I Have Something To Say About Coronavirus / Covid19

I getting confused here. Another meat processing plant shut down to a large number of positive cases of Covid19.
Soooo... this plant had 373 employees testing positive, all were "asymptomatic!"
All those people have the virus and did not know they did?
The same occurred with other plants.
Most never knew they were.. suppose-to-be-sick!
I am lost now in my thinking. What is really going on? If they don't feel sick, not running a fever and the plant is operating well... WHY..would they not continue to work?

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Threepio

They need to self isolate so they do not pass the virus on to those that may have lesser immune systems.

Additionally, some who are asymptomatic NOW, will become symptomatic in the very near future.

These are highly skilled workers, they cannot be replaced by just anybody off the street.

So while the positive employees are self quarantining for 14 days, they close the plant for a deep cleaning and update some PPE (IE : plastic screens between work stations). At the 15 day point they should have either become ill (and possibly hospitalized) or they should test negative and have antibodies... Then back to work...

Echoing · 61-69, F

@Threepio I get it all. But my mind says.. They all had it, working together for ?how many days or weeks, been around others for .. no telling how long of a period... So, if they are living normally, working and out and about...Yes, they are passing it about, sooo..if most folks do not contract any illness, which is stated as well on all the news ..
see.. my mind gets confused!!
I get rounded up with questions. It seems nothing is adding up to take our freedom of choice away.
PLEASE do not think I take lightly of the deaths that this virus is causing.
But.. so does so many others things. From cancer to car accidents to heart attacks... The seasonal flu killed 61,000 folks last year. Most elderly and ill suffer the most. Which logically makes sense.
Why .. shut down our livelihood and slowing die and loss what makes us, what we have worked for,.. for years … successful and comfortable.

There are other things that we can do to prevent spreading. Masks should of been issued earlier. We should of been cleaning like we do now.. as a regular habit.. not just now when we have-to.
I know folks who are owners of business that will not return to normal..EVER.

Ooh my... I release my mad woman's voice! 😌

Threepio

@Echoing Simply ask yourself why other "lesser" countries have been able to keep this illness from spreading throughout their populations.

IMO... the answer is 3-fold. TESTING, TESTING, TESTING...they catch the + earlier and isolate them BEFORE they unknowingly infect their relatives and neighbors. QUARANTINING... they quarantine those coming in for 14 days. CONTACT TRACING.. knowing when you have come into contact with a person testing +.

Of these... it is testing that we failed early and repeatedly at. To date, less than 1% of my state has been tested. And we start opening up today, when yesterday we recorded the highest number of new + cases in any day. Makes you wonder....

Yes people die from all kinds of things. But if you get a yearly flu shot, a periodic PREVNAR-13, and don't drive.... Your statistical chances of dying from one of those causes are greatly diminished. CHOICES...

Yes, as a business owner myself, I wholeheartedly agree with you that some businesses will never return to "normal." Curbside pick-up has become just an unfortunate fact of life.

Don't get me wrong...I'm not a fan of any of these "precautionary measures / lockdowns." But given the fact that there are so many that could potentially kill me by simply sneezing in my presence... I prefer to follow the advice of the scientific community until such time as there is a proven vaccine.

Echoing · 61-69, F

@Threepio what if there is never a vaccine?

Threepio

@Echoing My friends in the medical world tell me that there are several in testing that show real promise.

Having worked in the medical research field at one time I can tell you that $$$ drives everything … and there is a ton of money to be made by the company that gets there first...

Knowing that, I remain optimistic that the vaccine will happen sooner than later...