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ORIGINAL: Sammy5IsAlive
I would not be surprised if a combination of travel restrictions, proactive testing and contact tracing and the simple dispersion of rural populations leads to some US states having very different, much more positive, outcomes and experiences than what has been seen elsewhere in the world.

I agree. Our country is quite heterogenous in its population distribution. Big cities on the East coast, West coast and a few in the Midwest and South. With lots of smaller communities in between. New York City's epidemiologic curve will likely wind up looking very different than Ames, Iowa or Houston, Texas.

"God as my witness, I'll never lack Toilet Paper again!"

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: warspite1
I put it to you

Oh no you don't. Get the **** away from me with that thing.

Or at least use some hand sanitizer.

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Wow. Look at this number.

Wow! France-in one day-airlifted all of their sick to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Brilliant!

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine phosphate to treat coronavirus

https://nypost.com/2020/03/23/man-dies- ... ronavirus/

"Within 30 minutes of taking chloroquine phosphate, the man in his 60s experienced “immediate effects” and had to be admitted to a nearby Banner Health hospital, the medical system in Arizona said in a press release Monday.

His wife, also in her 60s, is in critical condition after taking the additive, which is used in aquariums to kill some organisms, like algae, that may harm fish."

As they always say in Toxicology classes, "The dose makes the poison."

I heard 61% alcohol kills the virus, but who can drink that much?

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

In the United States.

In a dramatic sign of the coronavirus' anticipated toll, the Army Corps of Engineers is planning to convert vacant hotels, college dormitories and other facilities into intensive care wards with tens of thousands of makeshift hospital beds, first in New York but probably expanding to California and other states.

That announcement Friday at a Pentagon news conference by Lt. Gen Todd T. Semonite, commander of Army Corps of Engineers, marks an escalation of the U.S. military role. Already it is providing 2,000 ventilators and 5 million protective masks and preparing to dispatch hospital ships on both coasts. Governors are calling up thousands of National Guard troops.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... break.html

Saw that. On the veterinary front, there are moves afoot to use veterinary teaching hospitals (usually associated with large Universities) as a secondary location for triaging clinical ambulatory human cases. Veterinary cases will be looked at elsewhere in these circumstances.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Wow. Look at this number.

Wow! France-in one day-airlifted all of their sick to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Brilliant!

They got Scotty to transport them.

French Polynesia? Probably an artifact of a John III invasion in January 1942.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

In the United States.

In a dramatic sign of the coronavirus' anticipated toll, the Army Corps of Engineers is planning to convert vacant hotels, college dormitories and other facilities into intensive care wards with tens of thousands of makeshift hospital beds, first in New York but probably expanding to California and other states.

That announcement Friday at a Pentagon news conference by Lt. Gen Todd T. Semonite, commander of Army Corps of Engineers, marks an escalation of the U.S. military role. Already it is providing 2,000 ventilators and 5 million protective masks and preparing to dispatch hospital ships on both coasts. Governors are calling up thousands of National Guard troops.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... break.html

Saw that. On the veterinary front, there are moves afoot to use veterinary teaching hospitals (usually associated with large Universities) as a secondary location for triaging clinical ambulatory human cases. Veterinary cases will be looked at elsewhere in these circumstances.

Let's hope they don't neuter/spay anyone.

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

In the United States.



https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... break.html

Saw that. On the veterinary front, there are moves afoot to use veterinary teaching hospitals (usually associated with large Universities) as a secondary location for triaging clinical ambulatory human cases. Veterinary cases will be looked at elsewhere in these circumstances.

Let's hope they don't neuter/spay anyone.

No nurse! No! I said 'slip off his spectacles'!

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy




Saw that. On the veterinary front, there are moves afoot to use veterinary teaching hospitals (usually associated with large Universities) as a secondary location for triaging clinical ambulatory human cases. Veterinary cases will be looked at elsewhere in these circumstances.

Let's hope they don't neuter/spay anyone.

No nurse! No! I said 'slip off his spectacles'!

On the plus side, it's one less (ok, two less) places to get cancer.

Hello Gents,

Here’s an update from Korea. Things are definitely moving in the right direction. We still have had no mandated business closures or stay-at-home orders, and I don’t see that changing. The government is talking about going after churches, but so far they haven’t touched them—churches are well protected by the Korean constitution and some of them are politically quite powerful. Most churches are doing virtual services (including mine), but there are a few holdouts. Bars were well-attended last Friday evening and restaurants are still plugging along. I haven’t noticed or heard of any restaurants shutting down due to poor business. All shelves at all retail outlets I’ve been to have been well-stocked throughout this thing. Also, I took the family out for a walk on Sunday and there were more people out at the nearby stream than you’d see during a peak weekend in the summer. Another guy found a local amusement park packed. Of course, everyone was wearing a mask.

At the pub on Friday a few of us speculated as to what was happening in Japan. One guy who lived there more recently than me mentioned masks and lack of handshakes, and I think those may be the biggest factors. Apparently, nothing has slowed down in Japan—trains are still packed, few businesses let people work from home and bars/restaurants are busy. Maybe everyone wearing a mask is the most important way to stop this thing. That and nobody shakes hands there—it’s all bowing (men normally shake hands in Korea as they bow). So, because the livable land space in Japan is quite small for the population (same here in Korea), they have developed social distancing practices over the centuries which see them well in this kind of situation. That’s my take, anyway. They are probably understating numbers by not testing everyone, but that can't be too big a factor.

I have not kept up with this thread more than the previous three or four pages, but I’ll keep an eye on it today if anyone has a question.

Stay safe out there.

Cheers,
CB

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

In the United States.



https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... break.html

Saw that. On the veterinary front, there are moves afoot to use veterinary teaching hospitals (usually associated with large Universities) as a secondary location for triaging clinical ambulatory human cases. Veterinary cases will be looked at elsewhere in these circumstances.

Let's hope they don't neuter/spay anyone.

At a nearby hospital a few years back, they did an unwanted vasectomy n a man one week before he got married. I don't know what happened with a lawsuit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

French Polynesia? Probably an artifact of a John III invasion in January 1942.

Hopefully they went to Muroroa where France tested its H-bombs. The radiation there should keep the virus in check ...

Why didn't we stop the world when ... 2012 novel coronavirus (2012-nCoV)?

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

Hello Gents,

Here’s an update from Korea. Things are definitely moving in the right direction. We still have had no mandated business closures or stay-at-home orders, and I don’t see that changing. The government is talking about going after churches, but so far they haven’t touched them—churches are well protected by the Korean constitution and some of them are politically quite powerful. Most churches are doing virtual services (including mine), but there are a few holdouts. Bars were well-attended last Friday evening and restaurants are still plugging along. I haven’t noticed or heard of any restaurants shutting down due to poor business. All shelves at all retail outlets I’ve been to have been well-stocked throughout this thing. Also, I took the family out for a walk on Sunday and there were more people out at the nearby stream than you’d see during a peak weekend in the summer. Another guy found a local amusement park packed. Of course, everyone was wearing a mask.

At the pub on Friday a few of us speculated as to what was happening in Japan. One guy who lived there more recently than me mentioned masks and lack of handshakes, and I think those may be the biggest factors. Apparently, nothing has slowed down in Japan—trains are still packed, few businesses let people work from home and bars/restaurants are busy. Maybe everyone wearing a mask is the most important way to stop this thing. That and nobody shakes hands there—it’s all bowing (men normally shake hands in Korea as they bow). So, because the livable land space in Japan is quite small for the population (same here in Korea), they have developed social distancing practices over the centuries which see them well in this kind of situation. That’s my take, anyway. They are probably understating numbers by not testing everyone, but that can't be too big a factor.

I have not kept up with this thread more than the previous three or four pages, but I’ll keep an eye on it today if anyone has a question.

Stay safe out there.

Cheers,
CB

Two questions:
1. How do you drink your beer through the mask?
2. Why haven't the churches moved their services to the bars?

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

Hello Gents,

Here’s an update from Korea. Things are definitely moving in the right direction. We still have had no mandated business closures or stay-at-home orders, and I don’t see that changing. The government is talking about going after churches, but so far they haven’t touched them—churches are well protected by the Korean constitution and some of them are politically quite powerful. Most churches are doing virtual services (including mine), but there are a few holdouts. Bars were well-attended last Friday evening and restaurants are still plugging along. I haven’t noticed or heard of any restaurants shutting down due to poor business. All shelves at all retail outlets I’ve been to have been well-stocked throughout this thing. Also, I took the family out for a walk on Sunday and there were more people out at the nearby stream than you’d see during a peak weekend in the summer. Another guy found a local amusement park packed. Of course, everyone was wearing a mask.

At the pub on Friday a few of us speculated as to what was happening in Japan. One guy who lived there more recently than me mentioned masks and lack of handshakes, and I think those may be the biggest factors. Apparently, nothing has slowed down in Japan—trains are still packed, few businesses let people work from home and bars/restaurants are busy. Maybe everyone wearing a mask is the most important way to stop this thing. That and nobody shakes hands there—it’s all bowing (men normally shake hands in Korea as they bow). So, because the livable land space in Japan is quite small for the population (same here in Korea), they have developed social distancing practices over the centuries which see them well in this kind of situation. That’s my take, anyway. They are probably understating numbers by not testing everyone, but that can't be too big a factor.

I have not kept up with this thread more than the previous three or four pages, but I’ll keep an eye on it today if anyone has a question.

Stay safe out there.

Cheers,
CB

Two questions:
1. How do you drink your beer through the mask?
2. Why haven't the churches moved their services to the bars?

1. A straw.
2. Pubs are too busy showing rugby at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

Cheers,
CB

Meanwhile in Oz:

"As at 6am on 24 March 2020, there have been 1,823 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 344 new cases since 6am yesterday. "

total deaths: 7

Total recoveries - said to be 116 on the John Hopkins site, but has probably increased.

They fixed the French Polynesia thing, but now Louisiana has a colony in the Gulf of Guinea