Coronavirus

[Poppy]

Bravo.

Remember the Shell comercial reccomending you treat the accelarator like it has an egg under it, and the egg was your best friend? I still appologize to my buddy Eggbert every time I have to "floor it" when driving.

Oh man... that's funny as all get out!

When my dad was teaching me to drive he said the same thing to me. "Make believe there is an egg under the gas pedal and you don't want to break it." LOL... Yeah right! I can't say for sure how many years it took, but gradually I started being gentle with the accelerator. So much so, that now, my engine may not see over 2200 RPMs but once a month. I'm the last one off the line, and the last one to the Red traffic light (because when I see it turn Red, I take my foot off of the gas, I may even hit the brake a little so that when it turns green I am still rolling at 20 MPH.) I get 21 MPG in the biggest car on the road highway/City. A Mercury Grand Marquis. 25-26 MPG highway @ 72 MPH.

Years ago, I was bringing my daughter home from voice instruction and we ran into a highway traffic jam on a limited access highway. This is before the days of cell phones, the only traffic report would have been the AM radio 1010 WINS. My father's favorite radio station... "Give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world" A news station... ugh! Whenever I'd get into his car the first thing I would do was change the station!

So here we are 20 years later and I am bringing my daughter home, and we run into a traffic jam. What should I do? I don't really know the area, but maybe I should get off of the road, and follow my nose North. If only I knew what the problem was up ahead, I could decide if it was worth hanging in there, or taking an adventurous trip. Oh yeah... turn on 1010 WINS maybe they'll include it in their traffic report.

Eventually the traffic broke up and we were on our way.

3 days later I realized I still had the News on my radio! Oh NOoooo!!! I'm getting more like my old man every day!

 

[turbodog]

The face mask thing is complete BS, unless it's a n95. The covid virus is .025 micron while the mask only protects to .125 micron. Social distancing does nothing considering a cough, or sneeze can travel 8 feet. And the Corona will live in the air for several minutes. All these guidelines that they are telling us to do are debunk by medical science. If they want to stop this so called"virus" they need to shut the country completely down.

Common misconception about filtering size of n95 masks. Please allow me to debunk... n95 uses mechanical filtering (small passages) to block contaminants as well as an electrostatic charge that attracts the particles too small to filter. Filtering efficiency actually INCREASES as the mask get used, although breathing difficulty gets worse.

 

[RBR]

More quarantine buying:

A GE fridge...

More kicks...

Some disinfectants today.

100ml Eau Sauvage after shave from Dior
100ml L´Homme Ideal EDP from Guerlain
700ml 16yo Beast Of Dufftown from Mortlach

 

[bykfixer]

Some disinfectants today.

100ml Eau Sauvage after shave from Dior
100ml L´Homme Ideal EDP from Guerlain
700ml 16yo Beast Of Dufftown from Mortlach

So my quart sized bottle of Old Spice is disinfectent?
Cool.

 

[Chauncey Gardener]

So my quart sized bottle of Old Spice is disinfectent?
Cool.

"It's a manly scent, but you'll like it too." :p

 

[bykfixer]

When I was a kid Hai Karate was everywhere. It had so much alcohol you could use that stuff for lighter fluid.
As a teen that stuff was more of a chick replellent than pimples. Guess that's why they don't sell it anymore?

 

[StarHalo]

The handling of dead bodies during Coronavirus and the Hart Island "mass grave":

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Sounds like the Navajo Nation is becoming a corona virus hotspot and the places they have to get potable water are shutting down. This is a somewhat remote location in the middle of the desert. I would have thought they would get enough U.V. light from sunlight to prevent the spread in their area. This virus is very resilient.

 

[bykfixer]

US Air Force jets saluting hospitals in Vegas recently

 

[knucklegary]

 

[StarHalo]

Sounds like the Navajo Nation is becoming a corona virus hotspot and the places they have to get potable water are shutting down. This is a somewhat remote location in the middle of the desert. I would have thought they would get enough U.V. light from sunlight to prevent the spread in their area. This virus is very resilient.

Most folks on the rez aren't all that healthy, that's a shame; I hope the LifeFlight is taking them to someplace well-equipped..

 

[Fireclaw18]

Common misconception about filtering size of n95 masks. Please allow me to debunk... n95 uses mechanical filtering (small passages) to block contaminants as well as an electrostatic charge that attracts the particles too small to filter. Filtering efficiency actually INCREASES as the mask get used, although breathing difficulty gets worse.

Keep in mind that the virus particles ejected when someone coughts or sneezes might not always be by themselves. They may be suspended in tiny droplets of mucus which are big enough to be intercepted by a simple cloth mask.

This won't help the mask wearer to avoid breathing in virus much because unfiltered air will be sucked in around the edges of a non-sealing mask. But if everyone wears a mask, infected exhalations may be intercepted on the way out of a persons lungs. That's why in the press they say cloth masks don't directly protect you from getting the virus, but they do help reduce the chances of giving the virus to someone else.

 

[bykfixer]

I wear a mask around other people just in case I am an aesymptomatic carrier.
Plus I like John Deere stuff so I wear one cut from a John Deere cloth.

I posed the question before if anybody knows anybody……well I don't know either of these folks personally but my bosses 67 year old 2nd cousin was released from the hospital today after being on a ventalator for a while. On April 1 they had given up hope. Today she was recovered enough to go home. Apparently she was Pennsylivanias first recorded case.



Another fellow, a non essential bussiness owner (shoe store) was being interviewed and said his 87 year old grand mother was released yesterday. She got it while in the long care facility in my state that has the most deaths in the US. She didn't return to that one btw. He has remodeled his business to cater to nurses, grocery store workers etc by appointments.

Speaking of nurses, another non essential business (guitar store) is now the official distributor of home made masks in a nearby community where local residents are making masks by the dozen. They are being distributed to local police, fire and rescue workers. As of today 38,000 had been distributed at no cost to the recipient. Speaking of free masks, wife made nearly two dozen for folks we work with in our essential businesses. Oldest get first pick. They're pre-washed dual layer cotton cloth with a "backing" sandwiched between. No light shows through but they're easy to breath in.

Globally nearly half a million cases have been deemed recovered (466,997 when I typed this) and in the US nearly 40,000 (38,500).

 

[coffeecup66]

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On the subject of sneezing, coughing and droplets :

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

2,407 people in the U.S. died today alone from corona virus. That's by far the most deaths we've had reported in a single day in the U.S. or any other nation. We currently have 13,473 people in the U.S. labelled as serious or critical condition. That's nearly double that of Spain (7,371 critical), the country with the next most amount of critical patients. We are far from peaking. I've been hearing about seniors being abandoned in nursing homes and dying as well as other atrocities. Wet markets are being banned, some pork factories are closing due to corona virus infected workers, and many essential workers are striking due to not being provided with proper ppe. A nurse in San Diego county had her medical bag and her silver rings stolen from her car while she was at home. The desperation and fear caused by this pandemic are starting to make people crack. Brace yourselves, this isn't over yet.

 

[StarHalo]

some pork factories are closing due to corona virus infected workers

Thanks to that Smithfield plant in South Dakota, now we know what happens if you have a warehouse setting like Amazon but don't bother with Coronavirus safety procedures - 350 workers from that one building have tested positive so far. One business address now comprises 40% of the positive cases in the state. This is as big a red flag as can be provided to those churches that don't feel that lockdown is necessary.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

I wouldn't go that far regarding churches. There is nothing wrong with the ones having services online. There is also nothing wrong with drive in services that have people sealed inside their cars. There is a problem when a state starts fining or arresting people attending a drive in church service. Even the feds said that was blatantly unconstitutional. There are ways of letting people keep their rights to a degree and keeping people safe. Obviously, we can't have a bunch of people crammed inside a church during a pandemic. It's also true that you can't cram a bunch of churchgoers in prison cells to protect them from being crammed together in a church. It kind of defeats the purpose.

 

[Fish 14]

Doctors are starting to come forward and release information about how the CDC instructed them to report false number of Corona deaths. What I mean by this is" if you died in a car accident and tested positive for Corona, you no longer died in a accident, you died from complications related to Corona. So all along the government was lying to us. The real numbers of Corona deaths are far less then what we've been told. REMEMBER FOLKS THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, THEY ARE THE ENEMY.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...19-skeptics-say-theres-overcount-doctors-fie/

 

[Fish 14]

I find it a weird coincidence that new York got hit the most considering that PLUM ISLAND is a biologically testing, storage, and manufacturing government facility of deadly virus's right off the coast.
Let that sink in a bit

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/biology-fields/mystery-myth-reality-plum-island.htm

 

[bigburly912]

Doctors are starting to come forward and release information about how the CDC instructed them to report false number of Corona deaths. What I mean by this is" if you died in a car accident and tested positive for Corona, you no longer died in a accident, you died from complications related to Corona. So all along the government was lying to us. The real numbers of Corona deaths are far less then what we've been told. REMEMBER FOLKS THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, THEY ARE THE ENEMY.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...19-skeptics-say-theres-overcount-doctors-fie/

I couldn’t believe this was a fact, and I’ve mentioned it in the thread. I’m not sure that the car wreck analogy works great here, surely it doesn’t go to that extent. Also If you are working an ER and have 400 people come in and some of them die of unknown respiratory problems during a pandemic I guess it would just be easier to go ahead and say they died of the pandemic that is going on. It’s still odd that the CDC has recommended reporting a covid death based off a hunch and there is no excuse for it. I’ve seen a few cases of families suing because their loved ones died of something other than covid yet it is on their death certificate.