Anyone have Coronavirus on the boards? If so fill us in on severity.

Ultra > Marathon wrote:

I have had a dry cough, runny nose, and headache for 3 days. No fever. I doubt it’s Corona. My wife had a fever and cough and my son has a fever and a cough ?.

Whatever it is it’s not bad enough to call in sick at work.

Dude. Do us all a favor and stay home for at least 10 days. You may be spreading it to others.

rojo wrote:

Ultra > Marathon wrote:

I have had a dry cough, runny nose, and headache for 3 days. No fever. I doubt it’s Corona. My wife had a fever and cough and my son has a fever and a cough ?.

Whatever it is it’s not bad enough to call in sick at work.

Dude. Do us all a favor and stay home for at least 10 days. You may be spreading it to others.

At this point if you're not going to get checked after having the symptoms, you're essentially a murderer.

WinnytheBish wrote:

At this point if you're not going to get checked after having the symptoms, you're essentially a murderer.

As to my coworker who was out sick with symptoms and was told on a hotline he doesn't need a test.

He's back at work today.

I'm very intersted in seeing the impact of smoking on this.

Here are the facts on smoking.

In 2015, more than 50% of the men in China smoked (women are way down like 2.7%).. The fact that the death rate for men in china is 60+% higher than women is probably linked to this is my hunch.

To the guy saying France's smoking is similar to the US, that's not true at least in smoking rates (maybe in total cigaretters per person as it's a more social thing there versus huge addiction here). In 2017, 31% of people smoked in France. Here it's just 16%. In Italy, it's 24%.

Star wrote:

WinnytheBish wrote:

At this point if you're not going to get checked after having the symptoms, you're essentially a murderer.

As to my coworker who was out sick with symptoms and was told on a hotline he doesn't need a test.

He's back at work today.

who is still going into an office? why aren't you closed?

Where I work doesn't serve the public, so it's not ordered to be closed.

I have my own office and keep a good social distance.

We have manufacturing and shipping workers that have to build and ship our products.

My sick coworker has his own office as well.

I could and should be working home more.

See current estimates of severity here on page 5 in table 1.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

rojo wrote:

To the guy saying France's smoking is similar to the US, that's not true at least in smoking rates (maybe in total cigaretters per person as it's a more social thing there versus huge addiction here). In 2017, 31% of people smoked in France. Here it's just 16%. In Italy, it's 24%.

Thanks for calling out factcheck's bullschit facts, rojo.

'Could' and 'should' do NOT cut it. Get home, now. WTF is wrong with you and a goodly percentage of Americans? The NY Governor was on TV this morning discussing the >10,000 ventilator shortage that his state is looking at. This is NOT the time to 'think about' acting. Fauci had it right days ago. If you are overreacting you're probably doing the right thing. Again. If you are overreacting you are probably doing the right thing. DO IT. GO HOME.

Star wrote:

Where I work doesn't serve the public, so it's not ordered to be closed.

I have my own office and keep a good social distance.

We have manufacturing and shipping workers that have to build and ship our products.

My sick coworker has his own office as well.

I could and should be working home more.

It is crystal clear that the country is going to have to be placed on enforced lockdown. People are idiots and cannot be trusted to take action for the public health.

Lock it down except for absolutely essential services. ALL OF IT.

rojo wrote:

Ultra > Marathon wrote:

I have had a dry cough, runny nose, and headache for 3 days. No fever. I doubt it’s Corona. My wife had a fever and cough and my son has a fever and a cough ?.

Whatever it is it’s not bad enough to call in sick at work.

Dude. Do us all a favor and stay home for at least 10 days. You may be spreading it to others.

It is too late for ?. He decided to be a super spreader. Does he think his coworkers will thank him?

JesseIsGarbage wrote:

It is crystal clear that the country is going to have to be placed on enforced lockdown. People are idiots and cannot be trusted to take action for the public health.

Lock it down except for absolutely essential services. ALL OF IT.

Ok, Stalin.

I've been following along with map that Johns Hopkins updates multiple times per day.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

I agree with JesseIsGarbage. The federal government and state governments should begin to institute a no travel policy across state lines and the major roads in and out should be manned by national guards people especially in the major population states. I think in NYC, Boston, LA, Chicago etc they should be doing this by neighborhoods. The US people can't be trusted to self quarantine like the subservient Chinese. While I view freedom and the pursuit to do what we want as our defining character trait as a nation at this time we need some outside control over us to stop ourselves from spreading the virus. Also regarding China. when this whole thing is wrapped up I believe every nation in the world needs to begin to treat China like the menace they are. The US should impose swift and crippling sanctions on them economically and militaristicly. I believe we should treat China the way we do North Korea. Things are only going to get worse with them.

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

JesseIsGarbage wrote:

It is crystal clear that the country is going to have to be placed on enforced lockdown. People are idiots and cannot be trusted to take action for the public health.

Lock it down except for absolutely essential services. ALL OF IT.

Ok, Stalin.

My office is open.

People are coming to work.

Your asking me to stay home while everyone else comes in, including the CEO who I report to.

factcheck wrote:

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

France has a smoking epidemic, not a coronavirus epidemic. Sorry these people wanted to destroy their lungs and a virus pushed them to hospitalization. At least they had some good years where smoking made them look super cool.

Factcheck: false

French people smoke a very similar number of cigarettes on average per year as Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_consumption_per_capita

WTAF is going on with Andorra and Luxemburg?!? More than double the consumption of number 3 (Belarus) at 6400 cigs/person/day. That is 18 cigs for every man woman and child every day! Are they some sort of black market?

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM wrote:

I agree with JesseIsGarbage. The federal government and state governments should begin to institute a no travel policy across state lines and the major roads in and out should be manned by national guards people especially in the major population states. I think in NYC, Boston, LA, Chicago etc they should be doing this by neighborhoods. The US people can't be trusted to self quarantine like the subservient Chinese. While I view freedom and the pursuit to do what we want as our defining character trait as a nation at this time we need some outside control over us to stop ourselves from spreading the virus.

Yeah... What's to prevent the next lockdown of political rallies or marches or whatever else is dreamed up by the media?

You just traded your freedom because you bought into a non-issue designed by the media to induce panic and mistrust of the administration. Good job. Let's give some braindead elected officials total control of us.

So what's your plan? Just let everyone get infected and whoever survives, survives? I think it's reasonable to have some trust that the government is trying to protect us. This is a war at this point.

The Media will be the ones to protect us. Trump/Administration wasn't taking this seriously. The media was. The reason why everyone is taking it this seriously is because the media did their job.

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

Yeah... What's to prevent the next lockdown of political rallies or marches or whatever else is dreamed up by the media?