The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

Pence got part of it right - the President has been irresponsible and talked irresponsibly.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pence-says-theres-irresponsible-rhetoric-114342263.html

Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that there has been “irresponsible rhetoric” from people who have downplayed the seriousness of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak.

In an interview on the “TODAY” show, Savannah Guthrie asked what message Pence sends to people who aren’t afraid of the coronavirus and think it’s just politics and hype, quoting from President Donald Trump who said on Monday that the “fake news media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything to inflame the coronavirus situation.”

“There's been some irresponsible rhetoric, but the American people should know President Trump has no higher priority than the health and safety and well being of the people of this country,” Pence said in response but it was not clear who he was referring to.

 

Pence, the head of the president’s coronavirus task force, said the administration would focus on communities that have experienced community spread of the virus and said Trump’s action on Wednesday night, suspending travel from Europe to the U.S., is “one more example of how he’s putting the health of America first.”
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I also posted this in the other covid-19 thread

This article has a ton of data and charts along with some major takeaways. It's intended for politicians and community leaders, but I think gives a good account of what to expect and what to do:

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

When you’re done reading the article, this is what you’ll take away:
The coronavirus is coming to you.
It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly.
It’s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two.
When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways.
Exhausted healthcare workers will break down. Some will die.
They will have to decide which patient gets the oxygen and which one dies.
The only way to prevent this is social distancing today. Not tomorrow. Today.
That means keeping as many people home as possible, starting now.
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Well, Elkhorn is closed until 3/23...

We have no positive tests though.  There was a poster here talking about an Elkhorn South student on Tuesday, looks like that was just a rumor with the kids...

 
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Moiraine said:
No positive tests doesn’t mean anything if people don’t get tested. 
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I know. We have several students in self quarantine. Someone here said one of those students tested positive.  That isn’t true.

But I was talking to a coworker during lunch duty, there is no way there at least at handful of kids aren’t positive and just don’t know it.

 
funhusker said:
I know. We have several students in self quarantine. Someone here said one of those students tested positive.  That isn’t true.

But I was talking to a coworker during lunch duty, there is no way there at least at handful of kids aren’t positive and just don’t know it.
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Ah ok, missed that part. 

 
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