Fort Lauderdale has closed their beach to the public, though just this week which is the third & final week of spring break. So the kids will just get liquored up in the rooms I guess? It's okay, college kids are immortal.
"I only feel two things Gary, nothing, and nothingness."
From what I understand from local news is that there is that vaccine is indeed one year away and nobody in MoH is actually pinning their hopes on this. On the other hand they are currently trying to find effective existing treatment, while government is trying to buy time - there are 8 existing named medications already identified that have a good potential to cut the duration and severity of the infection that are being tried out on existing patients.
I am pretty sure within 2 months some sort of reasonably available medicine will be found to be effective and once that happens they will slowly release the lockdown, as this will have decent treatment already. It's basically how SARS was eradicated, vaccine was ready just about the time it died out on its own thanks to quarantines and existing medications.
There are also more pessimistic projections, where this thing will be beaten back during summer, but will come back next winter with vengeance, from what I understand it's a worst case scenario because it's most plausible one. The problem is that many countries can handle a spike like we have now once in a decade, but if this shit will be next winter too it will be much more challenging.
Last edited by Gaidax; 2020-03-18 at 11:37 PM.
In Florida retirement hub, more worry about stock market collapse than getting sick from coronavirus
Not enough people dying to concern them.
We have a major manufacturer for Mechanical Ventilation apparatus in our country. In a recent article, after mentioning how they are working 24/7 and have to face stupid embargoes on some of their parts, some EU-competitors no longer exporting, they cited a massive order from the US military, but which will have to wait for the bigger part as some of their production is being directed to Italy among other places in direst need.
In a later article if was specified that our own military had ordered 900 machines, to supplement the maybe 1200 we have available nationwide, but short term they'll get only 50...
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
~ Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
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Every society has a layer of decadence that needs to be broken before people start reacting with rationality and self-preservation. Unfortunately, it usually takes mass deaths to break that layer of decadence.
Authors I have enjoyed enough to mention here: JRR Tolkein, Poul Anderson,Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, Glen Cook, Brian Stableford, MAR Barker, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, WM Hodgson, Fredrick Brown, Robert SheckleyJohn Steakley, Joe Abercrombie, Robert Silverberg, the norse sagas, CJ Cherryh, PG Wodehouse, Clark Ashton Smith, Alastair Reynolds, Cordwainer Smith, LE Modesitt, L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt, Stephen R Donaldon, and Jack L Chalker.
It or it may not.
I, personally, don't think it's good for mental health to go full throttle doomsday scenarios. I believe and hope that this will either be one time deal or yearly shot like flu, where you get a shot for old and new strains and we know how to figure that shit out relatively well.
Of course, this indeed can mutate faster than flu, even flu shot done in autumn might not protect you from flu in spring, because it does change. But I do hope and expect us to have reasonable solution for it overall including vaccines and medications eventually and I sure bloody hope this eventually be next year and until then we hopefully will have some quick and dirty repurposed existing medication to at least cut the fatality and severe cases rates.