Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[rod9301]

May not be effective for controlling the virus but duct tape over the mouth can be very effective in keeping one from making a fool of oneself.

I need to try this, nothing else works for me.

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[Core Shot]

"Live With It" bumper stickers in 1....2....

I can live with that

Interesting bbc article about T cell immunity. Folks with no antibodies are testing T cell immune.
Theory being that many more were exposed and didn’t even get antibodies, let alone symptoms.

Ymmv

[k2skier112]

https://twitter.com/grantstern/statu...gf2-DLQueioSJc

[pureantigravity]

I can live with that

Interesting bbc article about T cell immunity. Folks with no antibodies are testing T cell immune.
Theory being that many more were exposed and didn’t even get antibodies, let alone symptoms.

Ymmv

The implication being that there is a lot more to our immune system than we previously knew?

[SkiCougar]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

[splat]

Of course, it seems so many forget we spent $3 trillion (prolly way more) on the US response to 3,000 people who died on 9/11. Or that we mobilized for WWII with less than that. But we've now surpassed the number of Americans killed in Viet Nam and then surpassed the number killed in WWI. But in the typical "It's Just About What Affects Me Personally" attitude of the day, idiots can't wear face masks, then bitch about shit still being closed. Classic.

[char_]

Facemasks = keeping your community is a reccessionary state.

LOL. ok

[schuss]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

What businesses can't operate as normal with everyone masked? Even strip clubs can adhere to that. Get real.

[KQ]

Love me some Trae:

[KQ]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

How high were the flood waters in Houston from Harvey? I think you predicted 3 inches?

[rod9301]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

Man, us had 50,000 new cases a DAY!

MORE than any other countries.

So no, the lockdowns are good, they just were not taken seriously.

And the economic loss will happen anyway, since people will, rightly so, be afraid to go spend money.

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[Benny Profane]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

Me Me Me!

[ötzi]

"The US is the world's Florida" - heard that one this morning.

[Ted Striker]

Funny, true, and sad all at the same time.

[old goat]

Reading an article in New Yorker about how Iceland beat the virus. Rigorous contact tracing (sounds like they had more contact tracers for 300,000 population than are probably in NYC), shutdown all international arrivals including repatriation for a time, no general shutdown but did close business like bars restaurants sports venues, everyone knows everyone, everyone is related to everyone, no masks, very limited points of entry. People used to being tracked by the govt. (In Denmark the medical information of every inhabitant is on a central registry. If you want to do a population study of a disease you go to Denmark.) People used to following rules--like quarantining. They did a lot of that.

What is clear to me reading this is not that we should have emulated Iceland but that the best approach is different for every country. Obviously we haven't figured out what works best in the US. Hopefully we will before we're all dead. Over 300,000 international arrivals per day through multiple airports, highly heterogeneous population with areas of high density, poor social safety net, poor health care system, severe political polarization, fragmented public health system--even if we had competent federal leadership it's hard to see what approach would have been able to achieve a tolerable infection rate with a tolerable economic impact.

One thing we certainly could have emulated from Iceland--advanced planning.

[bennymac]

Love me some Trae:

That was great thanks for posting. DunningSkicouger I hope you watched this.

[huckbucket]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

Did time freeze in your world, because ... you know ... pathogens have a life cycle.

[goldenboy]

Those commie bastards at Goldman Sachs think masks would save the US economy $1T. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahha.../#5766ae8156f1

It's too bad and utterly ironic that the "economy" people aren't militant mask supporters.

[schuss]

Those commie bastards at Goldman Sachs think masks would save the US economy $1T. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahha.../#5766ae8156f1

It's too bad and utterly ironic that the "economy" people aren't militant mask supporters.

Note that basically any profitable company that CAN have people work from home is doing it relatively open ended.

[hutash]

Haven't you all figured out responding to Ski Cougs is a waste of time and effort?

[bennymac]

This is from the deep state of the deepest state.

[PB]

Forgot: 10 - attending Orange Shit Gibbon rally

[MagnificentUnicorn]

How high were the flood waters in Houston from Harvey? I think you predicted 3 inches?

To be fair, SkiCougar probably thinks 3” is hung.


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[Harry]

not sure if it has been posted but the harris county judge, which covers most of Houston; has now made facemasks mandatory thru august and mandatory at every public business.


the records positive cases in 33,000 with 387 fatalities for a region metro region of 4 million. that's less than a 1 percent infection rate for Houston metro and a 1 percent fatality rate of the 1 percent that has been infected; but let's go backwards and ensure the nation's 4th largest city will have an even tougher recovery.

i'm no hoax person, the threat is real if you are over 65 or have underlying conditions; but to keep your community in a recessionary state for something affecting so few is pretty stupid, but the stupid is strong in today's America(i.e. BLM wanting to take down a Lincoln statue and graffiti on the Lincoln monument).

How does wearing a face mask cause a financial recession ?

You are extremely stupid.


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[bodywhomper]

This is from the deep state of the deepest state.

Some of this doesn’t see right. For instance, eating dinner at somebody’s house. All it takes is one person at the table to get everybody else sick