re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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Scruffy

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I like you. Always have. But I'm so fricking glad you will never be my physician. You're as cynical about this as the Poli Tards.

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What has Scruffy been wrong about?

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Put it this way. If my six year old has a cough with no other symptoms but my overreacting wife calls a hotline and we are “asked” to stay home for 14 days without leaving and get him tested... I’m leaving.

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Did your six year old's older sister just get back from a study abroad program in Italy? Because if not, your hypothetical example isn't close to the same thing that ACTUALLY happened.

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Because there’s capacity for the flu. This adds to that capacity, sure. And the strain on hospitals is a valid concern because of that. So how do you deal with it?

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It starts by following quarantine recommendations. Which started this conversation.

So we are back to the main point that this Dad is a fricking dumbass, and everyone spreading the talking point of “this is just the flu” is contributing to it.

That being said it’s certainly not nearly as bad as the media is saying but they CDC has to make things more dramatic sometimes to get through to the average American.

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*sigh*

And the other side of the coin are those who are pushing and believe statements like “it will kill half a million people”.

This isn’t an apocalypse.

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"Not an apoclypse" is kind of a low bar. This has significant potential to shut schools and force work closures. It can be short of an apocalypse and still change our lives over the coming months.

I want one. Maybe three.


Lots of applicable posting places.

Please quarantine yourself from this board.

I didn’t compare them at all. Just one is perfectly fine while the other gets eye rolls.

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This has significant potential to shut schools and force work closures. It can be short of an apocalypse and still change our lives over the coming months.

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Hell, I'll know in less than a week what an entire school in Plano plans to do when around 200 kids are scheduled to fly back home from foreign Mini-Mester. My daughter being one of them. She's in France and communication hasn't been the best so far. Other groups span from Uganda to Spain to Cuba to Romania and on and on. But if guys like Scruffy want to know the extent of the "hysteria" stateside soon, I'll have some details.

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I like you. Always have. But I'm so fricking glad you will never be my physician. You're as cynical about this as the Poli Tards.

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It isn’t cynicism.

It is realistic emotional and rational response to the outbreak of a new novel virus.

For example, a previous poster stated that people will start caring when people around them start dying.

Come on.

Or those who bought into the idea that 500,000 Americans will die because of this.

Off the rails.

Do you know why hospitals become overrun? Panic and fear.

We push an idea that the death rate is so inflated for a multitude of factors and then scare the shite out of everyone resulting in a run on hospitals and an overload of ERs.

Then, to make matters even worse at the start of all this, some people have the grand idea to admit initial cases for quarantine, which results in a multi-week lockdown of an available bed that THEN gets in the way of treatment and impacts care.

We are nearing the end of flu season, a relatively mild flu season, and hospital overload is not an issue, at least where I am at.

It will become an issue once people start planting the seeds that little Braxton and Breighlynn are going to die.

You see it as cynicism. I see it as a realistic approach to prevent a problem that is created by what you call “an appropriate response”.

The minute we start pushing the idea that half a million people in America will die, even when China, whose numbers I purposefully inflate, doesn’t even come remotely close, we have lost control and fricked ourselves.

That is what annoys me about this.

People think they are responding appropriately by stating worst case scenarios and predicting death counts.

They aren’t. They are SIGNIFICANTLY worsening a volatile situation, and those of us in ERs thank all of those who are doing that with every ounce of sarcastic derision we can muster.

There is no containment of this. There is no further quarantine.

Keeping people calm is the BEST course of action.