tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post5315267455997210341..comments2024-03-28T18:32:43.699-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The contradictions and dilemmas of the coronavirus pandemicPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-91394064979773435462020-04-21T02:05:12.163-05:002020-04-21T02:05:12.163-05:00It's easy for you to say that, but what if you...<i>It's easy for you to say that, but what if you, personally, were part of the cost? Wouldn't you feel differently about it then?"</i><br /><br />No. Not if you had any honor. My aged mother is toast if she gets coronachan. She is the caregiver for my dad who, ditto. She isn't thrilled about being trapped in her home for who knows how many more months, plus the increased risk of dying, but she wants the country to reopen.OvergrownHobbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683596916721077471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-29533663818962503792020-04-06T16:53:49.712-05:002020-04-06T16:53:49.712-05:00One of my old HS friends is a doctor practicing in...One of my old HS friends is a doctor practicing in Orange county, CA. A few days back she posted a list of states that hadn't implemented statewide lockdowns with the rather hysterical opinion that the governors of those states had blood on their hands.<br /><br />One of those states is Utah, where I live now. I replied to her comment that the governor had closed down all the public school statewide, but was otherwise leaving it up to the individual counties to decide on lockdown status or not, and let her know that the highest population counties (which include about 90% of the state's overall population) had all implemented the kind of lockdwon policy that she was advocating for, but the rural and farming counties had chosen not to as they didn't think it was necessary with their typical distance from being rural.<br /><br />That took a bit of the wind out of her sails and I got a lame "Well, that's better than nothing" response to me, and she stopped posting in the comment thread after that, as I think she realized from what I'd said that "one size fits all ... doesn't."Magsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05870589034885773525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-50012467554140597822020-04-06T16:49:09.374-05:002020-04-06T16:49:09.374-05:00Mark,
"My county in PA is about 750 square m...Mark,<br /><br />"My county in PA is about 750 square miles, has a population of 51,000..."<br /><br />Imagine how people who live in the free states think about all of this. My county is smaller; it is only 1500 square miles with a population of 3500 people. We have counties bigger than some states in the "Restricted Zone" (most anything east of the Mississippi).<br /><br />Absent being told by my daughter, who was listening to the radio at the time, I would never have known that 9/11 occurred. Not to beat the horse, but it is very difficult for people who have drones flying overhead while walking in NYC, reminding them to stay 6 feet apart, to imagine living in a 1500 square mile county that does not even have one stop light.BFRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446254517738219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-27846515648752509402020-04-06T11:54:15.673-05:002020-04-06T11:54:15.673-05:00Saw an interesting piece from some site that I stu...Saw an interesting piece from some site that I stupidly didn't bookmark. It was on citizen reporters in New York. Some lady went to all the 'Coronavirus Hotspots' in NYC, and kept asking the few people there, like a paramedic, or a cleaner, or the front desk person, where are all the patients and family and chaos. The answer was pretty much universally was... "What patients? There aren't that many. No panic at all." Or some form of that.<br /><br />Makes one wonder exactly how much the numbers being reported are run through a panic-modifier in order to make things look far worse than they are.<br /><br />Not saying the virus isn't bad. I'll let actual post-virus analysis show exactly how bad it was.<br /><br />Just a very interesting observation. Makes me wonder how much is true and how much is being 'Cuomo-ed.'Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-66389924528056580782020-04-06T10:41:48.100-05:002020-04-06T10:41:48.100-05:00On April 2, I published a four-point plan to preve...On April 2, I published a four-point plan to prevent a prolonged economic recession or depression in the U.S. caused by unjustified fear and panic about coronavirus:<br /><br />1. Young and middle-aged healthy adults go back to work now.<br />2. Young and middle-aged healthy adults and children return to usual social interactions and school, using 6-foot distancing and face masks if desired.<br />3. Extreme social distancing for those at risk for serious illness from COVID-19 for the next 2–3 months, then re-evaluate the situation. The goal is NO EXPOSURE to those who may transmit the virus to them. Protect the medically frail who are over 60, particularly if over 70 or 80.<br />4. Continued isolation of COVID-19 cases until they’re no longer infectious.<br /><br />Details: https://advancedmediterranean.com/2020/04/02/stop-panicking-its-time-to-resuscitate-the-u-s-economy-coronavirus-covid19/<br /><br />-SteveSteve Parker, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13127995984175635389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-77650783352525944712020-04-06T09:54:16.036-05:002020-04-06T09:54:16.036-05:00Masks do a lot to drop infections. Czech Republic ...Masks do a lot to drop infections. Czech Republic showed that.<br /><br />Good site:<br />Masks4all.coRay - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-64247314367684415012020-04-06T08:04:58.471-05:002020-04-06T08:04:58.471-05:00I've been working from home for nearly a year ...I've been working from home for nearly a year (since I moved from NJ to PA), and most of my co-workers are in the greater NYC area (and many in NYC itself) and are now working remotely. To think that the same restrictions ought to be applied to me as to them is asinine.<br /><br />My county in PA is about 750 square miles, has a population of 51,000, and has 33 confirmed COVID-19 cases. NYC (just the city, not the bedroom suburbs) is about 300 square miles, population 8.5 million, and has 122,000 confirmed cases. So NYC has 160 times the population of my county, in less than half the area, and has nearly 4,000 times the number of cases.<br /><br />In a practical sense, before all this started I'd find myself within ten feet of anyone other than my wife, maybe 100-150 times per week (Wednesday darts night, church, shopping, eating out, mostly the first two). Now that number is probably less than ten per week, last week I think it was two (I had to go to the local deli to get cold cuts, I was the only customer, and there were two workers). When I commuted into NYC from NJ every day I'd literally be within ten feet of thousands of people a day, on the train, subway, walking, working.<br /><br />One size really DOESN'T fit all.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09088356634578211647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-26417640292732479422020-04-06T07:51:15.006-05:002020-04-06T07:51:15.006-05:00I have been getting offers for weeks. The most rec...I have been getting offers for weeks. The most recent was $3,800 a week plus expenses for EMT, and $5,000 a week for paramedics in New Orleans. My son was just offered $20,000 a week for Nurse Practitioners in NYC. Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-58433990049784968922020-04-06T07:37:46.502-05:002020-04-06T07:37:46.502-05:00Two weeks after the isolation orders end, the next...Two weeks after the isolation orders end, the next round of the "plague" begins. Whenever that happens, be it next week or next month.<br /><br />You can't out wait a respiratory infection.McChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243337792601085456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-85917036358987571802020-04-06T06:53:00.234-05:002020-04-06T06:53:00.234-05:00I noticed years ago that news coverage makes all d...I noticed years ago that news coverage makes all disasters look the same size - so, e.g., the Boxing Day Tsunami looked about as bad on the news as the Loma Prieta Earthquake, despite actually being vastly worse.<br />This may be a function of news crews gravitating toward places where things are conspicuously bad, but not so bad as to be actually dangerous to the news crews.<br />As for consequences of the economic shutdown... well, the bogus "precautionary principle" as commonly applied presupposes that there are no adverse consequences to government-imposed restrictions. Hence, the "If it saves only one life...!" mantra, heedless of the lives that the proposed action might cost.<br />When it comes to this sort of lockdown, we're looking at a trolley problem in which the number of people on each track is a matter of speculation, and taking drastic action to save tens of thousands of lives could end up costing millions of lives.Eric Wilnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351991168469225129noreply@blogger.com