The Cellar - View Single Post - What might be making you a tad apprehensive, but might not, as it's too soon to tell

glatt · 10-10-2014, 08:22 AM

I was hoping someone would come in and tell me everything is going to be ok.

We have troops in Africa building hospitals. We will have 17 hospitals completed in the next month. But by then we will actually need 170 hospitals. And that's just buildings. Who's gonna staff them?

The small companies making experimental medicines and vaccines are working around the clock, but it's a race, and the virus is spreading exponentially while they progress linearly.

By the time leaders are so scared that they are willing to do something previously unthinkable in scope, that unthinkable action still won't be enough to stop it, because it will have grown.

So that has me wondering about how I can prepare. Can it really get that bad here? I think of Katrina. But that's probably not the right model.

On the other hand, everything is fine right now. And I've got plans for the holiday weekend.

10-10-2014, 08:22 AM	#616
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I was hoping someone would come in and tell me everything is going to be ok. We have troops in Africa building hospitals. We will have 17 hospitals completed in the next month. But by then we will actually need 170 hospitals. And that's just buildings. Who's gonna staff them? The small companies making experimental medicines and vaccines are working around the clock, but it's a race, and the virus is spreading exponentially while they progress linearly. By the time leaders are so scared that they are willing to do something previously unthinkable in scope, that unthinkable action still won't be enough to stop it, because it will have grown. So that has me wondering about how I can prepare. Can it really get that bad here? I think of Katrina. But that's probably not the right model. On the other hand, everything is fine right now. And I've got plans for the holiday weekend.