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COVID19-What's Going On in Your Community?

Sean_Miller

Curious to hear directly from folks around the world, what's the response in your community to the COVID19 crisis?

 

Here is my status:

  • Just east of St. Louis Missouri in Illinois.  Population 30,000.
  • All schools closed
  • All restaurants closed with exception of curbside, online orders and fast food drive throughs
  • All small businesses not food or essentials related are closed
  • Must stay sheltered in place at home
  • Gas stations and grocery stores are still open
  • To drive around, you are to have a formal permit provided by your employer to print and put in your vehicle windshield or be going to a grocery store
  • Essential industry like refining has remote workers - site staffing is cut to minimum per Process Safety Management policy
  • We have had one case reported in the community, but several in St. Louis.  One death.
  • Underlying concern across the United States is not sufficient ICU beds and ventilators should we see a surge like Italy (who actually has a better bed/1000 residents ratio)

 

 

See ya',

Sean

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  • I think this is a 911 type of event. We must be alert to a possible mutation after the numbers trail down. Pathogens are with us now and in the future. Social habits need updating!

    Stay aware and safe,

    Clem

  • in reply to clem57

    My crystal ball on future of pathogens in the United States:

    • Our ratio of "ventilators and ICU beds per 1000 people" was caught on its heels.
    • Without ICU beds and ventilators, our current politicians legacies will be attributed to the ones that created the death squad decision scenario - worst case example: 70+ year old smokers being pulled off ventilators for 20 year olds.
    • We are having general industry help get our ventilator count up (Ford, GM, Tesla, GE).  We'll print money to get 'er dun'.
    • Elective surgeries are delayed to later this year to free beds.
    • We'll go full on with a shutdown of non essential activity to keep the ratio in check until the manufacturing takes off.
    • As soon as the ventilator production math works out and the ICU beds are booked for the intended virus surge, it will be business as usual with a continued voluntary shelter in place for high risk individuals.
    • It will be then on those high risk individuals to stay safe.  It's society a norm for one to die under hospital care - but not to die at home due to hospitals having no vacancy.
    • Stocks will return in 18 months.
  • in reply to Sean_Miller

    Unfortunately, it's not an apocalyptic scene, it's what your leaders think.

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