Random Thought Thread

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Nathan the Machinist said:
Huh. Kind of looks like exponential growth.

is it possible that all the people that were saying this was just media hype and was it going to go away soon maybe didn't know WTF they were talking about?
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It's been following an exponential growth pattern everywhere it's touched down unless the local government took some extreme measures.

That little animation shows how easily a contagion spreads in the age of convenient air travel.
 
Casinostocks said:
200 detected cases in Singapore. ZERO / O / 0 / Nada / Zip / Zilch deaths!
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Casinostocks said:
200 detected cases in Singapore. ZERO / O / 0 / Nada / Zip / Zilch deaths!
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Yep. Shows the effect of super aggressive testing and isolation/quarantine protocols.

As I mentioned earlier, the other thing that I was impressed by was their transparency about what they were doing, the age of the patients, how long they were hospitalized for etc.
 
Casinostocks said:
The $15 Amazon gift card for migrating my photos to host through them is for real. I just received my $15 account credit to apply toward my next purchase only a day after completing that process :thumbsup: :)
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But can you hotlink and embed photos? That's the real question to replace photobucket...
 
Because this....

CDC recommending hospital staff use bandanas when masks run out. Hospitals are asking the public to sew masks. Here is a physician responding:

Please don't tell me that in the richest country in the world in the 21st century, I'm supposed to work in a fictionalized Soviet-era disaster zone and fashion my own face mask out of cloth because other Americans hoard supplies for personal use and so-called leaders sit around in meetings hearing themselves talk. I ran to a bedside the other day to intubate a crashing, likely COVID, patient. Two respiratory therapists and two nurses were already at the bedside. That's 5 N95s masks, 5 gowns, 5 face shields and 10 gloves for one patient at one time. I saw probably 15-20 patients that shift, if we are going to start rationing supplies, what percentage should I wear precautions for?
Make no mistake, the CDC is loosening these guidelines because our country is not prepared. Loosening guidelines increases healthcare workers' risk but the decision is done to allow us to keep working, not to keep us safe. It is done for the public benefit - so I can continue to work no matter the personal cost to me or my family (and my healthcare family). Sending healthcare workers to the front line asking them to cover their face with a bandana is akin to sending a soldier to the front line in a t-shirt and flip flops.
I don't want talk. I don't want assurances. I want action. I want boxes of N95s piling up, donated from the people who hoarded them. I want non-clinical administrators in the hospital lining up in the ER asking if they can stock shelves to make sure that when I need to rush into a room, the drawer of PPE equipment I open isn't empty. I want them showing up in the ER asking "how can I help" instead of offering shallow "plans" conceived by someone who has spent far too long in an ivory tower and not long enough in the trenches. Maybe they should actually step foot in the trenches.
I want billion-dollar companies like 3M halting all production of any product that isn't PPE to focus on PPE manufacturing. I want a company like Amazon, with its logistics mastery (it can drop a package to your door less than 24 hours after ordering it), halting its 2-day delivery of 12 reams of toilet paper to whoever is willing to pay the most in order to help get the available PPE supply distributed fast and efficiently in a manner that gets the necessary materials to my brothers and sisters in arms who need them.
I want Proctor and Gamble, and the makers of other soaps and detergents, stepping up too. We need detergent to clean scrubs, hospital linens and gowns. We need disinfecting wipes to clean desk and computer surfaces. What about plastics manufacturers? Plastic gowns aren't some high-tech device, they are long shirts/smocks...made out of plastic. Get on it. Face shields are just clear plastic. Nitrile gloves? Yeah, they are pretty much just gloves...made from something that isn't apparently Latex. Let's go. Money talks in this country. Executive millionaires, why don't you spend a few bucks to buy back some of these masks from the hoarders, and drop them off at the nearest hospital.
I love biotechnology and research but we need to divert viral culture media for COVID testing and research. We need biotechnology manufacturing ready and able to ramp up if and when treatments or vaccines are developed. Our Botox supply isn't critical, but our antibiotic supply is. We need to be able to make more plastic ET tubes, not more silicon breast implants.
Let's see all that. Then we can all talk about how we played our part in this fight. Netflix and chill is not enough while my family, friends and colleagues are out there fighting. Our country won two world wars because the entire country mobilized. We out-produced and we out-manufactured while our soldiers out-fought the enemy. We need to do that again because make no mistake, we are at war, healthcare workers are your soldiers, and the war has just begun.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Yep. Shows the effect of super aggressive testing and isolation/quarantine protocols.

As I mentioned earlier, the other thing that I was impressed by was their transparency about what they were doing, the age of the patients, how long they were hospitalized for etc.
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It’s not an easy job to isolate the potential cases. The contact tracing system is under a lot of strain. For every confirmed case, there might be 10 or more people who we need to contact and order to stay at home. We have been getting 40 over cases over the last few days and this means thousands of people to contact and put at home. This is almost impossible to execute given the number of cases in US. Full lock down might be the best for you guys.

The lack of breathing aid will be a concern soon if the number keep escalating. I hope we don’t end up having to prioritize who gets to use it and give up on some cases. This will be sad.

Continue to stay at home and preserve the health care system to save as much life as possible.
 
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Casinostocks said:
Don, thank you for the update. By imported cases, do you mean travelers who came in while already infected with the virus which they succumbed to at a later date in Singapore?
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Yes, these are travellers who has been to one of those high risk countries. We are shutting down the border today to prevent further escalation and no flight is allow to transit in Singapore either. Only Singaporean or person providing essential services are allow to enter Singapore.
 
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