Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire New COVID-19 Forecasts: US Hospitals Could Be Overwhelmed in the Second Week of April!

Since day one, I've been trying to explain that to everyone who says that. Seems obvious to me. How is it not obvious to everyone with an IQ above room temperature?

I think we'll all have a better idea what's really going on about April 15th. I'm trying to isolate with my family until then.

Wife is s PA and wants to practice telemedicine but they say she can't do it from home because of some law. They want here to go into the Drs office and make calls from there. She really wants to get back at it.

The Dr she works for has been really slow the last few weeks. Almost no patients are coming in unless they are covid like sick. They don't have any protective equipment at that office. No one is coming in for physicals, med reviews, and other.basic stuff. No one wants to be in a Drs office unless they have to.

It sucks she can't take calls from home. We have room to set up her own private office and all their medical records are electronic and can be accessed from a laptop. We could set up a VPN really easy.

I don't want her heading back to the office just to make phone calls when I'm immunosuppressed and our 8 year old has bad asthma. Stupid health care beurocracy and its laws. Seems like it would be a great time to let her take calls from our house. There is a lot she could do for people by phone. Many just need a med refill or a health question answered.

Bb

So far, my information comes from news accounts and videos published yesterday by two nurses facing these circumstances. They were visibly shaken, exhausted, in shock really, not hysterical or frantic.

Because, with the exception of bird flu (which does not typically have person to person transmission), the other flus don't put 15-20% in the hospital, and don't kill 2-3% of those that get it. And, unlike the other flus there is no existing immunity in the population. I hope you naysayers are right...but I don't see any evidence that you are.

We are going to find out because the U.S. is on its way to having a bunch of cases...thinking will be talking millions of cases at some point (a month from now?), hopefully not more.

Anyway, that is why we are shutting things down. No way China quarantines cities and forces lock downs for something no worse than the flu.

Beware of people with agendas.... I would not trust that info

Interestingly my wifes colleagues seem to be divided , the older experienced ones are dismissing much of this as overblown and business as usual.

The younger and coincidentally liberal leaning ones think the sky is falling , or more accurately it is going to fall ....... soon

True that!

I don't know the answer, these predictions may be correct, but some of this is reminiscent of Owl Gores predictions of coastal cities being underwater by now

I really, most sincerely hope that I am less correct about what I think will happen in the next two weeks than I was about what I thought would happen in the last two weeks.

I don't know what the right numbers are, but for sure, we have not yet seen the peak for infections or deaths either.

Going to be an interesting next 3-4 weeks...............maybe another extended lockdown? I dunno.

MM

Not much hope of that.

What symptoms do these people have that aren't getting tested?

some of the opinions here remind me of blue hairs who can't comprehend why their drivers license was taken away

Cherry pick certain data points, extrapolate it using modeling, feed it to CNN and other media trash outlets, Bingo, you have an artificial crisis.

Are we to assume you are insulting everyone on this thread that doesn't agree with you?

I have a suspicion you didn’t read my post carefully.

I do believe the door has been opened for major taxation. No hospital bed for that.

And yet during the H1N1 epediemic in 2009 most of us did not even know there was a problem because Obama's accomplises in the Media kept burrying the story..

Truth is, no one posting here knows how this will turn out when all is said and done. Right now there's not enough data to know, even for someone with expertise in epidemiology. We don't have a handle on basic information like how many people are infected.

This reminds me of the first Gulf War, when the media first widely reported on the use of sophisticated weapons like smart bombs. Everybody was an expert, and everybody was just repeating what they'd heard on whatever news outlet they listened to. I overheard two 20-something women discussing the finer points of smart bomb targeting systems. As if they were experts.

Hey it gives up something to talk about while staying at home. A lot of the experts disagree with each other, just like folks on the fire.

Data? Who needs data when you've got an instinct for smelling bullshit.