disneygeek90
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From what was reported yesterday with construction I don't have hopes up that programmers are plugging away at the ROTR coding. Maybe they can do that remotely? I'm legitimately not sure.
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Rich Brownn
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Different kinds of masks.
Of course part of the reason is the number of ICUs per capita in Italy is pretty small 12.5 per 100,000 people which is about 1/3rd of the number in the US... So the US should be able to go further before reaching the point Italy is in all other things being equal. If I was going to worry about another country running out of capacity for medical treatment it would be the UK which only has 6.6 beds per 100,000 so half as many per person as Italy.Italy: "Unfortunately the numbers of the contagion are not decreasing, they continue to be high. Soon we will not be able to give an answer to those who get sick," the governor said.
Italian official warns "soon" they won't be able to assist those who get sick
Gov. Attilio Fontana of Lombardy, Italy, made another appeal to the people: "You must not go out, you have to stay at home."www.cnn.com
That's why this is so serious. Italy is to the point they literally can't help patients.
Rich Brownn
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I think I've heard more about the 1918 outbreak in the last 2 weeks than in my entire life. Its like everyone forgot about it until now. Wonder if 2120 they'll have forgotten this one?
VaderTron
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If that were true some 40 million-120 million people would die. If true the panic we've seen so far is an under-reaction of exponential proportions. Not true and the people stating these things and causing mass panic should be sent to prison for life."The new coronavirus will infect half of the global population and have a fatality rate of up to 3%, analysts said Wednesday.
“We assume that the virus will infect around 50% of the world population; 20% of the cases will be severe, and 1-3% will result in deaths,” analysts from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in a note."
Coronavirus will infect half the global population, EIU predicts
The new coronavirus will infect half of the global population and have a fatality rate of up to 3%, analysts said Wednesday.www.cnbc.com
Just a FYI - we routinely had respirator patients on non-ICU units way back when - they had started there, but were transferred after the acute phase was over. Granted, an ICU might have more convenient equipment, but it was (and probably still is) possible to treat patients elsewhere in the hospital. It may be a case of teaching young nurses/caregivers old-school procedures. And it of course depends upon whether hospitals have gotten rid of the equipment that was used. When my friend's mother was admitted to the hospital in the late 80s, the staff had to go and search in the basement for their last remaining iron lung, and her son had to show them how to set it up.
MuteSuperstar
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Markets just tripped the circuit breakers. Trading halted 15 mins.
Bartattack
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I think that's also because the recovery (of people who are actually in hospitals) is going slowly. I can only speak for cases here in Belgium:
A guy (35) had first symptoms on march 4. Small fever, coughing, dry throat. coughing got much worse... so after a few days he went to ER. He tested positive. He was in the hospital for 2 weeks. first in ICU with ventilation machine and after 5 days in a special quarantine room for lung-patients. Today he was discharged from the hospital but he has to stay home for another 3 weeks and has to avoid contact with other people because he is not yet fully cured. That's 4 to 5 weeks since he first had the symptoms...
I don't think many are looking at the balance of their 401Ks including me. This is a worldwide meltdown. Who is actually going to visit WDW if a number of folks don't have jobs, income or savings?
ImperfectPixie
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The range of severity with this virus is freaky. I read of another patient that was only in the hospital for three days.
MuteSuperstar
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Yup....would not surprise me if they shut the markets for a while soon.
Out of curiosity, I decided to search shutdowns and came across this from mother jones.
The New York Stock Exchange has a long history of shutdowns
A brief rundown of glitches and errors on Wall Street.
www.motherjones.com
JohnD
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They're currently on hold. Expected to resume soon.
MuteSuperstar
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Yeah back now...I meant shut for days at a time in the near future.
The_Jobu
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They're entertaining at least. I always like seeing what kooky things they come up with. It's like a fun imagination game that makes you think about remedial science to explain the concepts to them.
DisneyCane
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HIV attacks the immune system and therefore prevents you from fighting it off. No human has ever cured themselves from HIV.
Other viruses, your immune system produces antibodies to fight off. Once your immune system "learns" to fight a particular virus, it is able to fight it more easily in the future. This is the concept behind vaccines.
There is no HIV vaccine because no immune system has "learned" to fight it off.
VaderTron
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We haven't heard from @Chef Mickey on this, but they probably can't wait to spend their money at WDW now that crowding issues have been dealt with Dwight Schrute style.
There are only a handful of people alive now who were alive then, and they were babies or toddlers. My now long deceased neighbor was a young girl then, and she would tell stories about seeing someone in church on Sunday and going to their funeral on Tuesday - until they prohibited both church services and non-family at funerals.
Those of us who survived the polio epidemic are Boomers now, and most were pretty young, so we only have limited memories of that time. I remember my mother being so frightened that I got every vaccination that came out in every delivery form - needles, high pressure "gun" and finally, sugar cubes. So both Salk & Sabin vaccines. I remember the beaches, theaters, and amusement park being closed. I don't remember schools closing, but I was PK/Kindergarten age, and Kindergarten wasn't required. I do remember the after affects, such as a classmate with leg braces & crutches, some fellow schoolmates with limps, and a friend's mother using a chest compressor in their dining room turned into a hospital room.
yesterday's reports are not entirely accurate - there is still some working going on
ImperfectPixie
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I keep having pictures from the Great Depression flash through my mind...my mother was an older toddler during the polio epidemic, so I've heard a story or two from her. I really fear for America right now because on the whole, we can be a rebellious bunch, and it doesn't seem like enough of us are taking this seriously (or are preventing others from getting basic supplies because they're freaking out TOO much).
ETA: Thank goodness for all you guys, because while we're talking about this whole thing, you are helping to keep me from going too deeply into my own head.
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