Redneck Mafia
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We have a thread on the off topic page and one of our regular posters over there has a niece.
Reports of many suspected cases right now testing has been very limited (only a few thousand in the whole country) and the ability to get test under old guidelines (more specifically geared toward the Ebola scare) Guidelines for getting tests were just changed so the ability for doctors to get tests should go way up. There have been a large number of pneumonia deaths recently very few of these were tested. Flu and pneumonia are typically grouped as one statistic. Yes thousands die from these every year. Millions contract one of the various strains of flu. Yes this is more deadly % wise than flu.
What so many of you don't understand is what the powers that be are trying to do by these crowd restrictions. They are trying to "flatten the curve". This means limit the number of cases over a longer period of time rather than a huge peak of cases at once so that facilities can actually handle the case load. I've posted this before but picture a graph with a large peak like a mountain as opposed to a long drawn out hill, the hill is manageable the mountain tough decisions have to be made as are happening in other countries right now. Any one familiarized with the medical field will tell you that at this time the hospitals run at near full capacity with flu, heart attacks, pneumonia ect, ect, ect. There are are only so many ventilators and they are found in the ICU setting requiring specialized nurses and much one to one ratio. Ecmo machines are not found in many of our hospitals that the most serious patients require. Being a novel virus (meaning new virus)none of us has any immunity to it and before it is all said and done most likely each and everyone of us will have been exposed just like we are to the various flu strains. Like the flu and cold viruses it is also zoonotic and will likely mutate many times (the saying you never catch the same cold twice), scientists right now believe there are already 2 active strains going one a mutation of the first. Luckily for everyone and especially children it does seems to be causing very mild symptoms in many and some are completely asymptomatic. We can hope we've been the asymptomatic ones but those are still carriers and spreaders. Here is the problem somewhere between 12% and the upper teens of known cases have required some sort of respiratory therapy and of those around 5% have been critical. These are the numbers that have the medical world very concerned. It's not even so much the death rate it is the ability of a new virus that no one has immunity to rapidly spread therefore overwhelming an all ready strained system that will require respiratory therapy. Hence this is their wish to slow it's progressions to help keep the number of critical patients at a level they can manage and care for.
*I will also add there is no reason to panic and no reason to politicize. They can't eat that toilet paper lol.
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