Gryzemuis on 10/3/2020 at 18:21
It seems the number of infected in Italy didn't go up by much today. Maybe the lock-down is working.
That gives some hopes.
Just lock down your country, wait until you get no new infections.
Remove the lock-down.
Wait till traveling tourists and business-people infect your country again.
Of course I don't know anything for sure. But we might need to have the whole world go in lock-down for a month or 2 before this is under control. That would be very interesting to see.
I'm not kidding. I just can't imagine another way to fix this. Look at illnesses like polio. How long did it take to really get that under control ? And we have vaccins for that. When you think we have the corona-virus under control, just a single person can (re-)infect a bunch of people again. And we start from scratch again.
The only way I see we get this under control is (as I've said before): 1) the infection spreads less aggressive during spring/summer, *and* 2) in the mean time someone finds a cure, a vaccine, or a decent/fast/cheap treatment for this.
jkcerda on 10/3/2020 at 18:23
we can't afford to be on lock down.
lowenz on 10/3/2020 at 18:26
We don't know shit about immunological memory for this virus and its mutation capabilities.
The fact it's from the same family of the common cold and we can catch cold multiple times in a row is not reassuring.....
Gryzemuis on 10/3/2020 at 18:34
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we can't afford to be on lock down.
You'll be surprised what is possible.
We have the Internet today. That helps. Many people can work from home. If you want to be entertained, you can be entertained over the net for a long time. You can communicate with friends and family to make it less bad to stay at home for long period of time.
Of course part of the economy needs to keep running full-speed. And people need to leave their houses for that. The energy sector. Farmers. Shops. I'm not sure how the Chinese are doing their lockdowns, but I believe they have restrictions where every family can have one person go out once per week to do shopping. Maybe delivery of groceries can be increased. Half of the population does not work in the western world (elderly, kids, house-wives, unemployed, handicapped). No need for them to go outside. Of the working people, half of them do work that's useless anyway. :) They can stay at home too. It might be tricky to figure out how people can afford stuff, but I'm sure we can be creative. (I've read today that people in Italy are allowed to skip paying their mortgage this months).
As I've said, it's gonna be interesting to watch.
jkcerda on 10/3/2020 at 19:15
ok, those in retail- manufacturing -service among others can't afford to stay home .
Tony_Tarantula on 10/3/2020 at 20:13
Got tipped off this article on another forum where they said to go read the comments section: (
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/03/09/fncs-carlson-coronavirus-a-major-event-definitely-not-just-the-flu/#)
Holy shit:
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Changed his dialogue on the virus overnight. Sounded like he was reading a memo from Paul Never-Trumper Ryan. Really disappointing.
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I quit watching Tucker since the virus started.
He is putting fear into America.
I cannot watch that garbage.
I have always enjoyed his show up until now.
Good on Tucker. First he went after Sanger and now he's pissing off the Boomer NPCs. Dude is doing something right lately.
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You'll be surprised what is possible.
We have the Internet today. That helps. Many people can work from home. If you want to be entertained, you can be entertained over the net for a long time. You can communicate with friends and family to make it less bad to stay at home for long period of time.
That's an extremely sheltered opinion for reason jkcerda points out. White collar business and IT people can work from home. A lot of others can't.
Renzatic on 11/3/2020 at 03:29
I just got back from Rockmart, GA. Way out in the grand middle of freaking nowhere, though fairly close enough to Rome (where the Berry College eagles are!), which had a single coronavirus case pop up here a few days ago.
...or at least they did, until they reidentified as happening in one of the Atlanta suburbs.
Things were pretty normal there. People going around, doing their thing, occasionally bumming me for cigarettes which I don't have anymore since I quit 6 months ago. All in all, didn't seem much different.
Though when someone coughed, everyone would stop what they were doing, and wonder.
Renzatic on 11/3/2020 at 04:03
You all might think I'm being sarcastic with what I'm about to say, that I'm making light of a potentially bad situation. But I'm not...
Wanna know how I'm sure shit's about to get real? This is how.(
https://www.kmov.com/news/waffle-house-worker-tests-positive-for-covid--store-closed/article_88706315-3eda-5e4f-bad8-25767d8c66b6.html) A Waffle House Has Closed Due To Coronavirus.
Waffle Houses don't just close, people. It takes a tremendous act of god for to lock its doors. The last time I saw my local Waffle House close was back in 2011, and that was because a goddamn EF4 tornado knocked it down. At the time, there were people freshly stuffed with food standing around in the parking lot filming the funnel cloud coming right towards them. I kid you not. I'll see if I can find that video on Youtube again.
So when a Waffle House closes, it's cause for concern. If 10 close, we can all pretty well consider ourselves fucked.
demagogue on 11/3/2020 at 04:17
I felt miserable yesterday and this morning, but then I heard my coworkers also felt miserable, it was nausea (not flu-like), and it happened very rapidly, and then we realized we'd all probably just been food poisoned by the restaurant we ate at the night before. I have to say I was relieved.
Renzatic on 11/3/2020 at 04:32
Was the food good, at least?
