Coronavirus math...

[SidDithers]

Link to tweet

Shit.

The math is right.

1.3 ^ 10 = about 14
3 ^ 10 = more than 59,000

Sid

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[dalton99a]

2. Perfect

[sheshe2]

3. I can't add anything to that. nt

[BigmanPigman]

4. Everyone going out in public must act and think like they already have it.

Everyone must wear a mask and gloves. Even if it is just a reminder to not touch your face. You must assume you are infected and highly contagious. Every human on the planet must do this. All ages! The gloves and masks will be coming u til then STAY HOME! Don't infect your family!

My relatives in Northern Italy have been on lock down for 30 days...we must stop the spread. We can do it if we pressure our leaders non stop!

[Jarqui]

5. That was great. Thanks. Pass it on .. nt

[SunSeeker]

6. The math is horrifying. The numbers just for CA:

Our hospitals are already horrifically overwhelmed. They've run out of masks. ER nurses are begging people to sew them homemade masks on local social media. Cases are EXPLODING and we have given up on contact tracing because we don't even have enough tests for medical personnel and patients in hospitals. 

Trump's 2,000 National Guard hospital beds that he bragged today about promising to CA is just a drop in the bucket of what we will need. 

At the rate we're going, 40-60% of California's 40 million people will get infected. So conservatively, at least 40%, that means 16 milion Californians, will be infected. Of those, 20% or 3.2 million, will need hospitlization, based on the experience in China. They will need ventilators; that is why you get hospitalized for Covid-19, because both of your lungs fill up with sticky mucus and you CAN'T BREATHE. CA hospitals are already at capacity. There are only 160,000 ventilators available at America’s hospitals, plus another 10,000 in a “strategic national stockpile” run by the CDC. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article240933291.html 

Where the fuck are those 3 million Californians who will need ICU ventilators going to go????

[wnylib]

8. NYC is in a similar situation. That is why

Cuomo has asked Trump to use the emergency power to order manufacturers to produce the needed matetials.

But Trump refuses to do it. He gave a lame excuse today about not wanting to "nationalize" American businesses and claimed they did not know how to retool to do it.

This is such an obvious lie that it can only mean that he wants the situation to get out of hand. But why? How does it serve him to have the economy and health system collapse? To have millions of people die?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. See steps 5., 6., 7. ...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/naturally-selected/201702/7-steps-becoming-dictator

[wnylib]

10. A famous Henry II quote keeps

coming to mind. Not that I would suggest the same outcome. Henry himself said his words were misinterpreted.

[czarjak]

7. Been nice knowing ya, folks?