Covid-19

Maybe the door is opening to some other ideas/approaches. As an example, I'm sure a number of you are familiar with Thomas Friedman. Regardless of what you think of him, he had this op-ed published in the New York.Times:
Opinion | A Plan to Get America Back to Work

In his opinion piece, Friedman references this one from the president of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (part of Yale's School of Public Health) as well:
Opinion | Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?

The fact the other ideas are at least presented in a forum like the NYT is kind of encouraging. Maybe it will spark broader dialogue.
 
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Cookie_ said:
Yea, my cousin was one of those "it is my God given freedom as an American to still go out, fuck the governor."

His buddy he went drinking with in Toledo just tested positive for it yesterday. He'll be likely fine.

My cousin's a bit more worried he's caught it, because he has an immunocompromised toddler and pregnant wife at home.

All this "playing Devil's advocate" and "I won't obey because it isn't a constitutional power" shit is going to get people killed.
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And so will the people that don't follow the lead of distancing, get it, get through it fine, and "prove" that it's all a big waste of time to social distance. Both sides of each isle are contributing to bad outcomes.

Dame said:
Because, as it turns out yet again, math is not a skill in which the elected excel.
Immediate lines outside liquor and pot shops were not only long, but several times as long with people keeping a 3-6 foot distance from each other.
lines in denver liquor - Yahoo Video Search Results
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When managers and leaders come up with these ridiculous guidelines they don't think far enough ahead. You can only allow a group in at a time, only to stand in line clustered up. Or take tables away from a smoke pit outside of the chow hall, only to find people gather up in tighter groups because they don't have a table to separate the others in front of them. Or you make it mandatory for everyone to wash their hands and use hand sanitize before standing in line to grab chow, but the line is 12 minutes long and you end up pulling your phone out to pass the time.

@Blizzard Regarding the pot and liquor stores being essential businesses, the products might not be essential, but the heavier taxes will help cover expenses in the interim, at least in my opinion.
 
DA SWO said:
China pressures WHO not to deal with Taiwan.
The director "General" of the WHO is probably more leftist then medical man (google his name), so making China look bad really isn't on his list (unless necessary to save his ass).
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Yup. Enemies within and enemies without. The American people better wake up to see that the rest of the world doesn't care about us or our allies.
 
GOTWA said:
@Blizzard Regarding the pot and liquor stores being essential businesses, the products might not be essential, but the heavier taxes will help cover expenses in the interim, at least in my opinion.
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I'm sure that plays a role but it also speaks to the ridiculousness of it all. If public safety was truly the priority, there is no way these could be consolidated essential.

That said, I'm off to the liquor store...
 
I was just talking with our MICU medical director. We were talking about how this feels like the calm before the storm, it's very quiet. He said that with the hospital cancelling elective cases and halting non-emergent admits "we have the lowest census we've had in years."

He also said that one of his colleagues from the MICU just tested positive.
 
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