Yeoman

42 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

Yeah... 20% end up in the hospital, and with that comes lots of ugliness. For one, hospital bills, which a lot of us just can't afford. I have a 4 year old child and I'm in a custody battle, I can't deal with being away from him in a hospital for 2 weeks. Then if you progress to needing oxygen, the feeling of not being able to breathe. And like you said with the recovery. There are athletes and marathon runners who are finding it hard to walk up and down stairs recovering.

 

To hell with all of that.

Stop posting fear mongering BS.. 20% don't end up in the hospital. The hospitalization rate is 2.6% for those 18-49 years old.. The highest number is 17% for those 85 years old or above

If you want to sit in your house 24/7 for the next 18 months and eat government cheese hoping you don't get evicted, more power to you. If you're healthy and want to take your own risks while following sanitary guidelines, let people get on with their lives. 

1 hour ago, Vice-Regent said:

We could do the China thing and lie to the world about the situation so we can offshore suffering somewhere else while we rake in money. I am tired of dealing with this man. We need like a full-spectrum reorganization of society. Complete UBI and 100% Telecommute. Automation can manage our food supply. Some call this luxury space communism but I call it survival for the greater good.

   The most ridiculous thing I've read yet..

You guys have lost it..

Just now, Wonderdog said:

Or it might have been this or that..... Botton line is they don't know. 

Correct - but instead lets cite unproven or misinterpreted claims to really amp up the fear and panic. Hopefully it doesn't come to 80% of the population standing in a bread line to start putting things into perspective. 

15 minutes ago, wxtrix said:

this is what this story actually says:

 

Officials are still investigating the cause of the apparent relapses. But Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), has said the virus may have been reactivated rather than the patients being re-infected. 

Other experts said faulty tests may be playing a role, or remnants of the virus may still be in patients’ systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others.
 

this story cites a study of a non-COVID-19 virus and 2 non-peer-reviewed studies from a preprint site where a number of COVID-19 studies have been pulled because the science was faulty. 

also the author of the piece is a botanist.

that’s not a scientific article and it doesn’t prove the assertions you made.

if it’s more of the same, please don’t.

Boom!

54 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

It wasn't concentrated in a few weeks. The death rate was miniscule compared to this. How is this so hard to grasp?

While it could certainly end up being a higher death rate, no one can conclusively say until you have a firm handle on identifying all which have/had the virus in this country. We are nowhere near that point...

1 hour ago, fourseasons said:

Diarrhea is one of the symptoms, although not everyone experiences it.

Right, its seen in 4% of victims. In reality is mindless panic buying from people following the herd, leading to unnecessary shortages for people which actually need it (like me after a bucket of wings)

6 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

I am a Store Manager of a Grocery store and it's been crazy the last week. Not 1 pack of toilet paper left in the store. No hand sanitizer and cleaning products, etc. Problem is our warehouse is out of it and will probably be out of it for an extended period of time. 

Its really histeria going on right now

 

I don't understand the run on TP.. this virus doesn't give you the shits as far as I know.. even if you run out, that's what showers and leaves are for

14 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

very nice!

42 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

I can think of something else that describes 

That's cool.. I can think of 100s of things that describes

1 hour ago, PDIII said:

It looks like on April 10th 1894 we got a warning level event here. So there is still plenty of time.

It was actually a Travelers Advisory 

20 hours ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

Every November that has less than 2” of rain at BWI/DCA has a winter that turns out to be a dumpster fire. It’s a better leading indicator than any model at this point.

 

Based on a ridiculously small sample size of data considering the history of weather on this planet it's a worthless indicator, and is far more likely a coincidence than anything. 

28 minutes ago, Weather Will said:

In two weeks, it will be over one way or another.  People who think it is truly over are probably correct, but those people have also stopped looking at it until next year and could care less what I post.  Plus looking at weather maps gives me something to do on my long commute home.  Left the house at 5:30 am and getting home around 9 tonight.    Long day.  

Maybe if you didn't spend your day posting worthless probability maps on a weather board all day you could leave earlier

GFS likes day 10-16? Never seen that before... 

Well past time to give these ridiculous maps a rest, crawl out of mom's basement and enjoy some other hobbies life has to offer.

2 minutes ago, showmethesnow said:

You seem a little snarky today. More so then normal. Someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

Me? Snarky? Never.. 

2 hours ago, showmethesnow said:

Is the fun just starting?

 

 

 

You should write a 20 paragraph dissertation about how this look will change completely within 2 runs. 

3 hours ago, Weather Will said:

6z GFS verbatim is meh first 10 days but appears there is more cold air to work starting later in the period.  Hopefully, the 10 plus fantasy range will work out this time.  

  Fools...

48 minutes ago, Ji said:

1 hour ago, Yeoman said:

Climo maps are back?

Climo means 20 to 25 inches for us per year

Right, so 3-4 inches within a 15 day window during our snowiest month.. ie, climo

1 hour ago, Ji said:

Climo maps are back?

1 hour ago, 87storms said:

true, but the "consistently running warmer" part is where i'm mostly getting at.  the last 2 years have been on average warmer and it only takes a few degrees to ruin any real snow chances here since we're already a fringe state. however, i agree that the pattern can flip on a dime and it's difficult to really draw that correlation. long story short, might be a mix of both. and yea, i've mostly giving up on having global warming conversations with the right. i'll trust the people who research this topic for a living lol.

Fewer sun spots will save us

4 hours ago, Ji said:

12z gfs

That ridge in the west should help it dig nicely

27 minutes ago, Weather Will said:

DT put out a nice summary of why the winter has been bad.  He also states that our best hope in this  pattern is an overrunning event.  Also indicates normally these patterns don’t lock in for four months so there is some hope for March.  Check it out on his wxrisk facebook site.  Good read.

I can't wait for our 2 inches on March 10th to be melted 10 minutes after sunrise.

The only saving grace this winter has been the lack of any decent storm potential that ended up whiffing at the last minute, with credit given to short/med range models.. it's been a steaming turd from the start..

1 hour ago, Weather Will said:

WB 18Z GEFS prob of 3 inches or more thru Day 16.  Note most of this probability is still 10+ days away.  I am going to be very disappointed if there is nothing inside of 10 days by the end of next weekend.

That worthless map could be valid for any 15 days between any given November and March. For the love of might, stop posting it

Just can't phantom waiting 10 to 15 more days for a decent chance ugh

4 hours ago, jaydreb said:

 

Sad..

2 hours ago, jaydreb said:

It’s always the storm after the storm.  

Ji better delete his FB post before the Loudoun housewives put his head on a stake