How Is Covid-19 Impacting Life in Your City?

[chris08876]

10023 is stone cold. Colder than an addict feels going through opioid WD. Colder than the Polar Vortex.

Just cold man.

Speaking of cold, its 37 F in my part of NJ. Its going to rain next few days, it hasn't rained in a while. Hopefully the rain mitigates the virus. IDK, like on surfaces or something. Maybe the rain will dilute any virus particles on surfaces.

[mousquet]

If you think you wouldn't be affected because you're aged under 60, beware, though.

Northeastern France has been the most severely hit so far in this country, and nurses over there report about a few odd cases of young people with no particular health condition, yet stuck in resuscitation services. Some in their 20s or 30s may not survive.

That virus is the most vicious thing you could think of. it's double-faced like many of us will go infected without even realizing, while some will die. They can't explain why yet, because it's a brand new disease, so to say.

There you get statistics on the global stage.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I'll tell you what, if you believe in God, take a little minute to say a prayer for Italy for it's been appalling over there.
They can't even bury their dead in a decent manner any longer. Those losing a love one of theirs can't attend any burial.
Believe it or not, the northern provinces of Italy (that are by far wealthier than the south) would enjoy some of the most modern and efficient hospitals in the world; still, they are completely distressed, overwhelmed by the epidemic.

The situation of northeastern France (especially Alsace) is turning the same, and we're expecting the next couple of weeks to be terrible here.
In Alsace and Corsica, some seriously infected people have to be moved to hospitals of other regions, because theirs are in a shortage of resuscitation beds already.
The Germans are also receiving some sick from Alsace, helping us.

Speaking of Germany, you'll notice their lower death rate. 2 reasons for that.
1 - The 1st case of the virus in Europe was detected in their country a couple of months ago, and they had the very good idea to take it seriously. So they were early in taking some necessary action.
2 - They have 25k resuscitation beds in their country, while mine has only 5k... then sometimes I wonder what the French taxpayer money is used for. Inept and useless bureaucracy, I guess.

Fact is the Germans must be more disciplined and serious than most of us are for real. It sounds like some dumb stereotype, but their lower death rate is a bit of an evidence.

[chris08876]

Press conference at moment. I'll update as it proresses.

[chris08876]

[dktshb]

Originally Posted by mousquet

If you think you wouldn't be affected because you're aged under 60, beware, though.

Northeastern France has been the most severely hit so far in this country, and nurses over there report about a few odd cases of young people with no particular health condition, yet stuck in resuscitation services. Some in their 20s or 30s may not survive.

That virus is the most vicious thing you could think of. it's double-faced like many of us will go infected without even realizing, while some will die. They can't explain why yet, because it's a brand new disease, so to say.

There you get statistics on the global stage.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I'll tell you what, if you believe in God, take a little minute to say a prayer for Italy for it's been appalling over there.
They can't even bury their dead in a decent manner any longer. Those losing a love one of theirs can't attend any burial.
Believe it or not, the northern provinces of Italy (that are by far wealthier than the south) would enjoy some of the most modern and efficient hospitals in the world; still, they are completely distressed, overwhelmed by the epidemic.

The situation of northeastern France (especially Alsace) is turning the same, and we're expecting the next couple of weeks to be terrible here.
In Alsace and Corsica, some seriously infected people have to be moved to hospitals of other regions, because theirs are in a shortage of resuscitation beds already.
The Germans are also receiving some sick from Alsace, helping us.

Speaking of Germany, you'll notice their lower death rate. 2 reasons for that.
1 - The 1st case of the virus in Europe was detected in their country a couple of months ago, and they had the very good idea to take it seriously. So they were early in taking some necessary action.
2 - They have 25k resuscitation beds in their country, while mine has only 5k... then sometimes I wonder what the French taxpayer money is used for. Inept and useless bureaucracy, I guess.

Fact is the Germans must be more disciplined and serious than most of us are for real. It sounds like some dumb stereotype, but their lower death rate is a bit of an evidence.

Yeah, this is getting scarier. I know there is a 12-year-old fighting for her life in Atlanta. In LA 5 young healthy men returning from a ski trip from Italy ended up in the ICU. We're starting to hear now that younger people are getting really sick too.

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

Lining up to go into the South Pasadena, CA Pavilions, around 8:15am Saturday morning, 3.21.20. They were only letting 5 people in at a time. I bought 2 loaves of bread, 2 bunches of bananas, and one 12-roll pack of toilet paper.

Why would you even go to a large store for that few items? I’ve been revising meals to use what I have and ordering necessities for delivery (either locally via instacart or from sources like Amazon, Walmart.com or Target.com).

[iheartthed]

Rate of testing. New York is, by far, testing the most people. New York tests 5,000 people per day, which (last I checked) is more than twice as many as California tests. California is two times the size of New York, btw.

Now, just because California has much fewer confirmed cases DOES NOT mean that California has fewer infections than New York.

[dktshb]

Originally Posted by photoLith

Was in Pittsburgh’s Strip District tonight which is usually packed with people. There were no cars parked on the street, nobody walking around. It was absolutely insane. Would swear we’re living in the post apocalyptic wasteland just waiting for the buildings to rot and collapse. The world is going to be much shittier place after this is all said and done. All of the progress urban centers have made in the past 20 years is going to be erased with most places going out of business because of this overreaction. I still think people above 70 should be quarantined and the rest of us should be allowed to live our lives in order to not destroy the economy for years and ruin hundreds of millions of lives; which this will.

This is not an overreaction. Even young healthy people are ending up in the hospital in large numbers putting a ever increasing burden on things. This virus spreads easily and nobody is immune. Our hospitals are going to be and already are overrun with these measures we're taking. Have you not heard about shortages of protective gear ventilators and beds yet? Do you think keeping business open is going to help the situation?

[Steely Dan]

Political bullshit moved to the politics toilet.

[sopas ej]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Why would you even go to a large store for that few items? I’ve been revising meals to use what I have and ordering necessities for delivery (either locally via instacart or from sources like Amazon, Walmart.com or Target.com).

Because I thought I could just run in and out; it was 8am. But I only waited in line for about 10 or 15 minutes. There's a Vons across the street, which didn't have a line to go in, but I was thinking there would be more people INSIDE the store, possibly not practicing social distancing, and their produce usually isn't as good. The bananas at Pavilions are always better than the ones at Vons, for some reason, even though both stores are owned by the same company.

And when I went inside the Pavilions, there were hardly any shoppers inside, so social distancing was possible, and checkout was a breeze---no lines. I don't know what the situation was like as the day went on, though.

[sopas ej]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Rate of testing. New York is, by far, testing the most people. New York tests 5,000 people per day, which (last I checked) is more than twice as many as California tests. California is two times the size of New York, btw.

Now, just because California has much fewer confirmed cases DOES NOT mean that California has fewer infections than New York.

I thought that was already established; it was always my understanding that the official numbers for people who are infected will go up as more people get tested, and what we really want to see is more testing, and the flattening out of the numbers.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by The North One

^ What the hell? Literally boarding up shit in Manhattan??? It's really gotten that bad in New York?

Your post is the first I'm hearing about this.

I saw this happening in other cities on TV this morning.

[dktshb]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Rate of testing. New York is, by far, testing the most people. New York tests 5,000 people per day, which (last I checked) is more than twice as many as California tests. California is two times the size of New York, btw.

Now, just because California has much fewer confirmed cases DOES NOT mean that California has fewer infections than New York.

Yeah, we still appear to be way behind the curve here with testing. Additionally, the City of Los Angeles is only testing those admitted to the hospital according to CNN and not testing anybody else apparently to conserve protective gear. Additionally, LA is a bad example regarding density since it is also a high density city.

[sopas ej]

Originally Posted by dktshb

This is not an overreaction. Even young healthy people are ending up in the hospital in large numbers putting a ever increasing burden on things. This virus spreads easily and nobody is immune. Our hospitals are going to be and already are overrun with these measures we're taking. Have you not heard about shortages of protective gear ventilators and beds yet? Do you think keeping business open is going to help the situation?

FOR REALS. It amazes me that there are still some people who are NOT taking this seriously; these are the people who are still in the selfish denial stage, and are talking about this like "It's all just an overreaction that's ruining the economy, all because of the fear of catching a cold."

It's not the same as catching a cold.

These are dire times, like we are at a war, and there are sacrifices we have to make for everyone's well being.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

FOR REALS. It amazes me that there are still some people who are NOT taking this seriously; these are the people who are still in the selfish denial stage, and are talking about this like "It's all just an overreaction that's ruining the economy, all because of the fear of catching a cold."

It's not the same as catching a cold.

These are dire times, like we are at a war, and there are sacrifices we have to make for everyone's well being.

So does that mean you're declining Obadno's invitation to the kegger in his backyard tonight?

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by mousquet

Speaking of Germany, you'll notice their lower death rate. 2 reasons for that.
1 - The 1st case of the virus in Europe was detected in their country a couple of months ago, and they had the very good idea to take it seriously. So they were early in taking some necessary action.
2 - They have 25k resuscitation beds in their country, while mine has only 5k... then sometimes I wonder what the French taxpayer money is used for. Inept and useless bureaucracy, I guess.

Fact is the Germans must be more disciplined and serious than most of us are for real. It sounds like some dumb stereotype, but their lower death rate is a bit of an evidence.

There is bound to be lots of talk about the varying number of acute care and other hospital beds in different nations with criticism for those with fewer.

In fact, before this crisis, fewer beds (as long as it was sufficient to meet needs) was considered a mark of an efficient health care system. Excess bed capacity doesn't come free. Those beds are "staffed" (and I believe I once read that the average hospital employs 3 people for every bed or something like that). So a large bed capacity is expensive and largely unnecessary until some "black swan event" like coronavirus comes along, which NOBODY expected.

In the US, in recent years our bed capacity has been decreasing and those aware of the situation have been congratulating themselves because they saw this as a mark of increasing efficiency in the system, working away on the better known figures about how much more the US spends on health care than the rest of the world. Now, of course, what was seen as an advantage, may turn out to be a problem but you can't really blame other countries for being inept and the Germans for being "serious". 2 months ago the Germans were being critcized for an excess bed capacity and it's not like they were doing it out of some foreknowledge of what was to come. They were just running an inefficient health care system.

2007
Capacity Planning in German Hospitals:Excessive Capacities as Result of Inadequate Incentives
Dr. Boris Augurzky, Division chief Labor markets,population and health,
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V., Germany

Prof. Dr. Ludwig Kuntz,Roman Mennicken
Economic and soci-economic Faculty, Köln University, Germany
Email: mennicken@wiso.uni-koeln.de

Capacity in hospitals is determined by production facilities and production factors (Sibbel 2004). Facilities like beds or departments, needed for the provision of services are predetermined on the federal level by hospital plans. Hence, for hospitals, efficient management of production factors— like physicians and nurses, play the most important part in capacity management and planning.

In Germany, hospitals are facing excess capacities of beds, which are the result of faulty regulatory incentives by hospital plans and the financing system. Since the introduction of DRGs in 2004, hospitals are confronted with a more competitive environment increasing the need for efficient capacity planning and management . . . .

Forecasting Hospital Demand
Hospitals have to take into account several external developments when planning their supply (e.g. beds, personnel, operating rooms). The most important ones are
• local demographic change,
• technical progress, and
• regulatory changes.

Since hospital business is primarily a local, demand for hospital services is strongly determined by the local demographic structure. Management has to forecast demand – sometimes even for each DRG. If possible, expected regulatory changes have to be taken into consideration. In Germany, the legislator encourages a shift towards outpatient treatment. This means that, for some DRGS, the number of inpatient cases might decrease, even though the total number of cases will increase. Inpatient and outpatient capacities have to be planned accordingly. The following figure shows a forecast of the growth in the number of cases by 2020 taking into account local demographic changes, a shift towards outpatient treatment, and steady technical progress (Augurzky et al. 2007).

Conclusion
Capacity planning plays an important role for hospital management. So far, great emphasis in Germany is put on the efficient utilisation of capacities, since beds and departments are mostly predetermined. However, it is quite likely that in the near future regulations in many federal states will be reduced. Hospitals will then have more managerial freedom to plan their capacities according to their product portfolio.

[bigstick]

600 cases in Georgia, with majority around Greater ATL, 23 deaths as of today...

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by bigstick

600 cases in Georgia, with majority around Greater ATL, 23 deaths as of today...

I suspect Georgia and Louisiana are drastically undercounted. Georgia has more deaths than New Jersey (20 NJ vs 23 GA), while (supposedly) having just 1/3 the number of infections as of right now (1,917 vs 600).

[bigstick]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

I suspect Georgia and Louisiana are drastically undercounted. Georgia has more deaths than New Jersey (20 NJ vs 23 GA), while (supposedly) having just 1/3 the number of infections as of right now (1,917 vs 600).

I agree....

[SteveD]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

I suspect Georgia and Louisiana are drastically undercounted. Georgia has more deaths than New Jersey (20 NJ vs 23 GA), while (supposedly) having just 1/3 the number of infections as of right now (1,917 vs 600).

I agree. Reports of and photographic evidence of many in town predominantly black churches full this morning....astounding and disheartening to see. I took a 4 mile walk this morning from my in town house and walked past several churches with full parking lots.