Worldwide we should already be building up a population of cured and immune workers who can go back to work in perfect safety and gradually get cities and towns back on a functional basis; the first item being the restoration of the medical system to the point where both coronavirus patients, and ordinary patients, can be treated effectively.
...................................................... Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Because the press is overly fond of sharing the data, I am able to keep track > of the hotbed of US infection on an hourly basis, even though I no longer > live in WA. Latest figure had 74 deaths out of 1376 confirmed infected. > That seems consistent with the figure stated below. There was a 10% fatality > in the beginning, but has been falling toward a 5.5% kill ratio since. > > Alaska is setting up regulations governing behaviour of those entering the > state from outside. The college kids being repatriated, if they come from an > area of contagion, will have to isolate for at least 14 days, not attend > events outside their homes, use public transport, or come in contact with > others outside their homes. > > Meanwhile, eateries are no longer able to serve food unless it is delivery or > pick up. Employment in that sector (including bars) has fallen to 10% of > former staffing levels. Hope is that this only lasts until April 1. Cruise > ships will not arrive until July, which is a massive hit to the employment > where boats disgorged visitors. Expectations were for an increase in > revenues of up to 40% in 2020 from tourism. The oil fields are packing up > due to the decrease in oil prices. Todays. price for a barrel was $22.43, > down from the expected/budgeted $69 at the beginning of the year. Larger > companies are idling rigs and dropping capital investment by approx. 25%. > News this morning was some $280 million of the expected $1.8bn was leaving > the table, with other firms not yet reporting their coming cuts. > > All the applaud for government handouts is silly, as somebody (you and I, the > tax payers) will be footing the bill. Better that we were able to keep on > interacting with business to keep the economy flowing, and allow the creation > of jobs related to any deaths that take place. More grave digger jobs, more > flower arrangements and florist delivery, more hallmark cards, janitorial > positions, and the sports and entertainment sector, as well as travel could > just keep chugging along. > > I did enjoy the dissonance of the CBC stories about closing down businesses, > rousting kids from college dorms at Concordia in Montreal, shutting the > border to non Canadians, and the story of the need to import 16k agricultural > workers from Mexico to keep food growing and produce sections viable. As if > wetbacks are immune to the flu. Just wait until tamale munchers start > dropping dead off their burros. > > clay > > > On Mar 18, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > More to the point, how many people will need hospitalization to survive, > > and for how long. Doctors in Italy are being forced to decide who gets > > life saving care already, and the case load is still climbing. > > > > At the current rate of increase in caseload in the US we will hit 1.5 > > million infections in about four weeks. 3.5% of that is 51,000 deaths and > > 200,000 or so people in the hospital for more than a week, possibly as many > > as 700,000. We don't have that many hospital beds. > > > > Death rate in Italy appears to be 4-5% as well.... > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
