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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2020 14:31:02 GMT
They're smart and they have a sense of humour. Wit too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2020 14:32:42 GMT
Benziger, I'm trying to post a twitter link here and it keeps disappearing. Is there any reason why?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 16:55:09 GMT
I guess it's for the best it didn't post. It was a Trump video called Pandumbic Created by a very funny, smart American.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 13, 2020 17:44:00 GMT
I spotted a video link. Considering COVID-19 is a pandemic, I'd say it should concern everyone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 18:28:00 GMT
It should. The Prime Minister's wife has caught it. Sophie Trudeau.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 13, 2020 21:17:59 GMT
It should. The Prime Minister's wife has caught it. Sophie Trudeau. My eldest brother is a retired epidemiologist. I've piddled around a bit researching a few things for differing storylines.
Suffice it to say COVID-19 isn't like a slightly worse version of the flu.
As I earlier remarked to someone in a packed market: "It looks like a lot of these people seem to think they can outrun a plaque when the truth is you can't outrun that s***."
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Mar 14, 2020 15:01:51 GMT
The vast majority of people are disturbingly stupid.
Shops in the UK are empty of toilet paper. Why? because a video of two Australian woman fighting over a pack, wishing to stock up in case they had to self-isolate, went viral, so it started a pandemic of the mass buying of bog rolls, not food, bog rolls. It's called FOMO. Fear of missing out.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 15:50:00 GMT
It should. The Prime Minister's wife has caught it. Sophie Trudeau. My eldest brother is a retired epidemiologist. I've piddled around a bit researching a few things for differing storylines.
Suffice it to say COVID-19 isn't like a slightly worse version of the flu.
As I earlier remarked to someone in a packed market: "It looks like a lot of these people seem to think they can outrun a plaque when the truth is you can't outrun that s***."
That's interesting. How is it different?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 15:53:29 GMT
The vast majority of people are disturbingly stupid. Shops in the UK are empty of toilet paper. Why? because a video of two Australian woman fighting over a pack, wishing to stock up in case they had to self-isolate, went viral, so it started a pandemic of the mass buying of bog rolls, not food, bog rolls. It's called FOMO. Fear of missing out. My neighbour just sent me a picture of a man waiting in line to buy five years' worth of toilet paper, and a woman at the dog run, British with a French dog (she speaks to her in French) said she went to every store and they had no lou paper. That is a very funny word to me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 15:54:24 GMT
The vast majority of people are disturbingly stupid. Shops in the UK are empty of toilet paper. Why? because a video of two Australian woman fighting over a pack, wishing to stock up in case they had to self-isolate, went viral, so it started a pandemic of the mass buying of bog rolls, not food, bog rolls. It's called FOMO. Fear of missing out. Now, what are bog rolls? I fear missing out on the word. Perhaps I should know it.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 14, 2020 16:03:36 GMT
My eldest brother is a retired epidemiologist. I've piddled around a bit researching a few things for differing storylines.
Suffice it to say COVID-19 isn't like a slightly worse version of the flu.
As I earlier remarked to someone in a packed market: "It looks like a lot of these people seem to think they can outrun a plaque when the truth is you can't outrun that s***."
That's interesting. How is it different? First thing that comes to mind is the higher mortality rate reported.
Second thing, normal influenza tends to affect young children and the elderly worse than those with ages more toward the center range. The effects of COVID-19 aren't as bad for young children [as is the case with influenza], but get progressively worse from roughly middle age onward as the age of those affected rises. The COVID-19 mortality rate for elderly patients with health problems are a lot worse than they are for the flu.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2020 16:10:59 GMT
That's interesting. How is it different? First thing that comes to mind is the higher mortality rate reported.
Second thing, normal influenza tends to affect young children and the elderly worse than those with ages more toward the center range. The effects of COVID-19 aren't as bad for young children [as is the case with influenza], but get progressively worse from roughly middle age onward as the age of those affected rises. The COVID-19 mortality rate for elderly patients with health problems are a lot worse than they are for the flu.
That doesn't sound scary different. Like one disease to another. People are going crazy shopping here.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 14, 2020 19:01:59 GMT
First thing that comes to mind is the higher mortality rate reported.
Second thing, normal influenza tends to affect young children and the elderly worse than those with ages more toward the center range. The effects of COVID-19 aren't as bad for young children [as is the case with influenza], but get progressively worse from roughly middle age onward as the age of those affected rises. The COVID-19 mortality rate for elderly patients with health problems are a lot worse than they are for the flu.
That doesn't sound scary different. Like one disease to another. People are going crazy shopping here. Compare the mortality rate of COVID-19 more to that of the Flu Pandemic of 1918 where the death toll was estimated to be >2.5% of the global population.
With a current global population of roughly 7.8 Billion, if the current pandemic is similar to the one of 1918, then the death toll this time around could be >195,000,000 people.
Does that put things like people panic buying supplies into a different perspective?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2020 12:54:52 GMT
That doesn't sound scary different. Like one disease to another. People are going crazy shopping here. Compare the mortality rate of COVID-19 more to that of the Flu Pandemic of 1918 where the death toll was estimated to be >2.5% of the global population.
With a current global population of roughly 7.8 Billion, if the current pandemic is similar to the one of 1918, then the death toll this time around could be >195,000,000 people.
Does that put things like people panic buying supplies into a different perspective?
It does.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 15, 2020 17:06:57 GMT
Compare the mortality rate of COVID-19 more to that of the Flu Pandemic of 1918 where the death toll was estimated to be >2.5% of the global population.
With a current global population of roughly 7.8 Billion, if the current pandemic is similar to the one of 1918, then the death toll this time around could be >195,000,000 people.
Does that put things like people panic buying supplies into a different perspective?
It does. It's more than a bit irritating when people who live in the nearby city of roughly 1.53 million [the metro area is larger than the 1.53M of the city proper] trying to escape the virus stop in small towns like the ones the spouse and I live between.
First, it's statistically probable some of those would-be escapees are leaving COVID-19 behind as a 'parting gift'.
Second, stripping the shelves bare of items [like a swarm of locust descending upon a field of grain] just so they can stuff travel trailers and vehicles full in order to have enough for 'the duration' is both foolish and wasteful. The virus is after all far from running its course here.
Adding in the fact people in small towns need to eat as well, it would be nice to be able to not improvise when cooking.
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