And they wonder why states are having difficulty. They will muddle through with major delays, but there is no way anyone is going to stand up a system that could handle this

Meanwhile...

https://popculture.com/trending/2020/04/17/us-running-out-frozen-pizza-amid-ongoing-coronavirus-pandemic/

@LuFins-Dad said in We overreacted!:

@Jolly said in We overreacted!:

@Doctor-Phibes said in We overreacted!:

It seems to me that where people can work from home, they should. And a lot of people can do, with a few adjustments, at least partially.

Healthcare is hands-on. Telemedicine is good for getting prescriptions refilled. Not so much for some other things.

I was fine with reading the temperature, pulse rate, weight, and BP to my doctor on the TelePhysical. The prostate exam however...

Just find a competent prostitute. Common procedure for a jon that's too slow.

With or without COVID-19, it’s simply not a good idea to rely on mainland-Chinese equipment in the telecommunications infrastructure. It’s too hard to trust the mainland-Chinese equipment vendors not to simply do whatever the mainland-Chinese government tells them to.

Bad optics perhaps, but he can fix it easily enough, as Jon suggested. This was set up before the pandemic.

That’s awesome

These must be math-challenged reporters. Is there no one on the news team to help them?

@Loki said in Cuomo on lab reagents:

Jolly- what about antigen testing?

Different ways to do that, such as sandwich technology (usually read on a box) or a cassette test like a pregnancy test. I know the Koreans have been using the latter and I suspect that's where we need to go (along with a serum test for antibodies). I don't know the production capabilities of the cassette test, but I do know there are some result problems.

It’s a weird line, Mugabe’s government was maybe half the size of Dennark’s.

Going extinct, sadly...

Yeah, fair point 😀

@Axtremus said in Then & Now: Pollution images:

Maybe this narrative will make a round: "Extreme man-made pollution has triggered the Earth's immune system and the Earth responded with SARS-CoV-2 to protect itself." Imagine a Hollywood blockbuster with Jeff Goldblum delivering a line along that line.

"Mother Nature finds a way". It has occurred to me that these viruses might well be seen as antibodies for the planet's immune system.

It’s even worse, they did some post adjustment afterward to make up for the fact that the volunteers weren’t properly distributed geographically. Makes sense, but the further people were from the test sites the more likely they tested positive, so they end up adjusting everything upward.

Why is that an issue? Again, self-selected volunteers. It’s already a problem that people who think they might have had something would be more likely to seek confirmation. But that seems doubly true if you had to travel an hour to a test site.

The good news is there are many other serological studies happening now, so we should get some better data.