It's not too late and we need to all stay calm and do what we can for one another. We will have a harder lesson than we needed to have, I agree completely, but I can't support throwing up our hands. Also, it would have been somewhat bad, given a country of our size, freedom and complexity, no matter the preparation. I just wish the administration had accepted the WHO test, started manufacturing them like crazy in January and meanwhile developed their own in parallel. If we had been properly testing earlier, it might have helped a lot. But we have just so many ports of entry to people (and viruses) from all over the world. It's mind-boggling. America will always get exposed 2nd or 3rd to a new virus. Europe is similar. What we could do is build up a better public health infrastructure, but it takes prioritization and money and sometimes pieces of it sitting idle, waiting for the bad bad new bug. EDIT: Also, outside a few cities (like the one I live in, gulp) I wonder if America is already fairly socially isolated. Houston, Phoenix... car cities with fairly suburban sprawl lives for a lot of citizens. Not much high-density housing and crowded commuter rail cars, etc. Anyway, let's do our best and take it one day at a time. It's all we can do.
let’s just hope that we don’t fail at the individual and community level . people will get sick , the economy will get worse ... how do we respond ? At least with the panic buying we know a lot of people have food stocks. With Harvey , the city came together to help those in need. Can houston respond to this in a similar fashion ? It’s a different type of fear for sure and I get it . But , I’ve got faith in H-town .... now , I don’t live there anymore but as for my own situation I am stocked the **** up ... as long as no one robs me I will OK for a few months. the question is how can we rebuild / restructure afterwards ... because I do believe this is going to be an inflection point in many peoples lives. The uncertainty is still a driving factor in the downward spiraling of the situation . Over time , regardless of the government response (at any level) people will at least get a picture of what the “real” damage is. Hopefully if testing picks up , then we can get that picture faster.
Make an appointment at a harris county public health clinic for a blood test asap. You might sit there with everyone else all day, but knowing is half the battle.
Chloriquine and about 2-4 other drugs like remdesivir are looking promising for the near-future. I think Chloriquine has been used in Korea as well as China. Our best hope for a "quick help" is to use existing drugs intended for other uses. Like Chloriquine is a malaria drug that's been around for decades, remdesivir was originally a failed attempt at conqeuring ebola that's trying to be repurposed. Hopefully we can kick this soon before it gets worse and hopefully we won't get as bad as Italy.
I'm not trying to turn this into a D&D topic, so please don't turn it into one -- just watch out where your information is coming from out there (I sometimes need to do the same). I, obviously don't know if this is true, but just watch what and where you're reading it in general : Russia deploying coronavirus disinformation to sow panic in West, EU document says https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-panic-in-west-eu-document-says-idUSKBN21518F
Things starting to move. Today, FEMA activated several Emergency Support Functions, which really does push us towards a whole of government response. Finally. Lots of resource orders coming in for federal incident management teams and specialists to go help state and local governments manage the pandemic response. Several bills in the Senate likely to get attached to the larger stimulus bill that would direct federal agencies who have a presence in rural areas to help those states/counties/municipalities deal with the response. Just like our hospitals, our public health and emergency management systems will get overwhelmed during this, so all the help we can give them is absolutely needed. We took way too long to get to this point.
China has been as well -- that's why Trump suddenly started going out of his way to talk about 'China Virus'.
I have. Its not needles that scare me, cause I can take shots and not be phased. Its the sight of my blood being drawn out into the syringe tube. I automatically think that my life force and energy is getting sucked out. It wasnt even enough to make me light headed, but my mind was telling me I was light headed.
Thank you. Can you please share the source link for this data? My partner lab in Berlin does 7,000 tests a day, just this single lab. I agree that mass testing is super important. Just need to look at South Korea and how well they are doing in terms of containment right now. Yep, that's me. Slightly high blood pressure and blood type A.
When it was originally found or suspected in China by that opthalmologist, it was ignored/suppressed, but who knows how long before that it was spreading. My guess is if it was running around too long before that, people would've been dropping like flies.
