Bring down the Hammer
Posted by david dagoli on March 24, 2020, 12:20 pm
This article is quite clear, there is hope if action is taken now: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56 'For the countries where the coronavirus is already here, the options are clear. On one side, countries can go the mitigation route: create a massive epidemic, overwhelm the healthcare system, drive the death of millions of people, and release new mutations of this virus in the wild. On the other, countries can fight. They can lock down for a few weeks to buy us time, create an educated action plan, and control this virus until we have a vaccine. Governments around the world today, including some such as the US, the UK or Switzerland have so far chosen the mitigation path. That means they’re giving up without a fight. They see other countries having successfully fought this, but they say: “We can’t do that!” What if Churchill had said the same thing? “Nazis are already everywhere in Europe. We can’t fight them. Let’s just give up.” This is what many governments around the world are doing today. They’re not giving you a chance to fight this. You have to demand it.'"
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Posted by Robin and Vicki on March 24, 2020, 1:10 pm, in reply to "Bring down the Hammer"
In times like this, information is what we need. This article gives tons of excellent detailed information. Thanks for posting David.
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Posted by Daniel H on March 24, 2020, 1:43 pm, in reply to "Bring down the Hammer"
Wow Thanks for sharing, a data geeks wet dream! As the top comment says "Your team must have been working around the clock". Chart 15 - at least La Manzanilla gets two bonus points for warm and humid climate and low population density Last one on the list - close groceries and urgent services...hmmmm The comments layout is disappointing as they are sorted by number of claps with no way to sort by new. Most of the comments are from March 19,20 which are ancient in view of how fast information is changing. Also responses to comments are two clicks further and are not threaded in a usable way. https://medium.com/p/be9337092b56/responses/show Never heard of Medium and never seen anything like this at the top of an article "Anyone can publish on Medium per our Policies, but we don’t fact-check every story". I am curious as to your path getting to this. Thanks again. | ----------------Re: Bring down the Hammer
Posted by Carol Lopez on March 24, 2020, 2:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Bring down the Hammer"
I see it like a Game. We're a team who have been assigned a coach. The coach tells us what we have to do to win: stay home, physical distance, wash hands, don't touch face. We can protest, bargain, complain, justify, try to take someone else's perspective...or we can do as the coach tells us, and win this game. | ----------------Re: Bring down the Hammer
Posted by Shannon E on March 25, 2020, 7:08 am, in reply to "Re: Bring down the Hammer"
While this may very well be an article crafted by an informed person, Medium is not exactly a respected site for medical or science articles. It is not curated nor are the author's individual claims or results peer reviewed or juried by other professional related agencies or universities etc. Go to Scholar.Google.com and search for articles and studies on a host of items and see the difference. For now I take all these kinds of articles with a grain of salt: some good info and insights, a bit of potential fear mongering, and a whole lot of regurgitation of material that is possibly not pertinent or even potentially incorrect as these things are changing minute to minute with the virus itself and the research gathered. By all means keep reading but be judicious in your resource selection.now more than ever that matters. | ----------------Re: Bring down the Hammer
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Posted by June on March 24, 2020, 4:43 pm, in reply to "Bring down the Hammer"
Here in Colorado schools, restaurants, gyms and all gatherings of 10 or more people were canceled or closed 10 days ago. Yesterday the mayor put the city on lock down, only vital services- grocery, gas stations, take out food, medical can stay open and only with 6tf social distancing while in line. He also closed liquor and pot shops, chaos ensued, so he walked that back. But in general we are under orders to stay home, even our parks are closed, until April 10. Schools MAY go back on April 17 but we all highly doubt it. It's stressful to see friends losing work and the prospect of a bunch of little businesses and restaurants going under. Even though Rick and I have worked from home for 17 years, when you are told you have to stay home, it's strange and yesterday to be ORDERED by our city government was even more strange and unnerving! In general - most of the city is complying. Not sure about the rest of the state but our governor started closing things early on. Good luck to you all! We are thinking of you! | ----------------Re: Bring down the Hammer
Posted by bonnie on March 24, 2020, 7:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Bring down the Hammer"
What's happening is that states are taking the lead in the US as Trump twiddles... Here in Vermont where i landed, all schools and businesses are closed, home delivery for the elderly or even us olders, or elders, I am in voluntary quarantine for 14 days after traveling thru 3 airports, staying in an air b&b so as to protect my family... Time to secede from the Union | ----------------Re: Bring down the Hammer
Posted by Andrew Morrow on March 25, 2020, 3:56 am, in reply to "Re: Bring down the Hammer"
PEI, Canada's smallest province, has three cases-all brought in by travellers. Our Chief Health Officer expects more from community contact. Measures have been taken to limit gatherings and all but essential services have been curtailed. The push back by the public was notable when she announced the closing of the provincial liquor stores and the cannibis stores last week. Of course the lineup made the news.The province has instigated a tip line to report on people in public who are supposed to be self isolating with fines for non compliance. The net of travellers under this order now includes travellers from other provinces and check points have been set up at the airport, Confederation Bridge and the ferry to the Magdeline Islands. Self isolating is the norm. Since our lane is a glare of ice and our car is almost out of gas it isn't even a matter of choice for us. | ----------------
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