Well, elective is considered non-life-threatening. I got my stomach stapled a few years ago and that was considered elective. So are a lot of knee surgery, etc.
Emergency room doctor at the Kirkland hospital who worked on virus patients is in critical condition. He has it, and he’s in his 40s.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/evergreenhealth-doctor-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-critical-condition/
Timex
4102
This is a surprisingly not terrible idea from Ted Cruz.
JD
4103
Well, I wouldn’t really call it his idea as these suggestions have been making the rounds in the past days quite a bit. Good on him for promiting that though.
Shit just got real: The executive board of my trail club voted to close the club for two weeks, and will be padlocking the door so members can’t getting.
JD
4105
Wouldn’t a mortality rate of 0.7% be a bit too low in this scenario? Is GB healthcare system equipped to deal with 2 million critically ill patients in relatively short period of time? Also, the actual number of deaths would be higher since this doesn’t factor in the ‘regular’ people without CV19 who die because they couldn’t be properly treated due to lack of capacity.
Look it is good for the economy, at least the makers of TP and hand sanitizers.
Nice. I just said to someone yesterday that’s what should be done.
This is wild in MA. I guess now we discover what people are going to do without work for a month.
rei
4109
Ugh. My Trump-loving Viet parents think the WHO are a puppet of Communist mainland China.
This is IMHO excellent. People have been too stupid, they need rules.
I’m working from home every day until this is over - which was the plan last week too.
I expect some portion of people who can work from home will. As my boss said “this is the new normal, not a snow day.”
We are going to be getting guidance from that tomorrow. There are extenuating circumstances with my work that made them be behind the curve on this. We got the email they will have a firm policy tomorrow for those of us who do not need to be site. I had already booked a WFH day tomorrow anyway.
We’re treating this as a condition that could go on for the next year or more. I may wind up teaching a bunch of lab rats how to code once they write up all of our existing results. The only experiments we’ll be doing will be computational based ones.
People with service jobs need to go to work and need other people working so they can make money. It’s like an economic food chain.
Yes I can make websites from home. I stop going to the office, I’m not getting coffee in the morning, or lunch at the local eateries. We aren’t grabbing a beer after work. Those workers don’t get paid. The lady who cleans our office doesn’t get paid if the office is closed and she can’t clean it.
Those people tighten their belts and it goes up the ladder. What happens if Subways business takes a nose dive and they cancel their project coming up? Now we are over staffed and might need to do a lay-off. That might be in 6 months, cuz Subway takes it on the chin now but they signed this contract already, but in 6 months they can’t justify the spend on their digital marketing. So it ripples out to us. Then the people we laid off can’t buy houses. And so on.
If I’m a bartender right now, I can’t work for a month. Is the state going to send me a check?
Everything you have said is on my mind. I just wish there was something I could do other than, “order a lot of takeout.”
I’m an advocate of UBI at least for the time of the crisis. This is the perfect time to test it, as it’ll stimulate the economy, support people in need, etc.
Quaro
4117
Basically every thing the USA did not do:
Boy, that guy just oozes credibility. He should be a character actor in every disaster movie.
jpinard
4119
You wouldn’t say that if you’d ever been to sucktastic Mississippi.
