Someone told me about a 4Chan thread. A user changed his IP to a Chinese one and went on Grindr to get interviews with locals. Supposedly discovered some really nasty things.
Would love to read that if true. The only thing good about this disease is getting a chance to vent about authoritarian governments. China really needs to toss out the old guard and liberalize their government. Not necessarily become a Western style Democracy, but get rid of the rat fuckers screwing up the system.
Also, someone made an interesting point to me today. We were talking about why Hubei was hit harder than other provinces, was told they are the poorest province in all of China. Widespread household electric was not a thing until about 10 years ago. He shared something with me about their medical system, as of November there were a total of 16 functional respirators in the entire province. The medical system was designed to look good, not work well, and no one who lives there knows the difference.
Dunno about the 16 respirators but pretty confident people there have mostly received TCM, especially in the prefab hospitals. We talked about the ratio of doctors to population throughout Southeast Asia, Vietnam and Cambodia have about 1 doctor for every 90k people. The odds of their Ministries of Health containing this disease are very low - in urban areas. The best thing people in the Asian sticks have going for them is extreme poverty - it will be hard for the virus to propagate in sparsely populated villages.
All of this has become incredibly depressing. Starting to believe the Trump Curse is a real, anything he campaigned on in 2016 will happen and you will be crushed if you get in his way. He said industry has to come back to the US, pretty sure the markets are preparing to adjust in that direction. But it will be for the worst reasons.
You know the Chinese kits physically exist, because they are only 30% effective. If they were just randomly guessing, the results would be more like 50%.
A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford the deductible let alone an extended hospital stay with insurance. They need that paycheck every two weeks to pay rent and buy food. This is going to be a massive problem here because people will go to work sick, especially the service industry (restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc).
Just like flu shots, test kits and vaccines (when they become available) will be free. The Government has an interest in containing the virus.
Right now, Wall Street is able to credibly claim US market fundamentals are sound, it's disruptions to the supply chain elsewhere that are responsible for drops in the stock market. Not fucking that up needs to be the priority for the next 12 months. If people are dropping dead in the streets and people are quarantining at home, the country is absolutely fucked.
Travis AFB update
Hospital-working IT airmen are being asked if their workstations can work in tents and I'm about to have a panicked meltdown once the shock wears off.
I don't power level, but I do know about an 80-person IT team that was relocated from inside a hospital at a major Federal agency. They are moving non-medical personnel temporarily to other buildings, and they won't be allowed on campus after about a month.
Staff relocation appears to be the best way to understand what's going on with emergency response. Someone should make an index listing the average distance of IT workers from each hospital, that will probably reveal how prepared any particular facility is.
