You’re a good man, @Doc_GlockOriginally Posted by Doc_Glock
You’re a good man, @Doc_Glock
Cliff notes for the press conference today? Missed it.
More specifically, in this instance, one of our two senators from NC. So much for their sense of duty.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/81819...ts-on-covid-19
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus, according to a secret recording obtained by NPR.
The remarks from U.S. Sen. Richard Burr were more stark than any he had delivered in more public forums.
On Feb. 27, when the United States had 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19, President Trump was tamping down fears and suggesting that the virus could be seasonal.
"It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle. It will disappear," the president said then, before adding, "it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We'll see what happens."
On that same day, Burr attended a luncheon held at a social club called the Capitol Hill Club. And he delivered a much more alarming message.
"There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."...
...The message Burr delivered to the group was dire.
Thirteen days before the State Department began to warn against travel to Europe, and 15 days before the Trump administration banned European travelers, Burr warned those in the room to reconsider.
"Every company should be cognizant of the fact that you may have to alter your travel. You may have to look at your employees and judge whether the trip they're making to Europe is essential or whether it can be done on video conference. Why risk it?" Burr said.
Sixteen days before North Carolina closed its schools over the threat of the coronavirus, Burr warned it could happen.
"There will be, I'm sure, times that communities, probably some in North Carolina, have a transmission rate where they say, 'Let's close schools for two weeks. Everybody stay home,' " he said.
And Burr invoked the possibility that the military might be mobilized to combat the coronavirus. Only now, three weeks later, is the public learning of that prospect.
"We're going to send a military hospital there; it's going to be in tents and going to be set up on the ground somewhere," Burr said at the luncheon. "It's going to be a decision the president and DOD make. And we're going to have medical professionals supplemented by local staff to treat the people that need treatment."
There's nothing civil about this war.
Pres. Trump mentioned that cruise ship companies might offer ships to the major cities as resources for people to stay, I assume it would be a quarantine. But that's a blurb and I don't attest to the accuracy of the report.
Boss is out woth “flu-like” symptoms. There was a confirmed case in one of the buildings we have labspace in. We have a shortage of testing kits, and the recent earthquake knocked out two of our clinics. Will this make me the first P-F case?
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Need to dig out my "drive on rags" from my Lightfighter days - knew they would come back in style!
The below link will (hopefully) be a short amusing thread diversion for anyone over 50.
https://www.miamiherald.com/living/l...le1928847.html
https://www.hngn.com/articles/228138...-effective.htm
"By Staff Reporter Feb 23, 2020 10:51 PM EST
Chloroquine phosphate, an antimalarial drug, is shown to have yielded positive data against COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multicenter clinical trials conducted in China.
It is slated to be included in the next version of the Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China.
Chloroquine is under assessment in more than 100 infected patients at over ten hospitals in Beijing and Guangdong province. Plans for an additional study in Hunan province are in progress."
Googled "Chloroquine Coronavirus" and there were dozens of hits, this is just the first.
Be interested in the p-f Doc take on this.
Oh dude, I so feel for you. The only consolation is that when this shit ends, we'll be buried in work.
Wait, is that a consolation???
Doesn't read posts longer than two paragraphs.
On the surface this sounds like a good idea. Keeps the cruise ship companies from going bottoms up, provides an effective quarantine for The Infected.
I'm actually sort of surprised this wasn't put in to place already.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
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