Covid-19

R.Caerbannog said:
I dunno man. People are people and some might have more pressing matters like safeguarding their children, elderly parents, or even grandparents. People living in multigenerational homes isn't as uncommon as it used to be. On the other hand, money talks and our medical system has been notoriously bloated and expensive.

If someone loses faith in their work, to just walk away, there are clearly other issues at stake.
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They're conscientious objectors of the healthcare industry. Safeguarding their children and elderly is the whole point of this thing. Running into fire to stop the spread so others can live.
 
GOTWA said:
They're conscientious objectors of the healthcare industry. Safeguarding their children and elderly is the whole point of this thing. Running into fire to stop the spread so others can live.
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Not with this virus. The lack of PPE, lack of medicine, and some hospitals muted responses to what's going on, are akin to putting out a house fire with a squirt gun. My direct family works in the health care system and it's not all buttercups and roses.

Hospitals and our medical systems screwed the pooch when they outsourced all their vital supply chains to the Chinese. Add in dash of admin incompetence and profit chasing for a perfect storm. If your people are cutting sling load or don't have confidence in their superiors something is wrong. There isn't smoke without fire.

That being said... yeah, there are some people of dubious character in the health care field. Thing is, if your front line workers aren't showing up or are showing a loss of confidence in hospital leadership, response, equipment, etc, something is really wrong. These are the people that are out front every day, they know what's up.

On the other hand... if the rest of the staff are motivated, confident in their equipment, and leadership, then you're on to something.

Add on: Apologies for having to edit my posts so darn much. I write how I speak and that ain't always a good thing.
 
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Blizzard said:
Interesting secondary issue popping up due to volume of telecommuters: limited provider bandwidth for meeting services, such as Skype, Lync, etc. This is not an internet bandwidth issue. Demand on these services is so high, that providers need to scale up their capacity. They'll get it done but there are sporadic issues currently.
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2nd and 3rd order effects of panic. I like how we've talked ourselves into voluntary martial law...I look forward to Congress passing the COVID-19 Act of 2020 in response to future medical crises.
 
Ooh-Rah said:
100% great take and something I’ve been thinking a lot about.

For future “events”:
Level 3 - All concerts/sports cancelled
Level 2 - All bars/restaurants closed
Level 1 - Stay in place until released.

Events may include weather issues, political unrest, etc.
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We talked ourselves into the Patriot Act because we were afraid of another 9/11. I'm concerned we're weak or afraid enough to talk ourselves into something as equally stupid.
 
Today's Press Conference-

  • Defense Production Act will be invoked.
  • USNS Mercy is deploying to NYC
  • USNS Comfort is preparing to go underway.
  • FEMA is activated to level 1.
  • HUD evictions and foreclosures have been suspended thru April.
  • Working on self-swab testing accuracy, if they can gain accuracy self-swab testing will be deployed.
  • DoD is prepared to deploy 2000 operational deployable ventilators to DHHS use.
 
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