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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,590
    mcgruff10 said:
    Aaaah I did not know that.  lol.  
    Fucking kids these days...
  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,590
    https://twitter.com/complex/status/1255634158916907009?s=21
    This should make everyone in Georgia feel really safe out on the roads 😂
    We don't have one in Virginia.  You have to have 40 documented hours,  including 10 at night.  Six months with a learner and pass driving school.  But there is no road test at the end. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,165
    mcgruff10 said:
    It is a law.  NJ residents are not allowed to pump their own gas.  You can get fined if you do.  No joke. 


    Same thing in Oregon.  I always thought that was cool when we went up to Medford to visit my folks.  Pull in, ask them to fill it with regular, pay less than here in California. (Everyone pays less than here in California, lol.)
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  • PJNBPJNB Posts: 13,883
    mcgruff10 said:
    Aaaah I did not know that.  lol.  
    Regular is still used but changed to octane now that there is no leaded gasoline. Up here regular gas is 87 octane. 
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,703
    They call unleaded basic here regular but I remember when leaded was regular as well.
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  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 10,297
    I've never injected regular, but I often chug unleaded
  • cutzcutz Posts: 12,108
    edited April 2020
    https://twitter.com/complex/status/1255634158916907009?s=21
    This should make everyone in Georgia feel really safe out on the roads 😂
    Scary shit right there. That Gov is either stupid or nuts.

    No test to drive a car and go ahead and go to the Restaurants, Hair Salons, and get a  massage.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,431
    He just wants to make sure traffic accidents get their share of the headlines. Don’t want Covid getting all the glory.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,883
    DewieCox said:
    He just wants to make sure traffic accidents get their share of the headlines. Don’t want Covid getting all the glory.
    Fact 
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  • bbiggsbbiggs Posts: 6,963
    Yeah it’s better than touching the handle with ass cheese all over it just to name one of the disgusting things that are on those handles ..
    Haha absolutely! Give me touchless everything and I’m a happy man! 
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,883
    bbiggs said:
    Haha absolutely! Give me touchless everything and I’m a happy man! 
    Me too after this there’s a lot of things that I’ll think twice before doing them..
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  • SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    mcgruff10 said:
    Oh heck no. I pull up to the gas station, give them my card and tell them to fill it regular.  That is it.  I paid $1.89 for regular yesterday.  

    Love it.  Same in Oregon.  All those crappy days not having to leave the car.  Drive into Washington and sit there waiting to get filled up, but no, I have to get out and do this myself?  The horror.

    In Taiwan you don't fill either.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,883
    https://apple.news/AmoUOpk7eSdqpPNPemDP0cg
    So numbers could be higher ughh 
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  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,360
    JPPJ84 said:

    This might have been the scene at Royal Farms Arena had PJ opened with the red hot SBWM.


  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,201
    I'm not hearing much about ventilators in the news recently so I'm assuming the supply has met the demand or the demand has reduced to meet the supply.  


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,165
    Jason P said:
    I'm not hearing much about ventilators in the news recently so I'm assuming the supply has met the demand or the demand has reduced to meet the supply.  



    Good point Jason.  I hadn't thought of it but, yeah, that must be the case.  Hopefully that's good news.  That was a huge deal just weeks ago. 
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,883
    brianlux said:

    Good point Jason.  I hadn't thought of it but, yeah, that must be the case.  Hopefully that's good news.  That was a huge deal just weeks ago. 
    Here in this hospital we have started seeing a slowdown in intubation of patients and units that were all covid patients have now gone back to being regular patients floor..
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,489
    Here in this hospital we have started seeing a slowdown in intubation of patients and units that were all covid patients have now gone back to being regular patients floor..
    That's encouraging! Hope you're doing well, man! 
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  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 10,297
    As an asymptomatic cropduster, this is a huge relief


  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,883
    mfc2006 said:
    That's encouraging! Hope you're doing well, man! 
    As good as can be anxiety has been way better walking into work , things seem to be headed in the right direction..thanks
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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,997

    If flu deaths were counted like COVID-19 deaths, the worst recent flu season evidently killed 15,620 Americans

    The U.S. now has more than 63,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, and most experts say that's almost certainly an undercount. Still, if you compare that number to the 2017-18 flu season, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates killed 61,000 people, it looks like COVID-19 might be similar to a bad flu — President Trump has made this point, as have many conservative media personalities. But the data so far show that this new coronavirus is much more lethal than the flu, and Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust has an explanation.

    Faust, a Harvard Medical School instructor and emergency physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in Scientific American that he started wondering about the flu-to-COVID comparisons when it occurred to him that in nearly eight years of hospital work, "I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu." Neither had any of the colleagues he called around the country. So he did some research, and this is what he found:

    The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC's reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths — that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus — has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620. [Jeremy Faust, Scientific American]

    So in an apples-to-apples comparison, matching the second week of April's COVID-19 deaths to the worst week of the past seven flu seasons, "the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more people than seasonal flu," Faust writes.

    The entire article can be found here (I gave you the yahoo condensed article):

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges/

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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,590
    mcgruff10 said:

    If flu deaths were counted like COVID-19 deaths, the worst recent flu season evidently killed 15,620 Americans

    The U.S. now has more than 63,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, and most experts say that's almost certainly an undercount. Still, if you compare that number to the 2017-18 flu season, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates killed 61,000 people, it looks like COVID-19 might be similar to a bad flu — President Trump has made this point, as have many conservative media personalities. But the data so far show that this new coronavirus is much more lethal than the flu, and Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust has an explanation.

    Faust, a Harvard Medical School instructor and emergency physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in Scientific American that he started wondering about the flu-to-COVID comparisons when it occurred to him that in nearly eight years of hospital work, "I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu." Neither had any of the colleagues he called around the country. So he did some research, and this is what he found:

    The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC's reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths — that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus — has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620. [Jeremy Faust, Scientific American]

    So in an apples-to-apples comparison, matching the second week of April's COVID-19 deaths to the worst week of the past seven flu seasons, "the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more people than seasonal flu," Faust writes.

    The entire article can be found here (I gave you the yahoo condensed article):

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges/

    Include with that, Florida is deliberately under reporting deaths.  https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medical-examiners-were-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-the-state-made-them-stop/?ads=b&utm_expid=.OkR8_rI9TJCniE4SYU689w.2&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,997
    @mrussel1 why the heck would they do that?  To make people feel more safe in order to open back up?
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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,590
    mcgruff10 said:
    @mrussel1 why the heck would they do that?  To make people feel more safe in order to open back up?
    Remember Desantis was very late to close and fought it.  He is subject to substantial criticism.  
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,997
    mrussel1 said:
    Remember Desantis was very late to close and fought it.  He is subject to substantial criticism.  
    That's right.  Good call.
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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    mrussel1 said:
    Remember Desantis was very late to close and fought it.  He is subject to substantial criticism.  
    And he's Trump's pet Governor.  He mimics Trump's belligerence and struts the same inadequate overcompensating imitation of a tough guy.
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,632
    mrussel1 said:
    Fucking kids these days...
    Reminds me of a story...probably around 1985 I worked at a pizza place delivering pizza.  Back then pizza joints owned their delivery vehicles...you probably remember the Chevette's that Domino's used to have?  LaGrande Pizza had similar chevette's

    anyway....when we were out delivering we would often stop to get gas and were told to use the cash from our cash bag and just put the gas receipt in the bag for the manager to deal with when we were done.  

    Common sense would tell you that you would get the cheapest gas....self serve unleaded, etc.

    They hired this new kid to deliver and at the end of the night the manager was bitching him out because he went to the full service pump and got premium gas in the chevette.  That was hilarious....fucking idiot.

    This is the same kid that a few weeks later ate some of the pizza he was delivering.  We used to cut the pizza in squares and the customer called and said some pieces were missing.  
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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,590
    rgambs said:
    And he's Trump's pet Governor.  He mimics Trump's belligerence and struts the same inadequate overcompensating imitation of a tough guy.
    That's exactly right.  He did what Trump didn't have the courage to do (or had the brains not to do).  
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,883
    I just had antibody test done here at work available for all employees..
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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,997
    I just had antibody test done here at work available for all employees..
    how long does it take to get results?
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