Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

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rjd970 said:
And even that response is stupid. How about live your life like normal, go outside, do what you want anyway. Just avoid the shed, and if you have to go in, be diligent and wash your hands after.

If you get bit by the spider, go to the doctor only if it gets bad, the chances of actually dying are low anyway.
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Some of the arguments I am hearing are assinine.

That we are purposely not testing people in fear of overloading the ICUs. Wtf? If someone needs an ICU they need it, regardless of whether they have been tested for anything or not.
 
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golfballs said:
People act like they’re in full blown panic mode here. The grocery store is a mad house. The medicine section is cleared out
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Must be sporadic. The wife stopped at Kroger (for a few cases of tp) on the way home from work and said it was about like usual. No shortages of anything that she noticed.
 
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I'm guessing we aren't testing because we dont have the kits. Probably because they don't exist. Manufacturing just doesn't ramp in a month.
 
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allvol123 said:
So extend weekly. Why start at 3 when people are guessing at this point.
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2 weeks. Because that is thought to be the general incubation period if someone has the disease they will show signs and symptoms by then. The extra week idk maybe the cleaning crews are really slow
 
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allvol123 said:
Some of the arguments I am hearing are assinine.

That we are purposely not testing people in fear of overloading the ICUs. Wtf? If someone needs an ICU they need it, regardless of whether they have been tested for anything or not.
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The best plan I've seen was drive by testing. It makes absolute sense - keeps people in a car and isolated from anyone except the people doing the tests (who hopefully are properly protected). Waiting rooms are medicine's worst idea ever - put people in one place and pass all kinds of good infectious stuff around; on the other hand, there's not much better way to insure job security in healthcare.
 
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Weezy said:
I'm guessing we aren't testing because we dont have the kits. Probably because they don't exist. Manufacturing just doesn't ramp in a month.
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Yep. On another forum a primary care doctor, who lives in a county outside Philadelphia, just posted that there's zero tests available in his county health department. None.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
Must be sporadic. The wife stopped at Kroger (for a few cases of tp) on the way home from work and said it was about like usual. No shortages of anything that she noticed.
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I went to Kroger, and monthly trip to Sams, on Monday for a few things. TP was plentiful at both. Charmin was gone at Sams, but nothing else had been touched. People were buying more paper towels than anything else.

Made another stop at Kroger today, and Sams out of curiosity, to get a couple things for my mom since she isn't driving anymore. TP was mostly gone. A few packages in the aisle next to milk. Paper towels gone. Clorox and Lysol wipes have been gone for a week.

Lady at self checkout was chatty. Was telling people it's going to snow tonight so they buy milk and bread too instead of just TP. Said she had no fear of getting sick and people could cough all they want around her. I like her enthusiasm but she's crazy.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Is someone out there advocating for the firebombing of Seattle? Because that’s the analogy you’re making.

To use your scenario though - no one is saying burn down the shed.
Know what they’re saying? - Stay in the house. Don’t go in the shed. Wait for the spider to die.

That’s what’s being done here.
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let a couple months go by and let the spider spread and take over the shed. the OG spider might die, but it will spread. and spiders have a way of spreading where they aren't wanted anyway, see the shed.

meanwhile your grass is more than a foot tall, you lost your chihuahua in it, and you haven't let the kids outside in those months in case of the spider.

still seems like overkill.
 
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Weezy said:
I'm guessing we aren't testing because we dont have the kits. Probably because they don't exist. Manufacturing just doesn't ramp in a month.
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That's likely the most underappreciated fact of this whole episode. When you ship your manufacturing off, get rid of facilities, don't train a new crop of workers, you're screwed when something else goes wrong. Imagine where we'll be when China decides it's time to go to war ... that the economic/industrial takeover is sufficiently complete. At least Weather Tech can probably make custom floor mats for recycled tanks and planes.
 
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AM64 said:
The best plan I've seen was drive by testing. It makes absolute sense - keeps people in a car and isolated from anyone except the people doing the tests (who hopefully are properly protected). Waiting rooms are medicine's worst idea ever - put people in one place and pass all kinds of good infectious stuff around; on the other hand, there's not much better way to insure job security in healthcare.
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I just dont the see big use for it. You dont get admitted to a hospital just for having this.

You get admitted when you are in bad shape, at the point a previous diagnosis is not super important.

If it is to prevent spread, by the time yoy feel the need to get tested, you've been spreading for days most likely.
 
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rjd970 said:
And even that response is stupid. How about live your life like normal, go outside, do what you want anyway. Just avoid the shed, and if you have to go in, be diligent and wash your hands after.

If you get bit by the spider, go to the doctor only if it gets bad, the chances of actually dying are low anyway.
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Point is, no one is saying burn down the shed. And that is not what’s being done.

People aren’t even being told to stay in their house. They’re saying don’t go in the damn shed.
 
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TheDeeble said:
I went to Kroger, and monthly trip to Sams, on Monday for a few things. TP was plentiful at both. Charmin was gone at Sams, but nothing else had been touched. People were buying more paper towels than anything else.

Made another stop at Kroger today, and Sams out of curiosity, to get a couple things for my mom since she isn't driving anymore. TP was mostly gone. A few packages in the aisle next to milk. Paper towels gone. Clorox and Lysol wipes have been gone for a week.

Lady at self checkout was chatty. Was telling people it's going to snow tonight so they buy milk and bread too instead of just TP. Said she had no fear of getting sick and people could cough all they want around her. I like her enthusiasm but she's crazy.
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It hurts me to say the word, but Northern is better than Charmin. Charmin disintegrates at the first sight of liquid. TP is usually the first line of defense on pet messes around our house - the liquid part is essential.
 
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AM64 said:
That's likely the most underappreciated fact of this whole episode. When you ship your manufacturing off, get rid of facilities, don't train a new crop of workers, you're screwed when something else goes wrong. Imagine where we'll be when China decides it's time to go to war ... that the economic/industrial takeover is sufficiently complete. At least Weather Tech can probably make custom floor mats for recycled tanks and planes.
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America (though not the CDC alone) has the capacity for medical testing.

But we snoozed for weeks and didn't confront the problem until it was too late.
 
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Y'all help me out.

When I went to Sam's today, there was a guy that was loading his cart up with every rubber vehicle floormat they had. His kid was pulling them down in twos and handing them to his dad. Had to have had at least 30 pairs in his cart.

What the heck would you do with all those?
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McDad said:
Daughter's college classes canceled indefinitely.

Also, cruise prices are dirt cheap even for trips later this year. Gonna book one for anniversary.
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Might I suggest Viking?

iu
 
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