current status of testing kits per nation

Lockdowns are likely to be left up to the states (and maybe even local-city level). Mayors and governors have announced States of Emergency so that they can lock people or areas down by force. The federal government will probably not step in unless mayors and governors fail.

 

All I saying is exactly what the government is telling us is happening and what to expect next.

 

That is why they lead to quarantine if tested positive. What is your suggestion?

 

If you had actually read my posts, you would know what I have been saying.

Not everyone should be tested, only those who may have been exposed, and then on a voluntary basis.

I don't agree or disagree with anybody based on their name, or even political lean. I discuss and respond based on content.

 

And I believe that is the best source on of information not the newly declared viral and public health experts that have sprung here suddenly.

 

My wife said the same thing, Bearack, but also said Trump could not do it.

 

Glad to hear we’re on the same page.

 

Future use and public pacification. The pursuit of knowledge.

 

That's because dumb as dirt Dobbs has no idea what the curve looks like.

There will be no BSing around this one.

 

Guess I had you mixed up with @squidward. My apologies there.

 

No. I've only heard of 2 or 3 people being tested in Austin since January, and there are no positives.

I am glad that enough big name vendors cancelled their plans to attend at SXSW which forced our Mayor to cancel this year. The last thing we need is 500,000 international visitors, mainly people from the West Coast, descending on this city of 1 million citizens.

Of course, now the Mayor is begging everyone to go downtown and spend money at bars and restaurants to make up for the revenue lost by the SXSW cancellations. He's encouraging massive crowds of people to get out and mingle. Our uber-liberal Mayor turns into a greedy capitalist when it comes to money....like they all do.

 

@LoneStarGal expanded on this quite well.

 

The “government” told us a week ago it was 15 cases soon to be zero lol

 

I think we will get much more information and insight into the problem when we start hearing from people who have personal experience with it. So far we only have headlines and warnings.

 

I've been paying attention to what the government has been telling us daily, and they never said that.

 

Pay more

Trump assured Americans at that February 26 news conference that the number of peopleinfected in the United States is "going very substantially down, not up." Trump even bragged about the 15 cases at the time on US soil, claiming that "the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero."

 

Yes....it would be interesting to hear from someone who has it.

Everyone diagnosed seems to be in "pockets"....right now most are localized cases in New York, Washington (that nursing home primarily), and California.

This is not total in the U.S. You have to scroll down for more on the Johns Hopkins' tracker:

 

I'm listening to the CDC and HHS, and the Pence task force updates. They have a good handle on what's happening.

This isn't political to me.

 

Sad we have to ignore the president in a time or crisis

 

The CDC and HHS were more important than Obama with H1H1 and Ebola, as well....if you insist on making politics out of disease.

 

Obama didn’t run around contradicting them to help him win an election. I’m not making it politics, trump is!

 

Didn't some people have an issue with Trump wanting the White House to be advised before announcing anything publicly? And now you are saying this.

Pick one, stick with it.

 

I don’t know wth you’re talking about.

 

It depends on how good the data is. For example NY has just "roped off" an area that represents about 60% of it's cases.
Short of gov't forced quarantine all you can do is tell people if they don't self quarantine in 60 days there will be 50,000 cases and 1500 deaths and in 90 days 100,000 cases and maybe 6000 deaths as the hospitals fill up.
It's gonna happen anyway. The only thing we can do if we don't do mass quarantines now is try to control the death rate.

 

When Gov. Cuomo enacted a State of Emergency over the weekend, he said that people were not following the "voluntary" quarantine orders. He warned that he could make quarantines non-voluntary and would be hiring more public workers to go knock on doors several times a day to make sure that people who are under quarantine were at home.

I see Cuomo has deployed New York's National Guard troops today for virus containment.