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When will the coronavirus arrive in the US? (Disease: COVID-19; Virus: SARS-CoV-2)
April 10, 2020, 03:36 PM
feersum dreadnaughtWhen will the coronavirus arrive in the US? (Disease: COVID-19; Virus: SARS-CoV-2)
I've got one of these for work.
And some P100 cartridges, full tyvek, gloves and booties.
I think I'll suit up next time...
NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught"
April 10, 2020, 03:43 PM
Skins2881quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
quote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
They keep harping on this Chinese coronavirus hitting "people of color" dis-proportionally.
Such bullshit.
Sure, it is more likely to spread in densely populated urban areas... which happen to be proportionally more black. They are also more Democrat. Why don't they say the virus hates Democrats? It would be just as true.
Yeah, it's bizarre. Or not really.
This from the shit rag The Boston Globe. One of my New England shipmates just showed it to me.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/20...nderlying-condition/ With coronavirus, racism is the underlying condition ....
Have you ever been in line at the grocery store behind a black family? Look at what they are buying. That might have something to do with these stats. Have you looked at the factors that make people with coronavirus more likely to die? Strangely it's mostly lifestyle based health problems.
What next they are going to say that black teens/men 16-30 y/o make up a disproportionate amount of people in jail for murder, not because they murder more people, but because of racism. Oh, wait, nevermind.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis April 10, 2020, 03:51 PM
kkinaquote:
Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
I've got one of these for work.
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And some P100 cartridges, full tyvek, gloves and booties.
I think I'll suit up next time...
I've got P95 filters. Think I should change up to P100?
Mask - 1 by
kpkina, on Flickr
April 10, 2020, 04:00 PM
vthokyFrom my local news station yesterday:
"Breaking news: the death toll from Covid-19 continues to rise."
(vthoky scratches his head for a moment...)
Um... I've got to ask... is there some point at which we expect the death toll to
fall?
Geeze....
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ETA: A-ha! Maybe that point is the point in time at which the zombie population suddenly increases?
God bless America. April 10, 2020, 04:03 PM
roberthquote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I've got P95 filters. Think I should change up to P100?
Bring one of those swords too.
April 10, 2020, 04:08 PM
kkinaquote:
Originally posted by roberth:
quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I've got P95 filters. Think I should change up to P100?
Bring one of those swords too.
Try to take
my respirator...
April 10, 2020, 04:11 PM
Skins2881
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis April 10, 2020, 04:16 PM
kkinaMichonne rocks.
April 10, 2020, 04:20 PM
1967GoatI got mine ready! I just got back from Lowe's and Home Depot. I wish I'd read this sooner...
Or maybe this...
April 10, 2020, 04:24 PM
medic451quote:
Originally posted by vthoky:
From my local news station yesterday:
"Breaking news: the death toll from Covid-19 continues to rise."
(vthoky scratches his head for a moment...)
Um... I've got to ask... is there some point at which we expect the death toll to
fall?
Geeze....
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ETA: A-ha! Maybe that point is the point in time at which the zombie population suddenly increases?
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist" April 10, 2020, 04:30 PM
just1tymquote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Just came back from the grocery store (Publix).
I counted eight people- including myself- not wearing a mask. For fuck's sake. Next time I go back, I'm wearing a motorcycle helmet with the visor down, and a cape.
They have blue tape on the floor at the head of each aisle, in the shape of an arrow, pointing the direction you should take down the aisle. I went down every Goddamned aisle in that store, against their arrows. Only one person said something. Some crotchety old lady muttered "You're supposed to be going only one way." I said to her "I am going only one way."
And if they make it mandatory to wear a mask in the store, I swear to God, I'll just tap into my reserves and leave them to their fucking circus.
Now your mentioning Publix. The Publix thats a few blocks away that I've been shopping in now for the better part of 20yrs has now found an employee who has tested positive, and the media has jumped all over this and deemed my small town of Cutler Bay where I live a "hot-spot!"
My wife is one of those who are going pandemic nutty and now that she heard this on the news about our Publix she was in tears today, which I've rarely seen in our 20yrs of marriage..STOP IT MEDIA NITWITS!!!
Regards, Will G.
April 10, 2020, 04:53 PM
LeemurPara you think that’s bad, our regional AP guy told us in a meeting this week that no one was exempt from the 6 feet rule. I asked, “So a couple, two friends/roommates, parent and child...no exceptions?” Correct, no exceptions. I told them I’m not saying a damn thing to anyone who arrives in the same car. Fucking looney tunes dude.
April 10, 2020, 05:06 PM
ensigmaticquote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
Have you ever been in line at the grocery store behind a black family? Look at what they are buying. That might have something to do with these stats. Have you looked at the factors that make people with coronavirus more likely to die? Strangely it's mostly lifestyle based health problems.
Yup. And the much-maligned (here) Dr. Fauci has come right out and
said so, during at least two pressers I've watched.
I'm waiting for somebody to claim
he's racist. That's what usually happens when somebody has the temerity to point out facts like that.
I believe I saw on the nightly local drama program they call "news" that Queen Whitmer is forming a task force, to be headed-up by her Lt. Gov., to figure this out.
quote:
Originally posted by Leemur:
Para you think that’s bad, our regional AP guy told us in a meeting this week that no one was exempt from the 6 feet rule. I asked, “So a couple, ...
These people have lost all perspective. I'm half-inclined to go for a walk with my wife, holding hands, to see if somebody calls the cops on us
"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 April 10, 2020, 05:45 PM
KeystonerI noticed everyone who wants to shutter in until there is a vaccine hates Trump. If Trump said we'd do just that though, there would be an uproar by those same idiots against it.
Year V April 10, 2020, 06:00 PM
RHINOWSOThings are still pretty normal in the FL Panhandle.
Some mask wearers, but very few. Stupid tape on the floor to keep your distance, but that is about it.
April 10, 2020, 06:39 PM
Expatquote:
Originally posted by Keystoner:
I noticed everyone who wants to shutter in until there is a vaccine hates Trump. If Trump said we'd do just that though, there would be an uproar by those same idiots against it.
Oh my. That is so true for us and our neighbors!
Absurd and I'm laughing at myself for not noticing. I'm going to call it the
Keystoner Axiom.
April 10, 2020, 07:06 PM
feersum dreadnaught
NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught"
April 10, 2020, 07:11 PM
Lt CHEGquote:
Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I got mine ready! I just got back from Lowe's and Home Depot. I wish I'd read this sooner...
Or maybe this...
Excellent regulator choice!
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” April 10, 2020, 07:18 PM
parabellumNobody cuts right to the heart of the matter like David Burge. Damn if he ain't nailed it.
April 10, 2020, 07:20 PM
midwest guyThis came across Bloomberg 90 minutes ago . Giliead Science and their drug Remedsevir in very preliminary phase 3 is showing promise. It appears to have lowered mortality on vented patients from 85% to less than 50%. These patients also started therapy very late in the disease cycle.