The official info is bullshit. Homes, have you not been following at all? There is not a low chance in a lot of the US. They're artificially decreasing the numbers by refusing to test people, and even the artificially decreased numbers show a worrying exponential trend. The rest of the world is learning from Italy's example of leading with mass death. Do you think Disney, for example, has or ever would completely shut down for no reason? Do you think the executives in charge of Disney are making casual, uninformed decisions with their money? That school districts are shut down across the country for funsies? Kids don't even get sick, they just carry it.
Another reason places like Singapore and s. Korea had a better response is sheer size of government.
Lung capacity will be reduced, just like any other pneumonia. It takes time for the lungs to recover from such an infection. Time-span for most pneumonia infections is like 3-4 months average recovery for full lung function.
Agree it's not possible for most, but I think people are underestimating just how much it's spread in the U.S.. Most states are still limited to a small number of tests because there's a bottleneck & focus is going to places where sustained community spread has been proven. Some states have evidence of community spread, indicating that a significant portion of their population is already infected, but aren't considered "sustained" yet because they don't have enough tests to prove such a thing.
The CDC is very much at fault for blundering the testing situation to begin with imo. They fucked up the efficacy of the tests and failed to provide access to local testing while stalling the general public and pretending they would start training for it "soon". The FDA was just doing their job.
Maybe.
It's funny because this should not be difficult. make a PCR test (or better yet, rapid PCR, deal with the false positives and find as many people as possible) and be done with it. they're incredibly accurate.
normal people: oh god this is the worst thing ever
more importantly they took shit seriously right of the bat, once they were hit they went 110% in containing and treating unlike the west which has been dragging it's feet the whole time even now.
singapore is extremely culturally diverse. unless you just mean "they're all asian".
Homogeneity doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Corona-Chan got here on the back of white, middle class dickfaces that went skiing in the Alps. Doesn't get more homogenous than that.
And a jump to 99 overnight. At least we found our patient zeros in one of the hotspots: 56-yr old father and 15-year old son that left from Italy.
You can keep a bag of red star in the freezer for years. It's what restaurant bakers do. Back when I made my own, I'd drop four bucks on a big bag from the restaurant supply, stick it in the fridge and be good to go. Miso and chili paste will also keep pretty indefinitely when frozen.
probably not the time for this, but if you can get some starter from a local bakery, that's where the good shit is at. mwah.