Good thing I still have a compromised immune system from my bone marrow stem cell transplant in December 2018
Doctors said at the time and should take two years to fully get back to 100%
I've basically been in quarantine since December of 2018, thought it was basically over. Guess not
As of now the rumor is they'll end the regular season and head straight to the playoffs with the standings decided based on point %Unreal. So do we just end the season then? No playoffs?
Delaying it can have an affect on some arenas I imagine with scheduling conflicts and ice quality into the Summer.
What I don’t understand is that viruses don’t die unless they’re actively destroyed by (human) immune systems or by disinfectants (like bleach, chlorine, alcohol, UV light, whatever). They just become dormant. Time means nothing to viruses, I’m told.
So.... if we isolate ourselves sufficiently now... and the infection rates drop... and we say, danger over, start running around again, won’t the infections start again? We aren’t gonna disinfect the whole friggin planet.
In other words, isn’t this basically a very bad flu, and until we have a vaccine (next year maybe), it just has to run its course because we’ll almost all be exposed to it eventually?
What I don’t understand is that viruses don’t die unless they’re actively destroyed by (human) immune systems or by disinfectants (like bleach, chlorine, alcohol, UV light, whatever). They just become dormant. Time means nothing to viruses, I’m told.
So.... if we isolate ourselves sufficiently now... and the infection rates drop... and we say, danger over, start running around again, won’t the infections start again? We aren’t gonna disinfect the whole friggin planet.
In other words, isn’t this basically a very bad flu, and until we have a vaccine (next year maybe), it just has to run its course because we’ll almost all be exposed to it eventually?
Yup, there's no stopping this but you need to stagger the cases. This is why Italy's death rate is so high for the elderly, they're literally using a triage for patients. So many younger people have it they just don't have space for older people.The issue is hospital capacity. The popular phrase over the past few days is "flatten the curve," if we get too many too fast it could overrun our healthcare system, that is the concern. More patients bogging down hospitals means less resources for everyone which likely means more deaths. We shut everything down now, get it controlled, hopefully when it becomes warmer it really does become more difficult to transmit and we can properly prepare for a Fall surge.
We need time, this country had time to prepare and didn't do it, we have a second chance. Let's not f*** that one up too.
The government is handling this fine. Millions, let me repeat, *MILLIONS* of Americans were infected by swine flu before the government finally took action, but media didn't go into mass hysteria back then like they are now. This is all political driven make no mistake about it and if the government would have closed the borders and all flights to prevent the infected from entering the country, the media would have b*tched about that too and say they did all this over a virus that kills less people than influenza. Lose-lose situation for every course and action since this is a global problem.
Ok guys, I figured it out. NHL lets the captain from each team play NHL20 on xbox to finish the remaining games. Barkov's been training for this his whole life.
Good point on the capacity. That makes sense.The issue is hospital capacity. The popular phrase over the past few days is "flatten the curve," if we get too many too fast it could overrun our healthcare system, that is the concern. More patients bogging down hospitals means less resources for everyone which likely means more deaths. We shut everything down now, get it controlled, hopefully when it becomes warmer it really does become more difficult to transmit and we can properly prepare for a Fall surge.
We need time, this country had time to prepare and didn't do it, we have a second chance. Let's not f*** that one up too.
For Swine flu 20,000 were hospitalized and more than 1000 died before US finally declared a state of emergency according to the Centers of Disease ControlDifferent viruses require different measures. You can't compare this to swine flu at all.
The complete lack of testing is what got us to this point. And it's not that there was a lack of availability, it's lack of will to do it and even worse an attempt to downplay the pandemic as it was spreading in China and SE Asia. S. Korea is still doing more tests daily than the US has done thus far. They managed to contain the outbreak fairly quickly while the US is following the curve that Italy, Iran and China have/are experiencing.Good point on the capacity. That makes sense.
But when you say “this country had time”, as things are being shut down, there’s a huge outcry and we are leading the nations on shutdowns. Maybe we could have been stricter even but it would have been very very unpopular and deemed overly paranoid. I don’t see how we couldn’t let it get this far. It’s not just a medical decision.
For Swine flu 20,000 were hospitalized and more than 1000 died before US finally declared a state of emergency according to the Centers of Disease Control
and Prevention, vs US declaring a state of emergency after one single person died of Corona. We will see how things end, but I think we are handling it well, but the major problem is all our medications come from China.
South Korea’s mortality rate is 0.7%.The complete lack of testing is what got us to this point. And it's not that there was a lack of availability, it's lack of will to do it and even worse an attempt to downplay the pandemic as it was spreading in China and SE Asia. S. Korea is still doing more tests daily than the US has done thus far. They managed to contain the outbreak fairly quickly while the US is following the curve that Italy, Iran and China have/are experiencing.
We knew about the mortality rate being ~2.5-3% and the needed quarantine time and the rate and how it spread, but did nothing until it is too late to intercept it. Right now we really have no idea how many infected there are and how many clusters of community transmissions exists in the US. It is a botched response that is leading to a lot of panic.
They are taking it seriously now. They didn’t take seriously the stopping of travelers from infected areas. The US did that.Yes but Swine Flu had a death rate of 0.02% whereas Corona has anywhere from 0.5 to 5% according to current data, depending on prevention. Some countries like Italy have gotten into massive trouble because they didn't take this seriously.