Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

**bodywhomper** · 01-14-2021, 08:02 PM

I hate those “masks!” I see them in use by employees at the hardware store and customers at the grocery. I’m carrying disposables to kindly hand out.

**John_B** · 01-14-2021, 08:37 PM

I saw a woman wearing one of those today and thought she had some.serious orthodontics.

**ill-advised strategy** · 01-14-2021, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

A new low in face mask coverings, seen today in Costco in Reno. Plastic face shield about 3" wide, roughly covering from the mouth to the chin, spaced off their faces by at least an inch. I sent pics to Costco corporate to ask them to enforce their own mask policies. Obviously the local store wasn't willing to do it on their own.

So much of that shit today.
Masks below nose.
200 high school kids flowing out of school, hardly any masks.
People who pull their mask down to talk.

So much today! Fucking dipshits. Fucking dipshits everywhere.

KQ · 01-14-2021, 09:35 PM

On the news the other night I saw a barber wearing a face shield while he cut hair. Guy in the chair is right below the barber's chin so every time the barber exhales the shield is concentrating and directing his breath right onto his customer like a Covid fogger.

**Falcon3** · 01-14-2021, 10:56 PM

I went in for a therapeutic massage at a place that said all their therapists wear masks and they sanitize everything and blah blah blah, sounded pretty safe. Walk in and my fucking therapist wore one of those worthless chin masks. This was in the summer when COVID was a little less prevalent, so I stayed, but no fucking way I’m going back there.

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**Tri-Ungulate** · 01-14-2021, 10:58 PM

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--Hugo Harrison

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**pureantigravity** · 01-14-2021, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by KQ

On the news the other night I saw a barber wearing a face shield while he cut hair. Guy in the chair is right below the barber's chin so every time the barber exhales the shield is concentrating and directing his breath right onto his customer like a Covid fogger.

Pass a beauticians office on my walk. Ms.Tweezer is sitting over the laying down recipient, her face less than 12" away as she methodically removes unwanted eye brow hairs and other upper-lip paraphernalia. Just wearing a basic hospital mask. But 12" away for probably 45 minutes. I think that's OK, right?

**LongShortLong** · 01-15-2021, 03:17 AM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

Texas trauma surgeon:

"Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen."
...
Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor of surgery with Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, says patients who've had COVID-19 symptoms show a severe chest X-ray every time, and those who were asymptomatic show a severe chest X-ray 70 to 80% of the time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/post-co...-surgeon-says/

edit: Be sure to click the link, there's pics of COVID lung x-rays, and they're gnarly.

That'll get your attention.

Maybe it answers MF's question too.

I continue to believe a lockdown (ala Wuhan) is the logical correct choice. Covid could be over in 10 weeks. However, I'm guessing MF is arguing about fake "lockdown." The fake "lockdown" doesn't seem to work a whole lot better than no "lockdown," followed by a "lockdown" once the hospitals start screaming. People just ignore it until news comes out the hospital won't be able to treat them. People are dumb

**Casey E** · 01-15-2021, 05:14 AM

For the nay sayers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare

**Flounder** · 01-15-2021, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by puregravity

Just wearing a basic hospital mask. But 12" away for probably 45 minutes. I think that's OK, right?

I wouldn't be the customer but yeah, might be OK.

https://www.livescience.com/hair-sty...ace-masks.html

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**splat** · 01-15-2021, 07:23 AM

My buddy I thought exposed me has come out of his covid fog after two weeks in bed. He's convinced he caught it at the hospital after we dropped him off with a broken leg. Says he had been nowhere near anyone but his roomie and me for over two weeks prior. I'm nothing short of impressed. Dude's 70.

**beer30** · 01-15-2021, 07:35 AM

True, we wasted a month and a half in Germany in “lockdown light”. Brought us nothing and then they hung full closures the week before Christmas. Ask more if you wanna know the effects of that on retail and family....

Originally Posted by Toadman

Go big or go home.

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-15-2021, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by westoxified

how can an asymptomatic person have dense scarring in their lungs? doesn't compute.

We have had a few people come through the ER with suspect rib fractures and no symptoms of COVID, X-ray was taken to confirm rib fx and they had the glass lung X-ray of a COVID patients. Testing confirmed infection.

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**skaredshtles** · 01-15-2021, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Casey E

For the nay sayers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare

Naysayers:

**Bunion 2020** · 01-15-2021, 08:35 AM

Since so many of you are super duper Pro-Lockdowns, what are your thoughts on Gov Cuomo's recent reversal on the matter? Serious question.

Who are these "so many" you speak of?

**Benny Profane** · 01-15-2021, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

We have had a few people come through the ER with suspect rib fractures and no symptoms of COVID, X-ray was taken to confirm rib fx and they had the glass lung X-ray of a COVID patients. Testing confirmed infection.

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Yeah, but, how are they breathing? I'm guessing that climbing stairs has to be difficult. Therefore, symptoms, right?

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-15-2021, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Yeah, but, how are they breathing? I'm guessing that climbing stairs has to be difficult. Therefore, symptoms, right?

They only claimed difficulty breathing because of the rib fx. I think one had a pneumothorax. They had no other complaints from what I gather. Maybe they were sedentary and didn’t notice. It’s only anecdotal but seems to support the article linked by Dan.

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**timackie** · 01-15-2021, 09:16 AM

I have cared for 3 different patients with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever > 5 days and concerning abdominal exams. CT of abdomen was unremarkable, but found ground glass changes in imaged lung bases. Confirmed covid with no respiratory symptoms. I’ve coined the phrases covid gut, but it hadn’t seemed to catch on in the medical literature.

**Benny Profane** · 01-15-2021, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

Maybe they were sedentary and didn’t notice.

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This is the only thing I can figure. They are so inactive, that they can't even tell the difference when they put it to the test. Which is a lot of humans in America. Still, with the kind of damage described, christ, just getting out of bed to get to the fridge has to be an issue.

Was this person very obese?

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 01-15-2021, 09:35 AM

They were all younger, like 30-50

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**Benny Profane** · 01-15-2021, 10:05 AM

Something is wrong here.

**stealurface831** · 01-15-2021, 10:08 AM

this virus is a crazy motherfucker.

**old goat** · 01-15-2021, 10:09 AM

Why CA has been fucking up vaccination--too complicated prioritization, overwhelmed health care system, bad software, etc
https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavi...mainstage_lead

Trump admin announced it would release all remaining doses in the federal stockpile, echoing Joe Biden---except there are no doses in the federal stockpile
https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...serve-used-up/