The Coronavirus a/k/a COVID-19 corner.
#31 Posted 17 March 2020 - 05:25 AM
Is their landlord going to turn around and say "Yeah, I'll wait a few months for my rent" You know exactly what he'll say.
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#33 Posted 17 March 2020 - 06:43 AM
I took stock of my food in the house. I estimated 75-80 meals on the shelves and in the fridge. Twelve 2 liter bottles of water in the fridge. I have those in there for 2 reasons. First, we have been having a major overhaul of water and sewage lines in our area and cutoffs were to be expected. Also, living alone I don't have a lot in the fridge so having the extra gallons of water in there help to keep the cool longer so the compressor runs less than it would with an empty fridge. My single 12 pack of toilet paper will last 3-4 months at least.
So I haven't felt the need to hoard yet.
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#37 Posted 17 March 2020 - 09:24 AM
Trooper Dan, on 17 March 2020 - 04:33 AM, said:
It is to slow down the rate that people wind up in your local intensive care centers. Not currently severe but heavy cases sent home because there is no room left in the ICU die at home. Mild cases result in permanent damage to the individual even though they show up in "success" stats.
RADAЯ, on 17 March 2020 - 05:20 AM, said:
I don't know man... maybe you should pause for a moment and reflect? Unless you actually think you are correct 100% of the time?
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#38 Posted 17 March 2020 - 09:41 AM
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#40 Posted 17 March 2020 - 09:49 AM
RADAЯ, on 17 March 2020 - 09:41 AM, said:
No, the global economic halt is because of that. Stop derping past the pin that popped the existing bubble. The bubble was ready to pop, but it needed a legit chad pin to pop its cherry and that has arrived. Now prepare to live in a non-virgin QuantitativeEasing world.
Come on derp man... you've seen the charts. Pig flu was trivial compared to this.
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#41 Posted 17 March 2020 - 09:53 AM
OccludeOlga, on 17 March 2020 - 09:24 AM, said:
I have seen a report about some patients in Hong Kong who had been hospitalized and ended up with reduced lung function after recovering, but those were not mild cases.
#42 Posted 17 March 2020 - 09:54 AM
RADAЯ, on 17 March 2020 - 09:47 AM, said:
I let the Rothschild scam ride me up until early February.
Then I flipped everything because I saw the blood coming.
So no... I don't listen to stock traders, lazy fuck. I acted early and avoided stock carnage. Come at me with a different insult if you have one. I'm still telling you, you are a pussy and just venting your frustrations, not offering solutions or advertising prior preparations.
#43 Posted 17 March 2020 - 10:02 AM
OccludeOlga, on 17 March 2020 - 09:49 AM, said:
Come on derp man... you've seen the charts. Pig flu was trivial compared to this.
I have seen the charts. 7,892 deaths out of 194,516 cases which puts mortality rate at 4%. But 200,000 global cases is way too low for a virus that's already traveled around the globe. The number of global infected is easily x10 that which puts mortality rate at .4% max.
#44 Posted 17 March 2020 - 11:26 AM
Mark, on 17 March 2020 - 06:43 AM, said:
... cut
Not sure what you are asking.
I use mass transportation. Fast, efficient. Sardines? Rubbish. Subway, has AC, or if you are claustrophobic, wait for the next, usually emptier, subway. Bad breath? Get your teeth cleaned. Worried about catching something? Dude, you can catch something, going into one of the finest restaurants, or by just walking to your next-door grocery store, or staying indoors and getting a shipment from Amazon.
If you want to drive, you can. Cars come to mind, or on a nice day, a motor bike, even. You wanna show off? You can do that too and get a limo service.
If this radio thingy was living in large towns, based on YouTube crap, well, of course, stay away from subways. Oh my god, there are people in those. Shocking. And so many. Germ feast, pick pockets, gangs ... scary.
#45 Posted 17 March 2020 - 11:34 AM
It's pretty obvious that Mark was pointing out that at a time like this, solo vehicle driving is more socially responsible than public transportation, contra the stance taken during normal times by public transportation/anti-car advocates.
#46 Posted 17 March 2020 - 12:20 PM
Toronto, Metro has +5000000 inhabitants. People affected by this oh so scary, deadly, virus, 150.
150/5000000=0.00003 chance of meeting someone with this virus, at any given time.
Last week, NYC, 180/9000000.
My humblest apologies to even suggest to keep living your life, like before. But sure, I do admit, this is me, only. You can massage numbers any which way, to show that if you stay away from big crowds, your chance on getting a virus is 0.0000001 instead, which is numerically a huge difference.
#47 Posted 17 March 2020 - 01:04 PM
Hank, on 17 March 2020 - 12:20 PM, said:
Toronto, Metro has +5000000 inhabitants. People affected by this oh so scary, deadly, virus, 150.
150/5000000=0.00003 chance of meeting someone with this virus, at any given time.
Last week, NYC, 180/9000000.
My humblest apologies to even suggest to keep living your life, like before. But sure, I do admit, this is me, only. You can massage numbers any which way, to show that if you stay away from big crowds, your chance on getting a virus is 0.0000001 instead, which is numerically a huge difference.
Those numbers are trash.
Hardly anyone has been tested. Lots of people are walking around and spreading the virus and don't even know it. It has an incubation period of about four days, during which the infected are highly contagious and show no symptoms.
#48 Posted 17 March 2020 - 01:34 PM
RADAЯ, on 17 March 2020 - 10:02 AM, said:
China lied to you about the death count. Sorry, obfuscated the real numbers with reported deaths from "viral pneumonia".
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OccludeOlga, on 17 March 2020 - 09:54 AM, said:
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#53 Posted 18 March 2020 - 01:44 AM
This new Spring Olympics is really strange. I'm used to seeing China on the podium these days, but it's weird to see Italy and Iran being high in any international rankings. And it looks like my country won't even be medaling, although some people are saying we're going to have a big surge towards the top of the leaderboard.
I also think the rankings are kind of messed up. 116 in the D column should put the US above Germany. It's like when they make the medal count charts and they just add all the medals together instead of prioritizing gold.
#54 Posted 18 March 2020 - 03:51 AM
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#56 Posted 18 March 2020 - 04:55 PM
Ronin, on 16 March 2020 - 05:55 PM, said:
I am hoping we can pull together and get through this but from what I'm seeing and how people are already behaving I hold low expectations that this won't get real ugly. I'm worried for my parents more than anything.
Was sitting in my car today about to finish my break when a DHL delivery driver is approaching the warehouse entrance with a load of boxes on a hand trolley, he sniffes then sneezes all over the boxes in front of me and carries them into the warehouse and gets them signed for. I get out of the car and head in a separate door to avoid passing the sneeze spay still in the air and ask the guys did the driver tell them he sneezed on the boxes they were about to open. The answer is no.
Itchy, tasty
I´m a DHL delivery driver, and I was kind of worried about stuff like what you mentioned would happen. Now that you mention it, I´m even more worried. We are taking some preventive measures at work, but the main possible route of contagion is still open. We handle stuff that comes from all coutries (very specially from China) and our shipments are picked and delivered in an average of 48 hours, from all around the world. This means anyone can touch an infected surface in the time the virus is still active. I believe nothing will be done until the headquarters say so. Hope they have their priorities alligned with the ethics they promote.
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#57 Posted 18 March 2020 - 05:36 PM
RADAЯ, on 17 March 2020 - 10:02 AM, said:
You presume that deaths aren't going untested. Regardless, what matters is the actual effect. Stats, rants, bitching, won't eradicate the brushfire burning through a market just begging for bad news to give it an excuse to correct down 75% or more because it was already primed for some volatility to destroy some retirements.
Hank, on 17 March 2020 - 12:20 PM, said:
Confirmed affected. You keep leaving that part out.
Trooper Dan, on 18 March 2020 - 01:44 AM, said:
I think the best way of evaluating those Olympics is to sort by cases per million population. MUCH different game afoot. Right now San Marino is leading the flat globe with a strong lead over Vatican City.
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#58 Posted 18 March 2020 - 05:57 PM
OccludeOlga, on 18 March 2020 - 05:36 PM, said:
I think pretty much every death on the planet is being monitored right now. Oh wait I know Kim Jong-un is claiming NK has 0 cases of COVID-19.
OccludeOlga, on 18 March 2020 - 05:36 PM, said:
Which is what I've been saying since the very beginning. Coronavirus will be peanuts compared to the resulting economic disaster. Let's just hope we treat it like 1987 and not 2008.
#59 Posted 18 March 2020 - 06:12 PM
RADAЯ, on 18 March 2020 - 05:57 PM, said:
I disagree but we won't know for sure until we're dead. I think most deaths are not being tested.
RADAЯ, on 18 March 2020 - 05:57 PM, said:
Nope. This is a happening. 1987 and 2008 are nothing burgers compared to what is unfolding here.
#60 Posted 18 March 2020 - 07:01 PM
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Behind its success so far has been the most expansive and well-organized testing program in the world, combined with extensive efforts to isolate infected people and trace and quarantine their contacts.
We will be debating what the best response would have been for the rest of our lives. But I hope we can all agree that aggressive widespread early testing would have been a lot better than what we got.