Anyone else have an ominous feeling that April's going to be a really tough month in the US? I'm kinda dreading the next 4 weeks. (Because as much as the infection rates may have started to inflect, what with patchwork-distancing, we know those death numbers time-lag, and those're going to be the big emotional hits....)

@nitsua60 Yeah, this is gonna be rough. Guam's used to "hunker down and wait" being a legit emergency technique, but we're used to it on the scale of days.

And we haven't seen the kinds of death numbers we'll probably get from this, since... WWII. Which is a generational trauma.

We've got 500 staffed beds available on island right now. The absolute minimum projected need for simultaneous beds is a thousand, if we do everything right.

(Which is one reason I'm glad our governor got ahead of events and made a deal with the military for health aid in exchange for hotel accommodations, instead of waiting to be ordered to let the sailors bunk in our hotels with no obligation of compensation.)

@BESW "generational trauma" is a good phrase to keep in mind... =/

@nitsua60 Ursula Vernon just tweeted about how this is a generation-defining experience similar to growing up in the Cold War. Which is different from generational trauma, but also a lens to keep in mind.

Put it in perspective, this is nowhere as bad as the "Kasas Flu" (thank-you Donald Trump!)

sorry "Kansas" :-)

Oh, we lost more than 7% of the population from the flu in 1918, thanks to the Army. (The USA overall lost less than 0.7% of its population)

If we were playing Misery Olympics I'd point out that Samoa lost 22% of its population, but Misery Olympics are dumb.

@BESW Justinian plague ftw?

Only if you're a Dem!

Alternative facts are very important

...that doesn't seem helpful or relevant. ttfn

Fairly stated

the current plague seems far less deadly in the short term, but far more deadly in the long term, than the Kansas Flu :-(

@BESW I thought we were digging up byzantine facts about prior disease outbreaks in bids to win the Misery Olympics.

@GcL so somehow you're claiming the assertion of deaths from the Kansas Flu is related to the Byzantine Empire?

@PaulGalbraith Are the Misery Olympics just a North American thing like the World Series?

@GcL I think it's just a NYC thing

@PaulGalbraith Seems unfair they should win the bid year after year.

@GcL they bring a strong game

Gah, I feel bad for even joking, the folks working in those hospitals down there are heroes, what a shit situation :-(

Our gov has activated the "text everyone" feature. First time I've ever seen it in action.