@Anonymous wrote:
@iced wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:That's not looking to be true. It was summer in Australia and the outbreak still happened. The experts don't believe the virus will die off because it's so contagious that it doesn't need to last long outside of the body anyway.
I think people are a bit too optimistic about economic recovery considering this virus hasn't even peaked yet.
It's also unknown if this virus is also seasonal, which means it will flare up every year and be with us until the world develops herd immunity (via vaccine or the hard way).
Either way, thinking if we just hide in our homes until summer that this virus will just get bored of waiting for us to come out and go away is wishful thinking.
Seasonality more refers to whether it will wane in the warmer months or not. It's inevitable that this one will be sticking with us for the foreseeable future regardless because it's spread so far around the world. And what's even more intimidating is that this is an RNA virus like the flu which means it's prone to mutating. I read an article the other day that over 100 mutations have been seen in samples already. The good news is that now the virus has found an effective way to spread, the lethality will likely start being mutated out of it.
New Orleans is getting hit hard right now which pretty much put the nail in the coffin for hopes that this will go away by summer. It's 84 degrees there right now in the early evening with 43% humidity and they have a whopping 1800 cases in Louisiana with around 1300 of those in the New Orleans metro. Louisiana is right behind New York and Washington as far as infections per capita are concerned. They are facing the potential of an Italy style healthcare collapse as soon as a week from now if the numbers don't stop climbing.
New Orleans never cancelled Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras season ran from Jan. 6 to Feb. 25. Perfect storm. Recipe for a disater. (Not to throw this in your face at all) Bad decision.
@FireMedic1 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@iced wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:That's not looking to be true. It was summer in Australia and the outbreak still happened. The experts don't believe the virus will die off because it's so contagious that it doesn't need to last long outside of the body anyway.
I think people are a bit too optimistic about economic recovery considering this virus hasn't even peaked yet.
It's also unknown if this virus is also seasonal, which means it will flare up every year and be with us until the world develops herd immunity (via vaccine or the hard way).
Either way, thinking if we just hide in our homes until summer that this virus will just get bored of waiting for us to come out and go away is wishful thinking.
Seasonality more refers to whether it will wane in the warmer months or not. It's inevitable that this one will be sticking with us for the foreseeable future regardless because it's spread so far around the world. And what's even more intimidating is that this is an RNA virus like the flu which means it's prone to mutating. I read an article the other day that over 100 mutations have been seen in samples already. The good news is that now the virus has found an effective way to spread, the lethality will likely start being mutated out of it.
New Orleans is getting hit hard right now which pretty much put the nail in the coffin for hopes that this will go away by summer. It's 84 degrees there right now in the early evening with 43% humidity and they have a whopping 1800 cases in Louisiana with around 1300 of those in the New Orleans metro. Louisiana is right behind New York and Washington as far as infections per capita are concerned. They are facing the potential of an Italy style healthcare collapse as soon as a week from now if the numbers don't stop climbing.
New Orleans never cancelled Mardi Gras. The Mardi Gras season ran from Jan. 6 to Feb. 25. Perfect storm. Recipe for a disater. (Not to throw this in your face at all) Bad decision.
Correct that they still threw Mardi Gras and that's likely how it started spreading but Mardi Gras is over and people are in lockdown and it's still spreading. If it was going to stop in the summer for the rest of the country, it would be slowing down there now and it's not.
This is the thing that really panics me about this ordeal is the possibility we won't get a summer reprieve.
@AnonymousIm not trying to win anything. Here in Fl we have more cases than LA. Check the map out. Mouse-over the map. Not that bad here in central Fl. SoFl being hit hard like Miami. Inside of a state it depends on region. NYC being the epicenter due to its population is making the news in the state of NY. You dont hear about Buffalo, Albany, Rodchester or up-state NY. New Orleans is being hit hard. Same applies. No news about Baton Rouge or other cities. Each state has its own epicenter.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
I hope it ends soon. I'm tired of going to a call like its a meth lab haz mat situation.
