Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I believe successful Paul Pelosi is a real estate developer+investor.

 

That is not what the article says. It can live on the sole of the shoe and when you take the shoe off transfer to your hand that you then touch your face with. It can also live on the floor waiting on you to step on it so it can transfer to your shoe. We use Lysol spray to clean our shoes before removing them if we have been to a highly trafficked location

 

On a more superficial level, the decreasing number of daily positive cases despite increase testing would indicate that his assumption is off since if it this virus spread as much as he assumes, we probably wouldn't have seen the curve starting to bend this quickly. Even if there is little doubt that there are many cases in which individuals contracted covid-19 but did not seek medical help or tested positive.

 

Common sense tells you that he is wrong. Flu doesn't devastate places like Italy and NYC like this. The only reason we aren't seeing a much worse situation all over is the massive level of social distancing we are engaging in.

 

Common sense? Can you buy that at WalMart?

 

If that NY/NJ rate was the national rate we would have 150,000 dead and counting.

That’s why we train wrecked the economy. We don’t want that everywhere.

 

Not sure if it has been linked, but our testing is dramatically slowing again:

Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S.

We seriously can't talk about opening the economy until we can get mass testing done, and we can't even consistently get narrow testing done. At least partially explains why we may have seen a decrease in cases this past week.

 

Had things shut down weeks before in NY/NJ,perhaps in February, there was a good chance that it wouldn't have blown up as it did. Hindsight's 20/20 of course, but imo this still speaks to the destructive potential of an uncontrolled virus.

 

I apologize for ever complaining about my job.

 

Best quote seen today, via Katy Tur, on Trump insisting his name be on the stimulus checks... "he'll put his name on everything except for the delayed response.".

 

What’s the reason for the decline? Is it patients presenting with symptoms has declined? I haven’t seen the not being able to be tested like in the beginning.

 

Correct although Nancy's political influence had little to do with his success. Paul Pelosi was a successful real estate investor and venture capitalist long before Nancy ever ran for public office.

 

I went to Lowe's today for the first time in a month. Only went because a friend gave us a couple of N95 masks. There were so many cars there that we wondered if Lowes was giving stuff away. First 20-30 people I saw ... no masks. Including people in their 60s and 70s. It felt like someone had given the all-clear and I missed it.
Eventually I saw a few with masks.
My sister near Savannah said 10 days ago, everyone at Publix was wearing a mask. Now it's just most.
I wonder if people have simply gotten sick of this and figure ... screw it.

 

The HD by us has been crazy for weeks. Spring time and all these people home working on crap including yard work and minor Honey Do work.
We have been doing a lot of work around the house (wife and boys during the day, me in the evenings) but I am not venturing to HD unless it is an emergency and even then it will be off peak.

 

So, it's likely he'll benefit from the more liberal R/E loss regs in the CARES Act, too. I'm sure a few people in congress will likely benefit from the changes, not just the Trumps.

 

In the article, they were discussing a combination of two things: the fact that tests are too tightly controlled now (focus is still on healthcare workers, elderly, and the currently hospitalized) and that we are still running out of materials like swabs. I'd add to that the lack of front-line scaling of testing capabilities (i.e., the lack of drive-thru testing in many locations). Frankly, we seem to be scaling based on whatever the latest media story is rather than having an organized strategy for building all stages at the same time to ramp tests efficiently.

 

Another big number today (2259) and still going up

United States Coronavirus: 640,185 Cases and 28,306 Deaths - Worldometer

 

river, you're not in st pete are you? i drove by today and the parking lot was slam full!!!!!

 

No, Jacksonville. I guess it's everywhere.