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4 minutes ago, F250 said:

So New York is poaching nurses from around the country?

 

I doubt the 10K per week unless running seven days of 12 hour shifts. Most are recruiting at up to $100 per hour which is still damn good money. I would consider that risk pay at this point.

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Almost sounds like a scam. Back when things were hot and heavy with oil in 2012-13, companies working in North Dakota during the winter would offer people $1,000 a day, 7 days a week, to do title work. Billing for that job is usually 4 -6 weeks out, so they'd let you bill 6 weeks worth of work, then cut you and send you home and then fight tooth and nail to not pay you.

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Just now, akhornfan said:

Now you’re just going in circles. Do you really think we’re going to be at 10,000 deaths per day by 4/2 or whatever date you threw out?  Or are you moving that target?

I said 4/10. I really don't understand what you're asking for. I don't feel 100% we get there. If I had to handicap, I'd guess I'd put it 60/40 that we get there. As I told you, it just takes a couple of days to get really big swings in the numbers and we don't know precisely when our actions last week will start showing up in the statistics. 

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50 minutes ago, justhookit said:

Not seeing Fauci the last 2 days is getting worrisome.

Fauci was on CNN and was asked about not being there every day.  He said they are trying to rotate people at the pressers because everyone has their normal role to play, it takes time to do them and he has duties at the NIH.  He said he was shuttling between the NIH and the White House a bunch and that he was working with the NIH folks on vaccine trials, that some days he just needed to be present at NIH to keep progress going.

He said he was fine and not to worry, but don't expect him to appear in the briefing room every day.

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2 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

Almost sounds like a scam. Back when things were hot and heavy with oil in 2012-13, companies working in North Dakota during the winter would offer people $1,000 a day, 7 days a week, to do title work. Billing for that job is usually 4 -6 weeks out, so they'd let you bill 6 weeks worth of work, then cut you and send you home and then fight tooth and nail to not pay you.

This happens in DoD land too. I knew a guy who was contracted to do work for the Army. The dude ran into issues with his pay and raised concerns with the contracting company. A few weeks later he was arrested by Military Police and had his security clearance revoked.

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6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I am abstaining from commenting on the consequences of the decisions of our nation's leaders, because I don't want to make CTJ become just J

Maybe you should abstain because there’s actually good and informative dialogue going on in this thread.  No need to fuck it up?

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24 minutes ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

Separate the message from the messenger.  There is a cost-benefit analysis to be made AT SOME POINT.  Putting the economy into recession or depression will cost lives and wreck lives for years to come.  COVID-19 is also awful.  Which is worse?

It’s a tough decision for anyone willing to look at the big picture.

Having spent ample time with grandparents who lived through the Great Depression, I have a different perspective than many on this board. I don’t know if our country would ever reach that level of poverty again without a major disaster, but I can tell you that generation would say we must avoid letting it happen, at all costs.

However, those who want to merely rip off the bandaid don’t understand the amount of pain and blood loss which could potentially occur. There is a middle ground and it’s much trickier to navigate than we want to believe. 

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49 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

I have no doubt this is a goal.  And lord knows we're going to need to open it up eventually.  But I think the ugly headlines forthcoming out of New York during the next 2 weeks makes this timeline unrealistic (See Peter Attia video citing rapid increase in NYC Covid ICU patients last several days).  

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Just now, Dahobbs said:

I said 4/10. I really don't understand what you're asking for. I don't feel 100% we get there. If I had to handicap, I'd guess I'd put it 60/40 that we get there. As I told you, it just takes a couple of days to get really big swings in the numbers and we don't know precisely when our actions last week will start showing up in the statistics. 

That’s a really odd way to state a projection then and kind of the essence of the problem with the wild ass guesses. You say I think we’re going to be at 10,000 deaths per day, which is a pretty inflammatory number, and then defend it with the ‘why don’t you get this’ argument and then if called on it more then start walking it back. 
 

Whatever makes you happy I guess 

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It’s a tough decision for anyone willing to look at the big picture.
Having spent ample time with grandparents who lived through the Great Depression, I have a different perspective than many on this board. I don’t know if our country would ever reach that level of poverty again without a major disaster, but I can tell you that generation would say we must avoid letting it happen, at all costs.
However, those who want to merely rip off the bandaid don’t understand the amount of pain and blood loss which could potentially occur. There is a middle ground and it’s much trickier to navigate than we want to believe. 


As the son of two Great Depression parents, one who had to leave his home and travel over 600 miles to live on a farm for several years, I can tell you their stories were not fun-filled adventures. More like hunger pangs and sadness.
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1 minute ago, EuroHorn said:

Maybe you should abstain because there’s actually good and informative dialogue going on in this thread.  No need to fuck it up?

I'd say it's pretty goddamn salient to an informative dialogue to consider the study that the president is basing his miracle claims off of. 

In that study, they had 26 subjects, of which 16 recieved ongoing treatment, and of that group 6 also recieved a z-pak, and they all were soon clear of virus in their respiratory system and generally non contagious.

Those results are remarkable, but the sample size is too small, and the results have not yet been tested and repeated. It's literally bad science to draw a conclusion from that result. 

What is wrong with stating that objective fact, and that we shouldn't be hailing an untested treatment as the savior of us all? Especially when there are already cases of people acting in an unsafe manner because of the false confidence in an untested treatment?

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2 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Have family in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News area) and their school district (Chesapeake) has called school for the year.  Chesapeake is the 3rd largest city in Virginia.

was told it's the entire state

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if your model is giving you 10,000-50,000 deaths daily, you have to step away from it and consider what it might be missing.

the best way to use a model is to continually revise it with new data and re-model. the fact that some of the pictures and charts floating around look like "copy and paste" items from when the term "flatten the curve" first became popular suggests that might not be going on, or more likely the real work is getting drowned out by the mass amplification of twitter. 

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14 minutes ago, Skipper said:

I have no doubt this is a goal.  And lord knows we're going to need to open it up eventually.  But I think the ugly headlines forthcoming out of New York during the next 2 weeks makes this timeline unrealistic (See Peter Attia video citing rapid increase in NYC Covid ICU patients last several days).  

Agree, with or without a government shutdown order people are going to freak the fuck out once the death count starts to spike and businesses will be impacted. Economics is essentially the study of human behavior, there is no reason to think people will behave normally if the economy is "opened up" while shit is hitting the fan.

 

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5 minutes ago, The Dog said:

BTW liquor is sold in grocery stores in most states so closing liquor stores is no big deal.

Most?  Not in fucking Texas.  That's all I care about.

Is it too late to source parts for a still?  I'm not above making my own moonshine.

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I'd say it's pretty goddamn salient to an informative dialogue to consider the study that the president is basing his miracle claims off of. 
In that study, they had 26 subjects, of which 16 recieved ongoing treatment, and of that group 6 also recieved a z-pak, and they all were soon clear of virus in their respiratory system and generally non contagious.
Those results are remarkable, but the sample size is too small, and the results have not yet been tested and repeated. It's literally bad science to draw a conclusion from that result. 
What is wrong with stating that objective fact, and that we shouldn't be hailing an untested treatment as the savior of us all? Especially when there are already cases of people acting in an unsafe manner because of the false confidence in an untested treatment?
Seems like if NYC is the new hotbed, we should start some trials here with the hispitalized.
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21 minutes ago, Captainant said:
I'd say it's pretty goddamn salient to an informative dialogue to consider the study that the president is basing his miracle claims off of. 
In that study, they had 26 subjects, of which 16 recieved ongoing treatment, and of that group 6 also recieved a z-pak, and they all were soon clear of virus in their respiratory system and generally non contagious.
Those results are remarkable, but the sample size is too small, and the results have not yet been tested and repeated. It's literally bad science to draw a conclusion from that result. 
What is wrong with stating that objective fact, and that we shouldn't be hailing an untested treatment as the savior of us all? Especially when there are already cases of people acting in an unsafe manner because of the false confidence in an untested treatment?

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Seems like if NYC is the new hotbed, we should start some trials here with the hispitalized.

1000% agree. We've got an ample selection of trial candidates, and it could really make a difference if the results are as great as the first group. 

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1 minute ago, F250 said:

Agree, with or without a government shutdown order people are going to freak the fuck out once the death count starts to spike and businesses will be impacted. Economics is essentially the study of human behavior, there is no reason to think people will behave normally if the economy is "opened up" while shit is hitting the fan.

 

Why I'm sticking with at or around 4/20 to slowly start opening things back up.   If we are successfully flattening the curve, that may be the earliest we get good data trends over a period of days + hopefully have successfully ramped up production of PPE, testing, etc.  And it could be earlier in some places and later in others.   If you have a city that has an elite testing infrastructure that never shows a trend line on pace to overwhelm the healthcare infrastructure then maybe that city can open things up earlier.   I think we all are really going to have to start thinking about this on a city by city basis. 

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56 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:
3 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:
In Italy they're essential, judging by the fact that they're open. Also, you can buy hard  liquor at the grocery store.

They are deemed essential in NY.

Virginia too. As is construction, thankfully.

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The following is a completely unscientific wild-ass guess.  Just a gut feel.

Italy has been clipping along at 600ish+ dead per day for 10 days.  *IF* all of the intangibles are the same (and we know they are not but we don't know which are and are not).  *IF* all of the intangibles are the same it is entirely conceivable that with 5x the population we could see 3000 dying per day for some number of days at our peak, which could be for 10-14 days, in 10-14 days time, if we are 10-14 days behind Italy.  A 9/11 every day.  In 2019 we had 38,800 auto fatalties, 106 per day, spread throughout the year.  In the 2018-2019 flu season we had 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths, 94 per day, but 90% of the deaths occurred during 100 days in the depth of winter, so let's say the average clip at the peak was 308 per day ((34200 * .9)/100).  I believe in the law of averages so i'm calling my shot.

(106 + 308 + 3000)/3 = 1138

I believe that during the peak, whatever it is, we are going to see ~1138 dead per day, for 10-14 days, assuming none of the anti-virals squash the pneumonia (dying) phase.

Thus, I think the over/under is 2x Italy.

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18 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

The following is a completely unscientific wild-ass guess.  Just a gut feel.

Italy has been clipping along at 600ish+ dead per day for 10 days.  *IF* all of the intangibles are the same (and we know they are not but we don't know which are and are not).  *IF* all of the intangibles are the same it is entirely conceivable that with 5x the population we could see 3000 dying per day for some number of days at our peak, which could be for 10-14 days, in 10-14 days time, if we are 10-14 days behind Italy.  A 9/11 every day.  In 2019 we had 38,800 auto fatalties, 106 per day, spread throughout the year.  In the 2018-2019 flu season we had 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths, 94 per day, but 90% of the deaths occurred during 100 days in the depth of winter, so let's say the average clip at the peak was 308 per day ((34200 * .9)/100).  I believe in the law of averages so i'm calling my shot.

(106 + 308 + 3000)/3 = 1138

I believe that during the peak, whatever it is, we are going to see ~1138 dead per day, for 10-14 days, assuming none of the anti-virals squash the pneumonia (dying) phase.

Thus, I think the over/under is 2x Italy.

Like I mentioned before, Italy has direct links to Wuhan. They have (or had) daily non-stop flights to Wuhan. And there’s about 300,000 Chinese now living in the country and working primarily in the garment industry. 
 

Also, not sure why we think we’re lagging Italy. My guess is that this virus was already widely spread in the US back in January.  We have non-stops from Wuhan to JFK and SFO

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29 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Have family in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News area) and their school district (Chesapeake) has called school for the year.  Chesapeake is the 3rd largest city in Virginia.

It's the whole state, not just Chesapeake. I'm in Virginia Beach btw, which I think some on here were aware.

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56 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

From a nurse buddy

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So you’re posting something that says some place in this country is willing to pay non-certified, new to local healthcare system nurses a run rate of $520,000 annual salary and it didn’t cross your mind, even vaguely, that it was completely and utter bullshit? If you are actually working on people in the healthcare system in Houston, I’m moving out of the area and burning every healthcare facility to the ground on my way out of town, just to spare society from your future. 

You are the exact problem with what is going on right now. Just pure, reactionary idiocy, completely devoid of deploying any logic or reason to anything they’re hearing. Every rumor is a fact, and it must be passed on immediately!

You fucking sped. 

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The following is a completely unscientific wild-ass guess.  Just a gut feel.
Italy has been clipping along at 600ish+ dead per day for 10 days.  *IF* all of the intangibles are the same (and we know they are not but we don't know which are and are not).  *IF* all of the intangibles are the same it is entirely conceivable that with 5x the population we could see 3000 dying per day for some number of days at our peak, which could be for 10-14 days, in 10-14 days time, if we are 10-14 days behind Italy.  A 9/11 every day.  In 2019 we had 38,800 auto fatalties, 106 per day, spread throughout the year.  In the 2018-2019 flu season we had 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths, 94 per day, but 90% of the deaths occurred during 100 days in the depth of winter, so let's say the average clip at the peak was 308 per day ((34200 * .9)/100).  I believe in the law of averages so i'm calling my shot.
(106 + 308 + 3000)/3 = 1138
I believe that during the peak, whatever it is, we are going to see ~1138 dead per day, for 10-14 days, assuming none of the anti-virals squash the pneumonia (dying) phase.
Thus, I think the over/under is 2x Italy.



Read March 20 note. They think peak is still 10 days away in Italy

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
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