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In reply to the discussion: After 2 months who will run the electric plants? Thx in advance [View all]uponit7771
(90,396 posts)130. Cases in China of reinfections (LA Times link inside)
I know there are people who aren't looking at this from China but we know people from there.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-japan-korea-coronavirus-reinfection-test-positive
Wang, whose full name has not been disclosed for privacy reasons, is one of more than 100 reported cases of Chinese patients who have been released from hospitals as survivors of the new coronavirus only to test positive for it a second time in the bewildering math of this mysterious illness.
It seems to be rare though, we'll see but I"m counting out herd immunity now, Johnson logic seems to be a little on the stupid side.
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+1, they don't give a damn about us at all. There's enough wealthy people in the US to buy test
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#13
Not everybody will be dead or hospitalized. There will be employee shortages
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#3
How? People will be sick with CV19 ... again, if we don't have unfettered testing in 2 weeks we
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#5
in 2 months at their rate do you think they will still have electricity? thx in advance
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#15
I have no idea. It might depend on whether their rate slows as it did in China.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#16
China made people work the plants, we can't do that with sick people here IE the question.
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#21
That's doesn't address the question and we're worse off than Wuhan at this point because our leaders
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#31
The bosses who do wont let those with CV19 come in contact with those who don't have it either.
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#39
They can't run the plant from their house, are people thinking this through? You get sick you go
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#17
You get tested sick with CV19 you go home and stay ... period. Maybe I'm asking the question wrong
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#33
That's not the question, I said UNFETTERED meaning everyone gets tested seeing we're so far
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#40
That's not going to happen. Even people with symptoms can't get tested in some places.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#44
Sigh, then we need to think about running without electricity cause if we only test those right
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#47
We are not going to lose electricity, as has been explained ad nauseam.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#50
What the !!? The president of the country is to this hour talking about someone emails and the ...
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#74
I have cousins who are line workers, Here's what I'm hearing from them (inside)
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#76
Its not the dead or hospitalized its those who are sick that will need to be isolated for as long as
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#25
There's no immunity to CV19, there are cases in Japan with reinftected people
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#65
We'll see, Chinese government admitting Wuhan wont be 100% till the end of April. We're behind the
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#87
Because they got to testing and isolation quicker than we did ... right? tia
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#95
People are NOT becoming reinfected by this, stop spreading this misinformation
obamanut2012
Mar 2020
#124
"But they won't be" ... this is a claim with nothing backing it up or no logical reasoning behind it
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#36
I am personally thinking, yep, it could happen, upon - although, Wuhan never lost their
Leghorn21
Mar 2020
#6
As far as I know Italy, which is in dire straits, still has its electricity and running water.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2020
#11
Right - I know I'm going too far with my doomsday thoughts, Ocelot - and of course I surely
Leghorn21
Mar 2020
#23
Good point, I'll watch that area ... looks like things have not peaked there
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#66
THANK YOU!! I don't think people are thinking this through. Those who have CV19 will be quarantined
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#38
not all workers will be sick all at once and many things can operate on skeleton crew
beachbumbob
Mar 2020
#45
+1, that's where I got this question from. Grocery stores are being closed down if there's an ...
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#54
I think that most people who work at electrical plants are young enough that they are not
totodeinhere
Mar 2020
#46
Spain showed us that youth doesn't matter, its underlying conditions that got the older people sicke
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#60
But that doesn't change the fact that the average age for deaths in China is 80.
totodeinhere
Mar 2020
#61
The higher death rate in Spain over the last week because they held mass people events. That's
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#63
Not everybody is getting very sick. There will be people well enough to work. nt
gollygee
Mar 2020
#53
in 2 - 4 weeks we'll be behind Wuhan China's testing stage and way behind SK and Singapores ... the
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#57
Math matters and so does reading the original question about testing, bookmarked
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#59
In both your post your logic skips phrase "unfettered testing", either way snark noted & bookmarked
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#70
Yep, some of what I asked about in OP is already happening (link) ... but keep snark at 10
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#110
Automation still needs oversight and intervention, look if we don't get to this point that'll be
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#72
Not addressing the power plant subject, but kinda do lean toward what you say regarding
sprinkleeninow
Mar 2020
#97
There's no immunity to CV19, there are cases in Japan with reinfected people
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#78
The point about unfettered testing is everyone who needs or wants a test can get one since we're so
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#94
This is 100% false on its face, you need to keep up with your responses (link)
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#134
It'll be more of a problem for people in rural areas where power lines go down a lot
flibbitygiblets
Mar 2020
#79
+1, maybe I should've added line workers too because people think power plant they think just the ..
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#89
Food, gasoline, telephone, cellphone, trains, airports, repairs,,, much, much more.
keithbvadu2
Mar 2020
#91
+1, right! I had only addressed direct sickness of workers but what if their loved one gets sick
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#105
I can tell you one thing: the organization I worked for which supplied a great deal of the region
captain queeg
Mar 2020
#100
Thx for this, I worked ops for decades and was always short, never any elasticity in staff
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#108
Hasn't changed. And not like you can just grab someone and turn over a plants operation
captain queeg
Mar 2020
#112
"Management rubbed there hands and said well we got that figured out." This is EXACTLY my experience
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#131
Yeah there's operations and there's maintenance and never the twain will meet
captain queeg
Mar 2020
#132
I'm shocked everyone else isn't this alarmed. We're 1 - 2 months behind where Wuhan was at
uponit7771
Mar 2020
#106