

It?ll be interesting to see how this pays off...

https://twitter.com/hugogye/status/1238145446872322049
 
Sorry for my premature report. I pledge not to repeat anything my wife tells me on this board without verifying myself...Sorry to hear about the education situation Arn.  Keep safe.
 
Now all public schools in Ontario will be closed for two weeks following March Break;

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/all-publicly-funded-schools-in-ontario-will-be-closed-for-two-weeks-after-march-break-due-to-covid-19-1.4850653
 
Rob said:
Now all public schools in Ontario will be closed for two weeks following March Break;

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/all-publicly-funded-schools-in-ontario-will-be-closed-for-two-weeks-after-march-break-due-to-covid-19-1.4850653
It's the right call.
 
Why those with underlying conditions need to be extra careful and at higher risk of contracting virus:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/12/tom-hanks-coronavirus-actor-has-covid-19-diabetes-heres-risk/5030111002/
 
Hey, Trump is still peddling absolute lies and obstructing testing.  Good stuff.  Oh and the Senate decided they wouldn't vote on a stimulus bill for the Coronavirus and instead took off until Tuesday because Mitch McConnell is a worthless piece of scum.
 
L K said:
Hey, Trump is still peddling absolute lies and obstructing testing.  Good stuff.  Oh and the Senate decided they wouldn't vote on a stimulus bill for the Coronavirus and instead took off until Tuesday because Mitch McConnell is a worthless piece of scum.
The complete inability of Republicans to deal with this extraordinarily urgent problem certainly highlights how entirely unequipped and unmotivated they are to deal with the long-term urgent problem of climate change.
 
L K said:
Hey, Trump is still peddling absolute lies and obstructing testing.  Good stuff.  Oh and the Senate decided they wouldn't vote on a stimulus bill for the Coronavirus and instead took off until Tuesday because Mitch McConnell is a worthless piece of scum.

Don't worry, Jared's on it now:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1238469881294721024
 
CarltonTheBear said:
L K said:
Hey, Trump is still peddling absolute lies and obstructing testing.  Good stuff.  Oh and the Senate decided they wouldn't vote on a stimulus bill for the Coronavirus and instead took off until Tuesday because Mitch McConnell is a worthless piece of scum.

Don't worry, Jared's on it now:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1238469881294721024

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Another insight from northern Italy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/europe/12italy-coronavirus-health-care.html
 
Not something we want to read about but the possibility exists of this scenario to have transpired.

A Taiwanese scientist has claimed Chinese microbiologists probably created coronavirus in Wuhan, China.

Based on the virus unusual structure it is most likely ?man made? and there is a theory coronavirus was somehow leaked or released from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan China, said Professor Fang Chi-tai from the National Taiwan University (NTU).

Professor Fang said China?s track record with safety standards and laboratory management has been questioned in the past.

The Professor claims it was very possible that the Wuhan Chinese scientists created the deadly virus by simply adding four amino acids to an existing bat virus, which therefore makes it much easier to transmit to people.

Professor Fang added, ?The mutations found in the novel coronavirus are unusual in an academic sense.

?It is indeed possible that it is a man-made product.

?From an academic point of view, it is indeed possible that the amino acids were added to COVID-19 in the lab by humans.

A scientist told how a sick bat attacked the researchers and bled on them and urinated on another, they were then forced to quarantine themselves for 14 days.

Biologists Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao published a pre-print entitled ?The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus.?

The report describes how ?the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.

?We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 metres from the seafood market.


https://londonlovesbusiness.com/scientist-says-covid-19-is-man-made-and-was-released-from-wuhan-lab/
 

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