What's your Strategy?
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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
With so many things closing, expect a baby boom starting in 9 months
ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
With so many things closing, expect a baby boom starting in 9 months
Yes. In the EU we might have one this fall. And I mean one hitting the market.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/17/coronavi ... -12414537/
A Chinese or Indian are most welcome. Cheap if not free... and let the usual suspects choke on their martinis [;)]
Edit: apologies, you're talking about real babies
ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
This is quite encouraging, if it can be scaled up:
https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/statu ... 64/photo/1
ORIGINAL: balto
Curtis LeMay, why did you post that? We know you have math skills because of ToW. Chill out and maybe someone will close this post. Ridiculous, this will pass.., relax.
ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer
Granny, what did you do during the great virus of 2020?
I played Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay with my toys and stayed inside out of harm's way.
I'd have liked to play a wargame, but they just couldn't figure out how to launch Sealion. Same ole hassle eh.
ORIGINAL: Rising-Sun
That is cool, I though about getting the roleplaying book Fire and Ice to play out Game of Throne, w/e that is. Its a very popular book, but different from the TV Series. After watching part of last season eight, it was a huge downfall and didn't like it at all.
Kinda hard to find someone local to play with you, esp this virus going on. Best thing is find something you enjoy online, but people online seem to be pretty hateful and not friendly to be around with.
ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer
ORIGINAL: Rising-Sun
That is cool, I though about getting the roleplaying book Fire and Ice to play out Game of Throne, w/e that is. Its a very popular book, but different from the TV Series. After watching part of last season eight, it was a huge downfall and didn't like it at all.
Kinda hard to find someone local to play with you, esp this virus going on. Best thing is find something you enjoy online, but people online seem to be pretty hateful and not friendly to be around with.
The process is not really any different than playing a board wargame solo.
You sit there as the DM, you have made up PCs for the toys (in my case), you give them each a personality (Frank wants to be a dwarf, and the raccoon plans to be a thief), you have them make choices that seem reasonable, you roll a lot of dice, and you pretend to not know what the oppoent is thinking (just like with a wargame).
The only real danger, is you have too much fun, and anyone catching you, thinks you've lost your friggin mind
ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
Today's worldwide figures:
Total Cases: 213557
Total Recovered: 84317
Total Deaths: 8790
Death Rate: 8790 / (8790 + 84317) = 9.4%
That's up from 8.5% yesterday.
Note that the above figures are all we have to work with. If you don't like the results you can:
1. Manipulate the data. That means cherry-picking the data you like and ignoring the data you don't like. That's an obvious vector for bias.
2. Speculate about unknowns. That seems to be the balm most of you are turning to (especially for the recoveries - not the deaths). But this will only result in a guess and everyone's guess will vary wildly. (And deaths are unknown as well - victims that died at home alone may not be found for months, and N. Korea's and Iran's numbers are suspect).
3. Cram the unresolved cases into the "recovered" column. Obviously wrong.
4. Wait months for a fully accurate accounting. We can't do that. We need the best estimate NOW.
The figure above is the only one we have that is available NOW, and has no data MANIPULATION or SPECULATION.
ORIGINAL: Red2112
It seem´s some folks here, and goverments don´t have the real facts clear yet, or simply ignor them...
1)- Unless we have enough test kit´s, and then test given, we wont know how many are infected, thus all those numbers are not worth much!
Why goverments are not doing something about the test kits is quite bizzar!
2)- The lockdown is to avoid spread to those very vunarable, and because of shortage of supply´s and resources (medical, protection gear, personell, beds etc.).
3)- The most vunarable are the elder with heart issues, debetis, and resperotory issues. This was the case of my mother at age 86, debetis, heart issues (x2 stens) and water in lungs. She maybe would have lived for a bit more, but due to her catching the infection she died two days ago. Any one over 60 with the above mentioned health issues are at risk and should take special care! Age could go down as much as 45 if similar health issues are present, we are still not sure the effect it has on certain age, but we do know which healt issues help the virus to be deadly!
4)- We don´t know how long this will last, and/or if there will be a second or more waves! How can we know, if we don´t know how many are really infected? Staying home is just a prevention, and alot of goverments have taken there time to take on effective mesures!
5)- With regards to warmer climate, southren country´s will dictate if it´s true or not.
A world state of siege undecover? Unfortunately we wont know the real reasons for now, what we do know it´s world-wide so we are all in it sooner or later. Personally I don´t trust ANY goverment, they are just buisiness men and only care for one thing! A similar thing with the media!
Stay home, stay safe and be open minded for what´s up and coming.
Red
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ORIGINAL: Red2112
It seem´s some folks here, and goverments don´t have the real facts clear yet, or simply ignor them...
1)- Unless we have enough test kit´s, and then test given, we wont know how many are infected, thus all those numbers are not worth much!
Why goverments are not doing something about the test kits is quite bizzar!
2)- The lockdown is to avoid spread to those very vunarable, and because of shortage of supply´s and resources (medical, protection gear, personell, beds etc.).
3)- The most vunarable are the elder with heart issues, debetis, and resperotory issues. This was the case of my mother at age 86, debetis, heart issues (x2 stens) and water in lungs. She maybe would have lived for a bit more, but due to her catching the infection she died two days ago. Any one over 60 with the above mentioned health issues are at risk and should take special care! Age could go down as much as 45 if similar health issues are present, we are still not sure the effect it has on certain age, but we do know which healt issues help the virus to be deadly!
4)- We don´t know how long this will last, and/or if there will be a second or more waves! How can we know, if we don´t know how many are really infected? Staying home is just a prevention, and alot of goverments have taken there time to take on effective mesures!
5)- With regards to warmer climate, southren country´s will dictate if it´s true or not.
A world state of siege undecover? Unfortunately we wont know the real reasons for now, what we do know it´s world-wide so we are all in it sooner or later. Personally I don´t trust ANY goverment, they are just buisiness men and only care for one thing! A similar thing with the media!
Stay home, stay safe and be open minded for what´s up and coming.
Red
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The Dash
the poem by Linda Ellis
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning… to the end.
He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own, the cars… the house… the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard; are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left that still can be rearranged.
To be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile… remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?
ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
Today's worldwide figures:
Total Cases: 213557
Total Recovered: 84317
Total Deaths: 8790
Death Rate: 8790 / (8790 + 84317) = 9.4%
That's up from 8.5% yesterday.
Note that the above figures are all we have to work with. If you don't like the results you can:
1. Manipulate the data. That means cherry-picking the data you like and ignoring the data you don't like. That's an obvious vector for bias.
2. Speculate about unknowns. That seems to be the balm most of you are turning to (especially for the recoveries - not the deaths). But this will only result in a guess and everyone's guess will vary wildly. (And deaths are unknown as well - victims that died at home alone may not be found for months, and N. Korea's and Iran's numbers are suspect).
3. Cram the unresolved cases into the "recovered" column. Obviously wrong.
4. Wait months for a fully accurate accounting. We can't do that. We need the best estimate NOW.
The figure above is the only one we have that is available NOW, and has no data MANIPULATION or SPECULATION.
You are the fear monger. You are cherry picking the information to use and you have been told that it is wrong. Are you one of those hyping the bad while you are selling stuff at artificially high prices? Or are you just helping others get obscene profits?
ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
Can we "flatten the curve" enough? These may be of interest:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... virus.html
https://projects.propublica.org/graphic ... -hospitals