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RedLED please be good to yourself. It is like waking up and finding one of your limbs missing. I lost my long timer coon in 2010, still not over him, and then lost the other 2 in 2016, and within a few months of each other. Nothing is so painful. I am still not ready to make the emotional investment with a new adoption, but someday soon because I have need and miss the companionship. I am still in shock from losing my older and only sister last August, just 52, and it was preventable. This is going to land hard on me when it fully hits. I am distracted by concern for my mother, but now taking definitive and positive steps to ensure she gets the care she needs by petitioning for guardianship and wresting control from the irresponsible and incompetent.

Sorry I have been so rare, been lurking a lot. Nice to see the familiars checking in.

Just wanted to also note that coronavirus is no match for 254nm UV-C, and I expect neither can it withstand 1000lm of incan in close proximity.

Pitt Medical has published the first peer reviewed research on a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine they developed.

Go Panthers!
 
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For last 10 days the Covid infected remains at 14 in my area. So the shelter order is having some good effect in my County

Faces covered without scarfs or bandanas are not being let into one grocery chain

And, Wal-Mart's are limiting number of shoppers into stores

NorCal is ready for a heavy winter style storm forecast to hit this afternoon.. 4-6" rain with up to 36" snow in higher elevations

Bummer all the ski resort's are ordered closed..

..and this morning our Gub just outlawed fun seekers traveling up to Tahoe and other Sierra resorts

So, kids hide those skis and boards from plain sight of the highway patrol!
 
chillinn said:
RedLED please be good to yourself. It is like waking up and finding one of your limbs missing. I lost my long timer coon in 2010, still not over him, and then lost the other 2 in 2016, and within a few months of each other. Nothing is so painful. I am still not ready to make the emotional investment with a new adoption, but someday soon because I have need and miss the companionship. I am still in shock from losing my older and only sister last August, just 52, and it was preventable. This is going to land hard on me when it fully hits. I am distracted by concern for my mother, but now taking definitive and positive steps to ensure she gets the care she needs by petitioning for guardianship and wresting control from the irresponsible and incompetent.

Sorry I have been so rare, been lurking a lot. Nice to see the familiars checking in.

Just wanted to also note that coronavirus is no match for 254nm UV-C, and I expect neither can it withstand 1000lm of incan in close proximity.

Pitt Medical has published the first peer reviewed research on a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine they developed.

Go Panthers!
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Chillinn,

Thanks for your kind words. It sounds like you have a lot going on in your life, I hope everything works out.

All the best,

RedLED
 
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Even lower mortality if hospital care is factored in. Not to mention all the recovered unknown/unreported cases.
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No, it's ~2% overall mortality [of known/reported cases] with full first-world hospital service, that's why you're seeing that number in the US for now; any degradation in service or unavailability raises that number significantly, plus more deaths from unrelated causes that could not be treated.

Keep in mind that hypertension alone bumps that number up to 6%, everything has to be in order once hospitalization is involved, any tiny issue can make things much worse.
 
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Late last year there were coyotes attacking joggers and walkers in broad daylight out where I live. I have a knife clipped in my waistband any time I run the dirt roads or trails.
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Not too long ago, I opened the door, and there were two coyotes right outside about three feet away. They can be bold.
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StarHalo said:
No, it's ~2% overall mortality [of known/reported cases] with full first-world hospital service, that's why you're seeing that number in the US for now; any degradation in service or unavailability raises that number significantly, plus more deaths from unrelated causes that could not be treated.

Keep in mind that hypertension alone bumps that number up to 6%, everything has to be in order once hospitalization is involved, any tiny issue can make things much worse.
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As I've stated before, the (~98%) recovery rate does not even factor in those who are infected and recover w/o being captured through testing, treatment or hospitalization. Be smart and careful, but unless you're in the high risk category the economic impact to your life will undoubtedly be much worse than COVID-19.
 
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but unless you're in the high risk category the economic impact to your life will undoubtedly be much worse than COVID-19.
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If you're viewing this as a threat-to-self issue, yes, odds are there will be little to no health impact on you personally when you catch the bug.

If you're viewing this as a threat-to-group issue, everything will be fine so long as your local hospital has vacancy and everything they need, and you aren't in a position to infect anyone else when you are asymptomatic.
 
StarHalo said:
If you're viewing this as a threat-to-self issue, yes, odds are there will be little to no health impact on you personally when you catch the bug.

If you're viewing this as a threat-to-group issue, everything will be fine so long as your local hospital has vacancy and everything they need, and you aren't in a position to infect anyone else when you are asymptomatic.
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Good point. I'm viewing this a threat to my family (wife, kids, grandkids, etc.) as that's all I have any control over. For me, worrying about things outside my circle of influence will only be detrimental to my well being.
 
StarHalo said:
If you're viewing this as a threat-to-self issue, yes, odds are there will be little to no health impact on you personally when you catch the bug.

If you're viewing this as a threat-to-group issue, everything will be fine so long as your local hospital has vacancy and everything they need, and you aren't in a position to infect anyone else when you are asymptomatic.
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This.

How is there even an attempt at arguing against “group” think with COVID-19? I’d be willing to bet such “me” think would quickly dissolve away if a family member got sick and passed...
 
Dave D said:
Or under different circumstances it could have started in the U.S.A. like the 1918 Spanish flu did!
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Agreed Dave.
The jury is still out where it began and the US certainly did their part to spread it but according to history the Spanish being neutral during WW1 still had a free press. So apparently they were the only big country telling the story about a bad bug wiping out their country so they got tagged with the title. Another little known fact is it was round 2 that did the most damage. It seems there had been an epidemic prior that did not affect near as many people but the advent of WW1 caused soldiers from all over the place to move around in cramped conditions.

It seems that one wiped out young adults the most. We could learn a lot about this covid thing by studying the Spanish flu.
https://www.facebook.com/1797646913/posts/10213113791318234?d=n&sfns=mo
 
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SCEMan said:
Good point. I'm viewing this a threat to my family (wife, kids, grandkids, etc.) as that's all I have any control over. For me, worrying about things outside my circle of influence will only be detrimental to my well being.
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How is there even an attempt at arguing against “group” think with COVID-19? I’d be willing to bet such “me” think would quickly dissolve away if a family member got sick and passed...
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And there you have it.

All the threat-to-self-ers are here to tell you that this isn't that big a deal, that the numbers can be smoothed over, because this isn't going to affect me. And the threat-to-group-ers are telling you this is more important than it seems, sharing the data, because this might affect you.

My wife was at the store last week waiting to browse the deli behind an older lady; the older woman noticed my wife and said "Did you need in here," and my wife replied "No rush, I'm just giving you your personal space," and the older woman said "Oh I'm not worried about it." Why wasn't the older lady worried about it? Threat to self. Why did this bother my wife enough to relate the story? Threat to group.
 
RedLED said:
Not too long ago, I opened the door, and there were two coyotes right outside about three feet away. They can be bold.
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JHP at high velocity quickly takes away their boldness.

For less lethal, Bear Spray(Pepper Spray) and/or 12 Gauge Bean Bags/Rubber Balls should work well to remind them to be fearful of humans again.

So sorry about your loss Red.

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Thanks, Tachead. It was scary to just open the door to your house and see the coyotes right there. With that said, this was at our desert house, and well, this is their turf. Also, we live in a country club so they can use the golf course to hide, and cover a lot of ground quickly.

Really, I Don't hate the coyotes, that is what they do. This area is so built up now you hardly hear them howl at night anymore. There was a time when you could hear them howling all night, I miss that.

You are right, they hate gunshots. Once we were out shooting, and one came near us, to check us out, all it took was a shot in the air and he took off and never looked back or came back. We did not shoot at him because he did not do anything to us, and he is in his world. We were the interlopers that day.

Best,

RL
 
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