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https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/13/were-retreating-new-strategy-covid-19-lets-call-it-what-it-is/The administration has yet to use these words, but it appears that we’re adopting a strategy that I recognize from other aspects of public health: harm reduction.
We’re no longer trying to eliminate the virus. Instead, we are accepting that Americans will have to live with it.
If that’s the case, then our efforts should pivot from justifying why reopening is a good idea to figuring out how best to reduce the harm it is certain to cause.
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That's putting spin on the reality of asking the poor and elderly to be heros and commit suicide for the economy. From our response, or lack thereof, we're still looking at the high side worst case scenario and next winter is going to look like the Dans macabre.
Sorry.
And so it goes
Peace and Flatten the Curve
Rono
There will be covid parties soon enough.
She goes on to explain that between containment and harm reduction comes slowing the progression of the virus (aka "flattening the curve"): The opportunity for the US to contain the virus passed months ago. What most people call "mitigation" is what Dr. Wen is calling "slow the spread" and what Boris Johnson called "delay".
IMHO this distinction between contain and delay is important because it goes far in explaining why the US needs so much more testing. South Korea is fairly low on the testing per capita scale today because it doesn't need massive testing. It did its testing when it could contain the virus. Context matters. So do crisp, clear words.
"Mitigation" was a good word for "harm reduction". Johnson used it, and Merriam Webster defines it as: the process or result of making something less severe, dangerous, painful, harsh, or damaging.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/14/uk-minister-hails-game-changing-coronavirus-immunity-test
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-antibody-test-065939982.html
https://www.channel3000.com/video-shows-packed-bar-less-than-an-hour-after-safer-at-home
Derf
And it can be grown out of, never 'paid back'. Start w the first bullet point in this:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/the-coronavirus-crisis-is-swelling-the-deficit-thats-fine.html
and then study this:
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/who-pays-for-this/
Stay Tuned, Derf
@Press, totally concur in this view
But knowing what we do know. What would it look like if we had a case load similar to the average annual flu? Those numbers are certain to change of course.
But given what we know about your chances of surviving if you're fat, diabetic, or have hypertension or heart disease, they wouldn't all be old people. Forty percent of Americans are fat. Ten percent have diabetes. High blood pressure is north of forty.
https://scontent-bos3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/96234051_10222396901609664_7229111398679183360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=dzugBTZK0A8AX9Qo_9I&_nc_ht=scontent-bos3-1.xx&oh=a2c755a812be508bedd2ec4a6e265f67&oe=5EE40C86
Look at the restaurants in the south. The workers are wearing masks; customers are not wearing masks.
It is unfortunate that it will take family member to become sick with the virus to change people's attitudes.
Agree with @PRESSmUP that for those who recovered sustain long term and permanent damages to internal organs including lungs, heart, and some level of central nervous system. Chris Cusmo's x-ray of his lungs indicated considerable scar tissue formation comparing to the healthy lungs. There is some indication that a second infection can occur for those who recovered. More study is underway to ascertain the situation. For sure this virus is considerable more deadly than the seasonal flu. Herd immunity does not work in this case other than high infection and fatality rate.
Interactive Agent-Based Model Visualization for COVID-19 Masking
how-coronavirus-spreads-through-the-air-what-we-know-so-far
"From our analysis, we infer that either the CDC’s annual estimates substantially overstate the actual number of deaths caused by influenza or that the current number of COVID-19 counted deaths substantially understates the actual number of deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2, or both."
Statements above that there are "only 60,000 deaths ( now 85,000) make it like the flu" miss key points
1) All of these deaths have occurred in two months while influenza lasts months
2) Never Never in recorded history have 1/3 to 1/2 of hospital beds anywhere been full of flu cases like has happened in NY CT or Massachusetts, nor has there ever been this many people on ventilators.
While you can write off NYC because of the density public transpiration etc etc, Connecticut is suburban and even rural like much of the US but Covid has almost overwhelmed hospitals and everyone else
If the US opens up without contact tracing and many more tests to isolate new cases you all look like CT MA and NY
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/trump-says-hes-taking-malaria-drug-to-protect-against-virus/ar-BB14gGDF?ocid=spartandhp
maybe take extra spoons of Lysol with it
Help me out here. I have a close friend who was laid off at St Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT. She is basically a hourly worker, but her impression was that the hospital has been "as quiet as a church mouse" and that the hospital could not afford to keep her on (employed).
Your thoughts?
normal patient traffic is down to nearly zero, very quiet, yes, for all the normal things of the past,
rightly or wrongly patient behaviors
PCP practices too, and dentists, et alia
why we need just a flood of disaster-relief moneys, and then another flood, and then another
and beyond
(debt is not to be fretted now; that part will work out fine in the future w growth)
Well, maybe one circumstance... to pay for Bush's Mideast war that no one needed.
Same group is in charge today. Vote Democratic- it's our only hope.