Posted on 03/02/2020 12:52:39 PM PST by Vermont Lt
Continuation of Live Thread from No 7.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3820821/posts
The Fed cuts rates.
Putting out the fire with Gasoline.
Is the economy slowing?
Isn’t Coronavirus a big nothing burger?
This is a country that is going insane.
I still lean towards accidental release of a lab project. but, lets check back in a month or two.
“ directly out of post-apocalyptic fiction.”
I don’t see it that bad, but if it mutates like the common cold coronavirus and becomes seasonal, with a 1% or more fatality rate, things will drastically change. Kids won’t physically go to school anymore, for instance, all learning will be online.
Walmart - it’d have been nice if the memo had at least said to furnish wipes for the cart handles. I’ve yet to see checkout conveyor belt ever cleaned much less the credit card pin.
Wouldn’t want to scare the customers by wearing masks and gloves.
considering that a percentage of survivors will have long-term cardiopulmonary damage (or other organ damage), it isn’t hard to postulate each subsequent year’s fatalities being higher just due to compromised people from the year before succumbing.
I am not sure why this isn’t a realistic scenario, and I would like to find good reasons why.
I don’t see any pressure on this virus to select for less deadly mutations. with hyper-infectious capability (the protein spike feature) and long incubation (some part of which is presumably contagious), I don’t see that it matters if the host is eventually killed.
I have half-way wondered if we will see slightly negative rates on short-term treasury notes at some point. not necessarily auction rates (but maybe?) but actual negative YTM in the aftermarket from folks just wanting some place safe to park assets.
how many folks remember the reserve fund? (Lehman debt victim)
Wash the buses, ha. Burger flippers are much higher on the IQ and I Care scale than bus washers. They run the same nasty rag over everything just long enough to find lost items so cousin Trayvon can hock them.
One thing I did a couple weeks ago: Still had a little plastic container (purse size) for baby wipes from when grandkids were in diapers. I got that out, splashed clorox in to clean and left damp and filled it with clorox wipes. Made my final trip to WM last Wednesday. Not only wiped the cart but individual things and the keypad. I don't expect to need anymore trips to the store but just in case I go out I have wipes. My local WM has wipes by the carts but I don't even know if they're sanitizing wipes. Never hurts to have my own.
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Unlikely UK will lock down cities to prevent coronavirus spread: Chief Medical Officer.
UK PM Johnson says army ready to step in if coronavirus escalates.
Coronavirus: Scotland facing ‘serious situation.’
Coronavirus situation in North Korea remains unclear, could be specially deadly, expert says.
OPEC ministers to meet in Vienna to face coronavirus threat to oil demand.
Dr. Drew: Media-driven panic over coronavirus is a bigger problem than the virus.
Kroger limits quantities on sanitization, cold and flu products amid coronavirus fears.
World failed to learn SARS lessons for coronavirus fight.
Coronavirus delays PC and smartphone shipments for weeks.
Tight iPad Pro, custom Mac availability sign of coronavirus supply struggles.
When I started vaping my SP02 was 98 all day every day. I was an extremely active person. For the past three years I'm somewhat stabilized at 94 on a good day now and medicate every 4 hours for emphysema. My lifestyle has changed completely. Not getting better not getting worse - from about six months of tootle-puffing low-watt no nicotine, no flavors. I was very active on the ecig forum so I know a just a little about the development of the industry, moving from cigarettealikes to prototype batts, various tanks, the shady characters selling liquids out of their kitchens and the craziness of mixing cake flavoring.(Bacon-banana cinnamon toast anyone?)
EVALI is still being diagnosed in the public, well after the supposed Colorado counterfeits distributor was busted, well after the supposed grape-pesticide/cyanide source was busted. The autopsy of EVALI lungs showed sticky, gel-like, lipid-y, deposits in the lungs. Which were driven deeper into the alveoli by high-flow O2. All surviving EVALI patients have permanent lung injury. Ergo my hyperinterest in any novel lung disease that has similarities to EVALI.
Jason Hopkins
@thejasonhopkins
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DHS Chief Chad Wolf has ordered a DHS facility in King County, Washington to close following concerns of the spread of coronavirus, beginning today.
Emerald City Comic Con organizers say Seattle convention will go ahead as scheduled
The company behind the Emerald City Comic Con announced that the convention will go ahead as scheduled despite rising fears over the spread of coronavirus.
Event organizer ReedPOP announced Monday that Emerald City Comic Con is still a go for March 12-15 at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle.
The 2019 show attracted 98,000 attendees over the course of four days.
Yup.
The Fed panicked.
For no reason, of course. ;-)
They are really, royally screwing this up. The nursing home is going to be the next diamond princess cruise ship. If they cannot make their rooms negative isolation, they need to start moving people to a place that is.
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Priscilla Alvarez
@priscialva
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Wolf says he closed a DHS facility in Washington state after learning an employee visited a nursing home that was affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
He said the decision was made “out of an abundance of caution” and employees have been told to work remote if possible.
Unreal. What is their governor thinking? I wonder how many of the folks who voted for Inslee are all over Twitter slamming the President.
Kalie Greenberg
@KalieG_KING5
Continuing to monitor the situation at Life Care Center in Kirkland.
I saw 2 people transported by ambulance around 4am. The center says if someone shows symptoms for #coronavirus they need to be transported to a hospital for testing. They can’t test at the nursing home.
” keep the viral load low with hand-washing and social distancing”
After attending a meeting dicussing the virus and some research, I can see why they are pushing hand-washing and social distancing.
The stage that the virus get spread most is in the no symptoms, the person does not know they are spreading it via Fece in the public bathrooms. If we practice hand washing and avoid common stuff other people touch we can slow the virus.
Let’s face it how many people do you see not washing their hands in the bathroom. I mean a good hand washing with soap. The virus is going to have a heyday when it hits the homeless camps. Very scary.
A person now knows to cover the cough and sneezing not to spread it that way. They should wear a mask if at that stage and see a doctor when the fever shows up.
Not sure about the reinfections, that is very scary. Does the virus go to undetectable levels like HIV? Or did it mutate so it can re-infect?
Does anyone know what the “underlying conditions” are that are particularly dangerous? The reports say that the deaths have been largely older people with underlying conditions but none that I have seen mention any of them by name. Are we talking cancer? heart disease? diabetes?
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