opelmanta1900
6 years ago

The reality has not hit home for me yet as no one I know has come down with the virus. WE have no sanitizer and no wipes and can't find any at the stores. We are going shopping today in a more populated area and plan on only stopping at 2 stores and a pharmacy rather than our normal six or more stores. A town about 15 miles from me had one positive test case as of earlier this week. A lot of NYC people own summer homes in our area, but so far no local cases have been detected.

tonygraz wrote:


Tony and anyone else planning on shopping... If you can get Insta cart in your area, use it!

Wife and I live in a town of only 10,000 and we've not gone to a single store since this started... We get Costco, savemart, and CVS delivered...

Its $10/mo or $100/yr or you can pay per delivery... We tip our delivery guy 10%... And there's usually a $1 service charge...

Really hard to beat... You shop on the app, if what you need isn't there the shopper texts you from the store for live replacement options...

We use it every other day or so and couldn't be happier... I doubt we will ever return to traditional shopping, this is so much better...

Should probably put in a note for the delivery driver, no more strawberry newtons...
clintCigar
6 years ago
I've been using Instacart for years. Great service, especially now.
victor809
6 years ago

Tony and anyone else planning on shopping... If you can get Insta cart in your area, use it!

Wife and I live in a town of only 10,000 and we've not gone to a single store since this started... We get Costco, savemart, and CVS delivered...

Its $10/mo or $100/yr or you can pay per delivery... We tip our delivery guy 10%... And there's usually a $1 service charge...

Really hard to beat... You shop on the app, if what you need isn't there the shopper texts you from the store for live replacement options...

We use it every other day or so and couldn't be happier... I doubt we will ever return to traditional shopping, this is so much better...

Should probably put in a note for the delivery driver, no more strawberry newtons...

opelmanta1900 wrote:



Sh$t man...
I still go to the grocery store every week.

When we get there we make sure to lick the cart handle clean before we touch it. Gotta make sure there's no 'rona on it.


victor809
6 years ago

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Thanks for the info and tracking that down, Victor. I had heard it was new (apparently erroneously).

The great thing not to lose sight of is that, despite all the buzz about hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin (and sometimes zinc sulfate too), America and the world are doing a "shotgun blast" approach to this, trying not just one "bullet" but many, greatly increasing the chances that one or several will be a full cure or a serious symptom-reducer and mortality-reducer.

We're also shotgunning production of ventilators and PPE, many many companies churning out huge numbers of them, with more coming every day.

Parallel processing, baby. Just like in computing, it can work miracles of speed-to-results that "one at a time" serial methods can't touch.

There's a big pile of reasons to be hopeful and optimstic. Stay positive, fellas.

RIP Deputy Young and everyone else who's no longer with us. Let's think of them all when we can finally give the middle finger to this virus and beat it for good.

Silver lining in the dark cloud is that the world will be far better prepared for the next one, although I hope it's after I'm dead of old age. Probably won't be, but I can hope.
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Pudding Mittens wrote:



I mean.... we're trying. But we're not doing as well as we should be.
We're behind the curve puddin'.
New tests are being developed, but they're being produced at levels of "5,000 per week" (I beleive that is the Abbot test)... when we're getting 25,000 new cases a day that's not going to get us there. If we're getting 25,000 cases a day we should be testing way more than that a day to be controlling and quarantining. We're simply not.

PPE production is ramping up. Since they're simple devices I'm sure it'll be fine, but hospitals are still reporting shortages, I don't know if that's a production or distribution issue. I can't imagine we won't be able to resolve this issue at least, but our bureaucracy has done a great job of f-cking up the simplest tasks on this pandemic, so who knows.

I know you want to be optimisitc. And that's great. But I see so many points where we really should have done better. And we're continuing to make completely unforced errors.
Test kits that are produced are being distributed to states, not based on level of infection, but some other metric.
The Federal "ventilator stockpile"? is apparently being held back because Kushner thinks this is a "Federal stockpile" and shouldn't be distributed to the states.... I don't even understand half of that sentence I just typed.
teedubbya
6 years ago
Just to get the front page from showing this thread stuck on post 666

There is a Beverly hillbillies episode where granny's tonic cured colds.

Drysdale brought in an investor and everyone got all excited.

Finally Jed shared the instructions. Take a teaspoon of the tonic each day, eat right and rest. Within 10 days the tonic works every time.
clintCigar
6 years ago
interesting Chinese interview with one of the Wuhan funeral home managers from back in Feb

teedubbya
6 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WS85Vdj3aA

MACS wrote:




I don’t support the Falun Gong

teedubbya
6 years ago
Imma gonna leave it to show my ignorance but I didn’t know much about the Falun Gong. So I read a bit. My impression of them was off.

I don’t know if I support them but they are different than I thought.
tonygraz
6 years ago
Is that a Chinese version of the Gong Show ?
teedubbya
6 years ago
Chuckie chuckie chuckie
delta1
6 years ago

Is that a Chinese version of the Gong Show ?

tonygraz wrote:



they are similar to Buddhists, and initially were welcomed into the Chinese govt's inner circle, in the early 90's...since then, as their popularity increased, the ruling class of the Chinese Communist Party saw them as a threat and banned them after they refused admission into the Party...they broke away and have been persecuted for protesting for religious freedom since the late 90's...many are political prisoners...

I think they sponsor the "Shen Yun" Chinese dance troupe that tours the US...some of their philosophies are woven into the show....
Pudding Mittens
6 years ago
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"Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients"

https://khn.org/news/mysterious-heart-damage-not-just-lung-troubles-befalling-covid-19-patients/ 

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victor809
6 years ago

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"Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients"

https://khn.org/news/mysterious-heart-damage-not-just-lung-troubles-befalling-covid-19-patients/ 

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Pudding Mittens wrote:



This explains why my coworker was chuckling about apparently Viagra having some positive impact on some more serious patients.

That's gonna be an amusing therapy.
victor809
6 years ago
Looks like numbers yesterday were good.
Dunno if that was an anomaly of the statistics, or a reporting error or what. We'll see what today's final numbers are, but maybe we're finally slowing our increase in cases....
fishinguitarman
6 years ago
You don’t give a 💩 why act like it?

Pretty hypocritical
victor809
6 years ago
Dunno if everyone saw or not... but the tiger in the zoo getting diagnosed with COVID-19 is real big news if accurate.

That would piggyback on reports from china of people's housecats being diagnosed with it (I was ignoring this because I figured there's all sorts of possible issues which could screw with that testing along with it being done out of china).

Think a bit about what it means if the virus can go from one animal (still not confirmed which) to humans, and then back to animals (cats in this case). That would strongly suggest it can go from cats back to humans, which means there is a very problematic wild disease pool potential in the form of our nations feral cats.

Example - TW gets COVID-19... while ill and diseased, he consoles himself by cuddling Fluffy, his irritable pomeranian he usually dresses up in pink princess outfits. After TW dies, his wife doesn't notice that Fluffy's got a bit of a cough, because she's spending too much time on Tinder and sending PMs to Drafter because she's looking for a man who reminds her of her beloved TW... in the genital region (all, this is totally in jest, no one get your panties in a bundle. We all know TW's wife can do much better than TW or drafter.)...

Anyway, she puts Fluffy outside when she goes out on her many, many dates and Fluffy happens to go and fight with the local feral cats population... lots of spitting and hissing and claws.... actually, Fluffy may be dating too.

Next thing you know the Feral cats in KC happen to be carrying COVID-19. No big deal, not necessarily fatal to the cats.... just remains a population where the disease can hang out.

A year later... or a few months... or longer... Jade's housecat Betty gets out, spends the night on the town. Jade is distraught, crying desperately into his chiffon gown. Fortunately, the cat comes back the next day... pregnant... and with COVID-19.

Bottom line here? If this can go animal-human-animal (just like .... nah, I'll be nice here) then we really need to make sure our population gets vaccinated for this sh#t once we develop it.
teedubbya
6 years ago
Anyone else aroused?
delta1
6 years ago
total numbers in US is still going up, but not as fast...hopefully, we're leveling off and finally flattening the curve...

the numbers of deaths trails the numbers of positive tests, according to Dr. Fauci, by about two weeks, so the death rate is expected to go up even as the positive test number goes down...


too bad we haven't done, nor are doing, more widespread testing...need to see where new hotspots may flare, where the virus may have departed with an eye towards lifting stay at home orders and re-open businesses...

and who were infected and have recovered so we can use their anti-body rich plasma for treatment
teedubbya
6 years ago
Seen a bunch of folks getting nailed for going on cable news and misrepresenting who they are and what they have been doing. This type of stuff always has brought out charlatans and hucksters.
teedubbya
6 years ago
I so think the efforts seem to be working but we shall see.
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