Corona virus cases will skyrocket in a week.

I’ve had way to many interactions with the healthcare system....... let me just say we are F’d. They can’t handle a headache. Let alone a pandemic.

 

"Did someone call for a pandamedic?"

 

Developing story

Mayo Clinic develops test to detect COVID-19

 

Montgomery County in PA is CLOSING
Nothing open except critical infrastructure including grocery stores and gas stations.

Montco on Lockdown as Schools, Venues Are Closed Due to Coronavirus Concerns

 

You would think somebody would develop a test people could use at home or medical offices could use for immediate results. A simple index card with an area treated to detect Covid-19 antibodies that you could apply either saliva or blood and it would give you an answer now. When I was a kid back in the 60's. I came down with mono, and I remember the nurse did a finger prick and new within seconds that I had it.

 

Im pretty sure they are working on that.

The 60's and 70s were a awesome time. The doctor came to the house. The main enemies were three. TB, Typus (Typhoid) and German Measles etc or any form of measles or small pox.

I consider TB a deadly threat. Primarily because I am such a cave man, I am banking on the years of being roasted by the sun pushing a semi down the Sonora to buy me a future without TB.

 

A conversation a friend in AZ had w a friend and business associate in CA.

I was having a conversation with a friend that owns an auto-body shop
today and apparently with the mass edicts to work from home, taking huge
swaths of workforce off the road, the demand for auto-body work (and
insurance claims, and claim related car rentals etc etc) has all but
dried up as people aren't crashing as much. he said this month has been
the least work hes seen in a decade, and if it continues a large
percentage of body shops will close up.

Much of the UC school system have opted to close up shop and send
students home for remote classes for the next 8mo. Naturally there will
be no tuition discounts for this pivot.

Amazon faithfully continues to deliver my TP, and my tap water continues
to flow reliably, but the TP panic does make me thankful I have invested
in bidet seats in the house im building.

My contractor mentioned the construction industry is about to grind to a
halt out here as well, as everyone that is pre-permit phase of a project
is pulling the plug on market panic. He said hes seen many jobs halt
outright or pause recently because of the market turmoil. Expect this to
be felt everywhere.

On the other side, one of my clients is in the remote court appearance
business, and they are blowing up my phone figuring out how they can
ramp to 10x+ their current capacity.

 

Yep, and estimates are that those diseases killed 12 to 50 million people. In some parts of the southeast when Europeans arrived, the native population had been completely wiped out for a century or more. No humans at all. The natives eventually learned how to vaccinate themselves believe it or not, and it actually worked. The would grind up some scabs from an infected person and then blow them up the nose of a person not infected yet. An English physician of the time wrote about it in his journals. Eventually they were born with immunities to the European diseases.

 

It will be interesting to see all of them travel to get wine and beer after they dry out at home and get bored.

 

Valley Forge PA in America Revolution was swept by Typhus or Thypoid that threatened the very existance and integrity of the then dying US Army that winter under Geo Washington. Figuring they are dead men anyway by half or more in time by spring, they decided to take a sharp tool, collect pus fluid from the sick and dying and stick it through the skin on arms of the ones who were not sick.

We lost about 20% immediately, but the 80% gained immunity in a month and were able to continue to vaccinate anyone not yet.

It was the first use of such things in the Battlefield for that kind of medical work as far as I know. But Humans used biowar against each other for centuries, throwing dead rotting horses and humans over the walls by wooden artillery in those days.