Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away

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6 hours ago, landman said:

Exactly.  And to say it's a 3% mortality rate is wrong as well, yet we've about collapsed the economy and have everyone in a panic. 

But the data suggests it will be more flu like levels. Not everyone gets tested for the flu, so they estimate how many get it. This thing has been here for weeks, not days. And thousands are estimated to have already had it and recovered. 

U better wake up, a shipment is en route to Bastrop

[Guadaloopy 11009]

8 minutes ago, Seger78 said:

Looks like he deleted it already

 

[Okie State 3824]

You'd think the declaration of a national fucking emergency would be taken a bit more seriously.

[VABuckeye 2472]

Nation of idiots that think it can’t happen to them. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Sucks covid can’t take out the people going out tonight then completely burn out tomorrow.... then we can have March madness

[Aqua Buddha 14600]

Just to review over the past 48 hours:

1.  Cases and death rates are rising quickly

2.  Starting to see food rationing at major retailers

3.  Various retailers starting to shut down temporarily 

 

[futureman 22517]

10 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

It's a good band name

I’m still partial to ‘fecal malaise’

[NorthLoop 14222]

Just now, futureman said:

I’m still partial to ‘fecal malaise’

How about "An Abundance of Fecal Malaise"

[Guadaloopy 11009]

My Dad, who is 69 with a-fib, is a county judge.   He went to judge the rib competition at a BBQ cook off today.  I’m completely flabbergasted at the decisions that people continue to make.  

[Pato del Muerto 52553]

4 minutes ago, Okie State said:

You'd think the declaration of a national fucking emergency would be taken a bit more seriously.

 

3 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Nation of idiots that think it can’t happen to them. 

We’ve had too many that stopped short of real bad, with media doing its thing for them all. Crying wolf. Especially over Ebola.  Great coverage because of scary symptoms and outcomes, but it wrecks people before they can infect others. 

[HenryJames 66143]

3 minutes ago, futureman said:

I’m still partial to ‘fecal malaise’

Posting history checks out.

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17 minutes ago, bluto said:

Another anecdote... lifelong friend is a surgeon in the Dallas burbs (south). He ‘knows’ the cases are extremely more widespread and numerous than official current stats. Said cdc hosed his hospital on the testing. As of this afternoon they’d only done ten tests and feel sure one is positive and a couple other probables. They sent their tests to temple as opposed to Dallas due to Dallas backlog but still will take another day for results. He’s expecting his ortho surgery practice to be frozen soon for resource preservation and eventually he’ll be called in as a backup/all hands on deck. They’re getting protocols put in place for patient visitation and processing/ waiting areas.

this is good.  the entire medical community gearing up now is our best hope of keeping curve below capacity because social distancing is apparently optional for everyone below 40 or over 70.

[EuroHorn 3268]

2 hours ago, VABuckeye said:

West Virginia still not on the map.  Must be the inbreeding.

They don’t take tests in West Virginia 

[Pato del Muerto 52553]

Just now, EuroHorn said:

They don’t take tests in West Virginia 

Everything is a government ploy to find your still. 

[Js1 85478]

 

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

I spoke to my 79 year old mom in FL tonight.  She went to a party but she said she is being careful as there were only about 40 people in attendance.  I yelled at her that she needs to be more careful and she said she had to go as she committed to this a while ago.  I don’t know if it’s a case of old people are set in their ways but I can’t tell you how pissed I am at her.  I mean how is anybody over 60 not barricading themselves in their houses right now.  

[stone oak 639]

Any thoughts on when the national quarantine will hit? With the way people are behaving, it’s a matter of when not if.

[TexasGolf 4980]

Mom is 81 and she has a more active social life than me. Been Talking with her about laying low and she is thankfully listening 

[TexasGolf 4980]

1 minute ago, stone oak said:

Any thoughts on when the national quarantine will hit? With the way people are behaving, it’s a matter of when not if.

3 weeks ?  It will be 2 weeks too late 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

I had the talk with my family a little while ago about "when does this go back to normal."

 it doesn't.

Peak for this episode is likely to be in May, based on what I've heard from someone whose epidemiological knowledge I trust, but whether that is overly pessimistic, or hopelessly optimistic, it doesn't really matter. The main takeaway is that pandemics are far more likely than we have allowed ourselves to believe over the last century, and that naivete is now over. If it's not Covid-19, it will be something else.

 "Normal" won't mean the same thing when this is over.

[Hmmm 155]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Who are you and why did you make a new account

 

1 hour ago, stone oak said:

Long time lurker on my old account. Email got infected with coronavirus so I made a new one with Daddario’s tits.

damn ztejas, what are you the surly contingency plan?  people make new accounts for various non-CV related reasons:

1.)  not to get doxxed

2.)  because there are a bunch (or maybe just one) trigger happy ban-admin that make hornsfans look like a free world.  it's a tragic irony, where shag/surly started out as an outcast of HF fans to gather (thank you sincerely, BL), and is now not so different.  perhaps this is due to more extremists views since then. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

I still know people who say “I will stop going out when it gets bad in a couple weeks, but it’s fine right now”. I try to explain to them this is the spreading time, but nope. 
 

 

[dcar00 14321]

2 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

I had the talk with my family a little while ago about "when does this go back to normal."

 it doesn't.

Peak for this episode is likely to be in May, based on what I've heard from someone whose epidemiological knowledge I trust, but whether that is overly pessimistic, or hopelessly optimistic, it doesn't really matter. The main takeaway is that pandemics are far more likely than we have allowed ourselves to believe over the last century, and that naivete is now over. If it's not Covid-19, it will be something else.

 "Normal" won't mean the same thing when this is over.

I keep wondering why this is so much different than swine flu just 10 years ago which infected 60M and 12K died.

[cmontexas 3272]

2 percent of 60 million is 1.2 million 

[Pato del Muerto 52553]

3 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

I keep wondering why this is so much different than swine flu just 10 years ago which infected 60M and 12K died.

Because if we let 60 million get it, hundreds of thousands will die. 

[futureman 22517]

Just now, cmontexas said:

2 percent of 60 million is 1.2 million 

yeah covid isn’t killing anywhere near 2%.  it seems to be killing 2% of people that received a positive test result after being tested.  

[Js1 85478]

3 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

I keep wondering why this is so much different than swine flu just 10 years ago which infected 60M and 12K died.

Social media. We see everything now in real time 

[futureman 22517]

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Social media. We see everything now in real time 

fuck swine flu.  the normal flu kills tens of thousands of americans every year.  including last year’s flu season that killed an estimated 61,000 people here on american soil.  no real social media buzz.  
 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

[Js1 85478]

Also wtf?  Really?

 

[Pato del Muerto 52553]

9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Social media. We see everything now in real time 

Social media, or any media, isn’t causing the shutdown of sports from professional down to youth, or elimination of any get togethers of size, or suspension of worship services.  Facts and trends are. 
 

adding:  I don’t understand why people are hoarding groceries based on social media, but won’t embrace social distancing being pushed by the same social media. 

Edited March 15, 2020 by Pato del Muerto

[Somnio 751]

40 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

It's a good band name

So is Holy Fucking Shit.

[4th_and_18 687]

yeah covid isn’t killing anywhere near 2%.  it seems to be killing 2% of people that received a positive test result after being tested.  

Did you get tested for swine flu? I didn’t. That’s one thing consistent among the outbreaks. We only test those who meet certain criteria. The mortality rate is based on those tests. This one seems higher at the minute based on the similar testing criteria.

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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Social media, or any media, isn’t causing the shutdown of sports from professional down to youth, or elimination of any get togethers of size, or suspension of worship services.  Facts and trends are. 

of course. But we are seeing what’s happening globally in real time. If not for it, we don’t know much about Wuhan

[Aqua Buddha 14600]

12 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

I keep wondering why this is so much different than swine flu just 10 years ago which infected 60M and 12K died.

 

11 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

2 percent of 60 million is 1.2 million 

What cmontexas said.  It's fucking math.

[Hook1997 5397]

11 minutes ago, futureman said:

yeah covid isn’t killing anywhere near 2%.  it seems to be killing 2% of people that received a positive test result after being tested.  

And the testing for anything else before wasn’t different?  Flu, swine flu ect?  Therefore that’s the difference and it also spreads easier.

Edited March 15, 2020 by Hook1997

[Aqua Buddha 14600]

11 minutes ago, futureman said:

yeah covid isn’t killing anywhere near 2%.  it seems to be killing 2% of people that received a positive test result after being tested.  

How do you know that?  

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5 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

Lockdown sucks. It really sucks. It can't last more than a month to six weeks I don't think.

Pornhub is doing their part.   I think video game sales will start climbing.

And I’m thinking if this drags on, you’ll see more stuff like Disney dropping Frozen II three months early on Disney+.   Hell, we may get some movies that are being pulled from their theatrical release dates.

Meanwhile I’m nerding out on Star Trek YouTube videos and seeing fucking travel ads for Oklahoma.  

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5 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Wouldn't you believe it, I have a full keg out in the garage.  Wife went to pull a pint and the fucking Co2 tank decided to get empty. #Coronoavirusirony

Right next to the buckets of gasoline?

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4 hours ago, UDontKnow said:

I thought it more to be porn from the 56K dial up era.

Another 10 minuets and I’ll be able to verify this.   

[Hook1997 5397]

1 minute ago, Aqua Buddha said:

How do you know that?  

He’s from the future duh! 

[Js1 85478]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Pornhub is doing their part.   I think video game sales will start climbing.

And I’m thinking if this drags on, you’ll see more stuff like Disney dropping Frozen II three months early on Disney+.   Hell, we may get some movies that are being pulled from their theatrical release dates.

Meanwhile I’m nerding out on Star Trek YouTube videos and seeing fucking travel ads for Oklahoma.  

Delayed theatrical releases already announced 

F9

Mulan

A Quiet Place 2

No Time to Die

New Mutants 

[Constant 6752]

18 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

I keep wondering why this is so much different than swine flu just 10 years ago which infected 60M and 12K died.

Swine flu is also still around killing people. It’s definitely active again India killing 9 last month.

Edited March 15, 2020 by Constant

[TexasGolf 4980]

NEW: Hoboken, New Jersey announces daily 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in effort to stop coronavirus

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1239031543311597568

[futureman 22517]

3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

How do you know that?  

common sense.  also south korea’s mortality rate that is below 1%. 

[Neonmoon 38130]

9 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

I keep wondering why this is so much different than swine flu just 10 years ago which infected 60M and 12K died.

5,833 people have died so far, and it’s only starting to hit Europe and US. (Wait till Africa and South America)

here’s the rub - do you remember over 80 million people being quarantined for the swine flu? That was just China for this. Who knows how many people will die from this? Just remember whatever the number end us being, that is with the world shutting down to stop the spread. 
 

I know the “it’s just a flu” talking points after this is over will be only 50K died or whatever, but that will be because every country shut down for a month (or more). Businesses lost billions, economies trillions, thousands will have been laid off, people will lose their homes, etc, 

 

[dcar00 14321]

8 minutes ago, futureman said:

fuck swine flu.  the normal flu kills tens of thousands of americans every year.  including last year’s flu season that killed an estimated 61,000 people here on american soil.  no real social media buzz.  
 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

Its strange. NHL, NBA, and MLB player all got swine flu and no cancellations.

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[dcar00 14321]

7 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

5,833 people have died so far, and it’s only starting to hit Europe and US. (Wait till Africa and South America)

here’s the rub - do you remember over 80 million people being quarantined for the swine flu? That was just China for this. Who knows how many people will die from this? Just remember whatever the number end us being, that is with the world shutting down to stop the spread. 
 

I know the “it’s just a flu” talking points after this is over will be only 50K died or whatever, but that will be because every country shut down for a month (or more). Businesses lost billions, economies trillions, thousands will have been laid off, people will lose their homes, etc, 

 

the 60M and 12K was US only.  50K would be great WW.  Swine flu killed 200K+

Edited March 15, 2020 by dcar00

[Rockwell Torrey 1294]

52 minutes ago, Constant said:

“In an abundance of caution” early leader for phrase of the year. 

DoD has been throwing that term all over the place in their narrative on travel restriction, cancellations, etc.

[MissingInAction 25156]

4 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

So what is everybody’s thoughts on ordering food to be delivered like pizza or something from a restaurant?  It that not really safe in that you have to trust all the people that handle the food from cooking to delivery are not contagious?  

I would rather eat a pile of shit.