Coronavirus

Grumpy Bear · April 11, 2020

1 hour ago, Colossus said:

Sure it will. It is technology which means it is not perfect and subject to failure.

The sky is blue.

I'm waiting!

:crackup:

Grumpy Bear · April 11, 2020

6 hours ago, KARNUT said:

My wife is going on a store run. First one in a while. Eggs, bread, milk and some other goodies. Amazing how this has changed. We have priorities depending on crowd size. Even an abort scenario. Gloves check, scarf check, hand sanitizer check. We even have a leave area for food to sit past the bug date. We buy things that can stand a bleach rub down. I sh$t you not. Even a strip down area for clothes to go into the wash. This is what our government and news cycle has left us with. Back to normal? I hope in my lifetime. At least I know how my wife felt when I went to work on pipelines. I think I’d rather not known. Living in fear sucks.

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Just continue being cautious.

Your list is almost identical to ours. We store the sanitizer, wipes, gloves in what we started calling the KILL BAG. We don't leave home without it.

Grumpy Bear · April 11, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hubei_lockdowns

Interesting read. They were on this hard and early. Absolute lock down IN THIER HOMES. Even the highways systems closed down. One person per family was allowed to leave the house once every two days. Three months of this.

I caught a snippet the day they lifted the lockdown. The city was literally barricaded like a Medieval siege with prison wall high water filled blocks zip tied together to isolate the 11 million that live in Wuhan. And we think we have it tough? The snippet was showing solders draining and cutting apart these poly walls.

Could there actually be a reason for the low count in China?

KARNUT · April 11, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hubei_lockdowns

Interesting read. They were on this hard and early. Absolute lock down IN THIER HOMES. Even the highways systems closed down. One person per family was allowed to leave the house once every two days. Three months of this.

I caught a snippet the day they lifted the lockdown. The city was literally barricaded like a Medieval siege with prison wall high water filled blocks zip tied together to isolate the 11 million that live in Wuhan. And we think we have it tough? The snippet was showing solders draining and cutting apart these poly walls.

Could there actually be a reason for the low count in China? [emoji848]

And yet they were able to fly to Europe? Northern Italy? California?

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Ithan Henry · April 12, 2020

1 hour ago, davester said:

That's the stupid thing at Costco that I've noticed. All the carts are now outside, so you need to get the cart before going inside, then in the entrance, a person stops you and wipes off the handlebar. Stupid, as whatever was on the handlebar is already on your hands/gloves, and will go right back on the handlebar when you touch it 1 second later.

The Costco near me was doing that about a month ago, I just sighed from the stupidity. Now, they have someone outside sanitizing them all before you take one.

What really gets me is when I see people walking through a store with gloves and a facemask on but they've got their phone up to their face which is now contaminated from whatever was on the gloves. I make sure to point out the stupidity to my 8 year old so he knows better when he grows up.

Grumpy Bear · April 12, 2020

2 hours ago, KARNUT said:

And yet they were able to fly to Europe? Northern Italy? California?

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Yea. If you read the link there was about a 3 week window between first case and lockdown. Or were you thinking someone on the planet has the eyes of God and could look at the first case of a brand new virus and say, " Yep, brand new, lock it down, it will be a killer".

Be reasonable.

The Zip · April 12, 2020

Playing with the dog on the carpet and began to wonder where would the virus most likely be, on the floor. Couldn't get off the floor fast enough. Now instead of just taking off the shoes in the garage and spraying the top, I now spay the bottom along with the floors in the truck and house.

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The Zip · April 12, 2020

8 hours ago, KARNUT said:

Wife came back from the store. They have half the carts.

The grocery store where I shop will only allow seniors in the store the first thirty minutes of opening. I can get my normal cart load of goodies and be out of the store before the younger crowd comes in. Sometimes it's nice to be older.

KARNUT · April 12, 2020

A few observations that reinforced what I already knew. There are no experts. Just best guessers. I already knew to wash my hands, my mother taught me that. Fear washing is new. I could have guessed there’s probably more people carrying the bug than first expected. When you have people in our own country fighting good works because of politics. It not a stretch to think China could care less. If it says made in China, I ain’t buying it. I hope there’re other choices. Life is not going to be the same. We’re going to be afraid of our neighbors. Jury’s still out if this had to be handled this way. Even at this late date, I’m not buying it.

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KARNUT · April 12, 2020

Probably some of the more excited replies are people who are being financially ruined or knows someone who is. I stated last Sunday that the walk back will begin. It did and will continue. The media will soon start blaming Trump for over reacting to this and causing a recession. How do I know this you ask. Easy they said he acted to fast before they said he acted to slow. They people on the sidelines face with financial ruin are watching and saying WTF.

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Edited April 12, 2020 by txab

graystonelbz · April 12, 2020

Can't blame some people, they have been programmed to believe that Our president is the next coming of Hitler by the media. Too bad they can't retreat from the group think project. Instead of the media asking the Important questions about China and the WHO mishandling this, they choose to blame Trump who went against WHO advise of banning travel.The left( many including Biden, Pelosi etc) that said travel bans are racist are now saying the administration didn't act fast enough. Sorry but you can't have it both ways on that one. And now during the middle of the crisis Nancy and Schiff's most important priority is starting another politically motivated investigation into nothing once again to further waste time and money. Seems like a perfect time for an investigation right. If people were thinking for themselves in a rational way it would be clear to see what is going on here. Not saying that the virus is fake, but at this point its political.

Edited April 12, 2020 by txab

GPGuy · April 12, 2020

Let's take it easy on the political talk guys.

The Zip · April 12, 2020

4 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

Spoken like a real trooper. You could just block it. Ifs it’s too much for you.

True, I can block it. This won't change my comment. After dodging IEDs, 5.56, 7.62, and rounds from grenade launchers, nah, this is not too much.

KARNUT · April 12, 2020

True, I can block it. This won't change my comment. After dodging IEDs, 5.56, 7.62, and rounds from grenade launchers, nah, this is not too much.

Six hours of comments have been pulled by the moderator. So I wouldn’t say anything about the cancel culture and just leave it at that. The political stuff I’m guilty too. I’ll try my best.

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txab · April 12, 2020

As noted. Back off on the political talk. There is a line and some are crossing. Vacations will be passed out. The Admins are letting this thread run for now. Any other time this thread and any thread like it would be shut down. Y'all have been pretty good at staying on track with only a slip here and there. So if you want to continue, play nice