Life! (corona virus, non informative, non hysterical post)

Don in Lodi said:

I saw images from our bigger cities and their local trails yesterday, social distancing isn't working very well. "Let's go to the Park/Trailhead, it will be safe..." D'oh.

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I had to shop this morning and was pretty unhappy. Only about half are adhering to the 6' rule. They locked the carts at one end and I had to go through a damn crowd to get my cart.

Checkswrecks said:

Ouch. Really sorry to hear about the cut in income.

This shit's too close to home for us. Had dinner a few nights ago at the Mother In Laws' retirement village, only to learn the next day that there were 3 confirmed cases where we were, as several residents just got back from a cruise before becoming symptomatic. She's 86 and I'm mid-60s. While we are pretty healthy, we are in the wrong end of the age thing for this so it is troubling.

Plus, the ex just showed up at the sons' BD party and has to hug everybody, including the 7 month pregnant daughter in law. And oh by the way, turns out the ex got back from a medical mission trip to Latin America. Never one to display great balance or common sense, for the last 2 weeks she's been confined with lots of people there, in the airports, and on airplanes, yet insisted on being with us. Self-centered F-ing moron is a nurse no less!

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Great table! thanks for sharing

deftoner said:

Great table! thanks for sharing

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Its no different here guys. Human nature.

How about another interesting read?

“A fiasco in the making? As the #coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.”

We had 2 cases yesterday, 4 today. Here we go

The grocery stores here are getting back to normal; eggs and toilet paper still out of stock though. Most of the shelves are completely stocked, and most are well stocked. Now, if we could stay away from each other….

Boris Johnson has tightened up restrictions for three weeks for UK residents. Not quite a total lockdown but more strict than most in our country are used too. Today was the first day the kids were off school. As expected it results in groups of them hanging around. Once they get bored there will be mischief but hopefully if they listen to Bozza then that will be an end to it and they will stay indoors as instructed. Watch this space...

Spooky spooky!! In just 3 hours and 21 minutes 2,895 new cases found and only 73 recovered!! I'm taking screen shots and comparing. This is the most accurate, constant, updated info:



Here is the link. Updated every few hours, 24 hours a day. You can narrow it down to country, state, and county:

I've been watching that map for a couple of weeks now.

Here are two others with different metrics:

https://data.pnj.com/coronavirus/

This one is narrowed to just the US with state by state data and includes New Cases, New deaths and Active Cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

My county, Johnson, already has one recovery; Collin Co has four, Tarrant Co has two. So, yeah, the chart showing zero US recoveries is very suspect. But yes, people are passing, but there are more that are recovering. And, if we can keep from catching it, we don't have to recover from it.

The small rural county I live in has no reported cases but then we only had 12 test kits as of Sunday, and to my knowledge. no-one has been tested . I am sure we have or will have coronavirus here because our close proximity to Houston and there is a large number of folks who commute for work to the greater Houston area .

We were commenting yesterday on how Dallas has some many confirmed cases compared to Houston. Hard to believe that it's not down there. Nobody going to the doctor(s), or getting tested?

as of last notice , 200 counties in Texas have no cases 54 have . more urban more cases.

Sierra1 said:

We were commenting yesterday on how Dallas has some many confirmed cases compared to Houston. Hard to believe that it's not down there. Nobody going to the doctor(s), or getting tested?

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Madhatter said:

as of last notice , 200 counties in Texas have no cases 54 have . more urban more cases.

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What's strange is almost the largest state in our country has almost the fewest cases. I'm guessing it might have something do do with being so spread out. There are only a few major cities that have big populations.

ballisticexchris said:

What's strange is almost the largest state in our country has almost the fewest cases. I'm guessing it might have something do do with being so spread out. There are only a few major cities that have big populations.

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I think that it's really a case of having test data. If you don't test, you don't know who has it.

South Korea did a very good job of testing, and through their testing found that their death rate was (overall) about 0.7%. This is way lower than the other countries. Their rate, although much higher than for the "typical" flu, might better represent the true death rate because they have a better handle on the number who are really infected. If you estimate low infection rates, the estimate death rate will be much higher.

Without good data, we won't know the real effect of the virus.

South Korea has better data, but because of their testing, that meant people that had it, knew they had it, and could isolate better.

Here, testing is minimal or non-existent and people don't know if they have it or not, and so many are refusing to isolate or take precautions that it is continuing to spread.

In MS the local cities and counties are doing the most to get people to understand they need to be smart. The Governor is a lightweight, incompetent moron that is more worried about political fallout and won't place any restrictions state wide. That's going to bite him, come re-election time.

You can hold what ever opinion you want. But the reality here is that it's continuing to spread and spread quickly. With people ignoring the lock downs in Italy, CA and other places where it's already far worse than most of America, it's not going to get better soon.

The South Koreans have a test kit that has several knowns to place on a sample swab. 4 or 5 if I recall. You take the swab and put some of the known on it, if it is contaminated you get a color change. The kit uses multiple samples to avoid error. Takes 5 minutes and is completely non-invasive. Those kits are being produced at over 1 million a day. That company stopped all other product production to focus on just making the test kits for COVID-19. Each kit can test 5-7 people. Cost per test works out to about $2 US. They are shipping them all over the world. It's completely proven to be extremely accurate due to the multiple solution type of test procedure.

Guess what? None are coming to the US. Because the FDA won't approve them. Food and Drug? WTF? No one is taking the test into their body, they get a sterile cotton swab stuck in their cheek and drops of the various solutions are put on the swab.

How's that for retarded? Places here are telling people it takes 4-5 days to get results of a cheek swab test. People found to be positive have been potentially spreading the virus during those 4-5 days. We have 2 locations in the city where you can set up an appointment to do a drive thru test. You go at your scheduled time and drive up to an EZUp in the parking lot and a masked, gloved health care worker takes a cheek swab sample, then you drive off and they let you know in 4-5 days. They are manually testing in a lab environment, which takes a lot more time than one of the more sophisticated kits now available.

I rode 283 miles Sunday and had a blast. Spent about 4 hours off the asphalt on hard packed gravel roads. I was alone in fresh air, packed my own lunch and used my riding gloves at the gas stops. Jails do no not want any new customers except the really bad guys. Crash and end up in the hospital? Is there ever a good time for that?

I believe this whole thing is overblown, that doesn't mean I'm not taking precautions but.... have a read here

ballisticexchris said:

What's strange is almost the largest state in our country has almost the fewest cases. I'm guessing it might have something do with being so spread out.

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If you have/do drive through Texas, there's some counties that you wonder if anybody lives there. As an unrelated side note, Chicago & Houston apparently are similar sized. Chicago prohibits carrying a weapon in public. Houston, as we know, does not. Houston doesn't even come close to the homicide rate of Chicago. I guess all that wind and cold piss people off.

ballisticexchris said:

What's strange is almost the largest state in our country has almost the fewest cases. I'm guessing it might have something do do with being so spread out. There are only a few major cities that have big populations.

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I bet it has much to do with the number of incoming international daily flights. I would guess CA has nearly 10 times the number. Population of CA is also 25% higher than TX also, 10 million more people.

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