Recovery

Originally posted by marysia83

I agree there will be a lot of potential with the the "new normal". I am looking forward to remote work. It was a concept that many employers, including mine, did not want to hear about. Now they did not even had the time to think, as everyone (where possible) had to immediately begin working from home. And guess what: the work is being done. For my University it could be a big deal. My department struggled with finding lab space for new faculty who were coming with their research, their students, their demands. If some of the admin can work from home, there will be a lot of space available for labs.

As for the economy recover, I am remaining optimistic. When comparing this possible financial crisis to the 2008-2009 recession, we will definitelyu recover faster, as there will be a lot of people with many to spend = put back into the economy. In 2010 folks were still hesitatnt to spend, or they did not have money to spend. Currently, we have a lot of people who are still working, they just can't spend money. So once shopping malls and restaurants are open again, the economy will be overflown with the $$ of shopping-hungry people. Thus, I think we will be fine.

Originally posted by marcag



Heck this working from home may be a way to save the environment as well. I bet your president takes credit for dropping CO2 levels during his last year :-)

Companies will need to figure out some things, but nothing more complex than a pandemic. Insurance and adequate working conditions (desks, chairs, insurance...) still need to be worked out. I worked for a multinational software company that tried hard and found more red tape than solutions.

While I do believe we are at the top of the death curve, we are like people chased by lions who ran up a tree. Problem is the Lion is still at the base of the tree. We can't come down from the tree yet.

I hope we learn something from this whole mess but not sure we will.

Originally posted by Left Brain

Hold up here....the kids are still going back to school, right?

Originally posted by briderdt

My thought is: Unless you were diagnosed, suffered and recovered, or had a "mild case", or were one of the lucky few to be an asymptomatic carrier, then you still have exactly f-all of immunity from this. I see a second wave once we're all let free to go about our daily lives. There's going to be an over-compensation effect for a lot of people, making up for lost time in contact with others (either directly or through regular social activities). All the mechanisms that created that first curve are still there until there is a vaccine.

Originally posted by Rogillio

There are two types of people. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data...

Originally posted by marcag



and those that fill their own theories with missing data :-)

I hope there is a level of herd immunity out there but there are as many factors saying it doesn't exist as there are that say it's there.

We are just guessing.

One theory of why California was hit less is that the bulk of infection come through Europe not directly from China. All theories. We just don't know.

The antibody testing is a key in figuring out what happened and guiding us in the future.

Originally posted by Rogillio

Well if we are all guessing then I’m guessing there is a segment in our society that is prone to getting it - either because of other health issues or genetics. Perhaps we are approaching the point where everyone who was predisposed for get it has gotten it. If it spreads as easily as they say I would think with days the 93.35% of people would have been exposed. My guess is their immune system fought it off and they never knew that had it.

Then again, I’m an eternal optimist.

Originally posted by Left Brain

I'll just leave this here......

https://www.foxnews.com/media/stanford-professor-jay-bhattacharya-coronavirus-death-rate

Originally posted by nickster

My daughter is a nurse in an ICU unit. At their facility, they have a unit with Covid-19 patients and another with suspected Covid-19 patients. Until this week, they only had the tests that took several days to get results, hence the need for the suspected Covid-19 patients. This week they got the 15 minute test and found that only 3 of the 26 suspect patients tested positive.

For the last month I have been tracking the Covid-19 tests, positive tests, and deaths for Indiana overall and Marion county (Indianapolis) ad Allen county (Fort Wayne) where I live. The trends have all been linear increases, except for the number of people tested that has had an exponential element to the slope. What I noticed yesterday was the small print that stated the data was based on when the data and not when the data was taken, so the trends do not necessarily represent what is actually happening day to day.