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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #625 on: March 12, 2020, 07:52:25 AM »
Many of those infected here came from Italy as well. And our government even chartered a plane to bring home a bunch of people from Italy...and then just let everyone leave once the plane touched down, because this country is *expletive deleted*ing inept.

We just let people come back from Italy after their outbreak went off, without screening them at all.  Government is inept, period.
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« Reply #626 on: March 12, 2020, 08:19:57 AM »
No cases in Idaho yet, though it looks like zahc's company is looking to screw that up. :P  :laugh:
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« Reply #627 on: March 12, 2020, 08:33:37 AM »
No cases in Idaho yet, though it looks like zahc's company is looking to screw that up. :P  :laugh:

They're there, just not tested yet. 
CDC has finally admitted that some of the flu deaths they're counting for the year likely died from COVID.
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« Reply #628 on: March 12, 2020, 08:34:31 AM »
They're there, just not tested yet. 
CDC has finally admitted that some of the flu deaths they're counting for the year likely died from COVID.


I should have said reported cases.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #629 on: March 12, 2020, 08:43:55 AM »
I should have said reported cases.

You're in good company. No cases in WV either.... :P
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« Reply #630 on: March 12, 2020, 08:45:58 AM »
You're in good company. No cases in WV either.... :P


Rednecks rule, dude.  :laugh:

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #631 on: March 12, 2020, 08:54:27 AM »
Here in Ground Zero of Seattle, we still don't have enough test kits, so the Health Department is rationing them out. 
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #632 on: March 12, 2020, 08:56:41 AM »
I was supposed to go see Itzhak Perlman play tonight (my wife's Christmas present to me) but it's been cancelled. It's a small thing, but I've been trying to see him for about 3 years, and I'm pretty bummed.
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« Reply #633 on: March 12, 2020, 09:02:38 AM »
You're in good company. No cases in WV either.... :P


So.... Meth stops corona virus?
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #634 on: March 12, 2020, 09:07:26 AM »
Some interesting math, telling an interesting story. I I especially like the China bar graph with the gray and yellow retrospective known vs. actual cases.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
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« Reply #635 on: March 12, 2020, 09:14:47 AM »
So.... Meth stops corona virus?
Keep it quiet, but I heard toilet paper prevents corona virus.  That is why it is being bought up.  Don't spread it around though.   [tinfoil]
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« Reply #636 on: March 12, 2020, 09:16:55 AM »
I think I've found a beer virus business opportunity. I have come up with a device to keep people from touching their faces (and licking their balls):

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« Reply #637 on: March 12, 2020, 09:25:31 AM »
I think I've found a beer virus business opportunity. I have come up with a device to keep people from touching their faces (and licking their balls):



Just so long as someone else can lick my balls.
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« Reply #638 on: March 12, 2020, 09:26:24 AM »
No cases in Idaho yet, though it looks like zahc's company is looking to screw that up. :P  :laugh:

Not just my company. You know that approximately everyone at Micron is Asian, of all flavors. During Chinese new year it was like a ghost town as everyone went back to visit family. So my 8 French people are a drop in the bucket.

Trump suspended travel from all of EU because the Schengen agreement means just blocking Italy is nonsense since you can just walk across the border to another country and fly out without a passport Visa trail to identify your travel history. It's still a crude move, but what else can you do. People might criticize EU for that, but US is even worse. If we wanted to shut down the ID border, we have literally no legal or practical way to do it.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #639 on: March 12, 2020, 09:33:56 AM »
Coworker just came in. She stopped at a local grocery on her way to the office to grab a few things... people were panic buying. Took her two hours to get her stuff and get out of the store.
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« Reply #640 on: March 12, 2020, 09:40:17 AM »
Coworker just came in. She stopped at a local grocery on her way to the office to grab a few things... people were panic buying. Took her two hours to get her stuff and get out of the store.

Not shocked. 

It was only a matter of time. That's going to spread faster than corona.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #641 on: March 12, 2020, 09:45:41 AM »
It's still a crude move, but what else can you do.

Until we're up to speed on testing, people are going to over-react.

"Without testing, you have no idea how extensive the infection is. You can't isolate people. You can't do anything," he says. "And so then we're left with a completely different set of choices. We have to shut schools, events and everything down, because that's the only tool available to us until we get testing back up. It's been stunning to me how bad the federal response has been."

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« Reply #642 on: March 12, 2020, 09:50:15 AM »
I'm going to the local grocery store to tempt fate at the salad bar for lunch.

I'm actually sort of surprised that stores haven't started shutting their salad bars down.

I also realized last night that I'm almost out of coffee, and for me, that IS a panic situation. If I don't have my morning coffee I tend to rampage through the streets like Godzilla.
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« Reply #643 on: March 12, 2020, 10:05:18 AM »
Not shocked. 

It was only a matter of time. That's going to spread faster than corona.

Yup.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #644 on: March 12, 2020, 10:05:53 AM »
...aaaaaand Texas Tech just canceled classes the week after Spring Break. After that, it's online instruction only until further notice.

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« Reply #645 on: March 12, 2020, 10:11:05 AM »
I'm going to the local grocery store to tempt fate at the salad bar for lunch.

I'm actually sort of surprised that stores haven't started shutting their salad bars down.

I also realized last night that I'm almost out of coffee, and for me, that IS a panic situation. If I don't have my morning coffee I tend to rampage through the streets like Godzilla.

Friend of ours just tried to get into the Manassas costco. She said it looks like Black Friday.  Parking lot completely full, police directing traffic, and a long line just to get in the store.
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« Reply #646 on: March 12, 2020, 10:13:06 AM »
Not hearing anything about India, If there's any place I would expect something C19 to be like a bull in a China shop it would be India.
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« Reply #647 on: March 12, 2020, 10:16:07 AM »
Not hearing anything about India, If there's any place I would expect something C19 to be like a bull in a China shop it would be India.

I highly doubt they're testing in high numbers.  We'll hear in a few months about a huge death toll there I bet.  Most of India is third world shithole.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #648 on: March 12, 2020, 10:16:47 AM »
Friend of ours just tried to get into the Manassas costco. She said it looks like Black Friday.  Parking lot completely full, police directing traffic, and a long line just to get in the store.


.....SOOOOOO people were just told there's a (somewhat) scary disease that necessitate social distancing...

And they all packed into a store with hundreds of strangers who have been who knows where.


Good job, herd.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #649 on: March 12, 2020, 10:17:59 AM »
Of note, I tried the "keep 6 feet away from others" in the store the other day. It's really hard to do when no one else practices it.
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