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The quantity of infection control supplies required now vs 3 decades ago is enormous. Storing long term inventories of supplies just isn't feasible in many locations. I was in dental school when the AIDS epidemic was the driving force behind Universal Precautions (now called Standard Precautions). Prior to that, masks and gloves were rarely used outside of the OR. | |||
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Holy Over reaction batman...Orange County FL just issued Stay In Place starting Thursday night - 50 confirmed cases, 2 deaths. Leon County/Tallahassee issued Stay in Place and a Curfew - 8 confirmed cases, 0 deaths. I wonder if this is a D vs R thing - since both are run by D's and the Florida Governor (R) is resisting putting the state on Lockdown. Maybe the hospitals are flooded with patients on ventilators but haven't been tested? What else could cause this type of reaction? | |||
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Of course that only works if the store in question has caught up to the 21st century so their PoS terminals support such payment methods. I can think of three major chains that still do not: Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe's. Meanwhile, the little podunk, one-off hardware store 'round the corner does. But then their terminal comes up demanding a signature, even for the smallest amount. Then there's the Costco pharmacy, where I otherwise could've gotten off touch-free, except they had to have my driver's license because meth heads. And one of the local indoor ranges, which keeps your DL while you're on a lane "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Yeah... even if hospitals stored a month or two's worth of normal usage of PPE, their infectious disease control procedures probably require (a requirement not currently being fulfilled, for obvious reasons) fifty times that typical usage, so that two month supply just turned into a day or two worth. | |||
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On another forum, I had stated that the death toll was likely a more correct indicator than case count. People were coming back at me saying that the death toll in Italy was greatly understated. So I'm not sure what to believe.
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Yup. The kids were in the room and I was hollering at Mayor Demmings on the TV, "YOU F---KING A--HOLE!" I do not curse much, and certainly not at that volume, so my wife and kid's mouths dropped to the ground. | |||
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[/QUOTE] Yup. The kids were in the room and I was hollering at Mayor Demmings on the TV, "YOU F---KING A--HOLE!" I do not curse much, and certainly not at that volume, so my wife and kid's mouths dropped to the ground.[/QUOTE] Oh I bet a lot of kids are going to have a greatly expanded vocabulary once this whole cluster-foxtrot is over from incidents similar to yours! | |||
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Politicians are doing what they always do....over react and abuse their power. Eventually folks will become fed up and things will boil over while the politicians collect their hefty pay and ruin other peoples finances. I heard today that some doofus in the state health dept was asking for that exact thing here in NC. We already have all eat in restaurants, gyms etc. closed. Many closed on their own but as of tomorrow barbers and hair and nail salons closed. Here, as of today there are 400+ confirmed cases with ZERO deaths in a state of 10.5 million. That is a literal drop in a bucket. Precautions are absolutely needed but they are ruining the economy for years to come. | |||
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Savor the limelight |
They shut the boat ramps down in my county. Can't have anybody having any fun now can we? I out foxed them though: Catch me if you can copper! | |||
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The complete and total shutdown of the economy has started. I went to the carwash, 4:45pm on Monday afternoon. Full service type of place, they vacuum the car, goes through the wash, they dry it. Also have a half dozen oil change bays. There was not a single car there. One guy on the vacuum side, would normally be 6-8. One guy in the dry side, would normally 6-8. And one loan oil change guy standing outside, not a single car in any bay. A place that might normally have 20-25 people busy on a Monday afternoon had 4 people working. Next door, a Tire Kingdom with 8 bays. They would normally be fairly full. They were completely closed down. Doors shut, no one working. Pretty good article here on the cascade effect. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/...-says-230309693.html | |||
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Peace through superior firepower |
Please give this depressing shit a rest. | |||
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The Washington press corps disgusts me. Year V | |||
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wishing we were congress |
although they are dancing around a bit, at the WH press conf that just ended, they seem to be saying that areas of the country that are not "hot spots" may be opened up some. But constraints will remain on problem areas such as NY. That seems very reasonable to me. regarding NY, and particularly NY City, Gov Cuomo is saying the coming peak appears to be higher than anticipated, and coming sooner than anticipated. If the growth is a true exponential, things will get much worse in NY over the next 9 days. From 15 Mar to 24 Mar, the confirmed NY state cases increased by a factor of over 32. If that growth rate continues, the NY confirmed cases would be over 800,000 in 9 days from now. A lot of people will be closely watching NY. | |||
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I'm so disappointed in Michigan... Florida man is handling this better than us... I had to come down to Florida for work for a night. So far CVS and WaWa both had more usual sundries in stock than any place I've tried to find them at in Michigan. I saw TP, IPA, paper towel, etc. No one seemed to be hoarding anything. I expected so much worse but y'all are disappointing me. Maybe it's the Michigan weather or something but everyone down here just seems mildly annoyed whereas Michigan seems about one executive order away from a rebellion. | |||
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Walmart has their own 'Walmart Pay' which is contactless. Just get the app on your phone, and away you go. It stores all your receipts and purchases on the phone. No need to touch a thing at the check out. | |||
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It's almost a crime how the media is taking things out of context and used to malign the President and the effort. Are people really so stupid that they believe if the President says we're ramping up production, everything we need is available for use the next damn day? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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uhhh….yes they are that stupid. | |||
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DeSantis is 2 weeks behind the curve ie. Spring Break. High probability he’ll be wanting federal disaster declared in 2 weeks. | |||
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Move Up or Move Over |
You say that like you think it is a bad thing... | |||
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Not judging but just curious how many of you think you will be lifelong germaphobes after this is "over"? It's probably never going to disappear even though it will become much less prolific. _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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