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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Pretzel · 70-79, M

they sent them home to quarantine for 2 weeks no doubt so that they won't continue to spread it to others in the community - since so many end up in the hospital.

BUT you are touching on an interesting point - just how serious is this disease.

of course it is very serious to the people that died and their families. I wouldn't want to be on a ventilator fighting for my life

that being said if the TRUE number of infected/recovered were known then the death rate (total number of deaths divided by the total number of infected) might be way closer to the regular flu than we had anticipated.

i have no problem wearing a mask in public and washing my hands isn't a thing.

shoot, we might even do it during flu season just to keep healthy.

but it sure doesn't look like we need to dig a hole, jump in and close it behind us, does it?

Echoing · 61-69, F

@Pretzel Yes, I would of wore a mask in the beginning. I am OCD about getting sick, I have issues...lol.. so every single year I do the hand washing and cleaning, spraying door knobs...blah blah blah.
They panic because they .. our hospitals, government was not READY for such a unthinkable event...
BUT... Bush told us years ago.. we must get ready.. we ignored and
here we are today.
I do believe we all have learned a very valuable lesson.

Pretzel · 70-79, M

@Echoing yeah the PPE shortage was stupid. we are constantly having natural disasters that require medical assistance. we have become too complacent and dependent on goods shipped immediately from ...china.

"all the eggs in one basket" came back to bite us on the...neck.

now the ventilator shortage? I'm a little more tolerant of that. maybe the next pandemic will be some kind of disease that requires a heart bypass machine or MRIs. you can't anticipate all the possibilities.

BUT we might work on a lend/lease program that will move needed machines from the areas needing them to the ones having excess capacity - or moving patients if necessary.

the corp of engineers impressed me by building a hospital in an existing building on short notice - and converting it from normal operations to one that could handle covid

we have been quicker to use technology and adapt on this disesase than any I remember in the past.