So tired of gloom and doom - Page 14

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

@Isobel Archer wrote:
@Hippiified wrote:
Unfortunately, we have no idea of how many are infected at this time, due to nowhere near enough testing..
It does make you wonder how much testing is "enough" One person who was tested twice and was negative came down with the virus - after being released from quarantine.

So should everyone be tested daily/weekly? Just what would be sufficient? I mean you can't know if you've been exposed. So what should be done here?

@Isobel Archer She didn't come down with the virus after being released-she tested positive with a test while in quarantine but the CDC released her before those results had come back.

The positive was very weak.

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bikerbabe · ‎03-09-2010

Only 500 persons have been tested in the US, which is nothing. (From Dr Sanjay Gupta). When more tests ship out across the country in a few days ( I think?) everyone should expect the numbers to jump, simply because the virus has been out there, we just were not testing for it.

Porcelain · ‎02-19-2014

We are at over 150 confirmed cases here in the US and 11 deaths. That's not a good fatality rate at all. Plus it just mutated. Oh great.

I'm still confident I'll be okay, but I am concerned for members of my family who are older and have various health challenges. And of course I'm concerned for everyone in the path of this. The powers that be need to do their jobs. Stop joking around. The incompetence and lack of caring about their fellow citizens makes them look bad.

Kids are going to pass this to their teachers and the teachers are going to take it home. Many adults get bugs that their kids picked up at school. So the fact that kids have unusually mild symptoms--and will go to school with it--concerns me a lot.

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lovesrecess · ‎03-14-2010

Am seeing now on the news they are keeping a cruise ship at sea off the coast of San Francisco. There are 20 people onboard who are displaying signs of the virus so they are taking test kits out to the ship via helicopter. Amazing this is spreading so fast...not gloom and doom, but it certainly is something I have never seen before.

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

It;s getting gloomier by the day!

Mount Vernon school district in New York's Westchester County is closing it's schools.

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@JaneMarple wrote:
It;s getting gloomier by the day!

Mount Vernon school district in New York's Westchester County is closing it's schools.

@JaneMarple Yes, problems in Westchester. I’m right across the river. Getting a bit more aware than I was before.

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

From CNN:

The 110 local cases are spread out across 15 states:

Arizona: 2
California: 36 (including one death)
Florida: 3
Georgia: 2
Illinois: 4
Massachusetts: 2
New Hampshire: 2
New Jersey: 1
New York: 11
North Carolina: 1
Oregon: 3
Rhode Island: 2
Washington state: 39 (includes 10 fatalities) 
Wisconsin: 1
Texas: 1

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

pitdakota · ‎03-16-2010

@JaneMarple wrote:
It;s getting gloomier by the day!

Mount Vernon school district in New York's Westchester County is closing it's schools.

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Well the proliferative number of postive cases coming from just the Manhattan attorney is really impressive. Well impressive from the point of view of tracking this disease. Not impressive for that entire group of people that have tested positive!

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Isobel Archer · ‎04-04-2015

@Cakers3 wrote:
@Isobel Archer wrote:
@Hippiified wrote:
Unfortunately, we have no idea of how many are infected at this time, due to nowhere near enough testing..
It does make you wonder how much testing is "enough" One person who was tested twice and was negative came down with the virus - after being released from quarantine.

So should everyone be tested daily/weekly? Just what would be sufficient? I mean you can't know if you've been exposed. So what should be done here?
@Isobel Archer She didn't come down with the virus after being released-she tested positive with a test while in quarantine but the CDC released her before those results had come back.

The positive was very weak.

Well then that's even more disturbing that they would release her BEFORE the results of the test came back - now isn't it?

What exactly is the point of testing if you don't wait for the results?

Isobel Archer · ‎04-04-2015

@lovesrecess wrote:
Am seeing now on the news they are keeping a cruise ship at sea off the coast of San Francisco. There are 20 people onboard who are displaying signs of the virus so they are taking test kits out to the ship via helicopter. Amazing this is spreading so fast...not gloom and doom, but it certainly is something I have never seen before.

H1N1 spread faster than this.