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

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People seem to believe everything they read on the Internet, Scruffy.

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There are so many reports it's hard to know what's true or false. It's harder than ever to parse through the bullshite and noise.

The US was at 4000 cases less than a week ago. There are a ton of new cases that have to get through the process. Let's hope the percentage of dead stays where it's been. Follow Germany's path and things are looking ok.

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Personally, I hope they get to the point where everyone is tested

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At this rate that would take a LOOOONG time man.

We've only tested like 200,000 since January 21st.

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We've only tested like 200,000 since January 21st.

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Meh.

South Korea is held up as this paragon of immaculate and quick testing, yet they only tested about 270,000 of their citizens. In a country closing in on 52 million inhabitants that's just .5% of South Korea's total population.

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This virus is essentially “trimming the fat” of society

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And everyone's 401k.

Luckily its pretty easy to get fat again. Hopefully its like a good Keto diet.

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Tried Mucinex

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Yes. I take the highest otc dose you can buy. I also have some good cough syrup with hydrocodone as well and I take a teaspoon every 8 hrs or so and two at bedtime. I think I am gonna be ok.

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Follow Germany's path and things are looking ok.

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My understanding is that Germany is "cheating" and classifying a number of coronavirus deaths as the result of other comorbidities.

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But those who have been tested positive here said that they weren’t given any follow up instructions about retesting.

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Why would you retest someone?

If they improve and do not require an intervention, we shouldn’t waste resources.

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I fall into neither camp. I think that our current restrictions are generally having the desired effect, and that we need to keep them in place for about a week after we can test 150,000 people per day, which will happen inside two weeks.

In other words, we need to keep fighting, because we're going to win. I think we have three more tough weeks ahead, and the bluer skies.

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I'm with you. I think that we need to generally stay away from one another right now. We will win, but people need to understand that a lot of these warnings aren't coming from elected officials pandering to a base. They are coming from epidemiologists, medical doctors, and PhDs who have no agenda and have (in most cases) dedicated their life to stopping infectious disease. Unfortunately, people are either panicking or blowing it off completely.

I have to go in to work at a new job Monday and I am very curious to see how people are handling it. It's a warehouse that supplies lumber to cabinet builders across the Boise area, so for a lot of the day you are a good distance away from others, but I am kinda at a crossroads. The economy is in the shitter, it will be hard to find another job, and that $2400 check we will receive can only hold us over for a month. Luckily my wife works at home permanently so she hasn't been shaken by this at all. But I have exercise induced asthma. And while that isn't nearly as serious as someone who has bonafide asthma, it does worry me a little knowing my lungs aren't the strongest things. All it takes is one of these people at this workplace not taking it seriously and we have an issue. It's really hard to know what to do in this situation. I don't want to throw away a job, but it's a serious case of evaluating the opportunity cost.

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This virus is essentially “trimming the fat” of society

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if that was true, we would see more posters here wiped out