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rjd970 said:
So I guess your in the camp that we should panic and go crazy? What are you saying here?

Read what I said again...take measures to flatten the curve, but we don’t need to panic. The CDC is saying social distancing, washing hands, etc. It says nowhere we need to hoard TP and clear shelves of food and essentials. If you think panic and chaos should be a part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

Perhaps you should read and then respond before just typing away.
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So we are backtracking now are we. I never said people should hoard things or go crazy. I just said that the idea this isnt that bad means you're full of it. Also you said people should only do things if they're scared that's not how this works and that doesnt flatten any curve. For every 1 person that listens there will be 10 that don't. Like I said look at Italy they thought this want a big deal and look at where they are now. Those who dont learn from the past are doomed to repeat it so yeah let's just take middle of the road measures and hope things get better.
 
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Girth Brooks said:
Stoking irrational fear will, IMO, prove to be more detrimental than the virus itself. Everyone should take guarded measures to protect themselves, but be prudent about it. Buying enough paper products to flatten the Amazon Rainforest is, to put it bluntly, stupid!

There is no comprehensible reason that anyone should need 100+ rolls of toilet paper. Period. People should be concerned with storing shelf-stable, non-perishable food items, you know, something that is needed to sustain life. Who needs toilet paper when they’re not eating?
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If I get your drift, you are saying that if you run out of sh!t to eat, then sooner or later, you run out of sh!t. Is that the gist of it?
 
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Velo Vol said:
Must be a local thing.

It is a bit weird that the panic hasn't included gas.
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Give it time. It's a process that seems to be working through one thing at a time. First was cleaning products and then toilet paper. Now I think we're going through the food phase.

I'm half expecting this coming week to be worse than last week as numbers of ill climb and people just sit there and listen to bad news endlessly on tv. People filling the gas tank up every time they drive down the street to buy another 50 lb bag of rice and pallet of TP probably isn't far off.
 
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GAVol said:
It’s like a slapstick comedy. Nobody knows what to do... so they buy all the toilet paper.
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I was thinking about this last night. Only thing I can come up with is that people overbought tissues, which makes some sense. After the tissue was gone, they moved on to TP, which still makes sense. TP shelves go a little bare and people go bananas, which.... I dunno, looking at it in it's current state, doesn't really make any sense.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Funny story about that field goal. The kicker became a friend of mine since we sat next to each other in Spanish Lab , and I helped him somewhat. He had wrecked his knee in Spring practice before the 67 season, and had surgery. He was on crutches during Fall of 67. That is when Karl Kremser took over kicking duties. In the Spring of 68, Gary Wright and I practiced kicking field goals and playing golf with Herman "Thunderfoot" Weaver. I was a much better golfer than those two.


I held for Wright (and also kicked some) as he practiced for a tryout with the Cleveland Browns to replace Lou "The Toe" Groza. In those days, college kicked field goals off a tee. In the pros, you had to kick off the ground. He was learning to kick off the ground. Wright went on to become a pharmacist, and owned Wright Pharmacy in Heflin Alabama. He recently retired.
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My memory is fading correct me if I'm wrong. I believe the swamp rat was holding and I've heard him on sport talk shows more than once swear the kick was good.
 
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Smokey'sHandler said:
What’s amazing is that from 10-40 years old the death rate is 0.2% with the sampling being those who are classified in critical condition. Once again this data does not take into account what we don’t know: how many have been infected with showing minimal to no symptoms and are perfectly fine.
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Source for bolded statement?
Jxn Vol said:
Broad testing and the numbers fall around the vicinity of the flu virus.
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Fall, yes, but “around the vicinity of the flu virus” is just your gut feeling/hope.

The covid-19 data in that figure is from China which should have pretty broad testing at this point (if you question their data that’s a different discussion). You can also look at South Korea which has broad testing and the total mortality rate fell to 0.6%. I see most experts including on the trump squad putting the actual fatality rate between 0.5% and 1%. That’s still significantly higher than the flu, albeit within an order of magnitude.
Jxn Vol said:
But hey we have panic to fuel. So keep up the fine work. 🙄
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No, just pushing back on the “It’s just the flu, don't change your behavior” mentality. Justin said he would rather get covid-19 than the flu because “with flu, your chances to survive are much less likely”. That's not supported by the numbers. It’s wishful thinking at best and dangerous misinformation at worst.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
My memory is fading correct me if I'm wrong. I believe the swamp rat was holding and I've heard him on sport talk shows more than once swear the kick was good.
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That is what he said. Wright said he didn't know because he kept his head down until long after the ball was gone. That game was played on a crappy, rainy day. The stadium was full of black umbrellas. We didn't wear orange and white stuff then, and umbrellas were black, and they were allowed in the stadium. The rain would run off the umbrellas of the people in front of you onto your feet or lap.
 
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1972 Grad said:
That is what he said. Wright said he didn't know because he kept his head down until long after the ball was gone. That game was played on a crappy, rainy day. The stadium was full of black umbrellas. We didn't wear orange and white stuff then, and umbrellas were black, and they were allowed in the stadium. The rain would run off the umbrellas of the people in front of you onto your feet or lap.
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I remember well. I wore an Army poncho that I got at a surplus store. It actually quit raining at halftime or just after. it was odd we owned the game while it was raining and they took over when it cleared.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin: There Will Be ‘Less Democrat’ Coronavirus Deaths

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin argued there would be fewer Democrat coronavirus deaths because they are adhering to suggestions offered by experts and the media.

“[T]here is a particular cruelty, irony that it is their core viewers, the Republican older viewers, who are the most at risk,” she said. “And when you think about it, which party immediately canceled all of their rallies? Which party immediately started having their political figures really portray and use their lives as an example? It was the Democrats. So typically, there will be less Democrat deaths because there will be less mass gatherings. There will be less opportunities for people to congregate and share this horrible disease. So it is really a very short-sided strategy. But I think now the name of the game is how do they get back on planet earth. And part of the way that I think that they are doing it is down the memory hole. He jumped right on this right away because of all this planning that we’re doing so well, which is head-spinning for the rest of us who watched him for weeks say this is a hoax. But this is how they do it at Fox News.

WaPo's Jennifer Rubin: There Will Be 'Less Democrat' Coronavirus Deaths
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Well... yeah. It's a younger voting block and, thanks to President Dipsh*t making this a partisan issue, they tend to adhere to caution.
 
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evillawyer said:
Follow this story over the next few days. Tons of people returning from infested Europe who are now packed like sardines in customs waiting reentry.







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Maybe it's just me, but the 4 times I've flown international since 2008, that's what the customs wait looked like when I arrived. Dominican Republic was the worst.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Maybe it's just me, but the 4 times I've flown international since 2008, that's what the customs wait looked like when I arrived. Dominican Republic was the worst.
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Not just you. Often times several planes arrive within close timing and it gets busy in waves. I've been the first on the wave and the last.
 
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Stew Cook said:
I was thinking about this last night. Only thing I can come up with is that people overbought tissues, which makes some sense. After the tissue was gone, they moved on to TP, which still makes sense. TP shelves go a little bare and people go bananas, which.... I dunno, looking at it in it's current state, doesn't really make any sense.
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The right have become such big asses over this thing that a lot of extra TP is needed.
 
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