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03-08-2020, 10:14 AM #2601Jacket Cobbler
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re:spam and ...
drift: either me or a friend,....(can't remember which) sat in a metal trough up to neck in 50 deg waters for minutes?? for a can of spam on the trail at philmont scout ranch when we were like 14....also remember my first encounter with texas shaming as somewhere along trail in a bolo there was a tin urinal that had the state of tx painted in the bottom...so you pee'd on tx....we also filled gallon zip locks with pee, threw on campfire where people were gathered (mostly the adult leaders), threw deer dung with bare hands, and put rocks in others and had rocks put in our packs...i wonder if these activities would be frowned upon today....however... i still have pleasant memories of those 14 or 15 days on the trail...and the month long vacation from parents home....we took school bus across country to get there...
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03-08-2020, 10:20 AM #2602
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03-08-2020, 10:59 AM #2604glocal
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03-08-2020, 11:25 AM #2605Been there, skied that.
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I would counter with the movie battleship scene, we all are going to die, you are going to die, i'm going to die; just not today.
seems the virus is worst for the eldery and those with existing condition; just like every other disease that goes thru a community; big threat imo is does it cause a global depression as everyone just tries to stay home and avoid it. lots of airline stocks are down 20% already, you probably still short them and make a lot of money.TGR forums cannot handle SkiCougar !
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03-08-2020, 11:31 AM #2606
Who remembers anything from that movie except for a half nekkid Erika Eleniak?
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03-08-2020, 11:41 AM #2607Registered User
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03-08-2020, 11:41 AM #2608glocal
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If I could get a bunch of hot chicks to model these, I could create a panic buy.
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03-08-2020, 11:42 AM #2609Jacket Cobbler
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03-08-2020, 11:58 AM #2610
The stats from the WHO indicates fever is by far the most common symptom. I would be frustrated, too.
And if u actually had/have it, your family should be quarantined, too. But if you don't have it....
Personally, i get a pretty high fever from a "common" cold, flu (rare for me since i usually get the flu shot), and sometimes environmentally-based allergies.
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03-08-2020, 12:09 PM #2611glocal
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03-08-2020, 12:15 PM #2612
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03-08-2020, 12:44 PM #2613powdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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03-08-2020, 12:47 PM #2614
anyone else notice this, from the list of restrictions Italy announced for the North.
All sporting events and competitions are suspended
Ski resorts are closed until further notice
Swimming pools, sports halls, thermal baths, cultural centers and wellness centers must suspend their activitiespowdork.com - new and improved, with 20% more dork.
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03-08-2020, 01:00 PM #2615
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03-08-2020, 01:00 PM #2616
Interesting that all the countries where this is spreading are places with low population growth, high and increasing numbers of elderly, and facing big economic problems as a result of lack of workers to support the elderly. Sounds to me like some scientists and economists and govt leaders got together and the COVID was the result. Get rid of a lot of elderly and our Medicare, social security, and general demographic problem is solved. They're making a mistake keeping the young healthy away from work, school, travel, etc. Gotta keep the economy going until the old folks are gone and the vaccine that they're storing in underground vaults is released to the survivors. If a few young people die it's just collateral damage, but for the greater good.
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03-08-2020, 01:04 PM #2617
"they" could come up with something a lot more efficient to kill the old folks.
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03-08-2020, 01:08 PM #2618Registered User
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I don't know what you guys are going on about. The head of the US government announced coronavirus was stopped on Friday.
The contrast between the US response and that of Italy, China and S. Korea is pretty stark at this point.
Will be interesting if those countries end up barring travel from the US to their country if they get a handle on it.
Multiple confirmed cases in my state and presumed widespread community spread.
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03-08-2020, 01:27 PM #2619
^ Comparing and contrasting the U.S.'s response with the better prepared Asian countries is cause for dismay.
The number of unforced errors is appalling. Things here could (will likely) get much worse than a lot of people realize, largely due to the incompetence of our government. The toll won’t be as bad as the simple exponential extrapolations suggest, but that’s only because we'll at some point be forced to take some pretty strong measures to isolate people.
But for anyone thinking such a scenario spells the current administration's demise at the ballot box: many Americans won't ever know how much effective other governments were with their response, Americans rarely care about foreign governments anyway, and politicians will take credit for the strong measures rather than acknowledging those measures wouldn't have been necessary had they responded sooner.
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03-08-2020, 01:46 PM #2620
Although obviously unquestionable that the shell of a government we currently have that will put up with, and have not been outsted by the current potus fucked containment up; I find it lame that a Chinese journalist would take the opportunity to jab. Yes, amurika is fucking it up, but we certainly didn’t start this particular problem.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ig-coronavirus
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03-08-2020, 02:09 PM #2621
There have been plenty of mistakes made, and I am certainly not defending the US or any other govt for it's response, but do not underestimate the complexity of the problem There is no such thing as a generic pandemic. Each is different, based on transmissibility, morbidity and mortality, length and frequency of asymptomatic infectious state, method of transmission, available means to prevent transmission, available means to treat. In addition different countries have different formal and informal support structures to provide medical care (to victims of the pandemic as well as to the rest of the population), food, and economic relief, as well as different government structures with an inherently greater or lesser ability to respond quickly, and different economic resources to deal with the problem.
In considering a response officials have to consider not only the disease itself but the potential health toll from the means taken to control the disease--people who lose their jobs often lose their health care, sometimes lose their homes, have increased alcohol and drug use--all of which have a death toll of their own.
All of these factors have to be considered by decision makers and their advisors and experience with past pandemics is of limited value. So don't hesitate to criticize when the response is obviously inadequate or excessive but understand that the adequacy of the response is often recognizable only in retrospect. If we were better at predicting the future we would all have flying cars.
In the US, I think it's fair to criticize the lack of testing, the lack of reserves of protective gear, and the attempt to minimize the problem by the administration. It is harder to know who should be isolated beyond people with the virus and how best to isolate those who don't nee to be in a hospital. It's also unfair to criticize hospitals for not having enough ventilators and ICU beds, given the huge expense of maintaining those things in reserve, at the expense of routine health care--and lives. Frankly any disease that results in large numbers of people being on ventilators for long periods of time is going to be devastating no matter what anyone does.
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03-08-2020, 02:12 PM #2622
I agree with most or all of that, but my point is that this particular journalist is speaking out against xenophobia, with xenophobia.
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03-08-2020, 02:14 PM #2623
I really don't think it's too nuts to think of the NYC tri state metro shut down in some ways soon. Like public transit suspended, which would effectively stop all activity, eventually. Then all public gatherings, including church services.
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03-08-2020, 02:16 PM #2624Registered User
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03-08-2020, 02:18 PM #2625
There might not be "a generic pandemic" but we're not experiencing a space attack from aliens, either. An effective response involves the ability to enact a number of standard procedures. What makes matters worse is we had time, we knew this was coming.
This is what an effective response looks like:
Taiwan sits near Japan, China and South Korea, three countries with some of the world’s worst outbreaks of the deadly coronavirus, but the island itself has just 42 (45 as of today) isolated cases. Chalk it up to extra early, effective preparedness, analysts and policymakers say – so effective that people’s approval of the government unexpectedly soared last month.
Taiwan moved fast because of its experience 17 years ago with SARS:
1) Almost every public building in Taipei offers hand sanitizer and a lot of them
2) Schools, require that anyone entering submit to a fever check.
3) Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control announces any new cases every day.
4) In February it began rationing facemask purchases to head off panic buying.
5) The Centers for Disease Control started onboard quarantine of all direct flights from Wuhan on December 31.
https://www.voanews.com/science-heal...SkI6YteP6O3zTs
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