What Are You Thinking? Continued 7

[Spins]

There are some really silly people.

 

[fungatorgurl101]

Well fuck me there goes the neighborhood

 

[TongueLust]

*pounce*

I'm going to be a grandma.

 

[ydahecnot]

As of today, there were about 3,000 virus deaths in the U.S. Trump’s health experts are forecasting a 100,000-200,000 death total in the not-too-distant future. That is scary as hell. It makes you read stories differently. Like I read Joe Diffie obits and Goggled, seeing if he had underlying conditions. After all, he is not much older than I. Only thing I noticed was that he was fairly overweight.

 

[LurkingPhoenix]

If I said half the things others did around here, I'd be shunned faster than an Amish girl showing too much ankle.

Wow.

 

[lanceGibs]

I'm going to be a grandma.

Congratulations.
May all of you be safe.

 

[ydahecnot]

That Amish trollop was asking for it

 

[tnman03]

As of today, there were about 3,000 virus deaths in the U.S. Trump’s health experts are forecasting a 100,000-200,000 death total in the not-too-distant future. That is scary as hell. It makes you read stories differently. Like I read Joe Diffie obits and Goggled, seeing if he had underlying conditions. After all, he is not much older than I. Only thing I noticed was that he was fairly overweight.

He probably had some underlying health issues as well, he sure led a life where he burned the candle from both ends all along.

And yes, the virus thing and its effect on lives, livelihood and the emotional stressors are horrific. 100k to 200k projections of deaths here is too graphic to comprehend. That's a good way to put it all into perspective Y.

 

[ydahecnot]

In my research on Diffie, I read a court decision in his divorce from his third wife. He was giving his future fourth wife money from his company while still married to the third. And while with his second wife, he was cheating with Davey Allison’s widow

 

[Suz_anne]

People on the Playground don't like reality. There are 350 million Americans, give or take a few. By this time next year, 150 million will have had the virus. At a 1% mortality, that is 1.5 million. At a 0.5% mortality, that is 750,000 dead. Pick whatever rate you want, it doesn't matter. Flattening the curve does nothing to these numbers except slow down the inevitable. Won't having more masks, more gloves, more gowns, more respirators drastically reduce this number? No. If you need me to explain why, I will. Those things only help keep the base number from escalating to 3 to 4 million. This is the reality. The sooner people choose to understand 100,000 deaths is a fucking pipe dream, maybe they might actually ask "Is there something I can do to help?" The answer is yes. But hey...this is the playground. Easier to bitch about people cause they said something in a way that others disapproved of. I have been on that receiving end before. Will be again.

This reality was avoidable. 100%. We could have contained this at 1000 deaths total. Today alone...we had 750 deaths. Tomorrow, this will be 1000. The next day, it will be 1500. It is doubling every 2 to 3 days. You don't want to talk reality. You don't want to talk politics. That is why this is happening. Too many people sticking their head up their ass....la la la la la la la la let's talk shit about someone, for telling the truth.

One out of 3 of us will get this within a year. Lipid coated viruses don't disappear. And they are really fucking hard to make a vaccine for. That is why we don't have a vaccine that works for AIDS...caused by HIV, another lipid coated virus.

I get it...people are scared. I am scared. I have a PhD in a branch of genetics. I have taken immunology courses. We have every reason to be scared. We have to pull together now as a nation. No ifs ands buts or ors. And we can start here. Or not. Isn't gonna change one thing I have said, other than how we choose to behave.

As of today, there were about 3,000 virus deaths in the U.S. Trump’s health experts are forecasting a 100,000-200,000 death total in the not-too-distant future. That is scary as hell. It makes you read stories differently. Like I read Joe Diffie obits and Goggled, seeing if he had underlying conditions. After all, he is not much older than I. Only thing I noticed was that he was fairly overweight.

*bumping Dribble's post because this thread is moving fast*

My concern is that Dribble's math makes more sense and I think we're looking at a larger, longer lasting and further reaching crisis than anticipated.

 

[tnman03]

Hiya Tinman. I'm all prepped up and we're healthy, sane and safe. I bought a bunch of dehydrated veggies and it reminded me of your suggestion to get a dehydrator if I get the chance to expand my garden. Seems like a good idea!

How are you?

Maintaining at the moment Suz and working on getting well. And actually, you can dry veggies outside in the sun or even in your oven on the lowest heat setting. I've eaten canned and dehydrated veggies. Done right you can cook really well with dehydrated veggies and not take up as much storage space. If I'm able to get in a garden that's what I plan to do.

 

[JerseyJade]

Maintaining at the moment Suz and working on getting well. And actually, you can dry veggies outside in the sun or even in your oven on the lowest heat setting. I've eaten canned and dehydrated veggies. Done right you can cook really well with dehydrated veggies and not take up as much storage space. If I'm able to get in a garden that's what I plan to do.

You're sick?

 

[Lord Pmann]

In my research on Diffie, I read a court decision in his divorce from his third wife. He was giving his future fourth wife money from his company while still married to the third. And while with his second wife, he was cheating with Davey Allison’s widow

Sounds like a country song.

 

[blade_rocknut]

*bumping Dribble's post because this thread is moving fast*

My concern is that Dribble's math makes more sense and I think we're looking at a larger, longer lasting and further reaching crisis than anticipated.

I would point out that the entire, and valid purpose of flattening the curve is notto reduce the number of eventual infections, but reduce the numbers of concurrent infections to a level more adequately treated by available icu facilities. In that respect, it can and will drastically affect the mortality rate.
20 versus 200 COVID patients at once at a given hospital? Tell me that doesn't matter in the death stats. Adjust numbers as you will for relevance to your locality. It matters to slow it down.

Further, it buys more time for treatments to evolve; not just vaccines, which we mostly understand are a long way off.

 

[ydahecnot]

Sounds like a country song.

Yeah, you gotta write what you know

 

[Lord Pmann]

*bumping Dribble's post because this thread is moving fast*

My concern is that Dribble's math makes more sense and I think we're looking at a larger, longer lasting and further reaching crisis than anticipated.

His math is pretty accurate. The virus onset and dissipation operates on a bell curve. I know very little about biology. But I know a lot about math.

The scary part is that we don’t know where we are on the bell curve. But I assure you, it’s not towards the middle. Tomorrow the number of deaths will, indeed be over 1,000.

 

[tnman03]

You're sick?

I'm getting better, it'll be alright.

 

[ydahecnot]

You're sick?

New Jersey: we’re No. 2!

 

[JerseyJade]

New Jersey: we’re No. 2!

We wouldn't be if the people from NYC would stop coming into our state.

 

[DarkSimian]

I think I can now official say I'm getting too old for this shit

 

[JediSurfer]

I’m craving a watermelon soda. Do I risk it just for a quick taste of sweetness?

 

[ydahecnot]

I am about halfway between NYC and Philly. My future is a coin flip. Luckily I haven’t been in NYC in months

 

[Lord Pmann]

We wouldn't be if the people from NYC would stop coming into our state.

That’s what I say every winter when their awful accents and rude behaviour wheels its way down to sunny Florida.

 

[ydahecnot]

I lived there a couple of years. In the winter, there were about as many Ontario plates as Florida plates

 

[JerseyJade]

That’s what I say every winter when their awful accents and rude behaviour wheels its way down to sunny Florida.

There's a house right down the street from me and there's a whole group of them that go there every weekend to party. They're outside drinking and yelling like nothing is wrong. We're like, WTF? Some people are so clueless it's scary.