It means we’re fucked.
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This is all so fucked. Someone close to me developed a fever and cough last night and is in a risk group being an asthmatic and in the epicenter of the US outbreak. They called their doctor today and the Dr’s office said couldn’t do anything until they had symptoms for longer, or if things got markedly worse they could go to the ER. Otherwise they should stay away.
This is the state of American healthcare right now.
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Advice appears to be “Nah, not shutting stuff.”
Unlike most countries.
The “preparing to isolate entire families” part is particularly reassuring.
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I think the “preparing to isolate whole families” part is because it won’t be practical to prevent people in the same household from infecting each other, e.g. the single mother who looks after her two kids won’t be able to keep enough distance, so we’ll have to assume they’re all infected
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Not a reassuring word in there though, is there?
Yay, us. 
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I wonder if PSA nitrogen generators produce waste oxygen, the same way as oxygen generators produce waste nitrogen?
If so, it seems that the adsorption material can be just regular activated carbon, and that could be easily made at home.
Activated carbon adsorption material is mentioned on this site:
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Someone at my office got a positive and it’ll continue to be closed for 2+ weeks. So many meeetings cancelled. (which has both bood and bad sides) Noone else reporting any symptoms so far, so it’s like a weird waiting game that could restart any day.
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From that Guardian article
There will now be a shift in testing. The contain phase was about isolating individual cases, getting a diagnosis and then “contact-tracing” the people they have spent time with and asking them to self-isolate. Many people will no longer be tested if they are showing mild symptoms. Instead those with the most serious symptoms will be given a blood test in a hospital, and the NHS will move into a phase of prioritising the most seriously ill.
It seems to me that the U.K. isn’t interested in measuring the true size of the epidemic. That seems wantonly negligent. Why aren’t they interested in knowing or making any attempt at recording the number of people who have to self-isolate? Are they taking it on trust that everyone who is sick will actually self-isolate? What is their assumption on the effectiveness of self-isolation and how will they test that assumption?
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That sounds familiar…
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Well what are they gonna do really
“Come to the ER approximately 30 minutes before you stop breathing, we will put tubes in your face”
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Pretty much. Sort of like the old, “thank you for calling 911, please hold” joke.
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I finally got my kid tested, but it took being a true pain in the ass to the folks who make those decisions (yes, I have a gift) and hours on the phone. That is just not doable on a mass scale.
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San Francisco Unified School District just announced the schools will be closed for the next three weeks.
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Like the people who fired the pandemic response team?
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Maybe, if we have one available, or someone less likely to survive could just be thrown off. And God yes, I wish I was joking.
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