When Social Distancing Begins To Not Work

When the infection level exceeds 1% in the general public social distancing doesn't work. The infectiousness of the virus plays a role too.

To My Space Aliens Friends

The world desperately needs you to step and help us. I am available.

You need to park your spacecraft above Washington and ask for a meeting with the world leaders. Bring us the coronavirus vaccine or cure and allow us to distributed it. 

You could take over one of the  major cable new channels temporally  before you arrive. Tell us all you are coming to earth to cure coronavirus. The do it. 

Then establish a earth panel who could work our future interactions. 

You would have to demonstrate you can do it. I"ll pick a hospital filled with coronavirus patients and then you cure them all. Tell us the location and time and date before you do it. Then do it.

I would be disappointed with you it you made secret deals with governments to accomplish it. Everything would have to be transparent.       

Shutting Down The USA For Two weeks

This is ridiculous. There are afraid to tell you the truth. The two week shutdown is to make it politically palatable for the businesses and public. If we shutdown the nation for two weeks, we would stay shutdown until the end of the year. 

All Dead Bodies Should Be Tested For Coronavirus Within 12 Hours Of Death

It should be a federal law. It would immediately give us the extent of the Pandemic and it lead to giving us the true fatality rate. All bodies, not those just suspected with the infection.

Risk Perspectives and Priorities

I think these terms are all bullshitism. The burdens of these terms, and they are all ideological, are going to fall on the dis-empowered, poor and weak. We should live in a world that has enough resources for everyone and we should never hear risk perspectives and priorities again.

You should be outrage that Italians doctors have to make a choice of who is to live or dies because there is not enough ventilators. Those doctors, all of us, should be spitting mad at how coolly and clinically the doctors.

I tell you what, if I was in a system like that and I don't care how grave the emergency is, I'd quit or withdraw from the job or system. I would never let a long term dysfunctional system demand I make that choice. I would  fight them from the rest of my life. I would never let a corrupt system ruin my life because it set up this condition.

A shocking Lack of Imagination In Our Society...A stark failure Of Imagination

What is killing our imagination in our society? The idea we  are overly dependent on rules, laws, evidence and facts. The role of imagination  towers in importance over rules, laws, evidence and facts. 

We Need A Unprecedented Public Works Program Like Our 1930 Depression

It is got to be started up  immediately. From artist to PhDs. The massive infrastructure program we been contemplating for decades is enormously too small. 

What kind of public works projects can we create for the internet...     

Shocking Deflationary Depression On the Way

*Could our local hospitals handle this?

Italy reports 25 percent spike in coronavirus death toll, in deadliest 24-hour span to date

ROME — Italy on Sunday announced a 25 percent spike in its coronavirus death toll, reporting 368 deaths in the deadliest 24-hour span to date.

The country’s death roll has risen at an alarming rate: In each of the past three days, at least 200 people have been reported dead because of the virus. It was only three weeks ago that Italy had its first reported death from the virus. Now, more than 1,800 people have died.

The total number of active cases has been rising roughly 20 percent daily, and the government’s nationwide lockdown — restricting movement and stopping most commercial activity — has not yet caused a slowdown.

Some two-thirds of Italy’s deaths have happened in the region at the center of the outbreak, Lombardy. There, because of overloaded hospitals, the official fatality rate is more than 9 percent, according to government data. In the rest of the country, it is 5.1 percent. By either measure, Italy’s death rate is higher than other countries’ — in part because it has a larger proportion of seniors than any country other than Japan.

* I think it is baked into the cake. It is a inevitability. Our politicians need to prepare us for this. Panic more than we can imagine would happen, if we are deep in a Pandemic with bodies piling us, then we realize our economy collapses and it will be around for maybe a decade for us to repair it.   

Japanese minister says virus may be worse for economy than 2008 financial crisis

BLOOMBERG, REUTERS

MAR 15, 2020

The effect of the new coronavirus on the economy could be worse than the 2008 financial crisis, economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Sunday.

Speaking on Fuji Television, Nishimura called for strong measures to protect the economy and said proper consideration should be given to whether reducing the sales tax would bolster consumption.

The economy was already teetering on the brink of recession when the effect of the virus began to kick in, partly due to an increase in the sales tax to 10 percent in October from the previous 8 percent. Some have called for the increase to be reversed to help encourage consumption.

“This may be on a par with the Lehman shock, or even worse,” Nishimura said, referring to the 2008 collapse of the Lehman Brothers U.S. investment bank. “We need measures on the same scale. They should be bold and not limited by what’s been done before.”

Mobilizing Our Military For Domestic USE

Yea, this is about protecting our military from coronavirus, but it sounds like we might use the military in a big way for domestic  use. Congress should pass the applicable laws to facilitate the use of the domestic use. I wonder if the National Emergency allows the use of our military domestically. I have absolutely no fear the military would turn against us. The internet and our news media would prevent this. 

The example is we have a ton of military, cargo planes, vehicles, trucks and drivers who could distribute food and other things. 

I think we will need the military to do security issues around the country. Remember in Katrina and that hard ass SOB U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré.    

In the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Navy’s top officer and his most senior enlisted adviser took to social media and official online sites Saturday to calm the fleet and explain the unprecedented orders they’re instituting to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

The brief message — 74 seconds — addressed sweeping changes in how personnel and their families will travel and work over the next 60 days, including the suspension of official, personal and PCS travel inside the continental United States and to designated locations worldwide where the disease is entrenched in local populations; plus "flexible work schedules and the use of telework.

“Our understanding of the coronavirus is rapidly evolving, and we may have to implement further measures to combat the spread of this virus,” warned Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday.

“America depends upon us to help provide security and stability to this nation, and that’s exactly what we will continue to do.”

The Battle Between Government Coronavirus Centralization and Decentralization

What we are seeing now with Trump is severe ideological  government decentralization. A patchwork of state and city action surrounding coronavirus. It is a tremendous waste of resources and actions end up failing or being unbelievably slow. Should we act as one or are we isolated rugged individuals. We have shifted all of government to the decentralization mode in service to the rich and businesses. They gain a unfair from this and it dis-empowers most of this. The rub with centralization it takes a highly educated and trained government work force... States rights versus federal rights. Basically one set of rules everyone follows and enforced. Our military is like that. I am talking about a democracy with public rights and processes that would soften authoritarianism.