Coronavirus RESPECTFUL Discussion Only! (Mod edit: Closed)

[JarOfMayo51]

I think what us lay people are missing is that the epidemiologists are concerned about how fast this thing spreads. The best way to combat that is to minimize human interactions.

Yup.. SARS infected 50 million people, and that wasn't even infectious until about 4 days AFTER you had started showing significant symptoms. It also wasn't a very lethal virus generally speaking, but it easily could have been

COVID-19 is infectious about 4 days BEFORE you ever show any symptoms. Combine that with the fact that governments knew about this before they ever really made much public, and how little testing we're actually doing, this is just the beginning.. its only going to get a lot worse before it gets better

People downplaying the significance of this are likely going to be the same people who help perpetuate the spread of it by being irresponsible

 

[102 Pat]

Here in Canada, stuff is starting to get shut down.

Our most populous province - Ontario - is closing schools two weeks after Spring Break (last day of school tomorrow).

Never thought I’d say this, but I think other provinces are likely to follow suit... there isn’t even one (documented) case here in NS, but if North America shuts down, it’d be pretty bad PR/irresponsible to stay open (and then have these cases everywhere thereafter).

It feels like it's only a matter of time before schools are closed here in NB. If a student or teacher has recently traveled out of the country, they are not allowed back to school for 2 weeks. The first case has been reported in my city and the pictures of places being sold out of tp have followed...

 

[Jangles]

Man just go away. Your attention seeking trolling is not amusing, rather pathetic. Unless you're aspiring to be the forum idiot that is.

Forgive me for not being an alarmist

I’ll get out my tinfoil and start making some hats

 

[venecol]

Forgive me for not being an alarmist

I’ll get out my tinfoil and start making some hats

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Okay. That’s fine. You can base things on your fEeLiNgZ and I’ll stick with the facts and evidence.

I dont know what you're arguing or what side you're on, but thanks for saying "based on" rather than this century's version, "based off." WT actual F.

The Fed is about to inject $1.5 TRILLION into short-term lending markets, hoping to bring investors who were scared off by the virus back into the fold. The NHL season is suspended and, last I heard, MLB is about to suspend their season.

We're all Socialists now. So, Bernie and Donald are the socialists in the race, Biden is the remaining capitalist, if you like economic rather than political labels.

 

[BTTA]

in a media room, he was joking about coronavirus and purposefully touching all the microphones.........it was an idiotic gesture and rightfully so he addressed it.....end of story

Oh thats what he did?....Ah.

Yeah, RW, I think you missed that part of the news cycle. He was also in the locker room, running around touching other people, and their stuff, to make fun of the preventative measures. He got bad information (that the pandemic was not a big deal) and then made some bad mistakes with it.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Why don’t we give Stanley to the Hartford Whalers.

NO.

 

[BTTA]

UVA still the defending champs!

And early projections for next year have them rated between #2 and #5.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Yeah, RW, I think you missed that part of the news cycle. He was also in the locker room, running around touching other people, and their stuff, to make fun of the preventative measures. He got bad information (that the pandemic was not a big deal) and then made some bad mistakes with it.

How did I miss this? Jezz

 

[BTTA]

Close, sales specialist at Verizon Wireless.
A lot of what I do is help stupid people do things with their phones that isn’t even related to What Verizon Provide’s.
Ive been in Wireless 14 years

(Raises hand meekly.)

 

[BTTA]

You're a good poster, don't resort to shooting messengers and nonsensical tribal whining when ugly truths arise. This country is in a tailspin from gross mismanagement at the highest level and the administration STILL is misleading the public about coronavirus testing availability! Heaven forbid you fall sick and need to get tested. My wife is an RN at a 300-bed hospital and to date they have not received a single test kit. The government knew this was coming in early January and bungled it every step of the way. Hell, instead of defending incompetence you should be pissed at being let down! Look at this chart and then tell me how "proud" you are of our slipshod government: Coronavirus Testing Criteria and Numbers by Country - Worldometer

Well, now you can inform your wife that the test kits she needed for elderly, infirm, and generally scared people were instead allocated to a few hundred young, incredibly healthy millionaires.

 

[BTTA]

"How - To" of social distancing article that answers the little but important questions we are all asking. For example, my wife tells me how scared she is about all this because of past pneumonia and similar, then goes out today to get her nails done. I give her a hard time. She promises it is the last one for a while. What's the right answer?

The Dos and Don’ts of ‘Social Distancing’

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Fox News guest: 50% of the nation will get the coronovirus

 

[Tunescribe]

Well, now you can inform your wife that the test kits she needed for elderly, infirm, and generally scared people were instead allocated to a few hundred young, incredibly healthy millionaires.

This would be funny if it wasn't so damn tragic. Trump and Pence say testing is going well, their handpicked point man Anthony Fauci tells Congress it's an abject failure. Meanwhile, South Korea has drive-up testing available for anyone who wants it and has the problem contained while the U.S. can't even define it.

More black humor: the market starts a minor rally and then immediately after Trump's national address last night does its deepest dive in 33 FREAKING YEARS!

 

[Adam Seward]

Fox News guest: 50% of the nation will get the coronovirus

Whoever the messenger needs to be...

 

[Adam Seward]

You're a good poster, don't resort to shooting messengers and nonsensical tribal whining when ugly truths arise. This country is in a tailspin from gross mismanagement at the highest level and the administration STILL is misleading the public about coronavirus testing availability! Heaven forbid you fall sick and need to get tested. My wife is an RN at a 300-bed hospital and to date they have not received a single test kit. The government knew this was coming in early January and bungled it every step of the way. Hell, instead of defending incompetence you should be pissed at being let down! Look at this chart and then tell me how "proud" you are of our slipshod government: Coronavirus Testing Criteria and Numbers by Country - Worldometer

UMMC Worcester right? Nutty if you can’t get tests in Worcester they absolutely won’t make it to Baystate in Springfield. Could be a rush to Hartford.

Oh anyone going to a hospital.

DONT VALET

Normally who cares go for the valet, but this isn’t the time to let someone who has been in 200+ cars in an 8 hour shift get into yours.

 

[TB_Helmet]

Fox News guest: 50% of the nation will get the coronovirus

@XLIX

Still a moron even though it’s your team saying it?

 

[Tunescribe]

UMMC Worcester right? Nutty if you can’t get tests in Worcester they absolutely won’t make it to Baystate in Springfield. Could be a rush to Hartford.

Oh anyone going to a hospital.

DONT VALET

Normally who cares go for the valet, but this isn’t the time to let someone who has been in 200+ cars in an 8 hour shift get into yours.

St. Vincent's, don't know about UMMC.

 

[Joey007]

NO.

My bad. The Bay State Breakers?

 

[PatsWSB47]

Baloney.

And he didn't "ban travel" from anywhere - that's a talking point. AMERICAN carriers stopped flying from China, but Chinese carriers never slowed. Nor have any flights been banned from South Korea, Japan, etc.

It's not hindsight to say that the USA should have instituted testing and begun stocking up on millions of testing kits as soon as we learned of this (early January). That's not hindsight, it's protocol.

It's not hindsight to say that the White House Pandemic Response Team shouldn't have been canned.

The virus isn't Trump's fault, of course, and lots of people were going to get it because math.

The response, and lack thereof buck stops at one desk. He's so far over his ferret, he doesn't know what to do, and is surrounded by so much incompetence, he doesn't have anyone to hand it off to. The guests to whom you refer are almost always former pandemic response experts. Maybe the president should have been listening to them instead of saying, "We have 15 cases, soon to go to 0."

If he turned it over to Pence fully and just went to his golf club until it was over, we'd be better off.

He absolutely banned foreien nationals that were in China during the outbreak from traveling to thw US and Binden called it "xenophobic" Biden also called it fear mongering and more hysteria. Google it.