Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

Doing some reading today that tests could be putting out false negatives anywhere from 15-30% of the time.
I am feeling better but I’m reading the chances of both my wife and I to have pneumonia in both lungs is very low but for both of us to get a false negative test result seems very low too.

Knock on wood, but I hope to take that test for antibodies whenever it’s made available
 
Chucktshoes said:
What’s y’all’s beef with cruises?
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Pros:
  • Get to visit a lot of places in a short time
  • Caribbean islands' current economy would probably die without them
Cons:
  • Travelers on cruises are usually extremely obnoxious tourists
  • lots of germ sharing (current situation)
  • staff normally treated/paid terribly
  • Cruise ships are a massive waste of fuel/emissions
  • Quite expensive $1000+/person + airfare

I would want to take an Alaskan Cruise or European River cruise, but the stereotypical Caribbean cruise is not appealing to me. I've done that twice when I was much younger with my family already, got horrible sun burn one time and food poisoning another time.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
So about this $1200 stimulus.

The democrats fought to give everyone $1200 now and not figure out what poor people would not qualify for the full amount and pay them less.

The bad news is, those poor people will have to pay it back as the senate bill currently stands. If your 2020 tax return is less than $1200 you will have to pay the difference back over 3 years. Everyone is going to find that their 2020 tax return is $1200 less because of the $1200 paid out in advance due to this stimulus.
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Is this not the same deal banks and businesses get? It's essentially an interest free loan. I mean it could and probably should be more, but...
 
Wow, Germany is doing 500,000 tests per week.

This explains the 0.3% death rate. On one hand, their stats probably reflect reality better than in other countries. On the other, they can target and isolate everything they find early.

They may have started later than South Korea but they are keeping death rates low by doing the same thing.

Looks like this is the model to follow until treatments are found.

I got this from a french article:

www.lapresse.ca

COVID-19: l’Allemagne effectue 500 000 tests par semaine

L’Allemagne a augmenté le nombre des dépistages de la COVID-19 à 500 000 par semaine, cette détection précoce aidant en partie à maintenir le nombre des morts à un niveau relativement bas, a déclaré un virologue jeudi.
www.lapresse.ca www.lapresse.ca
 
This is fascinating. If only most companies, or even our government, were as aware, proactive, and interested in being prepared as Howard E Butt's stores.

www.texasmonthly.com

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)
www.texasmonthly.com www.texasmonthly.com
 
wokeupnew said:
Pros:
  • Get to visit a lot of places in a short time
  • Caribbean islands' current economy would probably die without them
Cons:
  • Travelers on cruises are usually extremely obnoxious tourists
  • lots of germ sharing (current situation)
  • staff normally treated/paid terribly
  • Cruise ships are a massive waste of fuel/emissions
  • Quite expensive $1000+/person + airfare

I would want to take an Alaskan Cruise or European River cruise, but the stereotypical Caribbean cruise is not appealing to me. I've done that twice when I was much younger with my family already, got horrible sun burn one time and food poisoning another time.
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Indymisanthrope said:
Right, I mean normally they get such good press.

Edit: my personal beef with them is how frequently people go missing from them with inadequate investigation. Worst rate of vanished passengers? Disney.
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Thanks. I was curious because the level of antipathy Being expressed was less along the lines of “I don’t care for them“ and more along the lines of “Republicans!“
 
Interesting thought piece about how this may irreversibly change the way we interact with the consumer world. Basically, "touch" was everywhere (from the devices on display at the Apple Store to McDonald's self-ordering screens). What happens next?

nationalpost.com

COVID-19 crisis: With touch now toxic, how do you navigate the consumer world?

Psychologists and marketers thought they had touch all figured out, both as a sense and as an action. Then came COVID-19
nationalpost.com nationalpost.com
 
Turbo said:
Wow, Germany is doing 500,000 tests per week.

This explains the 0.3% death rate. On one hand, their stats probably reflect reality better than in other countries. On the other, they can target and isolate everything they find early.

They may have started later than South Korea but they are keeping death rates low by doing the same thing.

Looks like this is the model to follow until treatments are found.

I got this from a french article:

www.lapresse.ca

COVID-19: l’Allemagne effectue 500 000 tests par semaine

L’Allemagne a augmenté le nombre des dépistages de la COVID-19 à 500 000 par semaine, cette détection précoce aidant en partie à maintenir le nombre des morts à un niveau relativement bas, a déclaré un virologue jeudi.
www.lapresse.ca www.lapresse.ca
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I read this too, but this seems to be what germany is ramping up to in the moment, but so far it looks like we only tested a little over 400k people with similar selections than elsewhere. number of deaths are rising so we're in shutdown as well hoping we've acted early enough to keep the hospitals from collapsing.
 
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