re: OT: Corona Panic 2020

My next door neighbor is a young doctor at Phoebe. He completed his residency there a little over a year ago. He's primarily interested in sports medicine. I haven't seen him so I don't.know how this is affecting him personally.

I'm afraid that Albany has too many infected poor people who will continue to spread the virus. I'm appropriately paranoid but not panicked.

Trump's comment about pushing to end the social distancing after 15 days is interesting. There's probably no one on the medical or public health side who thinks easing it up in early April would be wise. Fauci just said, "If I had my way, no human beings would have contact until July." Surely there's a better way to handle this.

Maybe there's something to be said for an objective, cost-benefit analysis. Do you destroy the economy (and possibly kill a lot of other people from stress over time) or do you let something that has a fairly low infection fatality rate spike and be done? This isn't Bubonic Plague in the middle ages. From an evolutionary perspective, some might say you let it spike.

As an aside, I had to run a few errands yesterday and thought I would find empty stores. Home Depot was bustling like any other Sunday. Kroger was pretty crowded too. There were some people wearing masks but doesn't look to me like the social distancing is necessarily happening in the way that they want (China style lockdown).

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My next door neighbor is a young doctor at Phoebe. He completed his residency there a little over a year ago. He's primarily interested in sports medicine. I haven't seen him so I don't.know how this is affecting him personally.

I'm afraid that Albany has too many infected poor people who will continue to spread the virus. I'm appropriately paranoid but not panicked.

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Stay safe buddy. Phoebe is asking staff to come in even if they test positive.

See post above. They're asking staff to come in even if they test positive, unless they're showing symptoms.

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Phoebe Memorial in Albany is a mess.

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Phoebe still hasn't ran out of supplies or ventilators.

At least not as of yesterday. Unless they made an announcement today, they are simply busy but not really overwhelmed. I think people forget what the definition of "overwhelmed" is.

They got famous last week when their CEO went on CNN to say they were sewing masks from hospital sheets. They never actually had to use them, it was precautionary. They haven't actually ran out of masks.

And I hope they don't. And I don't think they will, unless their own employees are stealing them and hoarding them at home. My friend works in accounting at an ATL hosptital conglomerate and said they recently had a whole pallet of masks stolen from the dock.

Phoebe is extra busy because their first cases were all old people that had attended the same two funerals in 1 week, full of old people, and it spread to all of them at basically the same time.

But let's be careful using the word "overwhelmed". It does not mean "busier than normal". Words have meaning. Words mean something.

Gov. Kemp expected to speak around 5:00

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As an aside, I had to run a few errands yesterday and thought I would find empty stores. Home Depot was bustling like any other Sunday. Kroger was pretty crowded too. There were some people wearing masks but doesn't look to me like the social distancing is necessarily happening in the way that they want (China style lockdown).

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It is funny to me that social distancing of 6 feet is so important. But not too long ago, they were saying that masks were useless.
Ummm. Ok. It is like people are talking. They must have something to say. But what comes out of their mouths has the same equivalent value as what comes out the other end.

It seems to me that masks have helped South Korea temper the spread. I'm curious what Germany is doing. 350 miles to their south is chaos.

Reopening Phoebe North, which will add capacity and free up space in Daugherty County

Also opening up all training facility dorm rooms to be rooms, totaling 250 across 20 locations

Just checked my FB feed for an update because im away from the house and see a lottt of people shitting bricks over this. Like hard. And he upped all ebt recipients $100? Why?

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Actually.... restaurants and bars are closed by the order.

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I listened to it live. He said it all in one sentence that said ban all restaurants and bars, nightclubs AND any social gatherings over 10 person or that cannot maintain a 6 foot distance between people.

Now, it might have been written poorly in his speech, but the way he said it, it would allow them to remain open if there are 10 or fewer people and can maintain a 6 foot space between patrons