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Taking the kids to the condo in Ocean City... in addition to Wet suits.. we all bought those long skateboards and will take turns letting our Great Danes pull us down the boardwalk! I am gonna milk this WFH thing for all its work
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20 minutes ago, Baltimorewx said:
Just got a letter from my employer that i have to carry around while driving for work in case I get pulled over, stating to any law enforcement that Im considered "essential". Cool. How about more pay?
Just say you are going from Grocery Store to Grocery Store looking for toilet paper.
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7 minutes ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:
I’ll leave these two articles here as I found them both interesting:
Model War: GFS vs Euro lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-outcomes.html
Food for thought, from an epidemiologist at Stanford:
The Stanford piece is interesting.
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This a good journal article about corona virus from 2013:
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1 hour ago, C.A.P.E. said:
Y'all should stop engaging with PDIII about this.
He is still going to breakfast buffets.
yeah... Whole Foods finally caved under pressure and close their buffet on Friday... Thats actually a really good point. I feel like I might be losing it. I am gonna bring this up with my therapist this week. I am finding myself listening to and reading conspiracy theories about this.
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4 hours ago, jaydreb said:
Yeah, the death rate there is astounding and much higher than anywhere else in the world. I haven’t seen much information on the age range of these cases. I would assume most, but obviously not all, are elderly.
This is more or less normal. As noted earlier a typical flu season in Italy kills around 15,000 people. If you google "flu season" in google images, you will see several graphs that show a significant spike during the the late winter period. The spike shows that the vast majority of cases occur over a period of 30-60 days. So normally in Italy it wouldnt not be abnormal to see more than 10,000 people die in the late winter months.
The difference this year is that the media is reporting it has it happens...
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37 minutes ago, supernovasky said:
I mean it's not like it was much of a decision anyway. The economy was going to eventually shut down regardless by people's own actions. You either shut it down preemptively, or watch it shut down when the hospitals can't take patients at all and people are dying in the streets like what happened in Iran and China. Eventually people will just hole themselves in regardless.
This is a really interesting.. this talks about "Problem, Reaction, Solution" and how Corona Virus is a model for the take over of the Global Technocracy...
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2 hours ago, Mrs.J said:
Yea we just got a message from FCPS. Distance learning is being worked on and once the State Dept of Ed signs off on it the start date will be March 30th. They are saying that the date to be out till is March 27th but they are also saying that they expect it to change.
Cant do distance learning. That puts a large number of students at a disadvantage. Its likely that many kids will not have a conducive environment to regularly participate.
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11 hours ago, SnowGolfBro said:
The economic and social damage is already to much to bear. My brother is a Restaurant Manager. His life is more or less destroyed. Not to mention all the people that work for him. And extrapolate that to the Macro level and it’s devastating. And psychologically people are going to deteriorate quickly. We have to go back to normal soon or I’m afraid the damage will be far greater than the damage the virus is causing or will cause. It’s shitty calculation to have to make. Take Draconian measures to try to slow the virus and save lives. Or don’t take the measures to save the economy and the lives that will be shattered in the process. Shitty
The decision to let the economy go to hell has already been made. And unfortunately it was made by all the people with cushy (non-essential) salaried jobs that can be done from a computer at home.
The narrative kinda went like this.. "I can work from home.. so why should Buffalo Wild Wings be open?"
I just hope when those people are sitting in their living rooms on their couch listening to people talk on some non-essential conference call that they realize just how non-essential they really are.. that it really truly doesnt matter if they go to work or not...
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1 hour ago, Wonderdog said:
On Thursday evening, I saw guys playing basketball outside in Arlington in a pretty crowded park, sweating like crazy. They do think they're invincible.
On my way to wholefoods for their breakfast bar!
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OMG.. I just did the math.. that means 168 people a day were dying.. every single day.. that makes me want to cry. Think of all those people that could have been saved..
The only possible sensible solution to this is to do Social Distancing every flu season.
I just realized that I have been killing people every year.. like thousands of people..
This is mind boggling.
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1 hour ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:
Italy has always had much higher death rates every year though- their Flu death rates in the last decade are not much different than Coronavirus.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/fulltext
OMG.. 68,000 people died in one year in Italy alone.. thats jaw dropping. And was that a particularly bad year?
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12 minutes ago, supernovasky said:
6k cases 600 deaths today in Italy. Even on lockdown it’s still increasing bad.
The fact that China reported no new cases today is extremely interesting. It really shows how that country is in firm control of what information flows out.... zero new cases is clearly a figure produced with an agenda
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58 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:
Agreed. Certainly no indication the "FDA found a cure".
They said in clinical trial 100% of the patients were considered cured as compared to the control. Albeit the study only included 6 patients.
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2 hours ago, mappy said:
Excellent now. Yesterday was a false alarm.. BTW.. FDA found a cure:
"In fact, after six days, 70 percent of the treated patients were considered cured, meaning that the virus was no longer detected in samples taken from them, compared to 12.5 percent of the control group patients. Furthermore, all six patients who were treated with both hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin tested negative for the virus after six days."
https://www.newsweek.com/hydroxychloroquine-malaria-drug-coronavirus-fda-1493293
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3 hours ago, wdavis5784 said:
This guy is makes me so angry. I am not mature enough to handle a Pandemic.
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3 hours ago, wdavis5784 said:
What does he mean by "shut down" the economy? Stop trading on the NYSE? Thats not gonna do any good. We need to have faith in our markets.
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19 hours ago, Ji said:On 3/17/2020 at 6:49 PM, JakkelWx said:Total worldwide cases are at 198,895, and 7,970 deaths worldwide. Just 30 away from 8,000 and I believe we should hit that in the next couple hours. We will probably be at 200,000 worldwide confirmed cases before midnight.
Those numbers are not impressive especially if you remove china and Italy from equation
How do you mean Ji? I dont think we can trust the China numbers either. We dont know what type of analysis was used to test the patients.
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12 minutes ago, SnowGolfBro said:
At some point people are going to get restless and want to get back to their lives Coronavirus or not. Right now most people are scared (perhaps rightly so). We all have an appetite for risk. We drive on highways knowing full well traffic fatalities happen at the rate of close to 100 per day. We send kids to school and Go to work knowing full well that 20000-30000 people die from the flu every flu season. We wake up every morning knowing we might get cancer no matter what we do or don’t do (and many do things that we know lead to cancer but they risk it anyway) We go to bars and restaurants and buffets and fly on airplanes etc knowing full well their are germs everywhere in these places. My point is one day soon people are going to wake up and say “i might get Coronavirus, but i still want to live my life”. My bet is that happens sooner than people are willing to consider right now. The caveat are the numbers we are all tracking. If we see 100,000 deaths in the US by the end of March, the risk calculus changes (again, rightly so). But if March comes and goes and we have 1000 deaths or less in the US. People will start demanding their lives back.
The problem is is that if the curve flattens.. people will think it was because of social distancing.. and then we set a very bad precedence for future pandemics.
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4 minutes ago, LP08 said:
Pretty surprised by the response from the VA governor. Everything stays open but limit to 10 people? What does that even mean. I know its only a matter of time before everything gets shutdown but that was a weird press release.
They cant shut down grocery stores. Right now they are targeting all the fun places. Whole Foods hot bar is really open.. I am not kidding around there.
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6 hours ago, jaydreb said:
Sorry to hear. A glimmer of hope is that sore throat is rarely a symptom.
I was feeling a little bit better this afternoon so I went to whole foods for lunch. Their hot bar is the best! I love those wings
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7 hours ago, gymengineer said:
Did you ever calculate what 3% or 1% or even 0.5% of 58 million was before posting?
I am sad to report that I woke up with a 102 fever this morning and a really bad sore throat.
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6 minutes ago, motsco said:
umm i don’t understand?
is the usa just letting everybody back into the states?
i have 2 employees who where worried about their family members traveling outside the usa last week, and a day after i guess was said ? no one could get back into the states? or a freeze on anybody traveling to the usa could not enter?
on sunday i saw on multiple news channels reporting on the long lines at airports for screening of all incoming people into the usa.
but both my employees family members walked into dulles and bwi wher ther was no cv testing. their only gripe was have so many people touching their passports?
um what? what’s real here? really. ?
It is tough to decipher what is real and what isnt real. This is the first crowd sourced pandemic we ever had. It kinda has a mind of its own. This is a clear example of Tyranny of the Majority (as predicted by Tocqueville). We have had several media generated pandemics.. but in those cases the experts were allowed to make the decisions and use their knowledge and experience to quell panic. This time, decisions are being made by the masses.
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I guess we would be looking at something like that ^^^ if we just let nature take its course.
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March Banter 2020
in Mid Atlantic
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I own property down there and the roads are not closed.