COVID-19 updates

[Alan Klein]

Alan, do you ever read the other posts? Like the one two entries above yours.

I didn't see his post until after I posted mine.  If I'm catching up on posts, and there are lot in this thread, I might post before I've read through all of them.  This family's tragedy was on my mind being so close to where I live.  So I posted it before reading everyone's posts.  So there could be duplicate.  Should I go stand in the corner?

[Alan Klein]

Societies are judged on how they deal with a crisis. Italians were shown housed up singing from their balconies. Time will tell how Americans will be judged.

We don't need any backhanded slaps.  America doesn't owe anyone any apologies.  I see a country that is shutting down and preparing for war.  Don't sell America short.  People in the past have done that to their peril.  Sure there are going to be laggards; we're a big country.  But people are getting the picture. 

[chez]

We don't need any backhanded slaps.  America doesn't owe anyone any apologies.  I see a country that is shutting down and preparing for war.  Don't sell America short.  People in the past have done that to their peril.  Sure there are going to be laggards; we're a big country.  But people are getting the picture.

Well I'm hearing we'll only take this for two weeks then all hell will break open. So which is it...people getting the picture or are we taking the guns to the streets?

[Alan Klein]

Well I'm hearing we'll only take this for two weeks then all hell will break open. So which is it...people getting the picture or are we taking the guns to the streets?

You're just taking a cheap shot at America.  A lot of people here like to do that.  It makes them feel superior and hide their own inadequacies. 

[JoeKitchen]

Well I'm hearing we'll only take this for two weeks then all hell will break open. So which is it...people getting the picture or are we taking the guns to the streets?

There are lines out the door and down the block at all guns shops in Philly right now, so ...

And I'm being serious here.  Gun shops are selling out of guns. 

But anyway, Italy did not start to take this seriously until large numbers of people were getting it.  They are only acting that way now because they are being forced to be reactive to it, instead of being proactive. 

2nd, the USA is not Italy.  Italy has a far greater amount of interaction between age groups, plus it is more common to hug and kiss hello and goodbye.  These two alone will cause a much greater effect. 

[William Walker]

There are lines out the door and down the block at all guns shops in Philly right now, so ...

And I'm being serious here.  Gun shops are selling out of guns. 

Joe, you are going to have to explain this one to me: Pandemic = "Buy Guns"...WTF???

[chez]

There are lines out the door and down the block at all guns shops in Philly right now, so ...

And I'm being serious here.  Gun shops are selling out of guns. 

But anyway, Italy did not start to take this seriously until large numbers of people were getting it.  They are only acting that way now because they are being forced to be reactive to it, instead of being proactive. 

2nd, the USA is not Italy.  Italy has a far greater amount of interaction between age groups, plus it is more common to hug and kiss hello and goodbye.  These two alone will cause a much greater effect.

Time will tell. We are in the infancy stage right now in North America.

[chez]

Joe, you are going to have to explain this one to me: Pandemic = "Buy Guns"...WTF???

Solution to all issues!

[JoeKitchen]

Joe, you are going to have to explain this one to me: Pandemic = "Buy Guns"...WTF???

I'm not buying any guns right now, so it's a mystery to me. 

[William Walker]

You're just taking a cheap shot at America.  A lot of people here like to do that.  It makes them feel superior and hide their own inadequacies.

Alan, no-one did it better than H.L. Mencken (an American). It seems that the man was a prophet too....

"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
 

[William Walker]

Another one...

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken

[JoeKitchen]

Another one...

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken

The lier sounds like Obama.  "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." 

And the current most detested person is Trump.  Perhaps he is telling the truth? 

[chez]

The lier sounds like Obama.  "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." 

And the current most detested person is Trump.  Perhaps he is telling the truth?

Ah...it's great to have a laugh at times like this.

[athegn]

Just came back from my last, so far, pre-cooked restaurant meal; local pub/restaurant chain.

I was probably safer there than at home. Only three tables occupied so further apart than I am to my neighbour; admittedly separated by a party wall.

But feel sorry for staff. They are not going to be employed for much longer; leaving heathly tip did not alleviate my guilt.

[William Walker]

The lier sounds like Obama.  "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." 

And the current most detested person is Trump.  Perhaps he is telling the truth?

You must have missed the first quote....

[SharonVL]

Thousands of people with summer homes have come here to ride out the virus. This is probably the worst place in the country to be.  We have less than 20 beds in our hospital, 2 ventilators and no intensive care unit. If it gets bad, we will be stuck here with no medical care. Add to that, it requires extra effort to get food and fuel here. The town says it can’t stop people from coming so we are looking at a grim scenario playing out here.

[KLaban]

Thousands of people with summer homes have come here to ride out the virus. This is probably the worst place in the country to be.  We have less than 20 beds in our hospital, 2 ventilators and no intensive care unit. If it gets bad, we will be stuck here with no medical care. Add to that, it requires extra effort to get food and fuel here. The town says it can’t stop people from coming so we are looking at a grim scenario playing out here.

Same is happening here in the UK, people escaping to their 2nd homes in areas with limited health resources.

[JoeKitchen]

You must have missed the first quote....

I did not.  I just thought it was obvious. 

I mean after all Trump started responding after just 61 dying of this.  Obama ignored the Swine Flu until over a 1000 died. 

[John Camp]

Joe, you are going to have to explain this one to me: Pandemic = "Buy Guns"...WTF???

I'll explain it. When anything remotely threatening happens, people buy guns. We have a thing in the U.S., promoted widely by gun companies, gun magazines and gun nuts, called the SHTF situation (Shit Hits The Fan.) This is usually a situation where all power plants fail at the same time, and every single government drops out of sight, beautiful Fox News newsreaders are eaten, and black people, who are 12% of the population, and high on all manner of drugs, come boiling out of the ghettos armed with machetes and overwhelm the 88% of the rest of us, paying special attention to beautiful blond women, which requires us to have guns. This is especially true in states that have no black people, because, you know, black people are like that. Even though, when you go to a gun show, most of the people there are either (a) old or (b) fat, or more likely (c) both, on the magazines they are portrayed as being tall, big-shouldered, wearing yellow blade sunglasses and head-to-toe camo, and armed with a black rifle and a high capacity handgun with which they'll be shooting those rabbits (and any black people they find up in the mountains.) My point being, if you can't get a C-19 vaccine, buy a gun.

[JoeKitchen]

I'll explain it. When anything remotely threatening happens, people buy guns. We have a thing in the U.S., promoted widely by gun companies, gun magazines and gun nuts, called the SHTF situation (Shit Hits The Fan.) This is usually a situation where all power plants fail at the same time, and every single government drops out of sight, beautiful Fox News newsreaders are eaten, and black people, who are 12% of the population, and high on all manner of drugs, come boiling out of the ghettos armed with machetes and overwhelm the 88% of the rest of us, paying special attention to beautiful blond women, which requires us to have guns. This is especially true in states that have no black people, because, you know, black people are like that. Even though, when you go to a gun show, most of the people there are either (a) old or (b) fat, or more likely (c) both, on the magazines they are portrayed as being tall, big-shouldered, wearing yellow blade sunglasses and head-to-toe camo, and armed with a black rifle and a high capacity handgun with which they'll be shooting those rabbits (and any black people they find up in the mountains.) My point being, if you can't get a C-19 vaccine, buy a gun.

Why are you concentrating so much on black people?  Do you have issues with black people?  You should really stop projecting any of your issues unfairly on others. 

But anyway, taking out the obvious hyperbole of James' issues with black people, this describes the mentality of preppers first hand.  Those people are nuts, but not exclusive to the USA. 

I stumbled upon a Youtube channel called Canadian Prepper once, purely by happenstance, and if you want to see how far out these people are, visit this page. 

He did have an interesting thought experiment on who would be mostly to survive a SHTF situation though, which he feels would be in shape women in their mid-30s without any children followed closely by men of the same standing.