Posted on 03/15/2020 9:49:28 AM PDT by Mariner
Thread #16 is below and it ran for two days...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3824270/posts?page=2051
Otherwise, that is terrifying.
I also wonder what the racial profile of all the dead is.
I keep hearing that it disproportionately affects Chinese and that the area in which its spreading the fastest and worst has a high Chinese population.
I wish there were more stats on exactly who had what and what their racial make up was.
It would certainly not be compromising anyone’s personal information. We need to move beyond this PC nonsense.
I just got an email from Land’s End that they are closing all their retail stores until Mar 29 and will be paying the employees who were scheduled to work during that time for the hours for which they were scheduled.
I’m going to start praying that the all caps and exclamation points buttons on your keyboard break.
Knock it off already.
I’m in socal, about the same climate. I have had inhalers delivered in August dog days. They’re fine, because of the cardboard box packaging. Now, in a hot car, laying on the seat, sure, you might get some discharge. As a matter of fact, I’ll be getting a refill next week. Not worried about the weather for the next month at least.
Trump admin enacted laws that you can order up to 90 days of your medication mail order. If you order it now, like tomorrow, you will get it before the heat hits and will likely have plenty to see you through this lockdown.
The other option is the driveup window at the pharm. And a final option is to call your postmaster and have him hold your mail at the post office and you can go pick it up from there.
Of course, your first step is calling your doctor and getting your rx current. Which he can phone in to your pharm, or you can go pick up from his front office. He may or may not want to see you first, depending if your rx has expired.
SEATTLE - not sure if this has been posted already it’s from 3/10, but it names the facilities
COVID-19 Infections Spread to More Than 10 Seattle Area Nursing Homes
We just got a HUGE chest freezer this past fall.
Brand spanking new.
And well filled as I watched this thing unfold.
Sorry I have many many friends in Seattle and I don’t buy a word of this!!!
Or someone could just go and rent a PO box and have them delivered there.
Another troll.
Please ignore.
See post 1016
Good for you!
I’m emptying mine of everything I can dehydrate right how.
blueberries, pear dices, veg, everything.
Going to consolidate meat into one section and my flours/baking into another, etc.
hopefully free up an entire section, again, for summer garden bounty.
i’m pinky swearing to dehydrate everything I possibly can this summer!
yay - the milk is rolling
WISCONSIN -
At the direction of Governor Evers, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation may issue permits for the transportation of inventory to supply grocery retailers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Relief Effort Supply Permits allow for additional supplies to be efficiently transported over Wisconsin interstates and most highways and local roadways by increasing weight limits and waiving truck driver hours of service limitations.
I’m glad you were honest and posted that , “This isn’t my first hand info” kudos on that as there is so much exaggerated info out there. Here’s what I raise by data anayltics eyebrows when someone In WA says “My colleague has seen so many people die as to have become totally numb.”
Now, I don’t mean to diminish the suffering or the deaths or the sensitivity of the anyone but the facts are that a total of 41 have died in Washington State, the info in the posts makes it sound like tens of thousands (and most died from that rest home. For reference 69 people who have died of COVID-19 in the US)
The loss of anyone at any age is a loss but of the 41 people who died 10 were in their 90s, 13 in their 80s with pre-existing conditions- a loss never the less.
Furthermore Washington while reporting the most cases with 642, not yet thousands, and of those 642 cases 93% of those are rated as mild. Situation is serious yes and trying but panic and exaggeration only makes it worse.
There are well over 100 hospitals in Washington, and maybe half of them cannot handle this but that still means 6-12 patients per hospital.
Furthermore the US has the highest ratio of critical care beds per 100,000 population at 34.7. , With Washington State population of about 7.6 million that means there are close to 3,000 critical care beds available at any one time,plenty right now to accommodate 642 patients and many are not hospitlized. So the only way the info is not somebody’s earnest exaggeration, is if all the patients’ are being taken to just one hospital.
And I don’t doubt the person passing this one thinks they are passing on accurate info but that is what happens in a panic and with each retelling it gets distorted and exagerated.
What we know now is that the fatality rate is decreasing, . It is dropping as a % as more test are own and capture those with mild symptoms. That is why no one, repeat ZERO under the age of 10 has died anywhere in the world, Including China etc.
Dr Fauci said, “That’s because many corona virus cases are so mild they’re not even being reported. “ Dr. Robert Redfield, who directs the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Clifford Lane, deputy director of the NIAID concurred, “”If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%,” Dr. Fauci and his colleagues explained
And the data supports this. The two countries that have done the most testing that can be relied upon is S Korea and Germany , they have tested well over 350,000 and have a combined 13,975 cases and 86 deaths for a fatality rate of .0061 or less than 1% and that rate has been falling. That is more than the flu but nothing like what some are reporting here and in the news.
The reason there is conjuncture that it may actually be much lower is that based on the R0 rate and the fact that Italy has long been the # 1 tourist destination for China and interestingly enough Italy has 350,000 Chinese nationals living in Italy with visas or citizenship, and backing the numbers against the timeline, it is almost certain that the number of people who actually have a mild version of COVID-19 is much higher-many never even know they have it.
That's great if you live in a part of the country that's warm enough to do that.
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I found plenty of chicken at a local Mennonite run store. They had lots of everything.
I took what I wanted/needed and there was plenty left.
I got a lot of chicken because due to many, many food allergies, that’s the only meat I can eat. I just pressure canned a bunch of it.
I need to look in my freezer as well I think I have a bag of frozen blueberries from Sam’s club, which makes them pretty old, but I will drag them out to make more freezer space and if they are still good, I will can them up.
I dehydrated my garlic crop as I will not have one since we are moving this summer and could not get one in at our new place last fall.
But now I can use the dehydrated stuff and grind it up for granulated garlic.
When I heard, many years ago, that most of our garlic comes from China, I decided to grow my own.
It is VERY easy to grow and NOTHING bothers it. It is very worth the garden space.
That’s a good idea.
CANADA - GRAND PRINCESS - quarantine at CFB Trenton
https://sasknow.com/2020/03/15/nipawin-couple-quarantined-at-cfb-trenton-its-been-horrible-4/
( I bet they wish they were in American quarantine lol)
it really is. :)
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