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  1. I see I've been cast to another thread. Didn't think I was going political, just trying to offer another take. Will work on playing in the sand box better. I get this is serious, just have a lot of questions. When I see numbers that show over 85% of all tests are negative, seems we are heading in the wrong direction with testing. Something like 600k have tested negative to the 80k positive. That's a lot of testing that for whatever reason is being done on people that maybe don't need it? In turn it is tying up doctors, staff, and using test kits that should be done on others. Do these people have symptons, or are they panicking due to what they are hearing? Either way, they are having an impact on hospitals, etc. I also am curious as to if the flu vaccine has any impact. How many people that are positive had the vaccine? And how many people that tested negative have had the vaccine? Valid questions in my opinion. And seems the reporting a couple of weeks ago about antibiotic testing has fallen to the side. What is going on with the test group in Washington? Maybe I missed it. Our family is following the rules/orders the best we can. Staying away from folks - not ordering take-out, having conference calls, etc. But I'm also in the essential business category (land development - public works), have a family company, and need to put food on the table. Our son at UT is now living at home and is immune compromised. So this is VERY serious to me. And why can other countries test tens of thousands and have results in minutes, and we're tripping over our selves trying to test hundreds?
  2. Around 1.200,000 people die in the US each year from cancer and heart disease. We know a number of contributing factors for both yet do nothing. This will not come close to that. Yet we are destroying our lives over it. And in the US, the death rate is approaching what it is for the flu. And that without factoring in the tens of thousands that have had it and never knew.
  3. We believe so, as do our contractors. Those items would be inspected by the city and inspection fees would have been paid to the City.
  4. Is any aspect of the project public works, i.e. water main work, installing a water line for a meter, repairing a public road, etc.? The stop work order says if a project has any public work aspect to it, then the entire project is exempt. That's what we and our contractors are following. Understanding that getting inspections will likely still be a problem.
  5. Per a conference call with Adler and some contractors this morning, the City of Austin is going to direct inspectors to quit inspecting job sites starting Friday, unless they meet affordability. Public works (most subdivisions) though exempted in the order, will also be put on hold, per Adler. There were police at office building sites in downtown Austin this morning stopping workers and giving warnings as well. Group of builders and contractors apparently have the Governor's attention and he is going to address in some fashion so that all cities follow the same guidelines for construction/development/housing. Austin is the only city effectively shutting it down.
  6. But the death toll rate is falling. Italy was over 10% and is dropping, and we are now below 1.5% after being over 3% last week.
  7. We are already well beyond 50,000 cases. The vast majority are people that either never knew they had it, or just figured it was the flu and recovered. This thing has been going on for a few months here, not weeks. We will never have an accurate number, or even close to one.
  8. And time to release names of those infected and where they've been. That will help give people an idea if they've potentially been exposed and need to quarantine. All tools need to be made available.
  9. The overall death rate has fallen this week in US. It was around 3% last week and now down to 1.7% today. Step in the right direction.
  10. A doctor friend says a report circulating in the medical community shows the virus has synthetic properties to it, FWIW.
  11. No it's not. Its based on estimates. It just hasn't been adjusted yet for this. 15 million are not tested for the flu each year. That's the estimate. The deaths are known. Right now this is only killing 2% of those tested. When they factor in estimated cases, the number drops significantly.
  12. Exactly. And to say it's a 3% mortality rate is wrong as well, yet we've about collapsed the economy and have everyone in a panic. But the data suggests it will be more flu like levels. Not everyone gets tested for the flu, so they estimate how many get it. This thing has been here for weeks, not days. And thousands are estimated to have already had it and recovered.
  13. Which puts the mortality rate where? 50,000 with 40 deaths is approaching flu mortality. 500,000 is below it.
  14. Why is it assumed hospitals are going to get overwhelmed? The percentage of those that have been diagnosed and sent to the hospital is infantile. Unless there's an underlying condition, they are sent home to self quarantine. If people want to take the chance going out, they have that right. If people dont want to, then dont. I'm not going to stop living. The typical Friday hour long wait at Matt's was only 15 minutes last night. Very nice.
  15. Coburn Allen.
  16. The head of infectious diseases at Dell Medical has interviewed with every news station in town at their request. They aren't airing the interviews because he is saying it's overblown and the numbers dont add up. But no, let's just cancel everything because the government says to. Does anyone actually use their brain anymore, or just follow the crowd? The doctors at Dell thinks this is wrong. Are any of the local stations airing interviews with them?
  17. Well, other than to be the one group that didn't panic and react. They could have tried that.
  18. The board voted to keep in on last night. Commissioner's Court is meeting this afternoon, with the rodeo one of the agenda items. Based on everything else happening, it would be a surprise if they didn't cancel it.
  19. Good fucking grief.
  20. 2% is world wide, not the states. Estimated to be similar to the flu here. There are tens of thousands that have had it and didn't know it per the head of infectious diseases at Dell medical. Who also told the city that cancelling SXSW's was unnecessary. The panic is unreal and unwarranted. And as numbers continue to come out, the mortality rate continues to drop.
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