Posted on 03/23/2020 9:51:15 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827099/posts?page=1
The one thing I don’t miss about the city LOL.
And the SCREEEEEEE of bus brakes.
“North of Atlanta”
I am hearing from co-workers people are driving out of Atlanta to find food for stocking. My brother in-law had to hit dollar general stores to find food.
You might just go with cutting the eyes from a bag of red potatoes, from you local grocery. The finest onions I’ve every raised were grown from a bag of green onions from Walmart, after using the tops for cooking and planting the bulbs. I learned to just cut the tops off for cooking, leaving the bubs in the ground - this way you always have green onions for cooking. :)
I usually use goat fence, but this year I’m out, so I’ll try chicken wire.
I just zip tie the ends together. I tried row planting because that’s how my husbands family always did it, but it was too hard on me as an older-ish person
I qualify for the senior hours but I am not that thrilled about it.
The seniors in our rich suburban areas love to travel all over the world, and I have to figure some of them have come back recently....
Then there are the seniors that just came back from Florida....
No good solutions...
I have had off and on success starting grocery store potatoes. This year, it is too much risk to “hope” it works. I did find a local supplier, quite a drive, but it’s all good.
No. He should have self isolated the minute he so much as thought he needed to be tested. At worst, he should have self isolated while awaiting the results.
I completely agree. Like 9-11, this is going to change life as we knew it. I just can't wrap my brain around how much, or in what ways, yet.
More India:
To save India, every citizen of India is being banned from 12 o’clock tonight, on exiting homes, completely. Every village, district is under lockdown: PM Modi
https://twitter.com/republic/status/1242462532050116608
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This could get interesting...
:)
That is possible. I have noticed a large difference in traffic around my neck of the woods.
The grocery stores are seemingly always more packed than before. So maybe the traffic is all heading to the grocery out of boredom during the day.
“Lookner back to reporting data instead of editorializing”
I have come to genuinely like Steve. So has my wife, she didn’t like to see him upset yesterday!
He is open and honest. He’s just like us, he’s watching the news reports and trying to make sense out of it.
His premise for a news channel is really quite brilliant. I hope it really takes off for him and he becomes very successful at it.
Ps, I’m gonna try your idea about the onion. I have one sprouting in my pantry lol. Luckily we have acres of wild onion here. No need to prep for that one!
NV
275 cases; 4 deaths:
And? I'm not sure what the point is of that statement.
There's lots of stuff that is waiting for us. We do what we have always done. Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.
LA - 1172 cases, 34 deaths
Louisiana governor requests major disaster declaration for state to combat COVID-19 spread:
I understand that there are too many open cases to know if those figures will hold. But do you have any concrete reason to believe that with the flood of cases (real or imagined) that will soon hit hospitals, that the fatality numbers we are seeing in the U.S. will improve?
Concrete evidence? No, but then I suspect you have no concrete evidence to support that cases will flood all hospitals and overwhelm the system. We are both working off of data that exists, and what we choose to believe is accurate information. I believe some hospitals will be overrun with cases, as this happens on occasion. Most hospitals have contingency plans for just such occurrences. But the whole system? Even you have to admit that for the whole system to collapse it would require more than just the number of patients. It would also require a total disruption of one or more supply chains, unexpected loss of trained staff just to name a couple of other issues that would need to occur simultaneously, or in addition, with the flood of patients.
Now that said I could see systems in large cities, like New York City, being overrun and perhaps even stretched to the breaking point. So I can see individual systems failing. So if your system is within a very large city you have a higher degree of the system becoming overloaded and failing. We do see cases exploding in places, but is the real cause of the spread rate and speed, or is it the dismal ability of the CDC to produce working test kits, or is it because of stupid regulations making them the only producer of the test kits? Another factor that a lot of people do not really even pay much attention to is, the number of people inhabiting a very small landmass. Take your pick of what you believe. My belief is that the entire world got behind the 8 ball from the start with the lying from the CCP about the virus. Then in this country failure of the CDC compounded the issue, and now we don't really know what the spread speed is. In Italy it is a combination of things to create the perfect storm in their case. I do not believe we can look at Italy and say that will happen here. Yes we can say it could happen here, but there are differences that could and do make a big difference. Similarities, like number of people residing in a landmass size may also be factors where they mirror each other.
Preparedness is not panic, but not everyone on this board needs to be prepared, as you and your daughter needs to be prepared, at least not in the same manner. Your tasks will vastly differ from the tasks of the patient.
AS for mortality numbers we both know and agree that it is far too early to know what to expect or even conjecture about. Are there 2 strains of this virus, with one strain having the ability to spread faster and be more deadly? Some scientists say yes, while others say no. Even if there are I think both are being lumped together, and perhaps even treated in the same manner. All we have to go by is what the current numbers tell us. Those numbers on the face of it show recoveries outnumbering deaths by a factor of 6 to 1. while that is promising, it is also concerning because the recovery rate is only about a third of the total infected. Now if we looked at just China;s numbers it becomes much more encouraging as their reported recovery rate in about 90 percent. But the question remains, are they being open & honest. If we look at their track record and their behavior during this crisis it becomes extremely hard to believe they are reporting accurately or honestly.
OHIO
Health officials confirm 7th coronavirus death in Ohio
by Chris WhiteTuesday, March 24th 2020
The Gallia County Health Department reports the county’s only coronavirus patient has died.
https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/health-officials-confirm-7th-coronavirus-death-in-ohio
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