You know it's bad when even the Californicators are up in arms.
https://apnews.com/32d5564a7774aae7c2b45b850d1000f5
Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of flag-waving protesters gathering at the Capitol and along a famed Southern California beach, while a sparsely populated county on the Oregon border allowed diners back in restaurants and reopened other businesses.

And now there are reports that some have developed "Chronic" infections.

"...but it's also possible that the virus could have burrowed deep enough to become chronic, though, as scientists say, that's not 'typical' behavior for a naturally occurring coronavirus. " (naturally.... ha)


Life-long carriers? China is suggesting that these chronic carriers be held in isolation... what? forever?

"Scientists say there's "little possibility" that humans can be lifelong carriers of this virus. But it's not impossible.

Whatever the reality might be, infectious disease experts in China are recommending that these patients be kept in isolation in what we imagine has become a singularly hellish experience for these unfortunate patients."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... newsletter

Why prolong the inevitable? Maybe we should just let everyone get exposed and, as a girl I used to mess around with liked to say, "just skip the flirting and fuck."

For the same reason that girl could probably handle one, two, or a few guys at a time, without wearing out and falling apart and not "performing" very well, our hospitals have a MAX CAPACITY. Exceed that, and bad things happen to CV19 and regular patients (cancer patients, car accidents, assault patients, stroke patients, etc).

It seems like this relatively simple concept gets re-explained on the interwebs about a million times daily. I don't understand why it's not catching on for folks.

In your business, you could handle 1 issue. You couldn't handle 10,000 issues at the same time. Same concept.

Here's some charts to demonstrate:

* These charts are from the CDC data.
* Notice, I predicted correctly way back in Fed we were going to see an L-shaped hockey stick of deaths. That's exactly what happened. If we want to get this under control we must continue safe practices.
* Notice the downward trend. That's due to social isolation and distancing measures, and improved medical care and treatment, etc.



This is a month old, but representative.

Looks like it's going down rapidly in the last 2 weeks.

Those tables stop at 4/26. On 4/27, the US hit a valley. Since 4/28, new cases have been on the upswing, heading towards a new peak. Scroll down to the table new cases:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

This matches the WA State curve. In the last 3 days, new cases have almost doubled from156 per day, to 310 per day reported yesterday.

The incubation period is estimated between 10 and 28 days.last I heard.

I dunno.
I still wear a mask and gloves, sidearm, and spare mag when I go to 7-11 for beer.

Smart move...

It's on Casino Road in Everett.
Always brought the S&W M&P .45c and a spare mag, or a Glock 23 with a happy stick with a TLR-1HL if after midnight.
Really shitty neighborhood.
Always some scumbags hanging out front.
The mask and gloves were recent.

If you want to talk about a commute, I lived on Vashon Island, and commuted to dowtown Everett

I know the area you're talking about...

No Bueno...

I used to be the interim IT manager at K2 on Vashon.
Used to commute from Lynnwood to Vashon via the ferry.
Worked for 6 hours, billed them for 10 (including travel).
Made $1,200 a day. Riding the gravy train. Hahahaha
They wanted me to take the job permanently.
Probably 12 hours with commute, only get paid for 8 and half as much per hour.
No thanks. Love being a contractor.

I hated that commute.
I heard they moved.
Something to do with polluted water.

I didn't mind the commute at the time.

Ferry fee was paid by the company, and T & E covered gas, and dinners if caught in traffic.

Left the Island on the 4:15am Ferry, was at my desk in Everett by 6:00-6:30, off by 2:30, eating dinner on the company between Wallingford & Seattle , back on the Ferry by 4:00 to Vashon...

It was good money, Another company bought out the company i worked for, and I had to go from Seattle to Everett for better money.

It worked then..,now, not sure, it was good money, though, so maybe...

That's the problem with making decisions based on found infections. We are now testing more people, and because of that, more positives are being presented. It doesn't mean we have a new outbreak, it means we have the capacity to test more people now. If the increased infections are not also increasing the death count by the same ratio as they have been applying.

Also, this snippet on that link gives me the tingles:

There are many reports that many hospitals are not overrun and many hospitals are laying off staff. Remember the excess capacity we set up for Seattle that was never used? Did you listen to the two doctors tell of their experience?


Because some of us have a different point of view. But you're not listening.


Explained above.


Finally some hard numbers.


Thank you Nostradamus. But it's debatable the safe practices worked.


Or maybe the disease is being played out.

I'm so over this shit. The numbers are bullshit, the high majority of people survive just like the flu. If you are an old fart stay the fuck home and let people that actually do shit for the economy function as normal. People are stupid sheep