Does anyone else see problems with the way this virus thing is heading?
Talks of martial law, restricting sports, performances and things like that and today, Oregon' s Furhor is restricting gatherings of more than 250 people.
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Santa Clara County, with 48 confirmed COVID-19 cases, has a ban on mass gatherings of 1000+ now. News reports mortality rates at 10X the flu (1% as opposed to 0.1%) and current measures are aimed at spreading out the load at our hospitals to avoid flooding healthcare with cases at the same time since it appears to be too late to prevent COVID-19 cases here now.
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Actually, it makes sense to restrict crowds. It won't stop the spread but the idea is to slow the spread and reduce the total number of patients at the peak of the outbreak, thereby helping healthcare facilities deal with the surge. I saw a graph somewhere. I'll try and find it.
Found it, saved it, can't get it to show up. Have they been ****** with the forum again?
If you want to see the graph, google the following,.... Carona virus flattening the curve. Plenty of these graphs and articles will show up.
I'm worried about it for my elderly friends and relatives and my mom and dad. Nobody has symptoms until later, so everybody's spreading it. The only thing left to do is slow it down and help the medical community have less of a surge.
10 nursing homes in Washington state have coronavirus l ABC News
Edit: couple of add-ons:
“You can’t, even for a million dollars, get a drug for the coronavirus — but your grandmother’s bar of soap kills the virus.”
Chemist Palli Thordarson explains how good old soap and water dissolves the fat membrane of viruses to make them fall apart like a house of cards. (The Guardian)
Pressure to rush out a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) risks making matters worse for some people. There is evidence, from decades of efforts to produce a vaccine against other types of coronavirus, of ‘vaccine enhancement’ — in which some vaccinated people experience worse-than-usual symptoms if they do become infected. The mechanism is not fully understood, and the risk is usually mitigated by extensive testing in animals. (Reuters | 7 min read)
@Bob_Luken said:
Actually, it makes sense to restrict crowds. It won't stop the spread but the idea is to slow the spread and reduce the total number of patients at the peak of the outbreak, thereby helping healthcare facilities deal with the surge. I saw a graph somewhere. I'll try and find it.
Found it, saved it, can't get it to show up. Have they been ****** with the forum again?
If you want to see the graph, google the following,.... Carona virus flattening the curve. Plenty of these graphs and articles will show up.
I'm worried about it for my elderly friends and relatives and my mom and dad. Nobody has symptoms until later, so everybody's spreading it. The only thing left to do is slow it down and help the medical community have less of a surge.
Perhaps we're just not hearing about other community spread because it's asymptomatic, transported and transmitted by persons who never develop the disease? The elderly nursing home residents tend to be immune-compromised both by age and by repeated exposure to antibiotics, thus the disease process progresses from exposure to infection.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Or, we could create our own psycho-babble fantasy explanation and see if it reaches social media:
Obviously, the insurance industry moguls have bred special tiny flying monkeys, often mistaken for bats, that are targeting nursing homes in an effort to boost next quarters profit margin by eliminating payouts. Yeah, that's the ticket!
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This forum could lose 25% of its members, being as a good chunk of us are oldfarts. We just have to be prepared to become deceased in an orderly and slow-paced fashion, so as to not overwhelm the community's ability to cope with the crisis.
@peter4jc said:
This forum could lose 25% of its members, being as a good chunk of us are oldfarts. We just have to be prepared to become deceased in an orderly and slow-paced fashion, so as to not overwhelm the community's ability to cope with the crisis.
We’ll keep you old farts around for a while longer. We can get your 25% quota through the noobs that join for a month or two
At Walmart yesterday, and the toilet paper shelves were literally empty! Is there any reasonable explanation for this? Did someone say that TP was a magic talisman that will protect your household? Are people wrapping their heads in it? Since they've already bought all the dust masks? Which, by the way, won't stop the virus. At all.
The disinfectant wipes were nearly gone, but heck, they might actually help prevent transmission. So, that makes some sense.
The number one product that actually might do something, hand soap, was still in plentiful supply.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
bleach, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, toilet paper, lysol etc. all gone at the supermarket, shelves completely empty. Store manager was mystified 'bout the tp, said he saw people checking out with shopping carts full of it. Meanwhile, a friend in Florida said she was told the schools wiped out those products where she lives, bought it all.... (and then probably closed the schools, lol).
We've been trying to lay in medical supplies for my Wife, no Iso Alcohol unless you want to pay gouger prices, distilled water hard to find, it's just crazy.
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Yes!!! Seen this first hand went to 2 different Walmarts today, ALL completely pillaged! No TP, paper towels, bottled water gone!!! Guy said they sold 5 pallets in less then an hours, Walmart put two case limit on them...I had to buy fvucking Ozarka...stuffs gross, wheres the Aquafina damnit! ex > @silvermouse said:
bleach, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, toilet paper, lysol etc. all gone at the supermarket, shelves completely empty. Store manager was mystified 'bout the tp, said he saw people checking out with shopping carts full of it. Meanwhile, a friend in Florida said she was told the schools wiped out those products where she lives, bought it all.... (and then probably closed the schools, lol).
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Does anyone else see problems with the way this virus thing is heading?
Talks of martial law, restricting sports, performances and things like that and today, Oregon' s Furhor is restricting gatherings of more than 250 people.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
^ and restricting travel
They’re saying now corona came from bats. Anybody else kinda wondering if this is somehow Ozzy’s fault?
And of course, California is considering the same crowd limit.
Power corrupts.
Santa Clara County, with 48 confirmed COVID-19 cases, has a ban on mass gatherings of 1000+ now. News reports mortality rates at 10X the flu (1% as opposed to 0.1%) and current measures are aimed at spreading out the load at our hospitals to avoid flooding healthcare with cases at the same time since it appears to be too late to prevent COVID-19 cases here now.
This is a Socialism test run.
Trump sure changed his tune this morning.
Actually, it makes sense to restrict crowds. It won't stop the spread but the idea is to slow the spread and reduce the total number of patients at the peak of the outbreak, thereby helping healthcare facilities deal with the surge. I saw a graph somewhere. I'll try and find it.
Found it, saved it, can't get it to show up. Have they been ****** with the forum again?
If you want to see the graph, google the following,.... Carona virus flattening the curve. Plenty of these graphs and articles will show up.
I'm worried about it for my elderly friends and relatives and my mom and dad. Nobody has symptoms until later, so everybody's spreading it. The only thing left to do is slow it down and help the medical community have less of a surge.
10 nursing homes in Washington state have coronavirus l ABC News
Edit: couple of add-ons:
“You can’t, even for a million dollars, get a drug for the coronavirus — but your grandmother’s bar of soap kills the virus.”
Chemist Palli Thordarson explains how good old soap and water dissolves the fat membrane of viruses to make them fall apart like a house of cards. (The Guardian)
Pressure to rush out a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) risks making matters worse for some people. There is evidence, from decades of efforts to produce a vaccine against other types of coronavirus, of ‘vaccine enhancement’ — in which some vaccinated people experience worse-than-usual symptoms if they do become infected. The mechanism is not fully understood, and the risk is usually mitigated by extensive testing in animals. (Reuters | 7 min read)
Damn, I can finally quote again!
I had seen this also Edward and I don’t understand how. How does it jump to 10 nursing homes but you’re not hearing of other community spread.
Bob is this the one
Perhaps we're just not hearing about other community spread because it's asymptomatic, transported and transmitted by persons who never develop the disease? The elderly nursing home residents tend to be immune-compromised both by age and by repeated exposure to antibiotics, thus the disease process progresses from exposure to infection.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Or, we could create our own psycho-babble fantasy explanation and see if it reaches social media:
Obviously, the insurance industry moguls have bred special tiny flying monkeys, often mistaken for bats, that are targeting nursing homes in an effort to boost next quarters profit margin by eliminating payouts. Yeah, that's the ticket!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Washington seems particularly affected. North to Alaska, eh @Trykflyr_1?
This forum could lose 25% of its members, being as a good chunk of us are oldfarts. We just have to be prepared to become deceased in an orderly and slow-paced fashion, so as to not overwhelm the community's ability to cope with the crisis.
We’ll keep you old farts around for a while longer. We can get your 25% quota through the noobs that join for a month or two
My coworker in Switzerland just sent me this on IG
At Walmart yesterday, and the toilet paper shelves were literally empty! Is there any reasonable explanation for this? Did someone say that TP was a magic talisman that will protect your household? Are people wrapping their heads in it? Since they've already bought all the dust masks? Which, by the way, won't stop the virus. At all.
The disinfectant wipes were nearly gone, but heck, they might actually help prevent transmission. So, that makes some sense.
The number one product that actually might do something, hand soap, was still in plentiful supply.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
You don’t need hand soap if to double down on the hand sanitizer 😂
bleach, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, toilet paper, lysol etc. all gone at the supermarket, shelves completely empty. Store manager was mystified 'bout the tp, said he saw people checking out with shopping carts full of it. Meanwhile, a friend in Florida said she was told the schools wiped out those products where she lives, bought it all.... (and then probably closed the schools, lol).
TP is to treat the symptoms.
We've been trying to lay in medical supplies for my Wife, no Iso Alcohol unless you want to pay gouger prices, distilled water hard to find, it's just crazy.
Yes!!! Seen this first hand went to 2 different Walmarts today, ALL completely pillaged! No TP, paper towels, bottled water gone!!! Guy said they sold 5 pallets in less then an hours, Walmart put two case limit on them...I had to buy fvucking Ozarka...stuffs gross, wheres the Aquafina damnit! ex > @silvermouse said:
^Wow someones been messing with things that quoted very strangely lol
I hit the dollar store this afternoon. Plenty of toilet paper.... Target and Costco were completely out.
I've always wanted a bidet. Now I want one even more.
My Wife was just saying that I'm going to have to cut back on my use of TP or just use water. I think you're on to something.
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