Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Sean Payton, New Orleans Saints' coach, has tested positive.

 

Well, FWIW - the former head of FEMA Craig Fugate (extremely competent FEMA administrator imo) agrees. Things got testy between he and another guest on MSNBC who was arguing for a federal only approach.

Gator connection: Craig Fugate was Alachua County-Gainesville's director of Emergency Operations before he was plucked first by Jeb for the state job in 2004 when we had 4 hurricanes hit and then from there by Obama to be the National Director.
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Good to see Trump made smart decisions early while ignoring the mainstream media who were blasting him for it. Has us in a much better position than most of the western European countries.

 

Good grief, fever. Early on he was saying it was a hoax perpetrated by Democrats. It was all under control and that we'd have no cases at all really soon. In various ways, shapes, and forms, you've denied there was even a problem, that it was exaggerated etc.

 

Trump didn't make smart decisions. The S. Korean government made smart decisions. Make sure there are available tests for everyone, then isolate those who test positive. They've essentially flattened the curve.

The US? We're too late. We've taken steps, but only after the horse was let out of the proverbial barn. There's likely tens of thousands people walking around right now COVID-19 positive, and there's no way of knowing. Simply not enough tests.

We're following in the footsteps of Italy and Iran, who didn't take things seriously either. Thousands dead now in both countries, and climbing.

 

Don't wanna get in trouble with the mods so I'll be careful how I word it. If a person points, another person will look at what is being pointed at. A dog, will look at the person's finger. You get my drift. Comparing the US to Italy at the same point in time (today) is looking at the finger.

 

Trump was talking about the Defense Production Act. Now, my knowledge of that law isn't great, but I don't think the governors have any power to do anything. It takes Trump acting. A federal-only approach is the wrong approach. But the federal government needs to step up, fill in the gaps, and aid the state governments.

 

In your own words we don't know yet, so quit overreacting. Trump didn't cause this. He's doing a great job

 

Read the whole quote. Trump not playing PC games early is one reason we don't have the stuff here as bad per capita like some countries over there which literally poured gas on a fire by not taking smart early actions.

 

Kind of like the great job that Michael Brown, George W. Bush's FEMA director did in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Katrina 10 Years Later: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

 

In my first read of this, I saw “PC games” and thought it meant a computer game.

 

Not yet...

 

Word

Posting on here has become an extreme exercise in self-control. About all I can say to that.

 

approaching 250,000 worldwide and 9995 deaths

Coronavirus Update (Live): 242,512 Cases and 9,996 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

Blink just broke 10,000

 

I doubt we pass many of those high per capita countries in per capita cases or deaths though Germany has a really low death rate for there totals. I wonder if like S Korea they were using things we are talking about now. My guess here is the doctors make that choice and US doctors tend to be slow with stuff like that sometimes.

 

The sad thing is a bunch of people are addicted to the outrage and cant turn it off. Especially old people. It has to be affecting their mental health and wellbeing.

 

WOW! Point the finger at the doctors..... You are a piece of .........work

Point the finger where it needs to be pointed. Federal response in the early stages.

 

Over 4K new cases today. Exponential takeoff in the official numbers is still occurring (983 on Monday, 1,748 on Tuesday, 2,848 on Wednesday, and over 4K on Thursday). The question is largely whether that is because of testing becoming more available finally (although shortages still exist) or because of an actual takeoff in disease cases (or both).

 

In that context, I agree.

 

Most recent numbers for the US

United States Coronavirus: 13,304 Cases and 185 Deaths - Worldometer