Wow...I didn't think that this would turn into a ten page thread. I posted what I did as I am concerned for my daughter who is immune compromised-and could very well end up very sick if she were to get this virus.


We're heeding what the docs and the government have said about trying to stay safe. I think it boils down to common sense....and respect and decency for your fellow citizens.


Maybe it's just me-but I think that this thread may have run it's course...:beers:

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart (Post 1489736) Over 60? Here are the 30 Worst Coronavirus Mistakes https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wel...cid=spartandhp It's a slide show. Just let the page full load then it the FULL SCREEN button

As many as 70,000 Americans could be confirmed as infected with coronavirus by the end of next week, marking a “pretty dramatic” increase in the number of confirmed cases, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, told his employees in an agency-wide conference call on Friday. But, Collins cautioned, “that doesn’t mean necessarily that the outbreak has exploded at an even more rapid rate.” “It just means we’re now able to find out who’s out there, who is infected,” because “testing is now going to be much more available across the country,” he said. As director of NIH, Collins oversees the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose own director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has become a trusted authority during the coronavirus crisis. According to Collins, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases inside the United States currently stands at about 14,000, and, “We will probably see four, five times that number of cases a week or 10 days from now." Johns Hopkins University reports an even higher number of currently confirmed cases in the United States, nearing 17,000. An estimated 225 Americans have died. "When will we be out the other side of this?” Collins asked rhetorically on the Friday call. “I have no crystal ball. ... Will we be back [to normal] by July or August or September? I have no idea." Collins made clear that “social distancing” is vital to stemming the spread of the deadly disease, even as he derided the popular phrase.

“The greatest concern we should all have is for those most vulnerable, who if they get infected could be in real trouble,” he said. “The best thing we could do to prevent that is to not be a vector ourselves, and the best way to not be a vector is to get apart [from each other].” "We are going to have to be in this for the long haul,” warned Collins, who noted that tens of thousands of NIH employees may have been joining his discussion.

Originally Posted by Lynn (Post 1489723) I agree Steve; as opposed to Italy, where they apparently had a perfect storm for this. With only about 60% as many cases as in China, the actual number of deaths EXCEED those in China by about 800. Not doing something right.

Originally Posted by SBR (Post 1489768) My guess is that the numbers quoted by China are no where near accurate.

(CNN)Different times call for different measures. When Covid-19 hit China, I was concerned, as were many public health professionals, about what could happen and urged rapid action to understand more and prepare. But few of us anticipated the catastrophic impact the new virus has had in Wuhan, in Italy and may soon have in many other places. For most people, there is simply no frame of reference for this pandemic. Never in our lifetime has there been an infectious disease threat as devastating to society. Never in our lifetime have we seen a rich country like Italy face the need to ration respirators. And never have we seen the fear that millions of health care workers around the world feel about being infected by the virus -- justified fear we must address.

Originally Posted by Lynn (Post 1489769) You may be right about that. Still, Italy seems to be way worse than everywhere else, at least when it comes to mortality rate.