The coronavirus

F Me In The Brain

CM189191 said:

mrussel1 said:

nicknyr15 said:

mace1229 said:

Went to Costco last night just for pizza. Saw half the cleaning shelves just empty. No TP, paper towels, Lysol, etc. 
I still don’t understand why this virus makes people want to stock up on toilet paper? Do they think they’ll stop making it or something?

Wait, you went to Costco ..... for pizza? 

😜😜

Best pizza in Manhattan

They sell Lou Malnati's at Costco?

I almost would prefer getting The Rona to eating at Lou's and getting the accompanying "Taking a Lou" when the explosive diarrhea sets in.

dignin

How testing failures allowed coronavirus to sweep the U.S.

The Trump administration’s decision to forgo a World Health Organization test and create its own had fateful consequences, experts say

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-testing-failure-123166?=

mace1229

what dreams said:

I find it a little disingenuous to ask the average person to chill out at Costco when Wall Street has sold off 40% of their retirement savings in just three weeks time. If I decide not to go to Denver now, it will be because I need to save my money. Jesus.

What does one have to do with the other? I’m sorry you’re in that boat, sucks for everyone who is. But why does that make it disingenuous to ask why are people raiding Costco of supplies? Ive never seen isles in Costco completely empty and sold out like I did this week. To buy shopping carts full of just toilet paper is freaking out. Buying pallets of bottle water when the tap water is fine is freaking out when you don’t need to.

CM189191

F Me In The Brain said:

CM189191 said:

mrussel1 said:

nicknyr15 said:

mace1229 said:

Went to Costco last night just for pizza. Saw half the cleaning shelves just empty. No TP, paper towels, Lysol, etc. 
I still don’t understand why this virus makes people want to stock up on toilet paper? Do they think they’ll stop making it or something?

Wait, you went to Costco ..... for pizza? 

😜😜

Best pizza in Manhattan

They sell Lou Malnati's at Costco?

I almost would prefer getting The Rona to eating at Lou's and getting the accompanying "Taking a Lou" when the explosive diarrhea sets in.

I would have said pequod's. But I don't want my little Chicago pizza. secret to get out.

Not familiar with The Rona?

brianlux

mace1229 said:

what dreams said:

I find it a little disingenuous to ask the average person to chill out at Costco when Wall Street has sold off 40% of their retirement savings in just three weeks time. If I decide not to go to Denver now, it will be because I need to save my money. Jesus.

What does one have to do with the other? I’m sorry you’re in that boat, sucks for everyone who is. But why does that make it disingenuous to ask why are people raiding Costco of supplies? Ive never seen isles in Costco completely empty and sold out like I did this week. To buy shopping carts full of just toilet paper is freaking out. Buying pallets of bottle water when the tap water is fine is freaking out when you don’t need to.

I agree to both points, Mace. 

What dreams, I too am sorry if your savings are taking a hit.  So are mine and at my age, my prospects of building a bigger retirement portfolio are not great.  I'm still working, but because I'm in retail, that may not be for long.  But that does not give me the right nor the inclination to buy shit loads of toilet paper and bottled water.  I'm not going to get caught up in that kind of hysteria.  How long will that stuff last anyway?  And then what?  People are not thinking, they are reacting.  And they are reacting in a typically predictable, senseless manner.   We humans are creating our own undoing. 

I've seen this coming for decades.  Somehow, I'd hoped it would not come down to this.  I'd somehow hoped we would find a way to sensibly resolve our current difficult issues like we have done at times in the past.  Maybe we still will find away out of this mess.  But I'm not holding my breath.

josevolution

https://apple.news/AiDb8xR5ESNiDnWz7cOTPlA
he really believes the virus is contained I bet s as lot of his supporters believe him! Unreal how much of an arrogant idiot he really is!

Bentleyspop

brianlux said:

myoung321 said:

brianlux said:

dignin said:

myoung321 said:

dignin said:

cincybearcat said:

Gern Blansten said:

I've talked with two different people this week....one is a lab technician and another a surgeon.

Both say that this virus is nothing to be real concerned about.  The surgeon told me that there are likely hundreds of people that have had the virus and just considered it an upper respiratory cold. 

Interesting perspectives.  They are either correct or insane.

I’m no doctor, but I’ve read and listen to them. I do think that for the normal population this isn’t a huge deal other than the fear of the unknown. But for the at risk population it’s an enormously big deal 

Yes. If your immune system is compromised or have any chronic lung issues this could be a very big deal. Both my father and mother are high risk, father has COPD and mother has Lupus that has damaged her lungs.

 

or any type of Heart issues... 

Yes, that too.

Stay safe, at least the big man is taking charge.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1236059773231079430?s=12

Unbelievable.

"Trump muses that he could’ve become a research scientist instead of president."

Uhhh, yeah.  And if I had wanted to, I coulda been a better guitar player than Jimi Hendrix.  Riiiiiiiight.

I think of all Trump "moments" this CDC thing is simply mind-blowing!!!. How anyone with any basic common sense can watch that and not see his idiocy is beyond my ability to comprehend. Seriously... WTF people? 

Truly!  Mind blowing it is.  How the fuck did (at least some of) America get this way?

I blame Obama
Or was it Hillary
Or the SOCIALISTS
I get confused 

myoung321

Bentleyspop said:

brianlux said:

myoung321 said:

brianlux said:

dignin said:

myoung321 said:

dignin said:

cincybearcat said:

Gern Blansten said:

I've talked with two different people this week....one is a lab technician and another a surgeon.

Both say that this virus is nothing to be real concerned about.  The surgeon told me that there are likely hundreds of people that have had the virus and just considered it an upper respiratory cold. 

Interesting perspectives.  They are either correct or insane.

I’m no doctor, but I’ve read and listen to them. I do think that for the normal population this isn’t a huge deal other than the fear of the unknown. But for the at risk population it’s an enormously big deal 

Yes. If your immune system is compromised or have any chronic lung issues this could be a very big deal. Both my father and mother are high risk, father has COPD and mother has Lupus that has damaged her lungs.

 

or any type of Heart issues... 

Yes, that too.

Stay safe, at least the big man is taking charge.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1236059773231079430?s=12

Unbelievable.

"Trump muses that he could’ve become a research scientist instead of president."

Uhhh, yeah.  And if I had wanted to, I coulda been a better guitar player than Jimi Hendrix.  Riiiiiiiight.

I think of all Trump "moments" this CDC thing is simply mind-blowing!!!. How anyone with any basic common sense can watch that and not see his idiocy is beyond my ability to comprehend. Seriously... WTF people? 

Truly!  Mind blowing it is.  How the fuck did (at least some of) America get this way?

I blame Obama
Or was it Hillary
Or the SOCIALISTS
I get confused 

 

"The [coronavirus] tests are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. This was not a perfect as that, but pretty good." 

brianlux

myoung321 said:

Bentleyspop said:

brianlux said:

myoung321 said:

brianlux said:

dignin said:

myoung321 said:

dignin said:

cincybearcat said:

Gern Blansten said:

I've talked with two different people this week....one is a lab technician and another a surgeon.

Both say that this virus is nothing to be real concerned about.  The surgeon told me that there are likely hundreds of people that have had the virus and just considered it an upper respiratory cold. 

Interesting perspectives.  They are either correct or insane.

I’m no doctor, but I’ve read and listen to them. I do think that for the normal population this isn’t a huge deal other than the fear of the unknown. But for the at risk population it’s an enormously big deal 

Yes. If your immune system is compromised or have any chronic lung issues this could be a very big deal. Both my father and mother are high risk, father has COPD and mother has Lupus that has damaged her lungs.

 

or any type of Heart issues... 

Yes, that too.

Stay safe, at least the big man is taking charge.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1236059773231079430?s=12

Unbelievable.

"Trump muses that he could’ve become a research scientist instead of president."

Uhhh, yeah.  And if I had wanted to, I coulda been a better guitar player than Jimi Hendrix.  Riiiiiiiight.

I think of all Trump "moments" this CDC thing is simply mind-blowing!!!. How anyone with any basic common sense can watch that and not see his idiocy is beyond my ability to comprehend. Seriously... WTF people? 

Truly!  Mind blowing it is.  How the fuck did (at least some of) America get this way?

I blame Obama
Or was it Hillary
Or the SOCIALISTS
I get confused 

 

"The [coronavirus] tests are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. This was not a perfect as that, but pretty good." 

The man is a master of words.  At least in terms of butchering the language.  Did someone take an egg beater to his brains?

Spiritual_Chaos

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Spiritual_Chaos said:

52 in Sweden now.  Damn people skiing in Italy.

94 in Sweden now.

137 cases in Sweden now.

161 cases in Sweden now.

iOnlyownMymind

Lebron says he won't play for an empty arena.  

brianlux

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

52 in Sweden now.  Damn people skiing in Italy.

94 in Sweden now.

137 cases in Sweden now.

161 cases in Sweden now.

I'm not sure keeping score is helpful.  I'm not saying, "Hey don't do that", but maybe consider that it serves only to drive up anxiety in others (and maybe that's just me because I am older, and I am more vulnerable that many and I don't want to miss out on turning 70, etc.)   It's going to speared, the numbers will increase.  I think we all know that.  Regular reminders might not be very helpful. 

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax said:

Way to instill confidence there Matt. On the House floor no less.

  couple days after one of his constituents died of covid-19...... and 2 new cases in his district......

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/07/matt-gaetz-coronavirus-florida/

pjl44

Respect

mickeyrat

CM189191

https://twitter.com/RepBobbyRush/status/1235906902032355328?s=19

josevolution

CM189191 said:

https://twitter.com/RepBobbyRush/status/1235906902032355328?s=19

The hypocrisy & smugness of Republicans is disgraceful disgusting despicable! 

josevolution

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-italy-to-tell-people-not-to-enter-or-leave-regions-worst-hit-by-outbreak-11952487
Damn that’s a lot of people to be on lockdown..

mcgruff10

josevolution said:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-italy-to-tell-people-not-to-enter-or-leave-regions-worst-hit-by-outbreak-11952487
Damn that’s a lot of people to be on lockdown..

Definitely the right call imo.  The us is too fucking ignorant to do something like this.  

what dreams

brianlux said:

mace1229 said:

what dreams said:

I find it a little disingenuous to ask the average person to chill out at Costco when Wall Street has sold off 40% of their retirement savings in just three weeks time. If I decide not to go to Denver now, it will be because I need to save my money. Jesus.

What does one have to do with the other? I’m sorry you’re in that boat, sucks for everyone who is. But why does that make it disingenuous to ask why are people raiding Costco of supplies? Ive never seen isles in Costco completely empty and sold out like I did this week. To buy shopping carts full of just toilet paper is freaking out. Buying pallets of bottle water when the tap water is fine is freaking out when you don’t need to.

I agree to both points, Mace. 

What dreams, I too am sorry if your savings are taking a hit.  So are mine and at my age, my prospects of building a bigger retirement portfolio are not great.  I'm still working, but because I'm in retail, that may not be for long.  But that does not give me the right nor the inclination to buy shit loads of toilet paper and bottled water.  I'm not going to get caught up in that kind of hysteria.  How long will that stuff last anyway?  And then what?  People are not thinking, they are reacting.  And they are reacting in a typically predictable, senseless manner.   We humans are creating our own undoing. 

I've seen this coming for decades.  Somehow, I'd hoped it would not come down to this.  I'd somehow hoped we would find a way to sensibly resolve our current difficult issues like we have done at times in the past.  Maybe we still will find away out of this mess.  But I'm not holding my breath.

I guess my point is that people may not have started to panic if Wall Street hadn't panicked first. Shit didn't start flying off the Costco shelves until the stock market tanked. 
Just to be clear, I have not panicked. I did go to WalMart to buy Lysol wipes to clean my students' desks at school because one of them gave me ringworm this past week, but that's it.