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Containment vs. mitigation. I consume too much coverage of this and won't assume everyone knows the difference. Containment is what we were trying to do when the virus reached our country. You find individual people who are infected and isolate them and trace their contacts and quarantine them. It worked until too many people were infected. Then we went to mitigation — social distancing etc. Bend the curve. I am almost certain the plan now is to get out of mitigation and back into containment. At least that's what Drs. Redfield, Fauci and Birx have been saying. It's what the new guidelines suggest is the way forward. You have to go through "gates" to get into phase one of the re-opening, which involves having declining new cases and hospitalizations for 14 days in a row. Of course these are federal guidelines and the governors are clearly in charge. Dr. Birx said yesterday the idea is to get back to a baseline of influenza-like-illness reports coming out of hospitals, which this time of year would be approaching 0. Then you can easily tell when an area is starting to have a problem. That area, in theory anyway, would then have resources flooded to it to test and trace and so on. She also said general testing of vulnerable communities (nursing homes, inner city areas, tribal communities) would occur to look for even the asymptomatic cases, to reduce the chance of an outbreak. To use your analogy, it's not an extra point we have to make to open non-essential businesses and schools back up, and relax social distancing, it's a 47-yard field goal off grass to win the Super Bowl. I think it's going to take longer to get there than you are suggesting. I believe the president, vice president and governors know it, despite the side show nonsense we'll continue to see. As always, I could be wrong. I'm not an immunologist, but I did develop antibodies to measles.

It wasn't aired? My MSG went out as it is wont to do.

I have to be careful. I don't want to be on the bottom bunk in the same cell with SwampD. Been there, been done that.

I've been trying to catch the one-legged man with a walker. I couldn't have been more than five minutes behind him today, but that rascal got away again.

Here's one for ya, Neo. Who owns the Smithfield plant that had all the cases of Covid-19? Someone just asked that question.

Oh. Hmmmm. I think I get it now. So you were right? Where the hell is @New Scotland (NS)? He's usually all over this kind of thing.

How does one do that?

Yeah I think we're on the same page.

Let me/us know if you are able to enter your deposit info.

I keep getting a message that they can't determine my eligibility. A lot of people are getting that. The problem is, that tool is how you give the IRS your direct deposit info. I never get a refund, so they don't have mine. But they should have my bank info. from payments I've made.

Not sure about that. It's based on your 2018 return if you haven't filed 2019 yet. If anyone is waiting for a paper check, those are being sent out lowest income first. Not bragging, but Imma be waiting a loooooong time.

You're a germophobe and still went to the SS meetup? I need to know your ONE TRICK to win salary negotiations. You're not going to believe what it is!

I'd like to see the thread title changed to reflect that this isn't a news story, or a story at all.

I also heard that a strong argument against telling people to wear masks was the fear people would feel invincible and give up on social distancing.

And no social distancing. Which tells me that everyone in close contact with the president and vice president is tested on a daily basis. Or, more likely, there's no virus a'tall.

Are you criticizing people who don't wear masks? For weeks, the CDC's guidance was that people who aren't sick shouldn't wear masks, because there's no scientific evidence it helps prevent the spread of the disease. They knew there was asymptomatic spread. It was misinformation perhaps for a good reason (mask shortages), but it was misinformation nonetheless. I don't blame anyone who doesn't know what to do.

You might have been referring to another poster, but for the record I don't think the story itself is politically motivated. I think bringing the story back to the forefront at a particular time was politically useful. I'd like to say more!

They've got an expression down at Mara Lago, I imagine they've got it here in SabreSpace, fool me once... I forget the rest.

I would hope so... until the smoke alarm goes off.

Jim Lorentz, in the lab break room, with a "bologna" sandwich...

This sounds really promising, so much so that stock futures "surged" on the news that Remdesivir might be an effective anti-viral based on a trial of severely ill patients. https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/ I was watching the White House briefing and my ears perked up at how almost ebullient, to use a Fauci-esque word, the good doctor was when talking about what good or great shape the U.S. would be in by the fall. He is normally very cautious. I wonder if he knows there's a good treatment right around the corner.

Source, in what sense? I think it's been scientifically established that the virus is natural in origin (not man-made). So maybe the lab was studying it and someone got infected and carried it out the door. Of course there is an investigation. It's part and parcel of assigning blame to China for the disaster we're going through.

I think it's pretty clear the virus was raging through the city before social distancing took hold. It's horrifying to imagine what things would look like if nothing had been done. Ya know, if the flu people had had their way. Would it rhyme with Hourly?

This is refreshing in a day and age where everyone is an expert and knows better than people with true expertise, like RaKru and JaBo. #bombthrower

I don't mind a good pandemic, but snow in mid-April? That's where I draw the line.