Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[dunfree]

^^Bears repeating.

3M: @ 35M masks/month, full production since January, touted their 100M orders from Asia on their website (and I think to CNBC) in February. Pence visited and they raised production to 420M/yr. Yes, there are 12 months in that year. How many masks are they selling within the US...?

#thatsmyminnesota

[TNKen]

Friend of mine is a Blackhawk pilot and flight medic with Homeland Defense. Dispatched to New Orleans yesterday.

[Wrecked]

Friend of mine is a Blackhawk pilot and flight medic with Homeland Defense. Dispatched to New Orleans yesterday.

Just talked to an old friend in NO for an hour or so... he’s got the ‘rona... he’s good though.. at home chillin.. he’s worried about his community though.

[4matic]

The South, Sickest Part of a Sick America, Falls Prey to Virus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-prey-to-virus

[The AD]

The South, Sickest Part of a Sick America, Falls Prey to Virus
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-prey-to-virus

The South could really be devastated by this. Man...

[Danno]

Kind of prophetic
We're just doing this for the internet unless something terrible happens to the world.

Loved that Stephen referenced the happy enchilada.

[4matic]

The South could really be devastated by this. Man...

Geographic isolation outside the major cities might help but otherwise pretty grim if it gets a grip.

Today 6:30 p.m.: Days after helping hundreds of University of Georgia students move out of their dorms for the semester, a housing employee was diagnosed with COVID-19.

[4matic]

new normal. Lunch break in China:

[bobz]

new normal. Lunch break in China:

Jesus, the grid and everything. Gotta love China; looks like the opening frame of a Devo video. But I guess it's working for them, so kudos.

Just looked at the latest numbers. Holy fuck, Westchester and Rockland counties, NY, have a case rate that now exceeds 1% of their populations, double the rate of NYC, even. Yikes.

[bennymac]

Powdork how is your Mom doing

[neufox47]

You laugh..... until you need us.

Need you for what again? Protection from a lawyer. I see. So the reason we need attorneys is to protect us from attorneys.

[Benny Profane]

Jesus, the grid and everything. Gotta love China; looks like the opening frame of a Devo video. But I guess it's working for them, so kudos.

Just looked at the latest numbers. Holy fuck, Westchester and Rockland counties, NY, have a case rate that now exceeds 1% of their populations, double the rate of NYC, even. Yikes.

It's a little tense here.

[bennymac]

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...7263?query=TOC

New England Journal of Medicine publishes the 5 steps to not just flatten but to “Crush the Curve”

Includes, after ensuring proper gear for healthcare staff, supplying every citizen with masks to wear to limit spread from people without symptoms

[Rideski]

I raise my glass of bourbon on the rocks to the South.
May your temperatures stay low and the rockin pneumonia pass right on by.

[Rideski]

I haven’t had time to read all the way through this but seems legit.

www.Maskssavelives.org

[powdork]

Powdork how is your Mom doing

She comes home today/tomorrow (to my brothers in Sacramento). Sort of a home hospice situation.
Thanks

[bennymac]

Not many of us, myself included, take the time to feel gratitude for not being sick and in an ICU bed. Vibes to her and you and your family as you all navigate this.

[gravitylover]

Jesus, the grid and everything. Gotta love China; looks like the opening frame of a Devo video. But I guess it's working for them, so kudos.

Just looked at the latest numbers. Holy fuck, Westchester and Rockland counties, NY, have a case rate that now exceeds 1% of their populations, double the rate of NYC, even. Yikes.

It's a little tense here.

But strangely there is still a fair bit of traffic moving around. I went out twice yesterday, first to the bank to use the drive up atm, through the busy part of town and into Westchester there were lots of people out doing all sorts of things. Not like it would normally be because most biz's are closed but there are 2 supermarkets, gas stations, etc. so if it's going to be crowded anywhere that's where it would be.

Then we took a ride around Putnam county and there was a bit less traffic but still more than I expected. The 2 local gun stores are closed, sold out of everything the signs in the windows said. Most of the beer stores are closed and some liquor stores too, the last and only local bike shop in the county was busy! The bike trail that runs through the whole area was packed and the parking overflowed for blocks into the surrounding neighborhoods I went through the 3 major towns in the county and there is a general sense of doom and gloom that I don't see in pics of other places but the biggest takeaway is how few people are wearing masks and how closely they're packed in some areas.

[Ripzalot]

https://youtu.be/d1lJEbZmVHI

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[Core Shot]

Had the opposite reaction in Costco yesterday.

Where did all these shoppers find masks and gloves?

And yet they’re buying food stocked by workers with no ppe.

Haven’t shopped in two weeks. Things are different this time. At least they had meat for the freezer.

But my wife demanded I wash my meat sack before entering the house.

[subtle plague]

Had the opposite reaction in Costco yesterday.

Where did all these shoppers find masks and gloves?

And yet they’re buying food stocked by workers with no ppe.

Haven’t shopped in two weeks. Things are different this time. At least they had meat for the freezer.

But my wife demanded I wash my meat sack before entering the house.

So Americans call it entering the house these days. I thought it was called having Sex, or making love.

[twat]

So Americans call it entering the house these days. I thought it was called having Sex, or making love.

depends could be trespassing too

[twat]

Powdork how is your Mom doing

sorry

[Ripzalot]

Had the opposite reaction in Costco yesterday.

Where did all these shoppers find masks and gloves?

And yet they’re buying food stocked by workers with no ppe.

Haven’t shopped in two weeks. Things are different this time. At least they had meat for the freezer.

But my wife demanded I wash my meat sack before entering the house.

I got lucky and TSA left a box of 100 in my suitcase 2 weeks ago. We get delivery straight into our garage and let it sit there until we need it. Frozen foods and perishables get wiped down upon home entry. I had to go to the bank to pay bills yesterday and took a baggie of bleach soaked paper towels and gloves on. Everything becomes a game of extreme no touching and sterilization.


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[subtle plague]

Interesting tidbit of gossip:
The French regional government of grand est (the hardest hit region) accuses American "un-officials " of showing up on the airfields in China and buying masks already sold to France for 3-4 times the original price waving cash bundles. No official confirmation by the French government.

Yeah! Go USA! America first! Texan style.