Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

**PNWbrit** · 03-12-2020, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by t-the-east

stairs

Huh?

**SKIP IN7RO** · 03-12-2020, 10:28 AM

CDC head says free testing for everyone!

**rideit** · 03-12-2020, 10:29 AM

If by mandated he means single payer, then is that so bad?

**skaredshtles** · 03-12-2020, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by SKIP IN7RO

CDC head says free testing for everyone!

That's a slippery slope right into SOCIALISM!!

**skiballs** · 03-12-2020, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by riser3

I don't wanna die
I just wanna ride my motorcy-cle

Pickle

**JimmyCarter** · 03-12-2020, 10:33 AM

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nEZzPn..._web_copy_link

**Mofro261** · 03-12-2020, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

“I don’t wanna live like this
But I don’t wanna die”

it does kind of have a hook to it.

**Dantheman** · 03-12-2020, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

If by mandated he means single payer, then is that so bad?

Some quick Googling reveals that his main claims to fame are that he fraudulently claims to have invented email as a high school student, and he dated Fran Drescher for several years.

**splat** · 03-12-2020, 10:45 AM

I'm absolutely convinced Trump has it, especially after watching his speech last night. And he's shaken hands with too many who do have it, especially this guy. All in the window of contagiousness.

Days after being near Trump and Pence, Brazilian official tests positive for the virus, reports say.
A senior Brazilian government official who visited Mar-a-Lago days ago, and was in close proximity to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, according to the several Brazilian news outlets.

**powdork** · 03-12-2020, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by BGnight

Attachment 319981

wow. Italy was the Deep State all along. I never suspected.

**powdork** · 03-12-2020, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by BGnight

Attachment 319981

wow. Italy was the Deep State all along. I never suspected.

edit-also, he should have at least added some sort of anti-jinx cause he's gonna catch it for sure

**schindlerpiste** · 03-12-2020, 10:49 AM

Park City is sold out of toilet paper. I will never yell at my wife again for insisting that we have a bidet in the house. Hahaha

**splat** · 03-12-2020, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by SKIP IN7RO

CDC head says free testing for everyone!

Didn't say when, did he?

**powdork** · 03-12-2020, 10:52 AM

Trudeau isolating after wife returns from trip with flu like symptoms.

**jackstraw** · 03-12-2020, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by basinbeater

I'm not too worried about dying. But if you get sick, and need to be hospitalized, and there is no bed, you will wish that more people had hunkered down sooner. But it's all just a hoax. Carry on.

Good point.

I still think the hysteria is overblown. Mass gatherings should be limited, but canceling schools when the state of 3? million has 4 cases seems extreme at this point. It will put a lot of parents in a really difficult situation financially if they cannot work.

**SKIP IN7RO** · 03-12-2020, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by splat

Didn't say when, did he?

No timeframe. Porter put him on the spot for a yes/no answer.

**MultiVerse** · 03-12-2020, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

Some quick Googling reveals that his main claims to fame are that he fraudulently claims to have invented email as a high school student, and he dated Fran Drescher for several years.

When he was 14 he wrote program and called it email. Email the technology predates his timeline by over a decade.

"laying claim to the name of a product that's the generic term for a universal technology gives you acres of weasel room. But creating a type of airplane named AIRPLANE doesn't make you Wilbur Wright."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120306...o-invent-email

**The AD** · 03-12-2020, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by jackstraw

Good point.

I still think the hysteria is overblown. Mass gatherings should be limited, but canceling schools when the state of 3? million has 4 cases seems extreme at this point. It will put a lot of parents in a really difficult situation financially if they cannot work.

It's a case of being proactive vs. reactive. The number of known cases in Utah is pretty much irrelevant.

**RootSkier** · 03-12-2020, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by RootSkier

My wife and kids are supposed to fly from MT to MN to visit family on Friday. There are no confirmed cases in MT and very few in MN.

Is it a bad idea to go, or would it be crazy to cancel?

Well, they cancelled. Fucking sucks, I had a lot of big plans for 6 days at home without the kids.

**bodywhomper** · 03-12-2020, 11:03 AM

#poundthemound

^^friend came up with it

**SKIP IN7RO** · 03-12-2020, 11:05 AM

Biden to give coronavirus speech any minute.

**powdork** · 03-12-2020, 11:06 AM

#poundthemound
what does it mean?

**old goat** · 03-12-2020, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by powdork

on the assumption you already came there in a car. and the analogy to aids, or more specifically transfusions, has no bearing whatsoever.

The similarity to AIDS and transfusions is this--during the height of the AIDS crisis more and more people who needed transfusions opted for directed transfusions, where friends and family with the right blood type would donate blood for elective surgery specifically to be given to the designated person. People felt more comfortable getting blood from people they knew. Research showed that random, anonymous blood was safer than directed donation. The point being that your friends and family are not any healthier than strangers, on average. Now you have a point--if you always ride a lift with the same people then the total number of people you are exposed to during the course of the day is fewer, so the odds that one of them having CV is lower, but if you really want to reduce your chances of getting sick the best thing you could do is not ride in the same car. Also stay out of the lodge.

And this is pure speculation on my part--sitting next to someone on a moving chairlift exposes you to fewer viruses and bacteria than sitting next to them indoors.
The great majority of different people I sit next to during the course of a winter are strangers on chairlifts and I get far few colds than I did when I was working, and far, far fewer than when I had school age kids. Totally unscientific opinion of course.

**bodywhomper** · 03-12-2020, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by powdork

#poundthemound
what does it mean?

Flatten curve of cases vs time (that now famous graph). Trying to get a flashy term for people to get their social altruistic shit together.

**Ted Striker** · 03-12-2020, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by MultiVerse

When he was 14 he wrote program and called it email. Email the technology predates his timeline by over a decade.

I like this bit

returning to MIT, where he's generally described by his colleagues as a nut and fraud—the terms "asshole," and "loon" were tossed around freely by professors who were happy to talk about their coworker but prefer to remain anonymous. "Don't know him, but [he] didn't invent email. If he claims to have done so he's a dick," said one MIT brain.