j4remi wrote:
There's a lot. But some keys:
. We're not well prepared here and have some bad indicators that could make the impact worse (obesity rate for example).
- He thinks this thing could drag on for a while (months). He said the numbers are down in places but could pick back up when quarantines end.
- Fairly commonly known at this point but disputed a little...Masks aren't very helpful unless you're sick and trying to limit spread. Vitamins even through an IV probably won't help much.
- The warm weather doesn't seem likely to mitigate the spread.
- Our issues are going to be with resources, our culture is built on getting you what you want when you need it but we don't keep stockpiles. Had me stockpiled the N95 masks or prescriptions early, we wouldn't be at the mercy of other countries' production cycles. As it is we don't have the equipment necessary to mass produce resources to need. (As a personal bias related aside, Puerto Rico used to be our haven to produce prescription drugs and there's been some talk of bringing back that industry through incentives...we could use the economic boost for damned sure).
- I'm leaving out some random convos that pop up of course. But one that stood out to me was related to an illness that's been effecting deer. If it were to mutate and start effecting humans, likely via our hunting community, the affects sound pretty awful (and I work at a medical library fam).
- There's more that I can't recall, it's a really good interview. That's all the practical stuff. The biggest thing to me is that we're not prepared for it if it gets bad. The lack of resources and fast spread could really overtake our healthcare if people don't take precautions (and honestly by people I mean industry, businesses need to keep their workers home even if that means paid sick leave if we're buying what this man is selling...I do tbh). Be cautious is the main message...err on the safe side.
Thanks for the recap
Yeah, I think the lack of foresight is the real stressor now. I have food and water that can last 2-3 months, but I have to pay bills to pay and if it isn't the illness itself, the economic effect will hurt us all too.
That guy I spoke to yesterday was just laughing it all off. Tired of so many asshats whose whole political reality is conspiratorial fantasies driven by a hatred of some nebulous elite they can't really identify. I told him this may be 10X more potent than the flu and he just laughed it off as a scam. Very Trumpy.
The deer could be a vector. They were big lyme carriers. We have deer pop explosions. There are wild boar explosions on the Canadian border. There's a lot of problems with the wildlife intersecting developed areas.
