LOCKDOWN: Announcement by President Trump.
15 days to slow the spread
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Listen to and follow the directions of your STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES
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IF YOU FEEL SICK, STAY HOME. Do not go to work. Contact your medical provider
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If your children are sick, KEEP THEM AT HOME. Do not send them to school. Contact your medical provider.
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IF SOMEONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD HAS TESTED POSITIVE for the coronavirus, keep the entire household at home. Do not go to work. Do not go to school. Contact your medical provider.
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IF YOU ARE AN OLDER PERSON, stay home and away from other people.
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IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A SERIOUS UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITION that can put you at increased risk (for example a condition that impairs your lung or heart function or weakens your immune system), stay home and away from other people.
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DO YOUR PART TO SLOW THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS
Even if you are young, or otherwise healthy, you are at risk and your activities can increase the risk for others. It is critical that you do your part to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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Work or engage in schooling from home whenever possible
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If you work in a CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRY such as healthcare services and pharmaceuticals and food supply, you have a special responsibility to maintain your normal work schedule. You and your employers should follow CDC guidelines to protect your health at work.
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AVOID SOCIAL GATHERINGS in groups of more than 10 people.
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Avoid eating or drinking at bars, restaurants, and foot courts-- USE DRIVE-THRU, PICKUP, OR DELIVERY OPTIONS.
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AVOID DISCRETIONARY TRAVEL, shopping trips, and social visits.
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PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE:
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Wash your hands, especially after touching any frequently used item or surface.
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Avoid touching your face
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Sneeze or cough into a tissue, or the inside of your elbow.
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Disinfect frequently used items and surfaces as much as possible.
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CORONAVIRUS MEGATHREAD, COMMENT HERE AND ONLY HERE ON .WIN ABOUT ANY CORONA NEWS
This is where it loses me every single time. I still don't know how this is determined or how it could even be determined unless we evaluate it at a worst case scenario across the board.
To give you some basic numbers here, the US admits over 35 million people into hospital stays each year. That amount equates to about ~673,000 people being admitted PER WEEK. For us to overwhelm a system that already has the capacity to deal with that alarming number of admittance really isn't easy.
Secondly, the solution to this problem is entirely in the treatment. With the vast majority of people showing only minor symptoms, the next question should be if those who require hospitalization can have better treatment plans such that they don't require a long hospital stay or can avoid a hospital stay entirely.
The biggest suggestion that I would suggest to anyone out there is to get some perspective and don't panic. Don't panic when the number of infected increases. Don't panic when the media spams everywhere with how many more people are infected. GET PERSPECTIVE.
Perspective is realizing that the infection is going to spread. We are going to see the number of confirmed infected increase and increase substantially. Just for some numbers, realize that H1N1 was estimated to have infected 21% of the global population. It had infected over 8 million people globally within 4 months of it being declared a pandemic.
In short, don't be scared by the number of people infected. Focus on the treatments. Focus on keeping yourself healthy and making healthy choices. If you get infected, take the proper steps to prevent others from getting infected and to treat it.
First of all, just think about the fact that the numbers that you cited don’t go away just because this is happening. The Chinese Flu is in addition to the 673,000 people admitted per week, many of whom will still need care.
We have about a million hospital beds in America. Each hospital has a limited number of ICU beds and a limited number of ventilators. The virus, without social distancing, grows exponentially doubling approximately every 2-4 days. It’s just math.
Exponential growth means that it takes approximately the same amount of time to grow from 10,000 to 20,000 as it did to grow from 10 to 20.
Then from 20,000-40,000.
Then from 40,000-80,000.
You can see how this gets out of control and why Trump is doing this.
Without social distancing, it’s just a matter of time before the system falls apart due to not enough capacity. And those ICU beds are not only needed by Chinese Flu victims, like I said.
Except you're just making up shit lmao. There's only 150k ish.. maybe 170 cases on the entire planet since October 2019. OOPS not quite exponential now is it.
Each country which has gotten infections, and where exponential growth has started, has gone into lockdown. China, South Korea, Italy. They have all gone into lockdown and stopped it spreading. That is why it is only 150k.
This is the US Cases over the past month as per data released from the government. That graph is clearly exponential. Do you not agree, if nothing is done, it will continue to increase like that?