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On Friday, the maker of Lysol said that due to “recent speculation,” it wanted to urge people not to ingest their disinfectants. “We must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route,)” the Reckitt Benckiser Group said in a statement early Friday, adding: “Please read the label and safety information.”

Later on Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also cautioned against following the president’s suggestion, saying in a statement reported by the Associated Press: “Never apply the product to yourself or others. Do not ingest disinfectant products.”

One of the premises of the founding of this country is that our rights are not given by the government, they are natural or God-given depending on your view. And because of this the government cannot take them away, except when I do something that causes me to give up those rights. 

One can imagine the outcry had we not shut down the country.  This obviously gets politicized along with anything else that makes the news.

The outcry locally is pretty severe obviously.  I don't quite understand it personally.  As adults, we should be allowed to make decisions if we feel a tattoo parlor is not safe, don't go.  And yes, I understand that someone who does go may contract the disease and spread it.  But the social distancing concept appears to be limiting R naught significantly from what I can discern. 

Some higher end restaurants are going to open up on Monday with precautions.  I think many folks will stay in obviously an "see what happens".  The lag time on reading what happens is going to be a problem.

Interesting stuff. I recall some discussion early on about fecal transmission, but it being largely written off due to the DIY nature of Chinese high rise plumbing.

Hospital utilization is well under any projection.  They added 200 more beds in the convention center recently.  It's not being used.  There was an early report that the hospitals were at ICU max, but that was due to a major water leak at the largest hospital in the area that wiped out three floors of ICUs.  That has been remedied, and a brand new hospital opened two floors early for COVID patients, also not being used.

I think this is a key part of Kemp's calculus.  The state, at least outside Albany, has plenty of capacity.  And people are not idiots in general, this isn't going to change behaviors overnight.  I would have kept gyms and tattoo parlors closed myself and just allowed outdoor dining.

One local gym we pass on our walks has ten or so folks working out in the parking lot.

Our small gym in the building is closed, I quit going before they closed it.  We don't have any known infections in the building.

There are many times, I will "voluntarily" give up my rights, but I will not ascend to any government and/or other authority taking away my rights "for the greater good." I will fight it either actively or passively, but I will fight it.

One of the premises of the founding of this country is that our rights are not given by the government, they are natural or God-given depending on your view. And because of this the government cannot take them away, except when I do something that causes me to give up those rights.