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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2020 7:11:02 GMT -6
Ive seen people with thier kids too. Leave them at home! geez.
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ShadowsDad
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Post by ShadowsDad on Apr 15, 2020 8:42:28 GMT -6
Sounds like you have it under control V'L'.
Yesterday I had to run to get to cardiac rehab' so yes, I'm at high risk too even w/o considering my age. They screen folks entering the hospital by asking questions read from a poster. Read them once read them all the time. One of the questions is, Have you been on a cruise? I looked at the nurse and told her, "I began a month long cruise this past weekend put on by the Twilight Zone and I'm still on it.". She asked if I had an app't, so I said,"No.", "Cardiac rehab'?", "Yup" I said. She started laughing and waved me on, she knows why I'm there, she's seen me lots of times to perform the similar ritual. As long as they still run C' rehab' I'll keep going even if I have to shoot my way through a mass of zombies to get there. You know, as seen on the documentary "The Walking Dead".
I was told in rehab that the supermarket company we shop in instituted one way shopping. If you don't know what that is it's people going through the store one way only with separation I assume. Miss something and you're SOL. Before entering (waiting our turn) I turned to the lady behind me and explained that we might have one way shopping, but I would appreciate it if she didn't follow me into the mens room. Yeah, I know I'm weird. FWIW, maybe there was 1 way shopping in the other store in town, but not in the one we shop at.
I did see one worker there wearing a bandana as one would see worn by a bank robber in an old western. Definite high level virus protection that, gotta be N99 or maybe N100. So far no mandatory mask wearing. I have some on order (supposedly N99) but they haven't arrived yet. FWIW, masks designed to prevent infection of the wearer and not to prevent others from getting infected. They have an exhale valve.
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Post by Tony'schin on Apr 15, 2020 11:50:37 GMT -6
So far here in my county in Nevada we've had 10 cases. Much more over in Reno about 40 miles away. A lot more in Vegas. Nothing compared to other places though. Was off on paid leave for a couple weeks. The wife is still been going to work at a long-term care facility and supposedly nobody there has caught it. hopefully it stays that way as I used to work there too and there's some really great people there. I only ventured out of the house a couple times to get groceries for us. One time a Hispanic guy and his whole family was in Walmart and my wife was wearing her mask and he tells her that it will just make her sick. She walked away saying well you can't fix stupid. Some People are " as Thick as Mince" as we say up here. We still have some knumbties here also. T
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Post by Alan on Apr 15, 2020 13:51:19 GMT -6
So far here in my county in Nevada we've had 10 cases. Much more over in Reno about 40 miles away. A lot more in Vegas. Nothing compared to other places though. Was off on paid leave for a couple weeks. The wife is still been going to work at a long-term care facility and supposedly nobody there has caught it. hopefully it stays that way as I used to work there too and there's some really great people there. I only ventured out of the house a couple times to get groceries for us. One time a Hispanic guy and his whole family was in Walmart and my wife was wearing her mask and he tells her that it will just make her sick. She walked away saying well you can't fix stupid. Some People are " as Thick as Mince" as we say up here. We still have some knumbties here also. T "As thick as Mince", that's great Tony! I need to remember that.
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Post by TobyC on Apr 15, 2020 18:23:11 GMT -6
My mother used to say "thick as thieves", but that's a whole 'nuther "ball 'o wax".
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Post by Flintstone on Apr 16, 2020 7:22:44 GMT -6
Doing okay here. And while I live relatively close to Fuzzy's neck of the woods (the "big city"), I'm actually in a different county (or parish, as we call them). My county is very rural and we rely on multiple volunteer fire and rescue services spread throughout the county -- no paid firehouses within the county that I'm aware of. Which means if there's a fire, a vehicle accident, or a medical call, we volunteers are called along with the ambulance service. The ambulance service is provided by a paid 3rd party and we always beat them to the scene, which means we have to be prepared to supply life saving/prolonging measures until the ambulance arrives. I can't (or rather won't) go into how much C-19 has complicated our lives and our ability to help those who are injured in their homes or on the road; but it's not hard to figure out.
So we've all been dealing with it, but in this area it's far from a hoax or overblown. We started out with very few to no cases out here "in the sticks", which apparently meant we were invulnerable, so folks decided that it was just a bunch of hooey and would congregate for celebrations and services, now every day we have more and more diagnosed cases and deaths (which are growing, but lagging just as the infection rate was). The only bright-side is that people are being smarter around here, it's unfortunate that it takes the death of a family member, friend or neighbor to drive home the point that it's real.
Stay safe, gents.
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Post by Tony'schin on Apr 16, 2020 10:37:49 GMT -6
Doing okay here. And while I live relatively close to Fuzzy's neck of the woods (the "big city"), I'm actually in a different county (or parish, as we call them). My county is very rural and we rely on multiple volunteer fire and rescue services spread throughout the county -- no paid firehouses within the county that I'm aware of. Which means if there's a fire, a vehicle accident, or a medical call, we volunteers are called along with the ambulance service. The ambulance service is provided by a paid 3rd party and we always beat them to the scene, which means we have to be prepared to supply life saving/prolonging measures until the ambulance arrives. I can't (or rather won't) go into how much C-19 has complicated our lives and our ability to help those who are injured in their homes or on the road; but it's not hard to figure out. So we've all been dealing with it, but in this area it's far from a hoax or overblown. We started out with very few to no cases out here "in the sticks", which apparently meant we were invulnerable, so folks decided that it was just a bunch of hooey and would congregate for celebrations and services, now every day we have more and more diagnosed cases and deaths (which are growing, but lagging just as the infection rate was). The only bright-side is that people are being smarter around here, it's unfortunate that it takes the death of a family member, friend or neighbor to drive home the point that it's real. Stay safe, gents. I do admire you guys volunteering, however, you need to put yourselves and family 1st. Try to stay safe bud and good luck. My thoughts are with you. T
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Post by mrconklin on Apr 16, 2020 13:25:17 GMT -6
We're OK here. Ohio shut down early, we hadn't had a single death. 3 1/2 weeks working from home, wearing masks at the store, trying to order stuff online as much as possible. 450 cases in our county with 30 deaths. But lots of people outside walking, exercising, being friendlier than before Ohio dropped the hammer early and I think they are glad they did. Not like some other states. South Dakota all of a sudden is bad because of a single pork processing plant infection that run rampant near Sioux Falls. In my state the largest county is Hennepin (MPLS) they have 651 cases and a population of 1.2million. Minnehaha county in SD has a population of 193k and has 1065 cases of Covid. Those cases just popped up recently. Social distancing works. Especially if you start it before you have a problem. I see the let's open things up parades and shake my head.
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Post by dirving79 on Apr 23, 2020 12:11:16 GMT -6
No covid here. No friends/family affected either thankfully.
100% planning on some sort of PTSD after my dealings with Florida unemployment though..
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Post by ShadowsDad on Apr 23, 2020 12:55:14 GMT -6
Still no WuFlu here either despite going into the hospital 2x a week w/o wearing a face mask.
I think that some folks are under the impression that just wearing one confers magical protection. They don't need to wear it correctly or leave it alone(hands away from the face).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2020 13:57:14 GMT -6
I am now of the opinion that its been here longer than they say and weve all been locked down for no reason. The death rate will end up being less than .1%. For sure less than the seasonal flu. But we dont lock down the world over that. I think the real reason this happened was war games. An oportunity to test a nations biological warfare defenses out. Its a race, lock down your country the fastest to lessen the number of deaths. The country that has the most workers alive after the plague sweeps over the world, wins through their economy picking up the pieces fastest. What we now know.... The constitution is useless. Might as well use it to replace the missing toilet paper. Rights can be suspended with little fighting back. China, North Korea, and Russia would do very well and survive. Russia would come out on top. China second. NK would be their puppet. The UK and Italy lost. They would be a complete loss. So would most of Europe. The USA would have way more serious losses than the winning countries but not be a total loss. But have to bow to Russia. We also were able to see what extreme violence did in china for locking them down. They did it faster and better but with terrible human rights violations. America was too soft. And our tolerance for being locked down is about 3 months. Anything longer than that and americans start to rebel. We did do a good job at transporting our military peackeeping vehicles and tanks every where that they would be needed for violent martial law. They were smart enough to test that out instead of violent martial law like China did. We moved alot of vehicles fast! So, if you ever see a violent lockdown......Comply!!! It will save your life vs dying in a fema camp when ebola hits. We live in a new world. God help us all.
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Post by jmudrick on Apr 23, 2020 14:17:31 GMT -6
I am now of the opinion that its been here longer than they say and weve all been locked down for no reason. The death rate will end up being less than .1%. For sure less than the seasonal flu. But we dont lock down the world over that. I think the real reason this happened was war games. An oportunity to test a nations biological warfare defenses out. Its a race, lock down your country the fastest to lessen the number of deaths. The country that has the most workers alive after the plague sweeps over the world, wins through their economy picking up the pieces fastest. What we now know.... The constitution is useless. Might as well use it to replace the missing toilet paper. Rights can be suspended with little fighting back. China, North Korea, and Russia would do very well and survive. Russia would come out on top. China second. NK would be their puppet. The UK and Italy lost. They would be a complete loss. So would most of Europe. The USA would have way more serious losses than the winning countries but not be a total loss. But have to bow to Russia. We also were able to see what extreme violence did in china for locking them down. They did it faster and better but with terrible human rights violations. America was too soft. And our tolerance for being locked down is about 3 months. Anything longer than that and americans start to rebel. We did do a good job at transporting our military peackeeping vehicles and tanks every where that they would be needed for violent martial law. They were smart enough to test that out instead of violent martial law like China did. We moved alot of vehicles fast! So, if you ever see a violent lockdown......Comply!!! It will save your life vs dying in a fema camp when ebola hits. We live in a new world. God help us all. A silly post in my opinion. Skipping the obvious tinfoil hat stuff, high death rates don't matter if a virus isn't highly contagious, thus did SARS kill less than 800 people despite high mortality rate. Covid-19 is more deadly than seasonal flu, perhaps on the order of the 1957 pandemic, but it is its level of contagion, much greater than flu, that makes it a threat to overwhelm our health systems absent the radical public actions we've smartly taken.
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Post by Trout Whisperer on Apr 23, 2020 15:20:37 GMT -6
A silly post in my opinion. Skipping the obvious tinfoil hat stuff.... "Tinfoil hat stuff?" All of us should question this narrative and the fearmongering and government overreach it enabled. We can protect ourselves if we deem it necessary, yet still live as free men and women.
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Post by jmudrick on Apr 23, 2020 15:28:46 GMT -6
A silly post in my opinion. Skipping the obvious tinfoil hat stuff.... "Tinfoil hat stuff?" All of us should question this narrative and the fearmongering and government overreach it enabled. We can protect ourselves if we deem it necessary, yet still live as free men and women. G'head and question, as I do. I find many who see over reach are basing their opinions on misinformation and/or faulty logic, per my comments above.
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Post by rayr on Apr 23, 2020 16:29:40 GMT -6
There is no knowing what the case fatality rate is for COVID-19. It seems to be becoming more evident from what epidemiologists and other medical experts in the field are saying that the only thing they know is how many people died. Even that is somewhat suspect since there is a financial incentive for hospital administrators and doctors to claim a fatality was caused by the COVID on the mere guess or suspicion it may have been a factor in the cause of death and the CDC is urging them to do this. Besides that the biggest unknown is how many people have been infected? You can't calculate the case fatality rate without knowing that. Since most people who have been exposed to the virus are asymptomatic or only showing mild symptoms the only people who are being tested are the people who have shown severe enough symptoms to qualify for testing. If that's the case then the over the top fear mongering and specious claims and statistics you hear from bloviating politicians, their hacks and those in the news media are just wild speculation. Then there's the unseen collateral damage of the pandemic caused by the unprecedented draconian government responses. How many will die because of the shutting down economies? What about forcing people to stay home and even telling them to avoid going outdoors? Doctors are even saying that telling people to shelter indoors is the stupidest advise there is to protect from virial infection since Vitamin D which your body produces from sunlight is a critical factor to bolster your immune system against harmful virus's.
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