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TIDE-HSV said:
There's not really been time for the restrictions to take hold and show a slowing. One thing I don't understand are the delayed closings. Our schools here in HSV are going through the day Wednesday. Under the circumstances, I think that's foolish. It's like the word "exponential" didn't exist in the English language...
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I had a heart to heart with my schools principal yesterday. I was trying to ensure that my kid being out of school wouldn’t have a financial impact if the state never decided to close schools. Apparently she misunderstood and thought I wanted to withdraw him from the school. Once we got over that she was really glad for him to be out. This was before they announced the closing.

In any event, since both my wife’s work and mine sent us home, it was silly to send our mini Petri dish into a much larger petri dish every day when we were performing social segregation at our home.

All that being said, I’m pretty happy with their response. He has online classes set up, has already enrolled, and we now know what is expected school wise for his assignments at least through the end of spring break.

They are even running a food drive to try and tide over those kids that counted on school to get at least two meals a day so they are doing pretty well in my mind.
 
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Potential treatments have been discussed. Calling @DogPatch from the FB board.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/potential-pipeline-medications-for-the-coronavirus

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150618

Hydroxychloroquine is showing some promise.

www.spiegel.de

The Urgent Search for a Cure for COVID-19

Pharmacologists are rapidly testing drugs that could be helpful in the fight against COVID-19. An experimental drug initially developed for Ebola could be promising. Tests are already being conducted on patients.
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Ever since an American coronavirus patient recovered overnight after being given remdesivir, the medication has been seen as a possible silver bullet for the pandemic.
Two large studies on remdesivir in China have been running since February, with initial results expected in late April. A study has also been launched at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, in the U.S. According to the head of the study, Andre Kalil, up to 40 other sites are set to join that project in the U.S. alone. The U.S. Defense Department has already made remdesivir available to soldiers and civilian employees as part of its own study.
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Was that patient as fluke or are they onto something. I caution that there is no officially approved treatment, though doctors are capable of sometimes using off label or in the case of an unapproved drug like remdesivir getting approval for compassionate use. Still, there is only so much to go around. That said, other similar drugs may help in treatment.

China, South Korea, John Hopkins and others have put out guidelines.

www.hopkinsguides.com

Coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) | Johns Hopkins ABX Guide

Up-to-date Coronavirus COVID-19 guidance for physicians & pharmacists from Johns Hopkins ABX. Disease spectrum, testing, and clinical trials for vaccines, remdesivir, dexamethasone discussed.
www.hopkinsguides.com www.hopkinsguides.com


Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Background, Etiology, Pathophysiology

emedicine.medscape.com emedicine.medscape.com

Some preliminary answers will be available soon. When doctors in one place find a treatment useful that is often shared quickly and even without a study sometimes it is clear that they help. We've seen treatments vary by country.

Just wanted to share these with anyone who wants to look at it further.
 
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PA Tide Fan said:
I would say if Trump made a mistake it was trusting the system too much. Maybe he felt a system was in place where there were highly competent people around him to make fast decisions in an emergency. Coming from the private sector into government he probably underestimated the slowness of the system. We know how slow things go when we need help from the government and have to go though a lot of red tape to get it. I think once he recognized the slowness of the system he kicked a few butts and got things moving.
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The problem here is that we had a system in place. In the wake of other serious outbreaks, Obama created a pandemic strike force, a group with the expertise to plan for such outbreaks, and the authority to cut through red tape, so that we could respond quickly.

Trump disbanded the task force. He put nothing in its place. Then, to make matters worse, he repeatedly cut CDC funding.

So it's hard to accept that Trump trusted the system too much when he hamstrung the system's ability to respond to an emergency. It's like he drained half his brake fluid then trusted his brakes to stop the car on a steep incline.
 
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and there's this. but hey, let's listen to a jack ass who is the embodiment of the dunning-kruger effect and those trying to defend him

but i do feel safer now that i know jared is helping

Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis The communication chaos on coronavirus is eroding the most powerful weapon we have: Public trust

But the Trump administration’s zigzagging, defensive, inconsistentmessages about the novel coronavirus continued Friday, breaking almost every rule in the book and eroding the most powerful weapon officials possess: Public trust.
After disastrous communications during the 2001 anthrax attacks — when white powder in envelopes sparked widespread panic — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created a 450-page manual outlining how U.S. leaders should talk to the public during crises.
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Birmingham City Schools are shutting it down immediately and not waiting on the rest of the state.

The state has said all absences Monday through Wednesday will be excused.

My wife isn’t normally one to panic, but she has canceled a beach trip she had planned with a friend. She also canceled our plan to go to her mother’s house tomorrow to do yard work. Her mom is in her 80s so this is probably a good idea.
 
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Just FYI this has been the progression of how Trump has talked about the coronavirus in his own words. To say that his characterization of this virus is taken out of context, and due to his expectation that the bureaucracy was better equipped to deal with this just seems like you are looking for any way possible to not place any blame on Trump.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1238874380949688320
 
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Go Bama said:
FWIW, it’s obvious you are intelligent and you have genuine concerns. Sometimes we can pile on. I think if you hang around for a while you will find the NS board enlightening. CA, Earle, NT17, myself and others are conservatives. Others are progressive. Even so in these strange times we find ourselves agreeing with each other.

Bazza is a Trump guy but he’s a Gator fan so piling on is allowed.;)
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There are also at least a few of us that were very conservative years ago and have drifted way more to the middle & left. I still have conservative views on a few things but in part due to Trump & the ideology that led to it have moved past the middle in the other direction a bit.
 
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Crimson1967 said:
Birmingham City Schools are shutting it down immediately and not waiting on the rest of the state.

The state has said all absences Monday through Wednesday will be excused.

My wife isn’t normally one to panic, but she has canceled a beach trip she had planned with a friend. She also canceled our plan to go to her mother’s house tomorrow to do yard work. Her mom is in her 80s so this is probably a good idea.
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My wife also just cancelled a beach trip with her friends at the end of this month. She’s pretty bummed about it because it was supposed to be her big break from killing herself at work lately.

We did go out to a niece’s 1 year old small party which is the last public thing we’re doing for a while. People were pretty good about staying back from each other but there were still a lot of comments showing that people are still not taking this as seriously as they should.

I laughed off the previous media hyped diseases as they came out but I’ve been watching this since early January before the media caught on & I am not taking any chances with this of potentially passing it to my parents, etc.
 
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chanson78 said:
Just FYI this has been the progression of how Trump has talked about the coronavirus in his own words. To say that his characterization of this virus is taken out of context, and due to his expectation that the bureaucracy was better equipped to deal with this just seems like you are looking for any way possible to not place any blame on Trump.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1238874380949688320
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The rants on March 6 are comedy gold especially for someone who “understands” this stuff and has a “natural ability” for it.
 
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I just want to know how I get a supply of toilet paper even though that's the wrong in the virus affect. All those people can't be wrong can they? This is all in blue font, damn I'm tire of stupid people.

Our president is clueless. Hope he gets the virus so he has first hand knowledge of his screwup and I'm normally a die hard Conservative.
 
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There are also at least a few of us that were very conservative years ago and have drifted way more to the middle & left. I still have conservative views on a few things but in part due to Trump & the ideology that led to it have moved past the middle in the other direction a bit.
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we kinda have a lot of left leaning Libertarians at this point
 
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willie52 said:
I just want to know how I get a supply of toilet paper even though that's the wrong in the virus affect. All those people can't be wrong can they? This is all in blue font, damn I'm tire of stupid people.
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There does seem to be an Alabama company that is trying to gear up and restock the shelves statewide.
 
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It's the craziest thing I've heard. I'm glad they didn't adopt this tactic with the Nazis...
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I honestly can't wrap my mind on how this decision could be made. What that reporter is outlying is a best case scenario of 277K fatalities using the South Korea percentage of .07 and not what is likely when the NHS is completely overwhelmed with the sick. It's insane. I read elsewhere that the idea is that it will eliminate the double spike that was seen in the 1918 spanish flu pandemic but offering up nearly 300k citizens to die seems the wrong strategy
 
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