Corona Virus

[Wes21]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It's everywhere.

I hope this doesn't get as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, but I'm not sure if there's any logical reason that it won't. That one killed 50 million globally and 675,000 in the U.S.

The demographic data of the Spanish flu was incredibly different than this. If this were the Spanish flu, the NBA players who got it would be dead.  Instead they are like “dang, I barely realized I had it, but now I’m clear.”  The Spanish flu was killing those same demographics.

[Happy Panther]

37 minutes ago, Basbear said:

That was what I explained earlier too. Build big ton-age dump truck beds that take up loads of surface area, ship them across the world, unload them, and transport them to your operation. THAT is WAAAY cheaper than local production!?!?!?! That is wrong, plain wrong. 

 

Debatable. Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree. If you know Friedman at all you already know his message. He makes for an interesting read.

[Pantherzack179812]

They conveniently leave out the doctor rule "one test per family." Meaning? For every 1 person positive, they probably ignored 2-3 tests per family.

A family member of mine went and got the test... She was immune deficient and I wasn't. They gave it to her as there was no risk of me even needing hospitalization. Positive result, so 4 likely positive cases (4 members had THE EXACT SAME SYMPTOMS) and 1 confirmed. 

I am feeling 100% better, but the 2.5% death rate people throw around is bull crap. If for every 1 confirmed they miss 3, we're almost at 750k.

Remember, not everyone is going to get tested until they feel ungodly sick.

[stirs]

Starting at about 11 minutes in, and running to 21 minutes, they start questioning what I was questioning a week or so ago.

What do the numbers say, and should we have gone a different direction by quarantining the folks at risk, would the total deaths be less and the economy still be running?  At least I am not the only one to think this way.

 

[Happy Panther]

34 minutes ago, stirs said:

At least I am not the only one to think this way.

Tucker Carlson, Pence and Trump?

Come on get that stuff to political.

 

[Wes21]

7 hours ago, stirs said:

Starting at about 11 minutes in, and running to 21 minutes, they start questioning what I was questioning a week or so ago.

What do the numbers say, and should we have gone a different direction by quarantining the folks at risk, would the total deaths be less and the economy still be running?  At least I am not the only one to think this way.

 

We are all at risk or come into contact with at risk people.  Its an idea that can't work in practice in the US, if your goal is to just continue business as usual minus a few people.

[stirs]

8 hours ago, Happy Panther said:

Tucker Carlson, Pence and Trump?

Come on get that stuff to political.

 

Pence and Trump were not in the video.  Just Carlson talking to doctors and others.

Not sure where the vid is now, but no participation button for you.

[BIGH2001]

NYC is fuged

[stirs]

https://news.yahoo.com/antibody-tests-key-ending-covid-19-lockdowns-162305617.html

They are finally getting to this also

[Tbe]

32 minutes ago, BIGH2001 said:

NYC is fuged

Not shutting down mass transit is next level stupid.

[Harbingers]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/sport/new-england-patriots-masks-robert-kraft-spt-intl/index.html
 

Kraft showing Tepper and the rest of the owners up. 

[Harbingers]

3 minutes ago, Tbe said:

Not shutting down mass transit is next level stupid.

Confined spaces man. Everyone went to this church got sick, they proceeded to get everyone else sick. 
 

“As of April 1, 2020, a total of 5,162 coronavirus (COVID-19) cases were related to Shincheonji Church in South Korea, accounting for about 53 percent of all infections.” 

Edited April 3, 2020 by Harbingers

[TheRumGone]

America is fuged when we have to lean on rich famous people like Stephon Marbury to secure 10 million masks in Beijing China, at cost, to ship to New York State. Why the fug is the federal government not doing this? 
 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/02/sport/stephon-marbury-china-masks-spt-intl/index.html

Edited April 3, 2020 by TheRumGone

[PanthersGTI]

43 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

America is fuged when we have to lean on rich famous people like Stephon Marbury to secure 10 million masks in Beijing China, at cost, to ship to New York State. Why the fug is the federal government not doing this? 
 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/02/sport/stephon-marbury-china-masks-spt-intl/index.html

Not to be too political but it's because Trump. He said he would only send masks to states that were nice to him. So now the fed is out bidding the states for masks. Places like OK, KS, MS, etc... Are getting all the masks they requested mean while NY, NJ, CA, CT all get screwed because they had the audacity to not give Trump a glowing review on his mishandling of this pandemic? And 50% of people are cool with this behavior. We are screwed.