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

It really will be. Once experts have time to really follow how it spread, when they believe the first cases got to where and all the other info that was excluded or missed.

Finding out what exactly went wrong in some of these hotspots or why things went so wrong will be interesting.

Everyone tracks by when the first death was and all of that. How many early cases and deaths that were missed in even somewhere like New Orleans is interesting to me. How many pneumonia cases were just dismissed as pneumonia cases that resulted in deaths in the couple weeks leading up.

I don't think we had mass deaths or possibly even statistically significant deaths, but our timeline could be a lot closer to Seattle or Italy than we believe. Louisiana already starting to see the infections curve trending to flat is a good sign that either we were way ahead on prevention or where we thought we were on the virus.

If people had the same resolve to cure cancer that they do this, we'd have a cure within 5 years I would think. Or at least a cure for SOME cancers because we have enough of an understanding of the cell receptors and the disease process. But people will say that hospitals make $$ by treating instead of curing, etc.

Damn. Good luck.

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My nurse said our governor is enforcing a mandatory shutdown of all nonessential businesses for a month I think. I am in no way trying to downplay a virus that is trying to kill me as I type this but do you guys think all of this is necessary? It looks like a buck load of people are going to catch the bug anyway. Social distancing is a great idea, it really is but mandatory shutdown? Anyway, is Lousiana taking measures like this as well?

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New York now has the Javits Center turned into a COVID-19 hospital, and New Orleans is about the do the same with its convention center, because the hospitals are about to overflow. We're facing a nationwide shortage of ventilators, such that President Trump used the Defense Production Act to order General Motors to retool a factory to produce ventilators.

The question isn't whether shutdowns were necessary -- the real question is why they weren't done earlier.

They will stay necessary until we can test broad swaths of the American public and can get our hospitals back to a normal occupancy, so that our healthcare system can function normally.

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I am in no way trying to downplay a virus that is trying to kill me as I type this but do you guys think all of this is necessary?

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I don't think it's necessary on its face. I think it's necessary because people aren't taking it serious and have to be dragged kicking and screaming to reality.

If people actually tried to adhere to recommendations, we wouldn't have to do this

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. I am in no way trying to downplay a virus that is trying to kill me as I type this but do you guys think all of this is necessary?

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Quit being logical, rational, and level headed... think the drugs they have you on have you ducked up

Tiquar -

Yesterday you had mentioned the feeling of “almost” having to cough.

My household had a bit of the same. A week ago my wife had a short mild fever and some mild coughing. Whereas I had some strange sensation feeling like I needed to cough for a few days, never a fever, and I would have to make myself actually cough in order to attempt to clear it. Obviously there are answers other than COVID that are more probably more likely.

Our closest suspicious contacts were either:

Wife’s coworker had left work the preceding Monday with a horrible cough and diagnosed pneumonia (no word on COVID yet)

Lady next to us at the Beachhouse in Mandeville the week prior who was coughing and hacking through her whole meal.

In both cases, my wife’s pneumonia laden coworker and the little miss hacks a lot knew something was up prior to leaving the house that day. I still fear Americans won’t know when to stay the frick home and that will drag this thing out more than anything.

Thanks sarge. I am only 44 yrs old but thanks to poor choices my lungs aren't in any shape to fight off a novel respiratory virus like this one. It was actually the good people on this very forum that urged me to go to the hospital and I am thankful that they did. I am in serious condition at one of Alabama's finest hospitals but I started a treatment plan consisting of plaquenil that we hope will do the job. I feel very sick but I don't feel like I am dying. Right now I am more worried about them canceling football season and I am only partially joking.

Just wanted to put this here...