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I'm still working at the moment, waiting for them to send me home for 2 weeks so I can get my bike prepped for the season
Pubs, social gatherings etc... all stopping
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This entire debacle is a result of having NO TESTING program in place. It is sheer incompetence, collectively, as a nation. Today the Administration floated an $800B economic aid plan...but still no concrete progress on making testing widely available.
The reason for all these extreme responses is we have NO OTHER TOOLS EXCEPT ISOLATION. This virus is most contagious before you even have any symptoms. This means we need to test EVERYONE. If we do that...then we can isolate only those we need to, and not shut down the whole damned country. But we have no tests.
My dad is in the hospital with pneumonia (NOT virus related) and I overheard a doc having a discussion with some nurses. Basically what he said was the answer is testing...and we have NOTHING. No plan. No progress. NOTHING from anyone on when tests will be readily available in the quantities needed to make informed public health decisions.
The US has more ICU beds per capita than any nation at 35 per 100,000, or about 110,000. That is ALL types of ICU beds - post op, cardiac, general medical, etc. About 70,000 might be applicable for C19 patients...and we HAVE to keep some open for other use. So say we have 50,000 ICU beds available for critical C19 cases.
If 5% of those infected need an ICU bed, that means 1M is the saturation point. 1M C19 cases and our hospital system will be in systemic crisis. At that level, if you ball it up on your 450 and heaven forbid need critical care, you may be screwed because the system in in systemic failure.
I understand they are prepping the doctors in Italy for warfare-style triage since they are already over capacity. In other words, "Here are the guidelines to use when you have to decide which people get healthcare and which ones have to die instead." Let's do our part to not let that happen here.
1.35 million people die in road accidents worldwide every year — 3,700 deaths a day.
Car crashes have risen to the 8th leading cause of death for people globally.
In 2017, there were a total of 34,247 car crashes involving fatalities on US roads.
I more worried driving down the road that same ass is going to clock me looking at the fuck phone.
There are a couple of reasons here, getting hurt just sucks, but now would be even worse. Going to a hospital and being close to this sickness would not be fun. Adding more work to what could be severely overloaded hospitals is not good. And yeah just to say it again getting hurt sucks.
Not saying don't ride, just saying be safe, be smart, and have fun.
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