Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

A new trend for 2020, its not hoarding any more. It is "Pantry Loading".

Someone hired a PR crisis firm.

 

FDA authorizes use of new two-minute test kit for coronavirus

 

But....he knows more about South Korea than ANYONE.

 

Perhaps it's South Korea that has it wrong, hmmmmm??

This is why people are so skeptical of KnowItALL experts trying to tell you what to do, like don't have parties when a pandemic is happening. We all know that there is always a REAL KnowItAll expert nearby who KnowsItAllPlusSome, and usually it's some dude you went to high school with. Or in this case, POTUS.

 

I have a hunch about his sources.

 

The first person I "know" (he's an e-friend from another board) has lost a loved one due to this. His elderly uncle from New York has passed away.

 

And he prefaced the error by claiming that he "knows S Korea better than anybody." Never seen such a confluence of ignorance and conceit in an individual.

 

Nah it's because I've dealt with 10's of thousands of sick people for 3 decades..... You never know who will have something that will get you sick.

Can't live with a heart of fear, if I did I would never leave the house.

 

I'm not really sure what your point was here...

 

The best part was when he quizzed the journalist like he was Einstein. "Do YOU know how many people live in Seoul?" LOL. Like he had one over on the fake news media. Like I said, harmless but many of his errors have not been harmless: See endorsing drugs not proven to be effective.

 

Trying to understand your argument.

 

South Korea sits right next to China and probably knew better than any other government that China was woefully underreporting their numbers. I mean, if Mexico had reported 80,000 cases, I'm sure the CDC would have been ramping up test capabilities a lot faster. Good for SK, but most other countries are being hammered just like us.

 

Some COVID-19 patients still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear

In a new study, researchers found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 infection still had coronavirus for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared. The research letter was published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

 

21 days of being infectious, with only 8 of those days showing symptoms.

 

Case Study Shows Asymptomatic Transmission of COVID-19 in China

The case study demonstrates that COVID-19 is clinically diverse, transmittable during the incubation period and can result in infected patients experiencing no symptoms. The study found that the viral loads were similar between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.

“These ‘silent patients’ may remain undiagnosed and be able to spread the disease to large number of people,” the study noted

 

Yes, because when the outbreak is 900 miles from your capitol city, in a country with which you do not share a land border, you have special access to information available to nobody else. Makes total sense. The US, who has thousands of military members and billions in assets in South Korea as well as a variety of spy tools that most countries could only dream about could not possibly have known.

These arguments defending a lack of response are getting more outlandish somehow.

 

SK has a much greater history with these pandemics, which contributed to their response. They have been through it a few times in ways we haven’t.
Doesn’t excuse our lack of preparation however, we knew this was coming. This is new so mistakes are to be expected, I wish our mistakes had been things like “we ordered masks Test kits and ventilators but had logistical problems n distribution”. Not “this is another hoax”, “they don’t need all those ventilators” etc.

 

And so it's just a big coinkidink that the one country who got out ahead of this a little faster than most all the others just happens to be in very close proximity to Wuhan? The only national capital closer to Wuhan than Seoul is Hanoi, Vietnam, which is 25 miles closer, lol. Give me a break.

 

Is the mild nature of this illness the issue? So mild that it’s easy to miss you have it for most people but therefore dooming the 1-4% that are extremely vulnerable?

 

Good heavens, NY’s midday update have 8470 new cases and 208 deaths.