Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I never said it was a miracle cure or even implied so lol  

I have said that the anecdotal evidence is growing and that studies are underway.....and I simply posted a link to the 1st completed study results I saw. I never said anything regarding its scientific legitimacy. Yet I am according to you "boldly" going about it and overstating the case badly.....meanwhile the anecdotal evidence continues to come out. My only position on this is were I laying in the hospital dying I would gladly give it go regardless of all your negative ninny sky is falling rhetoric. In fact if there were evidence that koolaid had been known to be effective I would only ask for grape flavored and plenty of it instead of lying there waiting to die....

I have also seen claims that quinine combined with zinc has been used successfully as well.....so bring on the Sweps mineral water and zinc tabs as well LOL

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

And what does that even mean to imply Rod??  Have you lost your marbles??  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

That is totally irrelevant to your previous posting and what I asked you?  Would you like to go for Strike 2?

Originally Posted by James Lacey

All I can say is you have reached peak Trump apologist if you cannot see that he's undercutting yet yielding to Kemp because GA is a definite win for him, whereas the other states are not. Ask yourself one simple question. Why is Trump calling for the liberation of Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia, but not any other non-battleground states?

Originally Posted by James Brown

Speaking of Colorado's Governor... I listened to his presentation yesterday, and continue to be impressed. I definitely like his style, it is not a speech, much more like a business presentation where he works through his charts.  We move into a "Safer at home phase" next week.  Some businesses will open with strict social distancing requirements.  If one can work from home, like me and my partners and associates, we are expected to continue to work from home.  

A couple of critical points from the governor's presentation.  First, our state is focusing on four things:  (1) social distancing, (2) masks, (3) testing, tracing and isolation and (4) protecting vulnerable populations. 

According to our local disease model, we acknowledge that social distancing will drop some percentage from the current level, as we move from the a stay at home order to a slightly more relaxed "safer at home" model.  Without #2, 3, 4 above, our model predicts that Colorado Covid cases overwhelm the local healthcare scene under either a "stay at home order" or the "safer at home plan" but the overwhelming happens about two weeks later under the stay at home order.  When we add #2, 3, and 4 to the model, we stay well within the capacity of the system whether the stay at home order were extended or not.  This of course informs the Governor's decision to let the stay at home order expire and roll out successively less stringent plans over time.  Contrary to the stories popular in the national press this week, we have the medical capacity whether or not we extend the order, provided we do the other stuff.

I found it very interesting, and contrary to the national story that Colorado's experts think #3, testing, tracing and isolation, while important, is not the be-all and end-all strategy that the national pundits describe it as.  Colorado acknowledges the usefulness of testing as a tool, but we are not relying on testing as the cornerstone strategy to limit infections to a manageable level.  Our model incorporates a 5% increase in the testing of symptomatic persons each week, but it is now apparent that testing symptomatic persons is too late in many cases, they have already infected several others. 

More importantly in the Gov's expert's opinion, Colorado is focusing on ramping up the testing of everyone who must work with the elderly, prisoners, compromised folks etc.  This is #4.  Folks have been talking about #4 nationally, but I have not read that it really is a forefront strategy, like our Governor describes.  The Governor already had some success stories of positive test but asymptomatic care givers being isolated from the old-folks home population before they infected anyone.  Good work that.  The Gov. was pretty clear that #1, 2, and 4 are at least as important as ramped up testing, tracing and isolation.   

Jim