Agree, but as I pointed out earlier, all long threads have dead periods that keep them going. We have to allow for that. If they stay off topic or get out of hand we move them back on track. Trust me, I know long threads.
His point is more about financial stability of hospitals but I wonder separately if there will be a run on elective surgeries post corona that will back us up for years? Prior to this you needed months to schedule a surgery in many instances. Might send prices up further.
The hospital thing is a real economic issue, since the moneymakers are largely shut down right now, but I’m not sure what people like Hume suggest. Do we want hospitals to look like nursing homes? To see a dozen+ deaths in single facility repeated across the country because of hospital based transmission of the virus? Thats what happens if they aren’t taking maximum precautions.
Seriously, on the day on which Georgia announces 790 new cases and 52 deaths, they are going to start with businesses in which you have physical contact with the customers (massage, nail and hair salons, tattoo parlors), but they are going to be expected to socially distance. Who wants to get the first tattoo and hair cut in which the artist or barber is 6 feet away? Did he mix up the list of best businesses and worst businesses to start with?
Is 790 cases out of 10,000,000 plus people a lot to you? Seems like a tiny % to me. What is an acceptable number of cases? 10?
In a day during social distancing and likely still undercounting the number of people getting it due to testing restrictions? Yes, that is a lot. Georgia has a death rate of almost 4% ignoring that we haven't completed the curve for a huge chunk of those cases. No way are they even coming close to capturing all of their cases. That is a death rate well higher than any estimate overall (the highest that I have seen is 3.4% and that seems extremely unlikely to me).
I think you’ve got it all wrong, buckeye. ALL threads on too hot are about why you hate the other side. They just each have different ways of saying it. For example, when someone says, “Many infections are asymptomatic“ it means, “Liberals are all stupid!” Oh and if anyone says, “I think social distancing is working” that is obviously code for “I hope all Republicans die by falling into the gears of a slow moving harvest combine while listening to hours of Tiger King fan fiction!”
The issue is that even with social distancing for the past several weeks, the count is still going UP in the state of Georgia. Georgia is not fully on the downside of their curve. They are perhaps peaking or near peak (seems like they are just barely starting to start going down the past few days), *IF* social distancing remains in place. But if they drop social distancing at the current peak, they are basically asking for a NEW peak about 2-3 weeks from now and for things to get much worse. I thought even the Trump admin said you need sustained downward trend for a couple of weeks straight? Now maybe people on their own will be more aware, and instead of a new spike, it will just mean a flat line for awhile as things are relaxed. That may be the best we can do until their is a vaccine anyway, but if it were me I would have waited to see the curve actually substantially down before spiking the football. To make sure there isn't a second peak. Many experts warned about the "second wave", and even Trump was on board with that. Though he was probably faking/lying, as is typical.
Yep, I'm sure the over 30 people dying from it in the next couple of weeks, if their numbers hold, will find it hilarious while they die.
The social distancing isn't going away. I doubt many are going to line up to nail salons and to get tattoos.
And I am sure the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost the means to support their family is hilarious to you.
I haven't declared any of this funny. Weirdly, some of us are capable of recognizing the seriousness of the disease and the economic effects.
Well then what is the point? If there are no customers, won't the hundreds of thousands of people still not make any money? Why re-open them then?
