Agree ... Open the **** up.Quote:
Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg
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Agree ... Open the **** up.Quote:
Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg
I still want answer from those who think nothing should open back up, when is it ok to open up? The county w the largest amount of positive is 1.2%. So we sit tight until when?? Our economy is going to be brutal. Might crash anyway. But if we lock down any longer I assure you we are toast. More people are going to die. I get it. But social distancing was never designed to stop the virus, nor deaths. Just slow it. That's been done. And yes w had the highest number of cases yesterday. Again I get it. Prior to that we've been flat for a while w some small ups and downs. I'll say this again, the economic crisis from this will be 100x greater than the virus itself....Quote:
Originally Posted by dawgday166
Just keep printing that money. Grandkids may end up speaking Chinese, but whatever...Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
You don't have to have a positive lab confirmed test to get money for covid patients as a hospital under CARES.Quote:
Originally Posted by hacker
ETA: below link is a good read on the CDC guidance under the CARES and how hospitals are reimbursed. It is acceptable to report deaths as covid 19 deaths without a positive test if it is likely or suspected the death was covid 19 related, even where the patient tested negative if it is suspected there was a false negative.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
379 cases today in Mississippi. Are we hitting our peak?
On the 397 new cases today, doesn't there seem to be one day a week where there a good bit more cases than the others? Do we happen to get outside testing numbers once a week or something?
The way this has been handled from the beginning has been completely balls up. They did this half assed approach trying to straddle the fence of protecting the economy and slowing the spread. All they did was 17 up. They needed to do a real shut down two months ago for 2-3 weeks. Then we could probably be opening back up and getting the economy going. But all they did was destroy the economy and do next to nothing to slow the spread.
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Originally Posted by Homedawg
And this.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
I have zero problem with opening it up like Sweden and just letting it burn through the population. However, I am in PPE at work and can stay home during the week. So it's unlikely I'll suffer the health consequences of opening up completely. I can watch from the window as other people get coronavirus, and we develop heard immunity. If other people want to be the sacrificial lambs, I won't stand in their way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Oh it's slowed the spread, that's no in question. But there is zero way to lock everyone down all the time for 3 weeks. Police, healthcare, electricity people, and obviously people have to go to the grocery. Even if you limit it to that, that's not a lockdown. Italy went as far on a lockdown as possible, it didn't stop there.Quote:
Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg
Let's shut down Walmarts, grocery stores, restaurants, and food processing too. Why should they be "sacrificial lambs"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
ETA... we won't. We can't. Well I think we're at the point where we have to open up for the same reason, we have to
The case number isn't really the one that drives decision making. The numbers that matter are hospitalization numbers and ICU numbers. The hospitalization numbers have been trending up and show no sign of leveling off yet. The ICU numbers are steady.
It is interesting to me that icu numbers have not risen and ventilator use has actually decreased, all while hospitalizations have risen sharply. Does that suggest that a treatment once hospitalized is working so as to avoid icu or ventilator use?Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
Or (here comes the conspiracy theory) the hospital wants the 20% premium for a hospitalization. I don't wanna believe our medical people would do this though.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Or hospitals are just admitting more people with less severe symptoms for treatment than before.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Possibly. Lot of hospitals were empty and laying people offQuote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Correct. Empty beds and staff being laid off. Hopefully treatments of this are becoming more successful.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
We don't really have a choice but to open it up IMO. We need 60-70% for herd immunity, so someone's got to take the fall. I personally am not willing to roll the dice, but, if others want to, I have no problem with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
That's very unlikely because hospitals lose money doing that. Hospitals don't want to admit mamaw with pneumonia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24