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WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2020, 01:53:24 PM »
my $cost options taking it in the ass today

thankfully they expire in May
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2020, 12:55:30 PM »
Tired: Buy Clorox stock due to coronavirus
Wired: Buy Costco stock.

Costco looks to be a complete shit show. Hell, even Whole Foods was sold out of water and TP. Who the hell buys TP at Whole Foods? 50% more expensive for organic TP, whatever the hell that means, except "won't wipe my ass". I may be a crunchy granola hippie but that's a bridge too far.

And why the hell do you stock up on water? I guess maybe people are figuring "Well, if I am going to buy 80 packages of pasta and all these canned vegetables, I might as well refresh my earthquake kit"

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2020, 11:09:06 PM »
we are #FUCKED

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2020, 07:36:34 PM »
It looks like the latest conspiracy to cut entitlements.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2020, 07:51:50 PM »
An evil part of me hopes the idiots who downplay this get it and die. Then I repent.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2020, 09:21:17 PM »
So we basically have a disease that spreads very easily w/ a 2-week incubation and will kill a disproportionate part of our at-risk population. While I get it, I'm actually not sure cancelling large public events is the best idea. Part of me thinks we should be encouraging our healthiest people to acquire it early to build herd immunity with the strongest part of the population, but I'm also not an epidemiologist and I'd rather have a 0% chance of dying than a 0.1% chance.

Unfortunately, this is the exact scenario where you don't want someone like Donald Trump in charge, not even b/c of his politics, but b/c his personality prefers gut instinct to forethought and his ego plays a high role in decision-making even as the experts are trying to teach him about exponents.

But while I'm at it, healthcare reliant on insurance and the private sector is not well built to handle these sorts of situations.

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2020, 12:14:14 AM »
Some expert I was listening to today said its a 4 day incubation period
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2020, 02:10:29 AM »
So we basically have a disease that spreads very easily w/ a 2-week incubation and will kill a disproportionate part of our at-risk population. While I get it, I'm actually not sure cancelling large public events is the best idea. Part of me thinks we should be encouraging our healthiest people to acquire it early to build herd immunity with the strongest part of the population, but I'm also not an epidemiologist and I'd rather have a 0% chance of dying than a 0.1% chance.

Unfortunately, this is the exact scenario where you don't want someone like Donald Trump in charge, not even b/c of his politics, but b/c his personality prefers gut instinct to forethought and his ego plays a high role in decision-making even as the experts are trying to teach him about exponents.

But while I'm at it, healthcare reliant on insurance and the private sector is not well built to handle these sorts of situations.

The problem with this is that we only have a certain amount of hospital facilities - beds, ventilators, etc...

If this spreads fast, those will basically have to be rationed. That's what's happening in Northern Italy, the worst off basically get palliative care instead of trying to save them in order to save people with a better chance.

If we have a slower spread, then the pace of entrants to hospitals can hopefully be accommodated when early arrivals hopefully recover.

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2020, 07:17:23 AM »
What's the rate of hospitalization for otherwise healthy adults under say 65?

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #24 on: March 12, 2020, 12:17:04 PM »
So we basically have a disease that spreads very easily w/ a 2-week incubation and will kill a disproportionate part of our at-risk population. While I get it, I'm actually not sure cancelling large public events is the best idea. Part of me thinks we should be encouraging our healthiest people to acquire it early to build herd immunity with the strongest part of the population, but I'm also not an epidemiologist and I'd rather have a 0% chance of dying than a 0.1% chance.

I read an article where a few cases of reinfection have been reported in China and Japan, including a 40-year old women.   Public health authorities are trying to determine the reasons.   The patients could have been wrongly diagnosed or released before the virus cleared.  It is also possible the immunity was short-term.  There are still many unknowns about this virus.   

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2020, 03:49:52 PM »
That makes sense.

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2020, 04:07:36 PM »
69 year old guy with heart disease (by-pass surgery twice)...I refuse to cower to something that I may or may not get. I've had all my appropriate vaccinations.......Including Pneumonia. Son and I went to the Game Sunday........Imagine this........I didn't touch anything other than a handrail..........and 20 seconds later........I did hand sanitizer!!
I feel bad for these student-athletes that have worked their asses off for years and years........and are getting robbed......many in their Senior Year! :'( :'(

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2020, 12:37:57 AM »
What's the rate of hospitalization for otherwise healthy adults under say 65?

Watch this. Not good.

Higher than we think for under 45 and most young people are asymptomatic. They can have it- infect others, but not show symptoms themselves.
Since the CDC did all of like 77 tests in USA last week (actual number) we have no idea how much this is really being transmitted here.
Best guess is it is bad. Real bad.

This is one nasty motherfucker and not going away anytime soon.
No vaccine until Fall of 2021 by the way. There will be no COVID 19 flu shot this coming winter.
« Last Edit: March 13, 2020, 12:42:50 AM by Lkdog »

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #28 on: March 14, 2020, 04:08:05 PM »
Who from the original HQ are you guessing is carrying the virus?

I am guessing MNIllini as he was an older guy, you know he was watching Fox News and bought into this Caronavirus Impeachment Scam BS and wasn't taking proper precautions.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #29 on: March 14, 2020, 04:37:56 PM »
Now is as good a time as any for another playthrough of 'The Last of Us'
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