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2 April 2020, 12:37 AM | #1 |
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Agree with you 100%. The expected unemployment for this scenario is going to have an impact that is far longer lasting than the short amount of time folks have to shelter in place. Just in my country, we are expecting two quarters worth of impact from an economic perspective. The longer the virus stays, the longer the duration of the after effects and the longer it will take to jump start the economy. We are past the point of people "just going back to work" which is a finer point you failed to call out in your simplistic response although implode may well describe it at a high level.
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There is though a legitimate debate to be had about the risks and benefits of any given level of intervention. I say that as someone who agrees with the effective lockdown measures being implemented here and which are likely to be in place for several months.
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Look at our current situation in the US. Some states have a stay at home directive, others do not, with travel allowed freely between all regions. What good is that? |
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I have come to the conclusion that my solution of "go to bed and in the morning it will have all gone away," could very well be argued to be slightly off the mark and a slightly "laid back" approach.
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I heard a professor say, one time, “You use models; you don’t believe them”.
100-200k dead in the US. That’s a much better number than 1-2 million (doing nothing and hospitals overwhelmed nationally). It’s much worse than a bad flu. If it comes in at 80k or 220k, will you feel like they screwed it up? I won’t. |
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Even if we are inclined to ease restrictions, it seems to me they cannot be eased any more than our hospitals' capacities to care for the population, or risk collapse. Will that amount of folks going back to work really help matters, given the risks involved in these sort of calculations?
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There is concern over the health issues associated with a lockdown induced economic downturn....but what of the issues associated with an overwhelmed healthcare system? People with non Covid related situations that can't get intervention because capacity is gone. |
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I would appreciate if the death toll would be less sensationalized and more "professional" in it's depiction of the health of the people before their contracting the virus.
I realize this is difficult but it would make for a far better analysis of when and how we lift restrictions on movements. Now it's just xx died and we have no idea the ages, general previous health and complications they have pre-existing. We do know that smoking in China and Italy is a real thing. So did a large number of deaths have compromised lung issues previously. An actor died a couple of days ago and there was no indication he was already sick when he contracted the virus but someone on a messaged board that knew him indicated he was. Obviously anecdotal but it would be nice to have more in depth reporting on this stuff. Then we have the Tom Hanks stuff where he and his wife pretty much sailed through the virus much like getting the flu. Bottom line is how previously compromised are the patients that are dying when they show up in hospitals. Stay safe everyone. |
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One thing I know for sure. If hospitals are reaching out to retirees, students, and practitioners who haven't stepped foot in a hospital in years, we are under-resourced for this expanding crisis. |
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But I think the longer we don't know the real numbers of previously compromised patients the longer/harder it will be to balance the death toll vs get back to work necessity that will hit in a month or two. And I do appreciate people on the front lines of health care are overwhelmed now with bigger concerns but we need the bean counters in there as well to work the numbers statistically. We know this thing isn't going away, and we need to soon make some hard choices. Anecdotally my mother in law is 85, works 3 days a week, and is chomping at the bit to get back to work. Unfortunately she has compromised lung function due to asthma and there aint no way in hell she should be leaving her house. There are people that need to resign themselves that THEY can't work until there is a vaccination which is maybe at least a year to two away. |
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One important thing we can all do is talk with our at-risk family members about their wishes should they become ill. Making these decisions under duress is stressful for everyone involved. Having a plan is always helpful, and particularly now. |
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And thoughts on the constitutional issues at play...
We can limit the freedoms granted under the constitution and have done so frequently to prevent a clear and present danger to the publics health or welfare. The historical example is that restrictions preventing you from yelling fire in a movie theater is a reasonable restriction on free speech. Yet, preventing a KKK march is not a reasonable restriction. Historians have debated the Japanese Internment Act. At the time, people were convinced that it was reasonable and necessary. However, it was not enacted with a factual basis for the restrictions (no actual evidence of plots by these American citizens) just perceptions based on bias. The justifications for governmental action on Coronavirus are clearly allowable to prevent a clear and present danger to public health and welfare. At some point, we can start to balance that equation but not now, no matter how severe the short term impact to the economy. Once we have the medical resources available to meet the demands on the system then lets think about re-opening. We have China as guide here. I just hope that we do not ignore their experience and think we will be different as we did in the early weeks of this.
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With respect I think using anything China have done or do is flawed, they have manipulated and lied, it’s completely untrustworthy. Not to mention that for 20+ years they have been warned about the potential cost of their dinning habits. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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If we do in fact take Chinas figures as fact, it looks like there’s little further to worry about (Just re-open after a few weeks shutdown) Somehow they have re-opened and the virus has virtually stopped spreading to the rest of the population with miraculously few new cases or deaths. |
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https://www.today.com/health/tom-han...s-i-was-t93111 Seems to have fared ok. But, there have been numerous cases of young, healthy individuals passing away from it. No known diabetes, no heart issues, no renal issues, no cancer...etc It might come down to the amount of virus they were exposed to?? That needs to be considered in the balancing proposals, along with quarantining the vulnerable, as with enough virus exposure, the "healthy" are vulnerable too...they are still humans after all... That is one thing the proponents of masks will say is that even if the masks aren't perfect, they will limit the inoculum that enters the respiratory tract. Less inoculm = less illness |
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The how much is definitely a variable that isn't on most peoples radar. |
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I am not sure what the data is on that, but you do see doctors and nurses being exposed to a very high concentration and duration of exposure to virus and they can get very very ill.. So, again, my mask crusade does allow mitigation of viral load taken in as there is a barrier to block more virus from getting up you nose... I don't see a path to balancing without masks for the general public...either commercially produced or homemade. Get something in front of your face holes. |
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I have a friend in Taiwan, a country that has CV19 under control, explained to me what their country implemented when CV19 occurred. One of their first acts were to put on face masks. In fact, the government provides face masks to its population. In Taiwan, masks have become a socially acceptable practice after the SARS epidemic. It is so commonplace that people wear them even if you have any signs of being ill (ie., allergies, colds, etc.). People will get upset if you’re coughing and not wearing your mask. All of this was an anecdote for the use of face masks. The problem in the US currently is the lack of supply of surgical masks. At this stage, all supply should go towards the frontline people (ie., healthcare workers, essential services) who needs them the most. For the rest of the populace, I think some sort of face mask wouldn’t hurt. I think the challenge would be messaging it in a way that minimizes panic and hoarding. |
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Originally Posted by Zakalwe View Post The answer to this is undoubtedly complex and probably not completely understood for what is a new pathogen. I’m certainly no expert in immunology or virology but it’s likely that the variation in severity (which is also seen with seasonal influenza) relates more to the host response than to the virus itself. When you get an infection you generally feel ill because of the response mounted by your immune system. Some people’s immune systems over-react to the presence of a pathogen and it causes collateral damage and it’s these people that can become seriously unwell. Why do a minority react this way whilst most don’t? Genetics almost certainly plays a part. Certain environmental factors may be at play e.g. smoking. Advanced age degrades every system in your body, including response to infections. The observation about more young people being affected is related to the increasing number of cases over time. It was never the case that young people could not become seriously unwell (the first notable death of the entire pandemic was a young, healthy Chinese doctor) but simply that their odds are much, much better than older people. Again to analogise with ‘flu - it’s known as a disease that seriously afflicts older people but it certainly does also kill young people - 674 annually in the U.K. in the 15-44 age group according to this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...63445313003733 It’s just that you never hear about them. I agree and mentioned this in a previous reply. Could it just be that some were exposed to a higher viral load due to either multiple exposures or someone in a higher infectious condition?
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In the U.K. now they are starting to include those that died at home which I believe they weren’t previously doing, the cases have risen a fair bit today.
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These people don’t get no care in the community, though palliative care services are being tested, not so much by the numbers but the difficulties imposed by social distancing and isolation protocols.
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This is a huge part of the whole problem that gets missed, all concentrate on the virus and everything else slides. It’s lose/lose. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Also consider that a lot of people in care and nursing homes either have advanced directives which stipulate they don’t want to go into hospital in the event of severe illness or their NOK have had discussions with their doctors and concluded that their ceiling of care should not escalate to going into hospital. This is all standard stuff in community medicine and not related to COVID-19.
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JPMorgan have released their predictions for corona virus impact on GDP.
They seem to saying that only a handful of economies will be affected by >5%. Obviously any drop is bad, particularly if you lose your livelihood. However, 5% does not seem to equal ‘destroyed economy’, and should be made up within a couple of years, and seems a price worth paying for saving 100 000s of lives https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...ndation-widget |
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Obviously if there are limited deaths and people go back in a few months, the economy should pretty much rebound to where it is today within not too long. We also have the law of unintended consequences, where companies see that, you know what, some of these jobs can be part time and from home, or we can teleconference more and travel less, or small businesses just can't bounce back and disappear. etc. It will be interesting to see if there are corporate workforce reductions that don't go back to previous numbers after this. |
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Be interesting the consequences of this outbreak : will it also lead to a further step change in working from home, but this time with reduced international supply chains? And after the warnings from SARS and Bird Flu, will the international business community scale back work in China? And what could be China’s response to try to boost confidence? Could this lead to wholesale regulatory change? |
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Then American Airlines ran a commercial of how some sales exec was traveling around doing face to face meetings and getting all the contracts. I do think that humans still need the face to face thing more than sterile big screen communications to feel they want to do business with you. My wife and I were discussing this walking on the beach in Maui 10 days ago ( seems much much longer) because she is in medical education for a medical device company and she travels a lot as well as is on conference calls 5 hours a day. We wonder how this will change. Time will tell. But I doubt that things will go back to the exactly the same as before. |
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As to a couple of weeks, US has extended current guidance till end of April I am unaware of any plan under consideration in the nation that will have us back with a couple of weeds. Stay safe.
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