So I decided it would be a good idea to run to HyVee to get my weekend shopping done now before the weekend
Narrator: It was not a good idea
Narrator: It was not a good idea
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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Actually, I believe Dr. Fauci said that in order to be completely sure you're good to leave isolation if you have tested positive, you should test negative two times. Test negative once, wait a week, and then test negative again.
By testing everyone, you mean 1%. They've tested 1% of their population. 1%
Let's say we test everyone. Then the people with it with no symptoms will stay away from people and it is less likely they'll pass it on to you.
I realize we are too far gone for mass testing to work as effectively. But make no doubt, we are worse off because people didn't get tested and aren't getting tested.
But you said we needed to test everyone "like South Korea". Everyone is 100%. 1% is not everyone.
That would be ideal, but we are nowhere near being able to do that. Eventually we'll get to the point where a majority of the population will have resistance/immunity, mitigating the chance of our medical infrastructure being overrun. This will probably happen before the ideal situation we're talking about occurs.
There's no point in testing asymptomatics right now. There's just not. I wish I could explain it better.
It makes much more sense to do it on a state by state basis.
I've been seeing a lot of this and I don't quite understand the logic.
There are probably hundreds (maybe thousands) of regularly spread viruses every winter that can cause symptoms without testing positively for flu or strep. It is incredibly common.
Given what we have watched unfold over the last couple months, how and where the disease has spread, how health systems worldwide can be overrun in less than two weeks, the culturally draconian efforts to contain the US population, etc, what makes people think the COVID-19 they are telling themselves they already "had" behaved differently when everyone was just walking about like everything was fine?
Agree. If the virus has truly been here for months then 1 of 2 things has to be true:
1. Our healthcare system would already be overrun and we'd already have hundreds to thousands of deaths in Iowa alone.
2. Since #1 has not happened, then the virus is not very deadly at all.
I'm inclined to believe and flu-like symptoms people have in January, February or early March were something else, definitely not COVID-19.
The wife went to the store to grab a few things yesterday. She came home with enough food to feed an army vowing not to set foot in the store again until this thing passes.
Ive got enough food to get through the next two weeks; I feel like the hysteria will continue until the end of March.
IL gov also just ordered a shelter in place, so if you think people are panicked now...
Interesting. I honestly don't think the "shelter-in-place" order is much beyond what we have going on now in Iowa.
I agree but it gives the BuT mUH tESt KIts crowd something fresh to chew on, and makes government officials appear to be doing something when there is little they can do from a practical standpoint.
Avoiding what is happening in Italy. That part hasn't come yet. Look for it in the next week or so. Hope it doesn't happen.
Except you can't go to work unless your job is "essential". We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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