(04-20-2020 08:31 PM)UofMemphis Wrote: (04-20-2020 08:16 PM)TigersOhMy Wrote: (04-20-2020 08:01 PM)UofMemphis Wrote: (04-20-2020 03:50 PM)TigersOhMy Wrote: it does not apply to Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville.
good.
Again, stay home if you want, there are some people who want/need to work though. It’ll apply here soon.
you are in fact 'SAFER at home' though. I'm fine with say Wayne County with it's 2 positive cases reopening as normal...but Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville have FAR higher numbers and should still take precautions IMHO. That doesn't mean you're locked away in your home or something. Mess around in the garden, watch a good movie, apply for your 600 a week and get that trump check.
That's not a proven fact.
Initially we were told 6 ft distancing. Now it can be up to 27 ft.
We were told to wear masks then not to wear masks.
We were told to sanitize items coming into the home but now we're told that may not actually work.
We were told staying at home would flatten the curve. But we also know that it compromises the herd immunity factor.
Quarantines are designed to keep INFECTED people out of the general population.
What amazes me is the number of people who've died from this virus who didn't need to die. I'm shocked to learn that as several states were trying to clear hospital room space for "potential" patients they were discharging nursing home patients and REQUIRED nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients.
Nursing homes are not regulated to the same extent as hospitals. They are not equipped or staffed to handle these types of outbreaks. And given that the elderly are at greater risk of dying, governments are basically sentencing people to death.
For example, in Sumner County, TN (Gallatin): "A large portion of Sumner County's cases are linked to the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, which became a hot spot for the novel coronavirus."
Early on a nursing home in East Memphis was hit by an outbreak. At the time, East Memphis was listed as one of the hot spots in Shelby County.
What we don't know: are cases of COVID+ people just wandering around everywhere just waiting to infect the next person, or do outbreaks in high-density outbreaks facilities disproportionately skew things.
What we also don't know: have significantly more people had the virus that we don't know about?
Coronavirus: Santa Clara County has had 50 to 85 times more cases than we knew about, Stanford estimates
Quote:In a startling finding, new Stanford research reveals between 48,000 and 81,000 people in Santa Clara County alone may already have been infected by the coronavirus by early April — that’s 50 to 85 times more than the number of official cases at that date.
The estimate comes from a first-in-the-nation community study of newly available antibody tests that suggest how widespread the invisible — and perhaps benign — companion has been in the Bay Area’s hardest-hit county. Not only do the numbers show how the U.S.’s severe shortage of testing led to a profound undercount of COVID-19 cases, they indicate the virus is far less deadly than believed.
Let's assume the Stanford study is correct. Both you and I along with thousands of others, may have already been infected and never knew it.
Not know the severity it makes sense to take a better-safe-than-sorry approach. But in hindsight we may learn that we over-reacted way too much.
