And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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pianotuna wrote:tommyznr wrote:pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
I'm all for 100% testing. So far, less than 1/2 of one percent have been tested. It appears the virus may be more contagious before symptoms appear than after.
I'd love to self test with a sputum at home. I'd love to be one of the folks who had covid 19 with a weak response.
The Province of Saskatchewan has just 95 active cases and no one in intensive care--but the Premier has just extended the state of emergency by two weeks. I am happy he did so.
Can you provide some context here?
Does state of emergency include stay at home orders etc?
Does extending by two weeks mean two weeks from now or two weeks from some magical date in the near future?
The reason I ask is that the state of emergency in the US does not include stay at home orders. I suspect the state of emergency will go on far longer than the stay at home orders. Meaning, we will start having things open up and we will be allowed to go out but we will still be under a state of emergency.
As far a 100% testing goes, someone in this thread or another went over the logistics of that, back of a napkin type calculations. It is just not feasible with the current technology.
two weeks from April 15, 2020.
It is a Provincial Order (i.e. a State), not Federal.
It allows the discretion to go out for essential items but encourages folks to shelter in place. Unnecessary travel is to be avoided.
As far as testing, more is better. Saskatchewan has done 20k tests on a population of 1 million. Far too low in my opinion. DNA tests can be done locally now and take 1 hour. But what I truly want is a way to test myself.
I hope I answered your question of context adequately.
yes, that very much clears it up. I am happy to hear the start date is April 15 and not two additional weeks from say May 1 or another arbitrary date. It is reasonable without being over done. He can always add more later, it is more problematic to roll it back.
