waiting out the storm (virus)

[ultrarunner]

Assuming that your answer for ultrarunner is accurate, I still don't see the point. How is the county going to do a better job running a hospital than the people who have made it their career to run the hospital?

County has the ability to allocate resources in a declared disaster... they can also procure supplies...

An example would closing due to exhausting Generator Fuel... County can "Take" fuel from a closed station and fill my tank if deemed necessary for public safety...

Another example is certain rules can be waived at EMS discretion...

We are not a public Hospital... but we volunteered to join strategic plan.

 

[drssg]

Thanks for clarifying, ultrarunner. That makes sense to me.

 

[HillStreet]

I think I’m going to watch Band of Brothers over the next few days.

 

[ruffdog]

Before COVID gets bad around here I went and bought my garden seeds and taters. Spring is coming and I'm ready for it!

 

[Gem99ultra]

I'm wondering if we're not making a bigger thing out of Covid-19 than it warrants? Twenty times more people die every day in car wrecks than have been dying from Covid-19. Should we stop driving?

 

[oldballs]

Before COVID gets bad around here I went and bought my garden seeds and taters. Spring is coming and I'm ready for it!

Same here. Yesterday I spent $100 on seed potatoes, onions and an assortment of other seeds and fertilizers. Now, if it will ever stop raining, I'm ready to get out there.

P.S. I was the only customer in the store..

Cheers,
Mike

 

[ruffdog]

Same here. Yesterday I spent $100 on seed potatoes, onions and an assortment of other seeds and fertilizers. Now, if it will ever stop raining, I'm ready to get out there.

P.S. I was the only customer in the store..

Cheers,
Mike

Same here...it was 4pm and not many people at the farm store. I was expecting more.

 

[MossRoad]

Think back 30-40 years and how many times did you hear people complaining excessively about being forced to wear seat belts, being forced to buy cars with air bags, and being forced to buy cars with crumple zones that get totaled easier?

The numbers of deaths per miles driven in the U.S. continues to drop year after year even though the population has doubled in our lifetime, as has the number of cars on the road, because of those "forced" actions.

I've mentioned it before, and so have a few other folks, that this current virus is IN ADDITION TO all other forms of illness that can currently kill us. It's piling onto the system more people than the system can handle. Hospitals are running out of PPE for their staff. If the staff gets infected, they can't work. If they can't work, more people can't get treated. More untreated people spread more illness.

Even with so many flu deaths in America each year, when's the last time you heard about hospitals being overwhelmed? Not very often. Why not? Because they are geared up to handle that annual amount of flu-related illness most years. This is IN ADDITION TO the flu.

 

[D2Cat]

I'm wondering if we're not making a bigger thing out of Covid-19 than it warrants? Twenty times more people die every day in car wrecks than have been dying from Covid-19. Should we stop driving?

The difference in your analogy is when the car wreck is over and someone dies....it's finished. The car does not keep going down the road and killing more people. This virus keeps on going and infects a couple more people, then those infect more... That's why we're asked to self isolate by 6'. Keep the spread down. (Stop the wrecks!)

 

[ruffdog]

Think back 30-40 years and how many times did you hear people complaining excessively about being forced to wear seat belts, being forced to buy cars with air bags, and being forced to buy cars with crumple zones that get totaled easier?

The numbers of deaths per miles driven in the U.S. continues to drop year after year even though the population has doubled in our lifetime, as has the number of cars on the road, because of those "forced" actions.

I've mentioned it before, and so have a few other folks, that this current virus is IN ADDITION TO all other forms of illness that can currently kill us. It's piling onto the system more people than the system can handle. Hospitals are running out of PPE for their staff. If the staff gets infected, they can't work. If they can't work, more people can't get treated. More untreated people spread more illness.

Even with so many flu deaths in America each year, when's the last time you heard about hospitals being overwhelmed? Not very often. Why not? Because they are geared up to handle that annual amount of flu-related illness most years. This is IN ADDITION TO the flu.

Good points. Most of the time we learn from our mistakes and try to limit injuries and deaths. We now have round-a-bouts that prevent the t-bone type accidents that cause bad injuries.