COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[RoadKingLarry]

One would think.

Observing human behaviour in response to this plague season is way more interesting to me than the whole virus/plague thing itself.  It keeps reminding me we really don't know what's going on in other peoples' heads.

The problem is that sane, rational people are not generally capable of understanding what goes on in the mind of far to great a percentage of the population.
There is also a significant portion of the population where there is nothing at all going on in their minds other than direct reaction to stimulus.

[TommyGunn]

That dog video makes me wish we had actual cloned prehistoric critters so I could have this as a pet.



And I don't believe in leash laws.

[TechMan]

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-cdc-confirms-remarkably-low-coronavirus-death-rate-media/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html

[MechAg94]

That dog video makes me wish we had actual cloned prehistoric critters so I could have this as a pet.



And I don't believe in leash laws.

And people are welcome to carry snacks for your pet.   

[Perd Hapley]

Governments cannot openly admit that the "controlled easing” of COVID-19 lockdowns in fact means controlled progress toward so-called herd immunity to the virus. Much better, then, to pursue this objective silently, under a cloud of obfuscation, and hope that a vaccine will arrive before most of the population gets infected.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/governments-cannot-admit-covid19-herd-immunity-objective-by-robert-skidelsky-2020-05

My apologies if this has been posted before. It's from a British econ prof.

[BlueStarLizzard]

That dog video makes me wish we had actual cloned prehistoric critters so I could have this as a pet.



And I don't believe in leash laws.

As someone who owned a very dog aggressive bitch, I do believe in leash laws and not for the safety of MY animal.

I'm a big believer in toddler leashes, too, and for the same reasons.

[MechAg94]

Second wave?

Huge locust swarms hit India, East Africa amid coronavirus pandemic
https://www.foxnews.com/science/huge-locust-swarms-hit-india-east-africa-amid-coronavirus-pandemic.amp?__twitter_impression=true

[WLJ]

[Jim147]

Cicada killers look much like murder hornets.

[RoadKingLarry]

Cicada killers look much like murder hornets.

Different branches, those are the homicide Hornets.

[WLJ]

Different branches, those are the homicide Hornets.

Cousins of the Manslaughter Hornets

[charby]

Different branches, those are the homicide Hornets.

Wrong Taxonomic Order, Cicada Killers are wasps, not hornets

[230RN]

List of the ten plagues
1.Blood
2.Frogs
3.Lice or gnats
4.Flies
5.Livestock
6.Boils
7.Hail
8.Locust
9.Darkness
10.Death of firstborn
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/what-are-10-plagues-egypt

[Fly320s]

I didn't see Facebook on that list.

[makattak]

I didn't see Facebook on that list.

#3

[MechAg94]

I didn't see Facebook on that list.

What about Twitter shadow banning? 

[MechAg94]

 

[TommyGunn]

And people are welcome to carry snacks for your pet.   

     

[TommyGunn]

As someone who owned a very dog aggressive bitch, I do believe in leash laws and not for the safety of MY animal.

I'm a big believer in toddler leashes, too, and for the same reasons.

Let me clarify my position;  I favor leashes & leash laws for actual, real animals like dogs and politicians.   
I feel they're counterproductive for science fictiony creatures like velociraptors.

[Ben]

Well, we now know how the Planet of the Apes actually evolved:

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/05/29/sky-news-monkeys-in-india-allegedly-attacked-a-lab-worker-and-escaped-with-covid-19-samples/

[bedlamite]

https://oye.news/news/world-news/scientists-warn-virus-cases-disappearing-to-fast-for-meaningful-vaccine-studies/

[makattak]

https://oye.news/news/world-news/scientists-warn-virus-cases-disappearing-to-fast-for-meaningful-vaccine-studies/

Yep... it's just burning out on its own and we killed off millions of small businesses for nothing.

AND the (blue state) government refuses to take the pillow off the victim, hoping to kill more.

[RoadKingLarry]

Yep... it's just burning out on its own and we killed off millions of small businesses for nothing.

AND the (blue state) government refuses to take the pillow knee off the victim's neck, hoping to kill more.

FTFY.

[Perd Hapley]

List of the ten plagues
1.Blood
2.Frogs
3.Lice or gnats
4.Flies
5.Livestock
6.Boils
7.Hail
8.Locust
9.Darkness
10.Death of firstborn

[MechAg94]

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1263660557200056320?s=19
This video was making the rounds showing a guy in Michigan beating on an elderly nursing home patient.  Just now I heard the guy tested positive for COVID-19 and was actually being quarantined in the nursing home.  

Michigan lawmaker calls Whitmer’s COVID-19 nursing home policy ‘most idiotic thing we could come up with’
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/27/michigan-lawmaker-calls-whitmers-covid-19-nursing-home-policy-most-idiotic-thing-we-could-come-up-with/

LANSING, Mich. – A Michigan lawmaker whose mother has now tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s controversial nursing home policy that puts infected patients in the same facilities as negative patients is the “most idiotic thing we could come up with.”

Editorial: Michigan must release nursing home virus data
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/05/27/editorial-michigan-must-release-nursing-home-virus-data/5261264002/

The governor’s first set of orders demanded that nursing homes under 80% capacity take in COVID-19 patients who need extended care, and isolate them in their own units.
............................
But, Michigan still is not reporting data from nursing homes and extended-care facilities. So there's no chance for independent scrutiny of how well the policy change is working to reduce deaths.