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[Reelya]

Ohio and Texas cancel abortion rights.
They deem abortion to be an unnescessary strain on the taxed healthcare system.

Oh righto  and having a baby isn't any strain on the health system at all, luckily.

[ChairmanPoo]

Ohio and Texas cancel abortion rights.
They deem abortion to be an unnescessary strain on the taxed healthcare system.

Oh righto  and having a baby isn't any strain on the health system at all, luckily.

To be fair that would happen a good deal later.... but yeah I'm dubious about their motivations. Though I see a point in cancelling as many interventions as possible.

[martinuzz]

To be fair that would happen a good deal later.... but yeah I'm dubious about their motivations. Though I see a point in cancelling as many interventions as possible.

On that topic, I think we can expect a worldwide baby boom in about 8-9 months, with everyone locked in their homes and doctors too busy to prescribe the pill.

[ChairmanPoo]

To be fair that would happen a good deal later.... but yeah I'm dubious about their motivations. Though I see a point in cancelling as many interventions as possible.

On that topic, I think we can expect a worldwide baby boom in about 8-9 months, with everyone locked in their homes and doctors too busy to prescribe the pill.

Also a surge of divorces right after the quarantine, I suspect...

[coalboat]

It is not sensible to get pregnant during epidemic. Some medicine cannot be used as they interfere RNA and cause deformity. Low blood oxygen level can occur even on healthy pregnant women. Cancelling abortion is not a good idea imo.

[delphonso]

Ohio and Texas cancel abortion rights.
They deem abortion to be an unnescessary strain on the taxed healthcare system.

Oh righto  and having a baby isn't any strain on the health system at all, luckily.

Nor is sending a doctor away for 6 months.

[Jimmy]

I live in Australia.

I work in healthcare, as a community Pharmacist.

It looks like the virus has finally reached my town.

I have a friend who's in the morgue at the local hospital. We're seeing our first deaths now.

They should be announcing it officially in a few days to prevent panic and give us time to prepare.

I'm doing what I can to protect my team. It's hard when access to basic medical supplies are so low now.

I've been trying to take the riskiest jobs personally where I can, like vaccinations. No sense spreading risk across my other staff if I can help it.

I hope my wife and kids will be okay.

[ChairmanPoo]

I live in Australia.

I work in healthcare, as a community Pharmacist.

It looks like the virus has finally reached my town.

I have a friend who's in the morgue at the local hospital. We're seeing our first deaths now.

They should be announcing it officially in a few days to prevent panic and give us time to prepare.

I'm doing what I can to protect my team. It's hard when access to basic medical supplies are so low now.

I've been trying to take the riskiest jobs personally where I can, like vaccinations. No sense spreading risk across my other staff if I can help it.

I hope my wife and kids will be okay.

I'm sorry

[Jimmy]

I'm sorry

Heh, only 4%, right?

[ChairmanPoo]

The real number is probably lower.... there's a lot of silent infection.  The problem is that everyone gets infected at once and the system collapses. And that complicates things a lot, for what is covid and what isn't covid.

I think that's the conundrum. Any given rando has pretty good odds with covid (maybe even pretty good odds of never even learning he had it). But socially it's utterly destructive.

By extension it can only be fought if everyone is careful. If anyone is doing his own thing... the strenght of quarantines vs covid19 weakens

[Reelya]

So Trump's ordering more international border close-downs, aimed at asylum seekers, while at the same time, talking about having businesses inside the USA to stay open, against the best expert advice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/world/americas/coronavirus-mexico-border-migrants.html

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-promises-us-will-open-business-soon-this-country-wasnt-built-shut-down-1493854

Trump's administration has been touting a 15-day program to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, telling reporters that the White House would look at easing some restrictions at the end of the 15-day timeframe.

A 15 day plan? Woo, color me impressed. The whole thing's going to blow over in 15 days, you heard it here!

[Jimmy]

I enjoyed this one and a half hour discussion of COVID-19 by Joe Rogan and Professor Michael Osterholm. Great in depth discussion of how we're going to have to live and die with this virus until we achieve critical mass with herd immunity.

Personally, I'm hoping for silent symptoms. If I have mild symptoms, I have an ethical obligation to self-isolate. If I don't, at least I can still keep working.

[Max™]

If you don't have visible symptoms but still think you may be infected aren't you doubly obligated to isolate yourself?

Nobody envies the aysmptomatic carriers for being able to Johnny Applepox all over the place.

[martinuzz]

How can you think you're infected if you have no symptoms?
Basically what you are saying is, everybody stay home, including doctors, supermarket workers etcetera, because you just *might* have corona even though you feel fine.

[hector13]

It has a 5-day incubation during which it is infectious, so you could have it and not know it, putting everyone you come into contact with at risk.

People should be staying at home if they can.