Menzo
4362
Wow, I hadn’t thought of that…complication. It’s like how they isolated astronauts for the last week or so before launch so their families didn’t get them sick.
That’s becoming less and less of an option.
Djscman
4364
Today was the day that Donald Trump truly became president.
Sorry, that’s just one of those evergreen lines to me, like “… threatened to derail the start of Infrastructure Week.”
Teiman
4366
USA needs China but China don’t need USA.
USA seems to be some poors that can’t even print enough mask and test to save his own people and have to ration these test based on wealth, with rich and famous getting the tests, but not the people that handle food.
Oghier
4367
Wow. That does make sense for critical infrastructure, but… wow.
Matt_W
4368
That’s just awful. I get why, but damn.
I feel stupid…how did I not know that there were pandemics in 1957 and 1968? They killed over 100,000 people each. Seems like if we can get through this with a similar number of deaths, we’ll have dodged a bullet.
Quaro
4372
There is in theory, but it’s likely very small. What I do is just not pick up the packages from outside for a few hours so they get some sun. Then I just wear gloves and put them in the garage for a few days and open later. That should reduce the risk to basically zero and there’s nothing that I need right away in anything.
Yes, a lot of countries are tracking very similar curves.
One factor I find interesting is that the growth it’s irrelevant of the size of the country (one would guess growth would slow once a significant percentage of the population is infected, but it doesn’t look likely to get that far), so smaller countries are harder hit, while big countries have a lower percentage of their population affected (and have more resources/ICU beds/respirators to tackle the crisis).
jsnell
4374
They’ve been doing 2k tests / day, which anecdotally is not enough to test everyone with symptoms. But it’s quite horrific if 2k tests produces >800 positives; I’m really hoping that the bump in new cases yesterday was due to more new testing capacity. (On the other hand, the deaths per detected case ratio is still quite low, which suggests that the testing can’t be too bad).
Enidigm
4376
Of course he’s holding up the bill, it was drafted by Democrats. And screwing Democrats is more important than the country. They kinda don’t like the country that much to begin with.
I don’t think a significant fraction of any country has yet to be infected. The numbers we’ll see every day when they are something I struggle to think about.
I don’t think so either, and I don’t think we’ll see it. But the dynamics will hurt smaller countries much more heavily.
