According to a very famous show I watched dinosauruses very much liked to gamble. I believe it was called the Flintstones..

Here's one of dozens of articles available on the internet which reports that comparing Covid to ordinary seasonal flu is dangerous and inaccurate.

https://www.propublica.org/article/t...-it-to-the-flu

This is an instance when your personal opinion has no bearing on reality and can potentially be very harmful to others.

I’m not bothering to read past this, because it’s already apparent you are ill-informed and seemingly dishonest. The very website you link says there are estimated to be 810,000 hospitalizations due to flu out of 45,000,000 cases. 17% of 45 million is 7.65 million hospitalizations. The actual hospitalization rate for flu in 2018 was under 2% of cases. I assume the rest of your “facts” are similarly well-grounded.

Not really un-grounded or well grounded. People should always check the math on statistics or websites anyone puts forth. I try to for others.

Anyhow, that was my mistake in screwing up the decimal point. The figure was kinda surprising to me. I should have double checked. Mea culpa. Don't really think I've made any other errors like that, but have no problem someone pointing it out if I have.

In a bit of good news... I have been getting tons of emails from companies regarding their COVID-19 responses. Many of these have said they are going to be suspending operations and/or closing their brick and mortar locations for at least the next two weeks. And of these, many have also said they are going to continue to pay their employees during the closures. I don't know how prevalent this sort of policy is and I'm certain it cannot be sustained for a lengthy period of time, but at least in the near term some companies are doing right by their employees. It goes without saying, let's hope they won't have to for very long headed into the spring months.

Oh snap. Time to hoard cannabis.

Good call.

geebus Australia going the lets just fight on through route...this will not end well:


"Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy stressed that a "short-term, two- to four-week shutdown of society is not recommended by any of our experts".

"It does not achieve anything," he said.

"We have to be in this for the long haul. As the Prime Minister said, it could be six months or more that we have to practice these new ways of interacting. So therefore, our measures have to be sustainable. There is no way that we can lock down society and make everyone stay home and then in a month's time, undo that, because the virus will just flare up again without any real long-term benefit."

Well they really got a handle of the bush fires, so they got this. Did their pm take off to Hawaii again

We need to open these casinos back up so we have money to pay the hospital bill.

Gov speaks at 6pm

It's good that the businesses are taking care of their employees for a little while at least. I have a hard time believing there isn't government money behind it, but still good.

Well everyone in America is about to get $1000 in a few weeks anyway. Maybe $1k a month. As long as you don't make 75k or 100k+

News showing Bellagio boarding up doors now.

NV Gov live in now.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1rmGPADnNlbJN

I haven't seen the research that the Australian medical scientists are basing their models on, but similar ideas have been floated in the UK, and will doubtless be raised in the US as well.
From what I've been reading, the case fatality rate for the population as a whole is likely to be very low (sub 1%), and much lower for the young and healthy. Unfortunately, the CFR for "vulnerable" people with pre-existing conditions is scarily high. (If you're old and you end up on a ventilator, the outcome is usually not good).
So the politicians have to come up with a strategy that protects the aged/vulnerable (and doesn't overcome the health services), but that doesn't destroy the economy and lifestyles of the majority. It may be the case that the most cost-effective strategy is to only enforce "quarantine" for high-risk people. Hence, schools, offices, and pubs etc, might be able to function as normal, provided the "youngsters" don't interact with people that are most at risk of serious illness. It's just really hard to maintain separation between the "safe" and the "at risk" groups (a lot of children will eat a meal with their grandmother on Mother's Day for example), so a lot of governments are currently using the sledgehammer tactic of enforcing total lockdowns. Their policies might change once more data is available and further models have been looked at.
FWIW, in the UK most schools are still open, but people in at-risk groups (e.g. me) have been asked to isolate themselves for up to 3 months. It seems a little extreme to close my local school or the pubs and cafés to protect people like me (a vulnerable person) if we're already in isolation.

My company is making us work from home for as long as is required. We have 800 employees and I expect we won’t be back in the office for at least 2 months.

I’m in Australia. 3 days in and it feels like we’re more productive than when we’re in the office.....so many time-wasting meetings avoided. Maybe we’ll never go back.

Unless the work from home pilot project goes so well they re-evaluate the need for their absurdly expensive office space.

Every Gaming device to be turned off by midnight in entire state.

Thats one silver lining

Commanding everything to be shut down for 30 days seems pretty extreme to me.
It would be much more reasonable to shut down for two weeks, and then assess whether the strategy is working. If it is (if we’ve seen a dramatic drop in new cases like China did), it can continue for another few weeks. But if it isn’t, we should reassess and try a less disruptive strategy like what England is taking, even if that means more infections.