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  • Posts: 16,972
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
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    Better a tainted green, than a greened taint.
    Doesn’t the former lead to the latter?
    hippiemom = goodness
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    cincybearcat said:
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    Doesn’t the former lead to the latter?
    :sick:
  • Posts: 16,299
    jeffbr said:
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    Agreed. I'm actually more concerned with the flu, as it is much more prevalent.
    2019 - 2020 stats to date from the CDC for the US:
    15,000,000 - 21,000,000 Flu illnesses
    7,000,000 - 10,000,000 Flu medical visits 1
    40,000 - 250,000 Flu hospitalizations
    8,200 - 20,000 Flu deaths
    So, right now Coronavirus is at 2% mortality and the flu in your stats is .1%.    Granted access to healthcare may be better in the US than China, but this is worse than the flu.  
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,804
    bootlegger10 said:
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    So, right now Coronavirus is at 2% mortality and the flu in your stats is .1%.    Granted access to healthcare may be better in the US than China, but this is worse than the flu.  

    I think what Jeff is getting at is that even though the mortality rate of the corona virus is twice that of flue, because there are so many cases of flu, your chances of dying of flu is higher than your chances of dying of the corona virus. 

    But remember, flue and pneumonia combined are #8 in this list of 10 things that kill most Americans (heart disease and cancer way outnumber flu):



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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    lindamarie73 said:
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    Glad you find them charming...thought a laugh would be helpful, especially for some of the angry all the time folks.... 
    ah how cute isn’t he just a great human lol I feel for you ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,670
      The Chinese doctor who sounded the alarm on the Wuhan coronavirus has died. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/asia/li-wenliang-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-dies-intl/index.html
  • Posts: 19,416
    Doctors don't dress up in Homer Simpson's radiation suit to treat me when I have flu symptoms.  Just say'n.
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Posts: 15,079
    Shit is real.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Winnipeg Posts: 40,115
    The new SARS. it will come. it will go, and it won't amount to very much (relatively speaking). 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



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    HughFreakingDillon said:
    The new SARS. it will come. it will go, and it won't amount to very much (relatively speaking). 

    and SARS had a 10% fatality rate, much more deadly than corona
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    Smellyman said:
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    and SARS had a 10% fatality rate, much more deadly than corona
    But the coronavirus is much more transmissible.  Bad news, especially in Asia.  It will be interesting to see if the quarantine effectively squashes the virus.
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • Posts: 15,079
    Does anyone think this euro tour will get cancelled because of this now its in major cities


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    My worries were extinguished about travel on a Spring Break cruise and travel to LollaParis on a different thread. (Although, I will pack more than normal amounts of meds/tylenol. I hope it is not cancelled, as I often don't purchase travel insurance, having the attitude of 'buy the ticket, take the ride!')

    What worried me, recently, is a Chinese imported item I received in the mail.

    At the end of last year, I experienced fraud from a FB link to Shopify (although PayPal returned the money from a US account). This week, I received an small token item mailed from Henan (sent to generate a fraudulent shipping label). That province is next to Hubei, where a hospital is being built. I have to tell you, I treated the fraudulent package as if it was toxic waste! Talk about hand washing and fear!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Winnipeg Posts: 40,115
    tish said:
    My worries were extinguished about travel on a Spring Break cruise and travel to LollaParis on a different thread. (Although, I will pack more than normal amounts of meds/tylenol. I hope it is not cancelled, as I often don't purchase travel insurance, having the attitude of 'buy the ticket, take the ride!')

    What worried me, recently, is a Chinese imported item I received in the mail.

    At the end of last year, I experienced fraud from a FB link to Shopify (although PayPal returned the money from a US account). This week, I received an small token item mailed from Henan (sent to generate a fraudulent shipping label). That province is next to Hubei, where a hospital is being built. I have to tell you, I treated the fraudulent package as if it was toxic waste! Talk about hand washing and fear!
    i thought they have said that it's only transmissable from host to host, can't live on other surfaces. no?

    It is believed to be spread mainly through droplets, such as from the mucus or saliva of an infected person who sneezes or coughs.

    Infectious diseases expert Leong Hoe Nam said the virus is likely to die when the droplets dry up.

    Experts say if the virus could really survive even after the droplets carrying it have dried up, it would have spread through the air as dust particles and potentially infected 10 times more people, which is not the case.

    Last week, a Shanghai official, Mr Zeng Qun, said the virus could spread through aerosol transmission, or the mixing of the virus with airborne liquid droplets.

    This would allow the virus to linger in the air and infect those who inhale it, he said. Diseases that are known to spread this way include tuberculosis, chicken pox and measles

    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Freaking, I was irrational fear freaking. But sneeze to surface to hands to eyes possible transmission. My item was in mail for over a month, though! PHEW.


    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited February 2020
    I'd be so pissed if they cancelled Lollaparis! Now, I just have to decide which outfit is for Billie Eilish show and which one screams Pearl Jam...

    Edit: Not a big fan... never gave Mr. Young's music a shot.
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    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • Posts: 31,672
    Why not a Neil Young tshirt?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Posts: 15,079
    I think cancellation is a real possibility 


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  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,804
    I think we should listen to someone omniscient and benevolent who will put all our fears to rest.  Someone, say, like...



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Posts: 15,079
    The guy is a clown. The weather has nothing  to do with it. Its in lots of countries now that  aren't  in winter.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
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