03-21-2020, 07:57 AM
randomq:
I don't think it is over-reacting to try to get ahead of this, at least long enough for other options (test kits, studies, antivirals, hospital capacity) to scale up.
Other options might include mandatory forehead temperature scans, hand sanitizing, and face masks to enter buildings, including employees. Or test and isolate like in South Korea. We just need a plan other than "wait and see".
We agree. Did I leave the impression that “wait and see” was something I was advocating? I feel like a failure as a communicator sometimes.
Across the country, on Hawaii, and on the big island, every large gathering has been cancelled. Sports and concerts gone. A myriad of “conferences” cancelled. Schools have closed. It appears many people are staying home to varying degrees and preparing to stay home more. I know of no way to accurately quantify the degree to which social distancing is occurring but to my eyes it happening.
My sister in northern WI, whose husband closed his dental practice, says that most everyone is taking it very seriously there. If rural Wisconsin and Puna are pretty much voluntarily laying very low, I would say that’s a pretty good sign. Urban centers are another thing entirely with multi-million populations compared to 200,000 on the entire big island.
Surely the curve _is_being flattened and lives will be saved. Is everyone, everywhere, as likely to to be as extreme as the more extreme folks are? Of course not. But the whole “screw anybody not doing what I am doing” attitude (and screw anybody who doesn’t support a mandatory national guard enforced shut down) is just righteous and arrogant to me.
But so what? I don’t expect the world to think and behave the way I do. Or to give a flying flip what I say on PumaWeb.
Thanks for discourse randomq.
Cheers,
Kirt
I don't think it is over-reacting to try to get ahead of this, at least long enough for other options (test kits, studies, antivirals, hospital capacity) to scale up.
Other options might include mandatory forehead temperature scans, hand sanitizing, and face masks to enter buildings, including employees. Or test and isolate like in South Korea. We just need a plan other than "wait and see".
We agree. Did I leave the impression that “wait and see” was something I was advocating? I feel like a failure as a communicator sometimes.
Across the country, on Hawaii, and on the big island, every large gathering has been cancelled. Sports and concerts gone. A myriad of “conferences” cancelled. Schools have closed. It appears many people are staying home to varying degrees and preparing to stay home more. I know of no way to accurately quantify the degree to which social distancing is occurring but to my eyes it happening.
My sister in northern WI, whose husband closed his dental practice, says that most everyone is taking it very seriously there. If rural Wisconsin and Puna are pretty much voluntarily laying very low, I would say that’s a pretty good sign. Urban centers are another thing entirely with multi-million populations compared to 200,000 on the entire big island.
Surely the curve _is_being flattened and lives will be saved. Is everyone, everywhere, as likely to to be as extreme as the more extreme folks are? Of course not. But the whole “screw anybody not doing what I am doing” attitude (and screw anybody who doesn’t support a mandatory national guard enforced shut down) is just righteous and arrogant to me.
But so what? I don’t expect the world to think and behave the way I do. Or to give a flying flip what I say on PumaWeb.
Thanks for discourse randomq.
Cheers,
Kirt