Posted on 03/31/2020 9:38:35 AM PDT by Mariner
"Everybody is friends"...
Geez, I wrote THAT too fast!!! "Lucky's" account of it?
(ROFL at self!)
And of course that ends up on the top of the last page in the thread!
Thanks calenel! I have noticed you on the forum and enjoy your comments, without always agreeing of course, you understand, etc., etc., and so forth.
Soccer matches, perhaps.
“US deaths, March 31 only: 912”
For the FluBros: 9 flu seasons stacked on top of each other.
Suuuuure, it’s just the flu.
“And I wonder if there are any real agent provocateurs among them.”
I am certain there are.
“Epidemics have steep uphill curves, then very gradual downhill ones...”
Fat tail.
“Looks like the quake was North of Boise, ID.”
Relatives in the state - didn’t feel it in northern Idaho, felt it for sure down near Boise.
It’s just an earthquake, Bro.
LOL
Soccer matches probably did play a significant role, since at the time, around 12th of March, Johnson hadn't implemented quarantines. The following weekend 14-15 would have seen quite a lot of matches and other activities where there was a lot of mixing and mingling of people.
It’s a virus, not a germ, BTW.
If your elevation from sea level rises dramatically over a short period of time you probably want to be in Arizona.
“If it happens in my lifetime, which I think is improbable,”
Very improbable. average is 700,000 years between eruptions.
“it would be an unprecedented event.”
In human history, yes. Not in Earth’s history.
“if” youre virus free... Youd know after self isolating for two weeks, it would be smart to flee somewhere else. Better yet, have left before outbreak. I sent my parents to their place on the coast in a small town... they’ve been shopping with gloves and masks all along. and staying at the beach. Even if they were slightly exposed somewhere... viral load would be very low
If the virus attacks the central nervous or the vasovagal nerve...it could,in theory, create a vasovagal response..thus the dropping to the ground.
In a typical response your heart starts beating again once you drop to the ground. I forget how long my heart had stopped beating during the test.
You are starting to see people talk about syncope...and feeling dizzy.
This happens with vasodepressor syncope..and of course a lot of other things
I think the whole vasodepressor syncope issue is a still a mystery in the medical field. They don’t why you get it in the first place..if it suddenly leaves you one day...why it would suddenly leave you, etc
I never knew I had it until a tilt table test. Had never fainted in my life before or after that test. But I have felt the light headed dizzy feeling and the sweats that happened before I passed out.
The vasovagal nerve can effect other organs ..although my GP doesnt seem to know that it does or anything about it. LOL
I like germ for any microscopic enemy.
Thanks!
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