Official OSA COVID-19/Corona Virus Thread

[donner]

I gave the real answer.

you gave an answer.

a global conspiracy to shut down trump rallies... right

 

[donner]

I think that's about right. Sometime middle of November when it was first detected in Wuhan. That's about 4 months ago. Move those dates forward to when the first case was identified here. I think you get a pretty good idea of when the initial crisis will end here by looking at China.

China, has "begun" to return to normal. Begun. Not there yet. They are 4 months in. With a long way to go to be normalized.

This is going to be a long, bumpy, painful road. It's going to test the mettle of every American. It's going to test the strength and resiliency of our economy, and the strength and fortitude of our elected and religious and social leaders.

I believe it's going to be painful. I think we'll be stronger on the other side of it.

yep, but the thing to also consider is response and handling. China, IIRC, got serious about quarantines and testing. We aren't there yet from what i've seen and read. Our response is going to determine a lot

 

[CHenry]

I think that's about right. Sometime middle of November when it was first detected in Wuhan. That's about 4 months ago. Move those dates forward to when the first case was identified here. I think you get a pretty good idea of when the initial crisis will end here by looking at China.

China, has "begun" to return to normal. Begun. Not there yet. They are 4 months in. With a long way to go to be normalized.

This is going to be a long, bumpy, painful road. It's going to test the mettle of every American. It's going to test the strength and resiliency of our economy, and the strength and fortitude of our elected and religious and social leaders.

I believe it's going to be painful. I think we'll be stronger on the other side of it.

China was lax in getting started on serious quarantine and other measures so 8 weeks. Japan had half that time before things returned to normal or mostly all clear status. Japan was more proactive.

 

[donner]

The major issue I see is that this virus isn't going away in two weeks let alone two months.

There are people out there who can't cook as well and rely on places to go eat. These are probably the same people who have no food at home beyond a couple meager things to snack on. If we shut down restaurants it's not going to do much good anyway. But it will make things harder for the people who work there and the people who rely on them to eat.

If the stores are still open they are a transmission point. The only way to stop this here and now is a total quarantine in homes and even then you have to distribute food so how do we pick and choose who is allowed and who isn't? And even then there is no way to truly make it stick unless Marshal law is declared and then there is a big group who are going to do their best to begin world war 3 by taking possessions that are constitutionally protected. Those people will be unable to do much of anything about it until after it's already destroyed and will probably be infected just to remove the issue.


Maybe I'm wrong but the states that regulate the most are going to be the front lines for all of this. It's time to watch, wait, and prepare.

stores are transmission points, but much can be done to mitigate that (like standing father apart, etc). You could easily shop at many large stores and not get within 10 feet of another person i bet. But again, limiting trips to essential tasks (groceries, meds) helps limit, hence the social distancing.

Restaurants are harder. Believe me, i'm not thrilled with this as our town is going to get hit hard (our biggest $ is from the service industry). But there is a reason many places are closing restaurants in an attempt to stem the tide of this viral spread. And yes, it can do good in terms of slowing the spread, but that will still come at a cost, no doubt.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I'm not sure about this, maybe this is what is required in order to slow the spread down? One infected person can easily infect others in he restaurant and then they in turn, as restaurant goers tend to do, go to other restaurants and infect even more and they in turn ... so, maybe drastic measures for drastic times? What if this kind of thing saves a whole lot of lives?

This could be, as I have heard some say, "A Pearl Harbor Event". A few days ago, 1000's crowded into the Chesapeake, with nary a care in the world about the Corona Virus, hoping to watch a ball game.

Can something like that that even be considered now, mere days later? Where is this going to be in another few days? A week? Two weeks...

I know I've certainly never lived in times like this. I also know some people are too stupid to do the right things and some are too irresponsible. Trouble is; drastic actions like these affect us all.

So as I said, I'm not too sure about this. My mind is not made up.

Fear not. I believe this will fade into the new up-to-date forgotten history like the 22LR shortage, the Russia probe, the Impeachment, the toilet paper panic - eh - that's not over just yet - - -

Woody

 

[tRidiot]

It's going to be months. At the least. That's before things get back to 'normal' in terms of the panic, fear and shutdown of public events, etc.

The economic repercussions of this are going to last much longer. However, I do see a 'government stimulus' in the form of borrowing money and passing it out en masse to large amounts of the population and just borrowing the money. Giving $1000 to each and every person in America (as is already being called for) would only be $350B added on to our debt - which is a drop in the bucket in the eyes of our stupid politicians. Something along these lines is GOING to happen, but it's still not going to save many small businesses, sadly. The national debt is already out of control and we can never pay it back - so what does it matter, really?

 

[Truckdriver]

Personally, I think if you had the funk that was going around in November and December, you've already had it. You now got the antibodies to defend against a second infection. I had that funk over Christmas for 3 days of real symptoms, then about 6 weeks of light scratchy cough. It was mostly over for by beginning of February. I still dont feel quite right but feeling good enough

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Can you imagine people losing their damn minds like this every flu season?

 

[donner]

Can you imagine people losing their damn minds like this every flu season?

i can, mostly because people are terrible at threat assessment and don't seem to understand exponential spread very well.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Personally, I think if you had the funk that was going around in November and December, you've already had it. You now got the antibodies to defend against a second infection. I had that funk over Christmas for 3 days of real symptoms, then about 6 weeks of light scratchy cough. It was mostly over for by beginning of February. I still dont feel quite right but feeling good enough

Interesting, hadn't really thought about that, but you might be on to something.