| Author | Message | ||
     Ourdee |
Red tape to keep you ignorant. Been here for a while. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus- testing-delays.html | ||
| 86129squids |
The Big Ears music festival here in Knoxville is cancelled. A weekend of international performers, one of the best. I'd say Bonnaroo is next. Given that we BW'ers are from all over, post up if you or someone you know picks up this bug. I'd like a first-person perspective how one might ride out a bout with this crap. | ||
| 86129squids |
You've GOT to be kidding me. For a self-proclaimed man of God, he's gonna have a LOT to answer for. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814550474/missouri- sues-televangelist-jim-bakker-for-selling-fake-cor onavirus-cure | ||
| Ourdee |
Brad, If they are talking colloidal silver, there is an untested chance it may work. Zinc gluconate through the nasal may help too. Also not tested against Pooh's Breath yet. My worry about Jim is not about the flesh, but the effect he has had on people's spirituality. Best thing he could do is to start 1000 people with documentation on a daily dose of the magic silver juice. If they stay virus clean for 2 years, I will believe him. (Message edited by ourdee on March 12, 2020) | ||
| Pwnzor |
There's some dude selling "Miracle Water" every night on TV, pretty much promises you that if you get this little plastic bubble with his special water in it, you will literally start getting giant checks in the mail. | ||
| Hootowl |
Those zinc remedies do slow the virus replication process, so taking them when you have a viral infection is a good idea. | ||
| Gregtonn |
Gregtonn, I think you are wrong on this. I hope you are right, really, really hope you are right, but I think the sky pretty much is falling, in that this is much worse than this years flu. What is the death toll for the Coronavirus in the US? 39? 40? How many are/were infected? No one knows. How many people have died from the flu? Thousands. Which is worse? I am not engaged in willful ignorance, I am engaged logical thinking. G  | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
K-12 in Ohio are now on a 3 week "Spring Break" Traffic was light this morning... gonna be next to none tomorrow. I have my first Motorcycle safety class this weekend. I wonder how many people will show up. | ||
| Ourdee |
If I get it, I'll start a separate documentary thread of my last ride till it gets me. I will need some places to over-night? | ||
| Ratbuell |
My take is still, that if you get it, it isn't an automatic "death sentence". We just don't know enough about the affected-versus-mortality ratio yet. How many people catch it, don't show symptoms, NEVER show symptoms...and simply burn it out? How many people had "the flu", never got checked, and simply got over it just like the flu? I'm being alert...but we haven't gotten to SHTF status yet, I don't think. We just don't know enough about it yet. | ||
| Sifo |
I heard that our local COSTCO is limiting the purchase of TP and paper towels as of today. I got an email from the school district today, here's an excerpt...
There's speculation of closing early for an extended spring break. I had a kid on the bus today saying her grandmother was in the hospital with it, not expected to last long. Suddenly the kids are talking about it on the bus. I assume it was discussed in school today. I see sports events, at all levels are getting canceled. Lots of stuff happening that I've never seen before. Someone seems to be taking this seriously. My take is still, that if you get it, it isn't an automatic "death sentence". We just don't know enough about the affected-versus-mortality ratio yet. How many people catch it, don't show symptoms, NEVER show symptoms...and simply burn it out? How many people had "the flu", never got checked, and simply got over it just like the flu? I fully agree that it's not an automatic death sentence. Far from it. Another unknown is people who die of pneumonia for unknown reasons. Those cases do happen, and I understand that they are not being tested. There's lots of unknowns with this. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Well...they just closed Maryland. State offices, schools, motor vehicles...all of it. | ||
| Pwnzor |
RD you're always welcome in Sugar Hill | ||
| Ourdee |
Matthew, I may take you up on that. I am watching the country lose their minds and waiting for them to level out. | ||
| 86129squids |
Feel free to stop by, RD. Not planning to roll down, but... seems like the best riding times might be coming up soon, Standby. JBH | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.city-journal.org/banning-single-use-pl astic-bags-covid-19 Shopped at Aldis yesterday, & reused a plastic bag I purchased from them. Personally, at other stores, I usually buy the paper bag, pay the tax, and plan to recycle them into the atmosphere as smoke and CO2 to replenish the trees cut down. After I've used them up. ( I reuse bags until contaminated or torn, then recycle as available ) I don't use germ farm cloth eco-bags. I don't like food poisoning. Covid-19 is the least of your worries with them. | ||
| Aesquire |
Oh, heck... here they are. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/the -great-toilet-paper-pandemic-of-2020-and-twip-prev iew.php | ||
| Ebutch |
WUHAN Patient #0 Is    | ||
| Pwnzor |
Our local markets have the old-style paper grocery bags available at both the regular checkout lines as well as the self-checkout. I prefer the paper bags, because you can load them so they will stand up and stay in place in the back of the car. Then I fold them up at home and they get used for all sorts of things. That sturdy brown paper is very handy for about a million things. I usually grab a bunch of plastic bags every third or fourth trip to the store, because I REFUSE to pay for plastic bags to pick up dog poop. The bag size is helpful in this endeavor as I am always picking up OTHER people's dog poop that they carelessly leave behind. I justify the larger bag disposal with the fact that it contains about 4-5 deuces. | ||
| Ebutch |
Send Her to Cuba Guantanamo For Quarantine NOW !!!!!!!!  | ||
| Slaughter |
Southpark's take on the last contagion, SARS! | ||
| Slaughter |
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| Sifo |
About 10 minutes before leaving for work this morning, I got an email saying that spring break is starting this weekend. No school again until April 5th... Maybe. Mandated by the Governor. Driving into work, the radio was talking about shortages of TP, paper towels, and hand sanitizer. Got to work and was told that the local Costco had empty shelves for those products. Food going fast. Got gas this AM at Sams Club (was planning to do that already, below 1/4), busier than normal in the AM. Overheard a conversation where a lady at a nearby pump said she had just gotten the last of the TP inside. I have an aid on my AM bus because I do special needs kids on that run. She hadn't heard about the school closings. Immediately bitched about Trump doing this and her lost pay. I told her that it was our Governor (D) that gave the order, and suddenly it was the right thing to do. Go figure...  It's been an interesting morning. Lots of people are beginning to panic. Funny thing, but the video series I've been posting (OurDee posted the first ones) is discussing "Adjustment Reactions" in the latest one. I haven't watched the entire thing yet, but I'll post it anyway. If they aren't panicking yet where you're at, I would really suggest doing some basic preparations. Watching the beginnings of panic over the past 24 hours around here has been like watching a movie. It's good to not be a participant in that movie. Being informed before hand makes a huge difference. Stay safe out there folks! | ||
| Pwnzor |
Funny but true story: I'm 20th in line to get into Costco. They open in 52 minutes. | ||
| Tpehak |
It is jungle out there. | ||
| Sifo |
I'm 20th in line to get into Costco. Well tell us about the paper products and hand sanitizers... | ||
| Sifo |
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| Hughlysses |
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| Sifo |
Up to 150 million Americans could get coronavirus: US projection
Still think it's comparable to the flu? | ||
| Pwnzor |
Yes, I do. Just my opinion. Costco update: the cart corral is half empty and the line stretches around the building. |
