Eight Ways to Smash, not Just Flatten, the Coronavirus Curve

[TomSea]

Eight Ways to Smash, not Just Flatten, the Coronavirus Curve
Susan M Malinowski, MD

As a surgeon, I sometimes deliver bad news. The reactions are predictable: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, eventually, acceptance. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in her classic 1969 book, “On Death and Dying,” described how we transition across these stages of grief when we receive bad news. I see the coronavirus pandemic forcing our nation along a similar journey, but we can’t languish — we must get to the final stage, acceptance, so we can act and minimize harm. We are clearly not there yet.

On January 23, 2020 Wuhan, China was quarantined. I remember hearing the news and realized this was the biggest story of the decade, if not the century. Yet the lockdown of Wuhan was sandwiched between stories of therapy animals on planes and whether Superbowl Sunday should be moved to Saturdays.

On February 3, 2020 I presented to a corporate investment committee giving my perspective, as a doctor, on why Covid19, then only in China, would cripple the US, if not the world. I predicted that the virus would spread to Europe and the US and suggested selling equities and shifting into cash. I explained the Kubler-Ross stages of grieving, and how our country and most of the world was in denial. Most in the room looked at me like I was Henny Penny saying the sky was falling. I tried to tell my doctor friends — many of them laughed at me and said I was an alarmist. My friends would not listen. I tried to prepare as best as I could on my own.

Read more at: https://medium.com/@smmalinowski/eight-ways-to-smash-not-just-flatten-the-coronavirus-curve-d7b27167d28f

[libertybele]

Logical, plain and simple. The use of turning grounded aircraft into hospitals is a great idea; they already have the air filtration systems.

[jmyrlefuller]

Great, common sense advice. Open air is something Cuomo has advocated in New York. It seems to have slowed things upstate.

[libertybele]

Great, common sense advice. Open air is something Cuomo has advocated in New York. It seems to have slowed things upstate.

I'm usually up early morning. The first thing I do is open the doors and get a cross-breeze in the house and open windows in the bedrooms.  I then wipe down the counters with bleach and sanitize all the door handles, remotes, cell phones, and light switches.  I air out the house for at least an hour or so.

[Smokin Joe]

When you are done with a tent hospital, if need be you can burn the tents...