Please Stay Home

ColbyLang

@Botch, Mardi Gras has to be the accelerant here in Louisiana. Couple of million folks crammed into the belly of the beast that is NOLa for the better part of a couple of weeks. Cleanliness ain’t next to godliness there( or anywhere in Louisiana) during carnival. 

GATraveller

Georgia goes on lockdown beginning Friday thru April 13th.

YukonRon

The USA lost around 1046 people today with 2 minutes before close at GMT.

No other country lost more today than we. This is just the beggining of the very critical next 45-60 days.

Good thing Trump disbanded the pandemic office. Things seem to be going smooth without it.

Reactive and not proactive. You have no chance to win or even control with that strategy.

Hindsight will certainly be 2020.

What an awful stain in American history.

ColbyLang

Just read an article where it claims Italy’s death counts are way under reality. Deceased not swabbed are not included in the counts. Makes you wonder how much data everywhere (good or bad) is being manipulated in this pandemic 

milesvdustin

Chinas death toll us way way under reported. If you think we are the top of the list in death counts then you aren't paying attention. The media is not being honest, especially with regard to china and the chinese virus 

DoubleEgger

ColbyLang said:

Florida finally “quarantined” officially via governor, and a mayor in Georgia said he ain’t enforcing any sort of social distancing orders. People also need to remember one shopping cart, one shopper. Just cus everyone is home don’t mean everyone needs to get out of the house to go buy groceries 

Perhaps you are talking about the mayor near me. Yeah it unnerves people when a town that has 18 police officers says that it is going to hire 150 citizens as special officers to enforce a six foot ordinance. People don’t want Barney Fife running around with a tape measure. He backtracked immediately and continued to
reverse his decision as the night wore on. 

JohnInCarolina

milesvdustin said:

Chinas death toll us way way under reported. If you think we are the top of the list in death counts then you aren't paying attention. The media is not being honest, especially with regard to china and the chinese virus 

I’m sure that China’s numbers are under-reported, no argument there.   

But South Korea’s aren’t.  They had their first positive test around the same day we did.  Seoul’s population is roughly the same size as New York City’s. Can you provide a justification as to why their numbers are so much better than ours?

Botch

ColbyLang said:

Just read an article where it claims Italy’s death counts are way under reality. Deceased not swabbed are not included in the counts. Makes you wonder how much data everywhere (good or bad) is being manipulated in this pandemic 

Same thing apparently happened in China, and mass graves in Iran have been photographed... from space.    

Spaightlabs

GATraveller said:

Georgia goes on lockdown beginning Friday thru April 13th.

10 days?  Ain't gonna be enough.

Gulfcoastguy

Botch said:

ColbyLang said:

Just read an article where it claims Italy’s death counts are way under reality. Deceased not swabbed are not included in the counts. Makes you wonder how much data everywhere (good or bad) is being manipulated in this pandemic 

Same thing apparently happened in China, and mass graves in Iran have been photographed... from space.    

I also saw an article quoting residents of Wu Han China “The crematoriums are running night and day” 
The source was not FOX.

DMW

I think this is really getting to some people.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/train-operator-port-los-angeles-charged-derailing-locomotive-near-us-navy-s-hospital
"In a second interview with FBI agents, Moreno stated that “he did it out of the desire to ‘wake people up,’” according to the affidavit. “Moreno stated that he thought that the U.S.N.S. Mercy was suspicious and did not believe ‘the ship is what they say it’s for.’”

milesvdustin

JohnInCarolina said:

milesvdustin said:

Chinas death toll us way way under reported. If you think we are the top of the list in death counts then you aren't paying attention. The media is not being honest, especially with regard to china and the chinese virus 

I’m sure that China’s numbers are under-reported, no argument there.   

But South Korea’s aren’t.  They had their first positive test around the same day we did.  Seoul’s population is roughly the same size as New York City’s. Can you provide a justification as to why their numbers are so much better than ours?

Who's to say even our numbers are accurate? 

Did they actually shut themselves away and not run around like any other day? Nobody knows for sure. 

GATraveller

Spaightlabs said:

GATraveller said:

Georgia goes on lockdown beginning Friday thru April 13th.

10 days?  Ain't gonna be enough.

Yea you're probably right but Kemp will likely leave that up to the city/counties.

CTMike

Some sobering statistics here:

thetrim

JohnInCarolina said:

milesvdustin said:

Chinas death toll us way way under reported. If you think we are the top of the list in death counts then you aren't paying attention. The media is not being honest, especially with regard to china and the chinese virus 

I’m sure that China’s numbers are under-reported, no argument there.   

But South Korea’s aren’t.  They had their first positive test around the same day we did.  Seoul’s population is roughly the same size as New York City’s. Can you provide a justification as to why their numbers are so much better than ours?

Yup.  DiBlasio and Cuomo aren't running Seoul and South Korea   

YukonRon

 Neither is Trump running South Korea.

JohnInCarolina

YukonRon said:

 Neither is Trump running South Korea.

I’m sure the South Koreans are very thankful for that.

JohnInCarolina

milesvdustin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

milesvdustin said:

Chinas death toll us way way under reported. If you think we are the top of the list in death counts then you aren't paying attention. The media is not being honest, especially with regard to china and the chinese virus 

I’m sure that China’s numbers are under-reported, no argument there.   

But South Korea’s aren’t.  They had their first positive test around the same day we did.  Seoul’s population is roughly the same size as New York City’s. Can you provide a justification as to why their numbers are so much better than ours?

Who's to say even our numbers are accurate? 

Did they actually shut themselves away and not run around like any other day? Nobody knows for sure. 

I think we can make a pretty good guess given the very clear differences in approaches the two countries adopted.  

Legume

or it could go away quickly, you know, like a miracle

Dobie

More hindsight

Botch

Caught up with my PBS News Hour from last night.  Good interview with folks in Taiwan, and how they stopped the virus in its tracks (they got burned badly by SARS).  They sent two doctors to Wu Han immediately, and had a fantastic national database/response plan already in place, that worked beautifully.  They were frustrated that they had all kinds of "Lessons Learned" to share with the world, but they are not a member of the WHO.
China forbids it.  
 
Plus, they've just sent out 10 million masks to the parts of the world that need them, including 2 million masks to the United States.  
 
The next story was about the rising sinophobia in the US, and how many asians (not just the chinese) are so fearful right now.  

CTMike

Dobie said:

More hindsight

They must have been serving a lot of bats and pangolins on the Diamond Princess. 

Legume

TP, pasta, chicken wings, bat wings, pangolin legs.  All sold out for weeks here.

caliking

New cases, total cases, active cases, and deaths seem to be the most reported stats, but # of hospitalized cases doesn't seem to be. That number would likely help put things in a more real perspective, for better or for worse.

Canugghead

Botch said:

...
The next story was about the rising sinophobia in the US, and how many asians (not just the chinese) are so fearful right now.  

Just wondering if a sinophobian ends up in ER with Covid-19, will he refuse to get treated by an asian doctor for fear of getting worse 

edit: THANKS to the flagger(s) for validating my prediction

caliking

Canugghead said:

Botch said:

...
The next story was about the rising sinophobia in the US, and how many asians (not just the chinese) are so fearful right now.  

Just wondering if a sinophobian ends up in ER with Covid-19, will he refuse to get treated by an asian doctor for fear of getting worse 

edit: THANKS to the flagger(s) for validating my prediction

I've had someone decline to be seen by me after they found out what I looked like. No, I don't mean ugly. 

Canugghead

caliking said:

Canugghead said:

Botch said:

...
The next story was about the rising sinophobia in the US, and how many asians (not just the chinese) are so fearful right now.  

Just wondering if a sinophobian ends up in ER with Covid-19, will he refuse to get treated by an asian doctor for fear of getting worse 

edit: THANKS to the flagger(s) for validating my prediction

I've had someone decline to be seen by me after they found out what I looked like. No, I don't mean ugly. 

I'm not so sure about that my friend 

Edit: btw, I hope you meant the patient's parent. It would be really sad otherwise.

YukonRon

@caliking ...... was that after they saw the video of Adam sharing the boubon slushie with you at BB?

If I saw it, without meeting you first, I would have said "That is exactly the guy I need to help me recover."

CTMike

caliking said:

Canugghead said:

Botch said:

...
The next story was about the rising sinophobia in the US, and how many asians (not just the chinese) are so fearful right now.  

Just wondering if a sinophobian ends up in ER with Covid-19, will he refuse to get treated by an asian doctor for fear of getting worse 

edit: THANKS to the flagger(s) for validating my prediction

I've had someone decline to be seen by me after they found out what I looked like. No, I don't mean ugly. 

Sad that idiots like that still exist in this day and age Ash. I witnessed something similar at the local Navy Commissary awhile back. So typically (well at least at Navy Commissaries) kids and young adults work as baggers for tips. They will bag your groceries and bring them out and load them in your car. These are typically kids of active duty folks. 

I was in-line to check out with an older white lady in front of me. She flat out refused to allow an African-American kid to bag her groceries. So the next kid in line took his spot and I gave the kid who was refused twice my normal tip and apologized for the disgusting behavior he had to endure. Sadly he said it wasn't the first time happening to him. 

People suck in general. 

thetrim

caliking said:I

Canugghead said:

Botch said:

...
The next story was about the rising sinophobia in the US, and how many asians (not just the chinese) are so fearful right now.  

Just wondering if a sinophobian ends up in ER with Covid-19, will he refuse to get treated by an asian doctor for fear of getting worse 

edit: THANKS to the flagger(s) for validating my prediction

I've had someone decline to be seen by me after they found out what I looked like. No, I don't mean ugly. 

But we’re you wearing a BB t shirt under your white coat???