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TXSooner518

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  1. 3 minutes ago, NIUHuskies said:

    Yes that is correct. For me, the Texas Library Association cancelled its conference today. It was to be held in Houston in two weeks.

    LOL wow the crossover. My office was sending two people to Lifesavers (they had actually elected to not go the same day it was cancelled) and my ex-wife was doing TLA. She's super bummed. 

  2. 10 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    Biden isn't going to die soon and the Dems would never 25th him

    I mean, you really don't know that. Healthy 80 year olds die all the time. Biden is clearly declining now, and we have seen how the stress of campaigning and the Presidency ages people. You really to wager that Biden is alive, healthy, and at least competent enough for appearances in, say, summer 2023? That's 40 months from now.  And again, this completely disregards rampant spread of a virus that kills about 15% of those in Biden's age bracket that contract it.

  3. Lol at some of y’all saying VP is worthless. In a vacuum maybe, but what are the odds the VP becomes Prez when the nominee is a declining 80 year old in a world with a highly contagious virus killing off the olds?

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    I started listening to it but was interrupted with actual work and not sure when I'll have time to finish.  But what is the basis for this?  I feel like that's the opposite of everything we've been told to date.  

    This. Now if he wants to say hand washing isn't sufficient, fine. But to say it isn't helpful, when we are talking about a virus that can apparently live on surfaces, is just false. I can pick the virus up on my hands, then touch my nose, mouth, or food, and get sick. To say don't worry about those things is just disingenuous and reckless.

  5. Literally resorting to wishing it away, and notice the things we need to protect. Citizens? Nope. Industry? Yep. 

    I had vowed to not vote for Biden, but this lump of fuck is going to directly cause thousands of unnecessary American deaths, so I very well be voting for a benign senile lump of goo to replace this malignant senile lump of goo. Really appreciate the choice, America.

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  6. Supposed to take the kids for their first trip to Universal Orlando in mid-May. Originally booked flights on SWA for $218/ea, have rebooked for $90/ea. Rebooked hotel for $60 cheaper total for 5 nights. Can cancel hotel up to 5 nights before trip. Only potential risk is got the tickets for the park through Sam's Club, which can only be used through May 22. I would anticipate Sam's will work with us in the event that things deteriorate to the point that the trip isn't feasible. 

  7. 6 minutes ago, HoustonFrog said:

    I understand exponential growth and the argument for this becoming a total disaster is the theory that we can’t do what China and South Korea did. I don’t necessarily disagree, but the numbers in China and South Korea were tiny. Even if it’s 10x worse here it’s not that big of a deal in the grand scheme.

    I’m somewhere in the middle on this.

    Your use of the word "were" in relation to the numbers in China and South Korea show how completely uninformed you are on this. What if it is 10x what it is in Italy, where people are dying in the floor of the hospital without care? NBD? JFC.

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  8. 13 minutes ago, XYZ said:

    I’m just spitballing here, but I would bet that if they want to, they can install draconian quarantine measures in the USA like they did in China. I’m sure the plans already exist, and the military personnel and bullets required are also there. They haven’t done it because “must protect corporate America above all else”, not because they can’t.

    Yeah for one the logistics are hugely difficult, much more so here than in China. As has been posted many times, try placing a complete lockdown on Houston. For two, there were bullseyes in China where it was originating. It's all over the place here. What places are you qurantining and from where? We aren't testing, so quarantining will lock some uninfected in with the infected.

  9. 8 minutes ago, HoustonFrog said:

    Perhaps I’m just misinformed but it sure seems the panic is totally out of proportion to the reality

    Every place this thing has spiked has seemingly been able to get it under control in a week or two. There is yet to be a place where cases and conditions are just totally collapsing.... China figured it out, SKorea did it, Italy is starting to get there. Germany and France will as well.

    At the end of the day, what is a couple thousand cases to SKorea, Italy, Germany and France? It’s nothing. Even if we hit 100k here that’s minimal.

    I’m having a hard time reconciling the actual numbers to the panic. This type of panic I’d expect the numbers to be in the millions by now and certainly not curtailing so quickly in highly affected areas.

    I think relative precaution and some cancellations makes sense, self quarantines, etc. I just don’t see the real threat

    With all due respect, you're misinformed. Take a look at the links that have been posted regarding exponential growth. Italy is letting people just die without treatment in the floor of the hospital because their health care system is literally collapsing. That doesn't sound like "starting to get there." China imposed draconian quarantines that we cannot. South Korea and Japan implemented early cancellations and quarantines, and SK has widespread testing. We have none of those things. 

    Also Italy is approaching 10,000 cases and the curve is rocketing up. That's not "a couple thousand." 

    Immediate measures are needed to slow infections to prevent the complete overrun of our medical system. 

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  10. As a relatively healthy 42 year old, the most likely way I die from the coronavirus is having a medical emergency while our hospitals are completely overrun, making basic health care unavailable.

    I have significant concerns that the combination of most people's head in the sand BUTTHEFLU attitude combined with our government's incredible failures are making this overrun inevitable. I think these things will also have economic consequences that result in panic, depression, etc.

    So I have light concerns about the illness for myself catching it, but very concerned about the overall societal impact.

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  11. Agree with Lurch, that's all totally fine. And you can still lose slowplaying quads LOL, I checked TT behind on TT6 rainbow and lost. We play to win money, not hands. 

    I think against some opponents we should actually raise this river. They should be opponents that valuebet thin and who pay off river raises. Say he has T8 or something and he bets river to get value from an ace, but then talks himself into paying off. You need to know that is your opponent, and also be willing to fold to a 3-bet. Did we have the Ah in our hand?

    Also agree that a better strategy would be to instead river the 8h.

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  12. . It's supposed to be less contagious than the flu. Does the flu transmit like that?


    Says who? The exponential case rate is higher than flu. The R0 (number of people one person expects to infect) is 2.5 to 3.5 times that of flu. That’s one of the things some of us have been trying to explain to the JUSTTHEFLU crowd while Italy’s health care system collapses into Bolivian.
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  13. 57 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Almost no point in testing people at this juncture

     

    its not like people with cold symptoms are gonna quarantine themselves anyway

    Which is why there needs to be widely available testing at low or no cost. If I get fever and a cough, I may not quarantine, but if I can go get tested, see I have it, then I would. Also, you test to make sure asympomatic people aren't spreading it. Guy posted yesterday that his uncle has it, confirmed, but his aunt has no symptoms, so they aren't testing her. She's free to roam. That is gross negligence. She should obviously be tested to help reduce the spread.

    38 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    Pretty sure all the studies done in the future will show that it didn't really matter what actions the US or Europe took as far as testing and local containment went and that there was no chance for the world to contain this once it blew up in Wuhan.Testing would move up the timetable for us to panic, but only a totalitarian government and a submissive people, like China, have a chance to contain this.

    It's the asymptomatic spreader that makes this impossible to stop.

    If we were testing aggressively we might show as many as a few thousand cases, but we still couldn't stop it.

     

     

    As has been posted over and over, slowing the spread is YUGE as far as crippling effects on our economy and health care system. 100,000 hospitalized over a 6 month period is dramatically different than over a 1 month period. 

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  14.  
    https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/coronavirus-quarantine-cruise-ship-begins-testing-passengers-new-cases-san-francisco/

    Pat Herrick, whose mother was a resident in the nursing home, said she got a call in the morning that her mother had passed overnight. Herrick said she was told her mother died of natural causes. She expressed doubt, insisting her mother had been healthy, but praised the Life Care staff.

    "I'm asking and lobbying to make sure she gets tested, I want her body tested. And I've been told we don't do that, you know we just have to assume it's natural causes. So I'm saying that's not okay," Herrick said.

    Well that's one way to keep the numbers low.


    Also even if it was COVID-19, that’s still a “natural” death. Technically correct, the very best kind.
  15. Chicago State (???) cancels mens and womens basketball games, won't let their teams travel due to coronavirus
    https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/28833590/chicago-state-men-basketball-team-not-traveling-due-virus-women-home-games-canceled

    CHICAGO -- The Chicago State men's basketball team will not travel for two regularly scheduled WAC games this week, and its women's team will not host two games, the school said late Tuesday, citing the spread of the coronavirus.

    The school said in a statement it was making the move with the "health and well-being of the campus community in mind."

    The cancellations are believed to be the first by a major sport in the United States due to the virus.

    The university said the men's team would not travel to Seattle or Utah Valley for WAC games on Thursday and Saturday. The school also said the women's team would not host Seattle or Utah Valley at the campus' Jones Convocation Center on the same days.

    "Chicago State athletics views our decision as a reaffirmation of our commitment to the well-being, health and safety of our student athletes," Chicago State athletic director Elliott Charles said in the statement.

    Took me a minute - but I found Chicago State in the WAC, where the men's team is currently 0-14 in conference and 4-25 overall, makes me wonder who they beat but not enough to look.
    The women's team is 1-13 in the WAC standings, 1-26 overall.
    So these forfeits actually save the school travel money, as they would have lost the games anyway


    3 of the men’s team wins are non-DI. Pulling their schedule is amusing as they get massacred by the bottom third of the NCAA. I’m sure they were good with any reason to cancel.
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