Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Today Bucks county shut down their parks. Put a padlock on all the gates. No problem right Governor said "we could walk and be outside. 25 ladies from a yoga club parked in the grass. Next to the locked gate. went around the gate on foot and did yoga. 25 cars received tickets. 1 got towed before the rest noticed.

There's 25 ladies deciding that this does not apply to them and getting what they deserve.

[robert.]

You can still use the park. People are allowed to ride bikes through it. they don't want you to park in the lot and they hate when you park on their grass. Signs are posted everywhere. Do Not Park On Grass. Subject To Fine and Towing. We are under a stay at home order. I don't know the exact reason for the tickets. My guess is the grass. No officer wants to walk town and ticket 25 sweaty people today. Easier to ticket their cars parked under the no parking sign

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Signs are posted everywhere. Do Not Park On Grass. Subject To Fine and Towing.

Pretty sure that the literacy rate in Bucks Co. is high enough. Just a bunch of selfish people.....got what they deserved.

[robert.]

It's not my fault i parked here. You closed the gate officer. where else could i park? you don't want me to park on the road do you?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's not my fault i parked here. You closed the gate officer. where else could i park? you don't want me to park on the road do you?

How about "stay the f*** home!".

[robert.]

But i don't have the virus and can't get it from my yoga friends. They all drive a Mercedes. It's those people that can get it. they smoke. I do yoga. I did my part and told my Mexican house cleaner to "stay home". This could be the first year i have a good early spring garden. Lots of radishes, spinach and peas.

[Chris Webster]

US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found

Good job, President Obama!

[Chris Webster]

You can still use the park.

Saw a video on twitter of an Italian police helicopter blowing sand storms at people on a beach.

(It was closed like the rest of the country.)

[HONDO74]

New York currently has 7,000 ventilators, but needs 30,000, the governor said.

The governor blasted the 400 ventilators sent to New York from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Question..
Do we have 30,000 ventilators just sitting around some place ??

Ford CEO: Ventilators expected in hospitals in "early June"
https://news.yahoo.com/ford-ceo-ventila ... 05665.html

Ford Motor Company hopes to send new ventilators to hospitals treating coronavirus patients in early June, its president and CEO said Tuesday. The company is one of the private companies stepping up after medical professionals across the country warned that hospitals will run out of the vital pieces of equipment as the number of coronavirus patients grows.

At Trump’s request, Ford and GM help ventilator makers boost output
It's not easy to build a ventilator assembly line from scratch.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03 ... st-output/

One of the most crucial things the United States can do to prepare for the surging coronavirus outbreak is to beef up our stockpile of ventilators. These mechanical breathing machines are crucial for keeping patients with severe cases of COVID-19 alive. The United States currently has around 170,000 of the devices; experts say that may not be enough if the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow exponentially.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted that "Ford, General Motors and Tesla are being given the go ahead to make ventilators

(170,000 of the devices equals 3400 per state.)

[rogruth]

I will probably be told I'm not thinking right but the "shortage" of ventilators to me can be compared to the seller of anything. When "it" is needed
there is never enough but in "normal" times "it" is not needed and sits in storage unsold.
I realize that several of the participants here that are much more informed than I can show how I am wrong. Was it really possible to anticipate
how much stuff would be needed for this crisis and to convince the "powers that be" to fund what is needed? IMHO our country has been more
concerned with the health of the political parties than with the welfare of the country and its inhabitants.

[rogruth]

I need informed opinions so I can argue with my youngest daughter who is 57 but sometimes thinks like she is 25.
Her daughter who is 25 and has a 1 year old daughter wants her mother to fly to Denver from Jacksonville to help her take care of her child
since she, my daughter who is a teacher, is not working since school is closed. Wife and I along with her brother and sisters have tried to
get her to stay home. Her daughter is a radiologist and about to finish her nursing degree and of course knows much more than all of us old
grandparents, aunts, uncle and mother put together says there isn't any reason to worry about catching anything on the plane since the air
is filtered so well. I think she is full of horse hockey but I was "only a music teacher and can't know anything about this".
Now that even confuses me and I wrote it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Roy]

...there isn't any reason to worry about catching anything on the plane since the air is filtered so well.

I don't know if it's even possible to filter airborne viruses, but filters wouldn't work where you're sitting so close to so many others, and for so long. Could your daughter drive herself to your granddaughter's place?

[chuck]

She is more likely to come into contact with more people driving than flying.

I just got back from LA. The planes and airports are basically empty. Flight from LA to DFW had maybe 30 passengers. We each had our own row. From DFW to DTW we had maybe 20 passengers.

I can't guarantee anything but she is probably safer flying than driving. If she drives she has to eat, get gas, sleep, ....She will be coming into contact with more people and way less sanitary conditions than what you would find on a plane/airport.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Question..
Do we have 30,000 ventilators just sitting around some place ??

We have stockpiles of all kinds of stuff laying about; at minimum what we do need is the discontinued office on pandemics restored to coordinate the abilities to task companies to shift production lines to make what is needed instead of having to wait weeks/months. Everything we are doing is reactive and at least 3-6 weeks too late.

BTW, NY case numbers are doubling every 3 days.

[Rufus T. Firefly]