re: Social Distancing -Extending the virus

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Ive seen this take multiple times, yet I still don't think I agree with it. We know a lot of people will contract it, that doesn't mean everyone all needs to get it at one time. Besides, the longer we prolong it, the better doctors will understand how to treat at. If I'm someone who may be immunocompromomised, I'd rather catch it in August when doctors have a decent idea of treatnent options that work and treatment options that dont work, rather than contracting it in February and March where doctors were basically throwing shite at the wall to see what sticks. Herd immunity will happen one way or the other. That doesnt mean we have to force it to happen right this moment.

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I completely agree. Everyone is so cavalier with other people’s lives, but are likely not willing to sacrifice themselves. Im 42, I’m sure I’d be fine. But I’d prefer my parents not die in their late 60s if they don’t have to, prefer my kids get more time to make memories with both sets of grandparents, etc...Nobody’s jumping on the grenade themselves, but I’d also prefer they not throw my loved ones on it before absolutely necessary. Buying time can only help—there will be innovations in both prevention and treatment.

Vegas was open well into March with visitors from all over the country and the world, crammed together next to each other at tables sharing chips and cards, passing cash, pulling slot handles, etc.

Literally no outbreak in Las Vegas

Can anyone explain? Why is it not mentioned by the media or any politician?

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Because a vast majority of those crammed people on the strip are tourist? And the incubation period of 2-14 days likely means they are home by the time they may have symptoms?

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Las Vegas and it's county also have nearly as many cases as the rest of the state combined. Sorry you don't know how to look at stuff logically

Same bat time, same bat channel.



Wait, is it too soon to make bat jokes?

What? Of course not, that’s the whole point.

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Have to think it would have been cheaper for the government to fund this rather than send out all of the money they have as a result of the shutdown.

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Maybe, so let's take away a few billion from the corporations instead and working on building one dedicated hospital in each major city with a population exceeding...100k? Sound good?

Still doesn't explain how'd we get it done in a reasonable time. And if you do one per major city... Plus you need to man power to get it done quick... Then you probably need to offer increased pay to get those workers and work on mitigating outbreaks among the workers...

So according to Google, there are 335 cities with over 100k and an additional 14 with over 1 mil, so 2 hospitals for them, for a total of 363, let's round up to 375 new hospitals to be built in 2 weeks time.

Let's move the current infected from 0.2% (800k/400m) to 0.6% and that's now 2.4m. that's another 1.6m infected. Keeping the current national hospitalization rate of 15%, thats 240k or 640 per new hospital.

According to RS means, a 55,000 sq ft hospital would cost about 16mil for a 2-3 story hospital. According to healthcare design magazine, 2500 sqft per bed is the bench mark, so per major city and 375 hospitals and 640 beds per hospital, we'd need a 1.6m sq ft building and extrapolating the RS means data, it's $290 per sq ft, lets round down to $250.

That's 400m per hospital. Or 150 billion
So let some hedge funds fail.

You late as frick to this conversation

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Lung cancer is higher in smokers yet we allow people to smoke.

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Because tobacco lobby

And also lung cancer is not contagious

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Death by gunshot is higher when guns are in the house yet they’re legal to own.

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Also lobby
Technically contagious?