Seriously?? They couldn't use the freaking arena?!

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Seriously?? They couldn't use the freaking arena?!

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That what the pics on the chron slide show looked like.

I am not sure if the 60,000,000 number for 250 beds is for staff, supplies and everything, but the costs I have seen is about 15,000 a bed for temp hospital setup.

Yeah hopefully that number is the estimate for costs including consumables and personnel but I'm not holding my breath

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This morning, listening to the radio on my commute, they said the price tag of this makeshift hospital was going to be $60MM.

That's too much to be believed.

Anyone else seen or heard of that?

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Harris-County-commits-60M-to-NRG-Park-field-15185688.php#photo-19270639

It appears that instead of using one of he massive structures that is already on the property they may be building a giant tent.

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Good grief. $60MM for a 250 bed tent hospital??? They could buy and fit out a couple of now-empty hotels for a fraction of that cost.

HouAggie2007 said:

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Yeah hopefully that number is the estimate for costs including consumables and personnel but I'm not holding my breath

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When has the estimated costs actually been lower than the actual when it comes to government?

Not very often

When do Houston hospitals get overrun isnt that what Lina said? Are they using the filed hospital by NRG?

Bayou trails are supposed to be closed, effective sundown yesterday. They still seemed open early this morning!

No social distancing here.

https://www.facebook.com/1047125900/posts/10219667619494826/?

$3.50 lb crawfish that comes with corn and potatoes though. ....

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So, where are people buying all these face masks I see them wearing lately? Everywhere I've looked online is sold out.

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Found some at Walmart in the painting supplies area in hardware. I assume any paint and painting supplies store would have them.

Not much detail in the article, and I didn't watch the presser, but Abbott plans to issue an executive order next week to address businesses reopening.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-covid19-cases-update/269-f1c36a64-eedc-4d08-bf40-97c62ffcb39b

TXTransplant said:

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Not much detail in the article, and I didn't watch the presser, but Abbott plans to issue an executive order next week to address businesses reopening.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-covid19-cases-update/269-f1c36a64-eedc-4d08-bf40-97c62ffcb39b

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Good. Although my geuss is while the annoucement will be next week the "restart" probably won't be until early May.

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TXTransplant said:

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Not much detail in the article, and I didn't watch the presser, but Abbott plans to issue an executive order next week to address businesses reopening.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-covid19-cases-update/269-f1c36a64-eedc-4d08-bf40-97c62ffcb39b

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Good. Although my geuss is while the annoucement will be next week the "restart" probably won't be until early May.

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I think that even a "we plan to hold firm with the April 30 date and expect businesses to re-open first week of May" would be good news

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Link suggests it's going to be guidelines on how to reopen. I'm thinking it will be rules on how many people can be in a store/restaurant at the same time and requirements on PPE.

What will be interesting is if big companies follow along with Abbott's guidelines. A lot of retailers made the decisions to close stores across the country before cities and counties issued official "stay at home" orders. They may have their own timeline for reopening.

I think a lot of those closures had to do with remaining open costing them more money than just shutting it down. Our daughter works at Hollister and they were one of the ones that closed before anyone else. Her last shift she said they had one person come in the store in 5 hours that she was there.

Ranger #007 said:

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I think a lot of those closures had to do with remaining open costing them more money than just shutting it down. Our daughter works at Hollister and they were one of the ones that closed before anyone else. Her last shift she said they had one person come in the store in 5 hours that she was there.

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I'm sure that was the driving factor. But now that we've been in this for a few weeks, no big company wants to open back up only to have an outbreak in their store.

With kids out of school, there has to be a balancing act between allowing businesses to open but not becoming hang-outs for hoards of teens and tweens with nothing better to do.

BoxingAg84 said:

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No social distancing here.

https://www.facebook.com/1047125900/posts/10219667619494826/?

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now go do memorial park or woodlands trails

That's true. I'd heard some south Texas counties were starting to require minors out of the house without an adult to either be doing something like going to work or dealing with an emergency. I wonder if they'd include something like that and, if they did, how enforceable even that would be.

TXTransplant said:

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Not much detail in the article, and I didn't watch the presser, but Abbott plans to issue an executive order next week to address businesses reopening.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-covid19-cases-update/269-f1c36a64-eedc-4d08-bf40-97c62ffcb39b

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r/Houston already reeeeeeing about it

My fear is that the announcement is forming a task force, and then that task for will give a recommendation the last week of April, and that recommendation will be the big counties stay closed

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r/Houston already reeeeeeing about it

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Those people seem to want a permanent shutdown. r/houston is like the under 70 version of Nextdoor.

Our epidemic was so early on we probably will sit right around R0 of 1, meaning every case makes only 1 more case. Then you never get a peak. Model looks for a peak, model best fits our death curve to previous places that have all had peaks, model tells you when it "will" peak.

Best play here is to wait for ~7 days of flat to declining deaths and know we'll be past it. The IHME model is really for one thing - to estimate hospital capacity. Once we locked down we were never going to have hospital capacity issues. No need to watch the IHME for Texas.