COVID-19 Looking forward
Posted On April 18, 2020
What’s going to happen in the next 12 months?
The government and each one of us have to decide what we want to do in the next few months. How to protect our self, how to modify our daily contact, work. and travel.
- We have to
- Continue social distancing, avoid crowd.
- Wear mask or a N95 when you go out
- Work from home if possible
- Quarantine if sick
- COVID-19 is highly contagious
- It is not going away any time soon
- Vaccine will not be available for at least 12 months
- Even if treatment is available for the virus, you still do not want to get sick.
- Business needs to reopen to provide job and service
- Life has to go on
- We cannot wait any longer
- Rules are necessary, even if some freedom is curtailed
- Speed limits, seat belt, traffic lights are necessary to keep us safe.
- Remember over 35,000 died from traffic accident EVERY year.
- We need rules to to keep us from COVID-19.
- Best source of information
- Beware of the fake news, sales pitch, pseudoscience
- Listen to the real experts
This virus is a deadly disease!
- Full report from Washington Post
- For the week of April 6 to April 12 2020, number of deaths from
- Heart disease 12626
- Covid-19 12392
- Cancer 11437
- Chronic lower respiratory disease 3279
- Accident 2911
- Strokes, brain aneurysm 2764
- Flu, pneumonia 1227
Links to get a quick update
- Bing – search update by location
- USA today – Tracking the outbreak
- CNN – Tracking Covid-19
- Harvard – many questions and some answers
- OurWorldInData.org – World updates – extensive and best charts comparing countries
Texas update
How to reopen our society?
