Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Deebased]

So we should just say "fuck 'em?"

When the option is saying fuck-em to a bunch of kids or saying fuck-em to a bunch of octogenarians...

[Deebased]

Perhaps we can start with you?
What is your value?

$9

[The AD]

When the option is saying fuck-em to a bunch of kids or saying fuck-em to a bunch of octogenarians...

So what exactly is your solution here? What should the plan be? Just go on like it's no big deal? I'm not seeing how that works with the hospital situation.

[Benny Profane]

its not just eating crap its eating too much food so no portion control and they would have been doing this fo eva as an acepted lifestyle

so now this pandemic comes along out of nowhere, how will it affect the huge portions (20% in some states ?) of the population ( pun intended) that are obese ?

will they be affected like old people with health complications ????

You know, over the last decade or so, whenever there was a big flood somewhere and there had to be rescues, which were filmed for TV watching fodder, I've always been impressed by the obesity show as hundreds leave their lazy boys for survival. I mean, really fat people that simply never left their beds or chairs for months. There's millions like that now, and they're just dealing with this by cracking open more Lil'Debbies.

[m2711c]

I'm getting the impression that you really don't like fat people......

[bobz]

It really pisses me off when people do not understand data. Data is plural. It's are, not is. If you print something in English, please understand the language. Please. Yes, I read the entire post. Yes, I understand the English language. How hard is that, especially when you are trying to convince people to adopt your take on things?

Data, English. Do you speak it MF? Datum is a point reference, data is a set. Has this whole world gone to shits? This is not 'nam.

For shits and giggles, I like the coco milk and dabs idea. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in a hops world. Have fun with that, too. Not to. Like, or akin to, also, or be with, learn English. Smart, people. Get you sum of dem smats.

Maybe, because, I just hate shitty reporting, and I use too many commas as a datum point.

You're wrong, mostly. "Data", in typical conventional usage, in modern English speaking society (as opposed to 2nd century Latin speaking society), is what's known as a collective noun, which in this case happens to derive from the plural of a Latin word.

"Datum" is sometimes (but infrequently) used to refer to an individual record (that is, or will be, part of a data set), in which case several of those might be called "data", and that word treated as plural (i.e. "the data are..."). But that's not the conventional usage.

There are also pockets of people who insist on the archaic usage, regardless of context.

English, in case you never noticed, is a mutt of a language, accumulating and sometimes corrupting words from all kinds of origins, constantly adapting to keep up with conventional usage, and with very few rules that aren't at least occasionally broken.

[4matic]

One ny hospital:


Forese said the hospital had 558 Covid-19 inpatients, and about 1 in 5 are receiving ICU care.

[Ski220]

You know, over the last decade or so, whenever there was a big flood somewhere and there had to be rescues, which were filmed for TV watching fodder, I've always been impressed by the obesity show as hundreds leave their lazy boys for survival. I mean, really fat people that simply never left their beds or chairs for months. There's millions like that now, and they're just dealing with this by cracking open more Lil'Debbies.

They've been ahead of the curve all along. Sheltering in place. We just didn't know it.

[huckbucket]

thats ^^ also how many folks get/got the type2 diabetes

IME to lose 10-20 lbs means eating less, a bit of exercise all the a1c figures will fall in line

Early data indicated 25-30% mortality in diabetics. Read that again ...

[wooley12]

Got a call from friends in Sun City AZ. They're all acting like teenagers down there. Playing golf and the having parties and unprotected sex afterwards.

[Mr. Mike]

its not just eating crap its eating too much food so no portion control and they would have been doing this fo eva as an acepted lifestyle

so now this pandemic comes along out of nowhere, how will it affect the huge portions (20% in some states ?) of the population ( pun intended) that are obese ?

will they be affected like old people with health complications ????

20%? You are giving waaaay too much credit:

Here's a look at the 10 most obese states in the U.S. and the percentage of obese adults living in that location, per Consumer Protect.
West Virginia (38.1 percent)
Mississippi (37.3 percent)
Oklahoma (36.5 percent)
Iowa (36.4 percent)
Alabama (36.3 percent)
Louisiana (36.2 percent)
Arkansas (35 percent)

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/health/most-obese-states-in-us which ordinarily I would question, but I'm going to assume they are accurate when it comes to obesity because I'm confident that watching Fox and obesity have a strong positive correlation.

[liv2ski]

Uuuuugh, thanks for the visual

[Mr. Mike]

The better half runs the clinical side of an eye specialty. One of the physicians turned symptomatic yesterday and was tested today. Results expected mid week. We're not quite 40 and she is healthy as a horse but I've had a dry cough since the beginning of February I can't shake. Saw my own doctor and best guess is some kind of bronchitis. Same thing with the cough happened two years go. Opposite of stoked right now.

Have you been tested for allergies? My recollection is that you are relatively new to that geographic area, correct? It's a hotbed for allergies for sure (grew up in that part of the country). Early Feb. is the right timeframe for allergies to kick in around there. Might be a good point for the 2 of you to distance to the extent possible, however. You have a spare bedroom? Asking for you, not a friend.

[4matic]

Got a call from friends in Sun City AZ. They're all acting like teenagers down there. Playing golf and the having parties and unprotected sex afterwards.

#boomerremover No surprise from that place. Limited days anyway.

I was there a couple weeks ago visiting my college coach.

[hikesalot]

So we just got our two first cases in the county. Both were people that had traveled out of state in the last week. What interested me was the symptoms of the younger person (in their 30's, a specialist at the hospital). He didn't meet the criteria of any of the charts that are floating around. No cough, no fever just a soar throat... He was only tested because he works at the hospital.

Another thing that locals are being told by doctors that doesn't add up is if you recover from having a fever and cough in 5 days there is no chance it is covid, because the chart says its a 2 week recovery. How can it be so cut and dry? I can't believe that some people have it with no symptoms but if you get a symptom it automatically takes 2 weeks minimum. To think that each persons immune system doesn't react differently to a virus just doesn't make. I think this really just comes back to test shortages and they don't want you talking to them unless you are sick enough you may die... not that I blame them.

I’ve been thinking the same. For example, I’ve been saying for a couple weeks I think my family has had it. In Feb we were at large event with a couple who had just been on vacation and had long layover in S Korea. They were out and about there all day - even posted on FB a pic in their masks. I wasn’t really near them much at the event but the rest of my family was. 5 days later my family had sore throats for a couple days then were fine. 6 days after that i got a sore throat. Now it’s two weeks later- I had sore throat, then minor body aches, a bad headache, then a cough for the past week. But no fever. I contacted the couple and they’ve had no symptoms. I don’t qualify for testing, but seems rather suspicious. Could be something else, but seems it could also be less-symptomatic case of Covid. And the couple could have been carriers. Or not. Hard to say without a test.

[Mr. Mike]

The gf wants to flirt with the firefighters anyway. Just her excuse to go there. Maybe I’ll get lucky and they keep her too.

give til it hurts, dude.

[Rideski]

At what point are we going to start keeping sick people out of the food markets? Sneezing and coughing, all the virus drops hitting the ground. Then you walk through it and into your house. Then your kid crawls, dog walks on your floor, up onto your sofa or bed.

I’ve been thinking about that for several weeks but didn’t say anything so as to not be on the side of hysteria. But someone medical can feel free to shoot that doesn’t hold water. I’m stocked up and not leaving the house much at this point. But I haven’t been wearing outdoor shoes in my house since this started. I have friends and fam that run to the market for a banana.

[summit]

At what point are we going to start keeping sick people out of the food markets? Sneezing and coughing, all the virus drops hitting the ground. Then you walk through it and into your house. Then your kid crawls, dog walks on your floor, up onto your sofa or bed.

I’ve been thinking about that for several weeks but didn’t say anything so as to not be on the side of hysteria. But someone medical can feel free to shoot that doesn’t hold water. I’m stocked up and not leaving the house much at this point. But I haven’t been wearing outdoor shoes in my house since this started. I have friends and fam that run to the market for a banana.

Online grocery order with pick up for the win...

[TBS]

Injecting a little bit of levity here:

Make sure your sarcasm meters are calibrated before viewing

[bobz]

I’ve been thinking the same. For example, I’ve been saying for a couple weeks I think my family has had it. In Feb we were at large event with a couple who had just been on vacation and had long layover in S Korea. They were out and about there all day - even posted on FB a pic in their masks. I wasn’t really near them much at the event but the rest of my family was. 5 days later my family had sore throats for a couple days then were fine. 6 days after that i got a sore throat. Now it’s two weeks later- I had sore throat, then minor body aches, a bad headache, then a cough for the past week. But no fever. I contacted the couple and they’ve had no symptoms. I don’t qualify for testing, but seems rather suspicious. Could be something else, but seems it could also be less-symptomatic case of Covid. And the couple could have been carriers. Or not. Hard to say without a test.

Yup. We have no idea what we're dealing with, how much of the proverbial iceberg is invisible underwater, because testing is so limited and unevenly applied. And even as testing availability ramps up, it's unlikely to keep pace with the spread of the disease. We're flying blind, and that's not going to change.

[TBS]

Online grocery order with pick up for the win...

This. Our local Kroger stores has been doing it for years. Sooo much better than actually having to enter the store, on soooo many levels.

[iceman]

If we mandated that nobody in the country could go out of their dwelling without a covering over their mouth we'd help the situation a ton. While surgical masks would be great, anything that would slow the spread of virus from the noses and mouths from infected people would be a positive. I've been saying this for a few days now and just today saw that they must have heard me in Uzbekistan, because it's now the mandate there.

[Danno]

Yup. We have no idea what we're dealing with, how much of the proverbial iceberg is invisible underwater, because testing is so limited and unevenly applied. And even as testing availability ramps up, it's unlikely to keep pace with the spread of the disease. We're flying blind, and that's not going to change.

That might be the most frustrating part. Good decision making requires good information, and we're making decisions with massive life changing consequences for all of our society, with shitty information.

[powdork]

Rand Paul that is all

[mcski]

Rand Paul that is all

At least he died doing what he loved. Being a cunt.