Frangas non Flectes
| quote: Originally posted by 46and2:
Accept no stories that aren't first hand or damn nearly so.
Come on now... no emails, no FB posts, no friends of friends...
Direct knowledge, or none, please.
Ok, his post mirrors my post from page 2 of this thread. Except it wasn’t my wife’s friend, it was me. Jan 21st, I had pneumonia out of nowhere with a high fever and a dry cough, sick like I’ve never been, and they wouldn’t test me because I hadn’t been out of the country. I’ve had pneumonia before, this was different, deeper in the lungs, very dry, almost impossible to cough out. I’m really starting to think I already had it, based on what I’m reading and hearing from folks that have gone through it. They’re saying now that it’s likely been in the Puget Sound area for nearly two months now, and I think I might be one of those cases that flew under the radar.
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| quote: Originally posted by bubbatime:
"You can get a test. Anyone can get a test." -Trump
A distant friend of my wife, came down with flu like symptoms.
Like she heard it from your cousins sisters brothers former roommate...? Hmmmm.... |
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| quote: Originally posted by maladat:
Different problem, but a few days ago my wife talked to a doc who had requested a test from the county public health department for a patient who had just returned from Rome. The initial response was no test "because Rome isn't in Italy."
Rome, NY? Bubbatime, sometimes I think you're just praying for Mad Max times.
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| quote: Originally posted by bubbatime:
Its out there folks. We are being lied to. The 1500 number that the CDC gives us is no better than Chinese propaganda. The governor of Ohio said that his experts believe that his state has at least 100,000 cases, just in Ohio, based on what they are seeing in the hospitals currently.
The 100K figure was not based on what they are seeing at hospitals. It was based on a fringe theory that if there are 2 or more people who test positive for the virus as a result of community spread (not travel-related) then you can assume that 1% of the population has it. This is not at all a proven theory. If 100,000 people were infected, there would be several thousand people at the hospitals, and officials are not seeing anything close to that. |
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| quote: Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
And now we can add Utah to the list of states for closing public schools. Gov. Herbert just announced a two week closure.
Alabama just joined that list. Starting end of day, Wednesday 3/18 until 4/6 |
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| Ok, pure absolute insane panic has hit Austin, TX. People were already stocking up and buying all of the toilet paper and hand sanitizer, but today they announced the first cases in Austin and now it is full blown panic. I guess people think Coronavirus will take out our gas supply, power grid, and water supply will all be interrupted. I went to the grocery store to just get dinner for tonight and I NEEDED gas for my truck and it looked like hurricane preparation at the gas pumps with 5-8 cars deep at each pump so I moved on. In the store every single isle was almost 100% empty. All meat of any kind, frozen vegetables, eggs, milk, cleaning products of any kind, etc were all gone. I saw a guy with his cart loaded with every bag of charcoal he could fit.....is that the only way he thinks he can cook? I saw another lady with 15 packages of 1 dozens eggs....WTF? People are stupid.
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| quote: Originally posted by PowerSurge:
^^^^ “A distant friend of your wife”. Not saying you’re a liar, bubbatime, but sounds like a fish story that’s worked it’s way down to you.
I can assure you the story is true. I saw the numerous email and text exchanges. Due to what my wife does and this friend does it created quite the corporate shit storm with headquarters calls and calls to numerous county health departments. There was a lot more to the story that I left out of a public forum for reasons...
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| quote: Originally posted by RHINOWSO:..Like she heard it from your cousins sisters brothers former roommate...?
Hmmmm....
This thing travels faster than an REO Speedwagon!!!
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| quote: Originally posted by RHINOWSO: quote: Originally posted by bubbatime:
"You can get a test. Anyone can get a test." -Trump
A distant friend of my wife, came down with flu like symptoms.
Like she heard it from your cousins sisters brothers former roommate...? Hmmmm....
Trump said the "anyone can get a test" thing on March 6th. It was demonstrably untrue. As of March 11th, fewer than 8,000 tests had been performed. |
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| ^^^ And a large reason Trump's administration likely "fired" the existing alphabet agency that was in charge, and brought together those in the government who can work with the effective people in the private sector, as well as the setting aside many regulatory M&P that were impeding getting water on the fire. However, there will be many who wish to stick a finger in Trump's eye, just for bragging rights or mental mastrubation.
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| quote: Originally posted by bubbatime:
"You can get a test. Anyone can get a test." -Trump
A distant friend of my wife, came down with flu like symptoms. Went to a walk in clinic. They gave her a flu test, which came back negative. Doctor was alarmed with her symptoms, sent her to the ER to get tested for Coronavirus. The ER gave her a chest xray, which looked very bad. Said yeah, she needs the coronavirus test. Except they dont do the test at that hospital. Sent her with a doctors order to Quest labs. Quest labs asked her for travel history. Since she hasn't been to Europe or China, they said she does not qualify for the test and will not get one.
My wifes friends said there were 12 people in the ER that all, at the same time, went to quest labs for the same coronavirus test, all with the same symptoms. NONE of them were offered the test because none of them have traveled!!!
12 people, in the span of 2 hours in the same hospital, all with the same symptoms, all who had negative flu test, and all were denied a test.
This occurred in Florida. What an absolute cluster fuck.
Its out there folks. We are being lied to. The 1500 number that the CDC gives us is no better than Chinese propaganda. The governor of Ohio said that his experts believe that his state has at least 100,000 cases, just in Ohio, based on what they are seeing in the hospitals currently.
The problem is the U.S. has banned foreign test kits, and there simply are not enough test kits that are FDA approved to test all of the people that should be tested. |
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| quote: Originally posted by sigmonkey: quote: Originally posted by RHINOWSO:..Like she heard it from your cousins sisters brothers former roommate...?
Hmmmm....
This thing travels faster than an REO Speedwagon!!!
The song you are referencing becomes epic if you sing it in your best country twang. Try it. Back to our regularly scheduled end of the world panic.
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| quote: Originally posted by jimmy123x:
The problem is the U.S. has banned foreign test kits, and there simply are not enough test kits that are FDA approved to test all of the people that should be tested.
Addressed so well today. 1.5 million new test kits available by next week. At least 5 million available within a month.
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| I'm not out to get Trump. He picked good, strict constructionist Supreme Court justices, and that was by far the most important thing to me going into the last election. Hillary would have been a nightmare.
However, I think he really mishandled his early public statements about this disease and its spread. In one of the press conferences, the experts he chose said it was already here and there was no way to contain it and he turned around and said there are only 15 cases in the US right now and soon there will be 0.
I think the statement this afternoon was a big improvement. |
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