Coronavirus thread

[HeavyDuty]

Now there is a single case here in Chicago. Local news is wigging out.

[LittleLebowski]

This is not a reason to stock-up on ammo, short stocks, or put all of your assets in gold. If you were praying for a calamity to thin the urban heard ahead of the 2020 election, you’ll need to keep praying for the meteor.


However, rest assured that it will cost us hundreds of billions in terms of lost productivity, misallocated resources, and a general media-perpetuated hysteria.

Banned for buzzkill.

[LittleLebowski]

My infectious diseases doctor brother in law is implementing screenings at his hospital.

[LittleLebowski]

I guess that the run on N-95 masks has already begun

[Maple Syrup Actual]

Spoke to my dad briefly yesterday. He phoned me up on account of this thing - every time there's a new infectious disease that makes the news I get this call.

To be fair he is pushing 80 so I don't blame him for lacking a bit of perspective on whether each new possible pandemic could be a serious threat.

But it's getting harder to disappoint him each time so this time I just said, "yeah, maybe this will be the one. The population has to crash sooner or later."

I'm just trying to help the guy stay positive.

[kwb377]

"Everybody was Kung Flu fighting..."

Too soon?

[Sensei]

My infectious diseases doctor brother in law is implementing screenings at his hospital.

I think that it’s a good practice for every healthcare provider to elicit a travel history in everyone with symptoms of a communicable disease - from EMT up to doctor. It’s part of the dog and pony show that I do for anyone with the respiratory crud, GI trots, or any unexplained fever.

However, there is no reason at this point to pay overtime setting up hospital response teams, making everyone in healthcare take PAPR training, causing death by PowerPoint for every public worker, or ordering expensive Respiratory Viral Panels on everyone with a fever and sniffles.

FWIW, my last shop spent close to $2M in Ebola-related BS 5 years ago. The fact that the Dow shed 100 points today in response to a second traveler being sick is the type of hysteria that I expect from a high school cheerleader slumber party - not the most powerful country in the world.

[RoyGBiv]

Better for mowing the lawn.

[LittleLebowski]

I think that it’s a good practice for every healthcare provider to elicit a travel history in everyone with symptoms of a communicable disease - from EMT up to doctor. It’s part of the dog and pony show that I do for anyone with the respiratory crud, GI trots, or any unexplained fever.

However, there is no reason at this point to pay overtime setting up hospital response teams, making everyone in healthcare take PAPR training, causing death by PowerPoint for every public worker, or ordering expensive Respiratory Viral Panels on everyone with a fever and sniffles.

FWIW, my last shop spent close to $2M in Ebola-related BS 5 years ago. The fact that the Dow shed 100 points today in response to a second traveler being sick is the type of hysteria that I expect from a high school cheerleader slumber party - not the most powerful country in the world.

For what it’s worth, I’d much rather have you as my BIL, no homo

[farscott]

FWIW, my last shop spent close to $2M in Ebola-related BS 5 years ago. The fact that the Dow shed 100 points today in response to a second traveler being sick is the type of hysteria that I expect from a high school cheerleader slumber party - not the most powerful country in the world.

100 points on the Dow is 0.34%. Bigger moves come from President Trump's tweets.