I have heard a ton of New Yorkers have fled to Florida as well. That seems responsible. Now if they were teenagers, we would be blasting those people for being irresponsible, but they are adults, so hey...Preparation would help a lot. We are not a nation of preparedness at the moment, and we haven't been for a long time. This spans multiple administrations and political ideologies. For decades we have sacrificed the future for today. Just look at all the deficit spending we have authorized in the last 20 years. The lack of investment in our infrastructure (think roads and bridges). Shipping production of critical goods to relatively untrustworthy countries like China and Mexico.
If we had A LOT more tests, PPE, and ventilators we would be in a much better position. With respect to opening up the country the tests are probably the most immediately of value, because they allow you to know who has the virus and who does not. Part of the reason we have to have the whole country on lockdown is because we can't test. You could theoretically shut this down relatively quickly if you could test the entire country (or as close to it as possible) and quarantine everybody who tests positive for 2 weeks. That's obviously an impractical example, but the closer you get to that the better. Many experts think that South Korea fared to well because they aggressively tested and quarantined the infected and exposed.
NYC is a big problem. The people live in extremely close quarters. Now we are seeing the wealthy flee to their second homes on Long Island and the Jersey Shore and infection rates are rising there. The counties in New Jersey that are the hardest hit are all the counties where New Yorkers have second homes.
You are also right about us being a nation of idiots. We are a country of jackoffs. Not only can we not stay home for two weeks, we have parties almost to 'spite' being told what to do. Hell, somebody in Kentucky got Coronavirus from a 'Coronavirus party'. We definitely did not take this seriously enough initially and now we have to pay a much higher price.
China is interesting - while their government control makes it easy to stop things like this more quickly, they also lie all the time. We are now hearing that the actual infection rates and death tolls may be exponentially higher than we had been informed. Their government relies on people always feeling like 'big brother has it under control', so when they get hit with an epidemic their solution is to minimize and lie to the people about the scale of the impact. I suspect China was much harder hit than we initially thought.
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03-31-2020, 08:27 AM #661
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03-31-2020, 11:36 AM #666
I'm starting to see the country shift the positioning of this being a New York / New Yorker problem. Kind of like how it was strictly a Wuh-- never mind. Stay safe everyone.
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03-31-2020, 11:39 AM #667
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03-31-2020, 12:04 PM #668
The first death in Georgia was a few miles up the road from me. That kind of hit home. It appears our grandson’s “other grandmother” has it nearby and she’s in very rough shape. I have NOT forgotten.
However......My wife’s boss is out of NYC and on this mornings call said there were more ambulance sirens than normal. I don’t know if you’ve noticed that? They left to hide at their place in Connecticut for a while. For better or worse....good luck everybody.
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03-31-2020, 12:09 PM #669
The Whole Foods strike has me concerned. My Trader Joe's closed up for cleaning after an employee tested positive. If the strike spreads to Amazon, Krogers, Costco, Walmart we are all f*cked.
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