Corona Virus daily thread #16

[Mariner]

Yesterday's thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823939/posts?page=1301

[Jane Long]

Agree!

If a conservative PAC had ever insinuated same, for 0bola, arrests would’ve happened.

[Jane Long]

Agree.

[cgbg]

More on local hospital bed capacity:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/no-state-prepared-mapping-where-hospitals-will-run-out-beds-first-if-virus-cases-spike

[Pollard]

screenshot which a lot of browsers have built in. Ctrl+Shift+S for firefox. Then save to your computer, crop it, upload to imgur, wait til it says it’s uploaded, which happens after it shows, then right click and View Image. Then the url will be in the browser and you can copy/paste here.

Many other ways to do it too. I have a program that I can draw the rectangle that I want to take a pic of. Saves the step of cropping with some other program. I run linux though so the program name probably won’t help but it’s Spectacle.

It’s a process regardless, especially with sites like FR where you can’t upload images directly to this site because it would cost too much in hard drive space or something. That’s where imgur or some other free image hosting service comes in. Of course 3rd party services won’t necessarily be around forever so old FR posts might tend to have missing images but this isn’t an image based type of site anyway.

[grey_whiskers]

I'd quit my regular job and take it.

BTW, drivers to transport the dead bodies in Wuhan to the crematoriums, was paying $143 (US) an HOUR according to a Chinese Tweet some time before the Commies cracked down on the Internet.

[Jane Long]

Airline tickets right now are DIRT CHEAP!!

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Maybe because most places you’d be flying to are.....closed or closing down :- /

Have you made any cheap reservations? I hear hotels are cheap, now, too.

[PA Engineer]

People need to check their hemoglobin A1c and get it under control. Low carb and no sugars will do that very quickly.

Glycated hemoglobin

The ketogenic mouse models indicated resistance to coronavirus and/or mild symptoms.

46.2% of Americans are pre-diabetic, obese or suffer from type 2. One third of elderly suffer from thin outside and fat inside (TOFI) and are pre-diabetic (they are diabetic) with elevated HbA1c.

When people ignore negative outcomes from COVID-19 because of underlying medical conditions, they better look in the mirror. The standard American diet (SAD) has condemned the US to a bad disease course.

[grey_whiskers]

Except that you need to be sick enough to need an ICU, to be put in one.

[blueplum]

You all are going to love this:

Can’t get tested? No kits in town?

British Columbia has an answer,( as my jaw hit the floor):

Presser this morning, at approximately 38 min into the clip, use swabs for STDs, per idea from a CDC guy (CV’s HIV element????)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_bEBCKdWNg

[blueplum]

I wuz thinking the same thing - you can take off, but you can’t land anywhere but quarantine

[PA Engineer]

Thanks.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for that info.

I’m on Safari....it’s pretty basic and feature poor :(

Will have to look into Firefox, for FR.

[caww]

Liquor stores to close...

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board announced a “phased closure” over the coming days of Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores in Eastern Pa.

All 88 stores in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties normally open on Sundays will be open for their regular hours tomorrow.... Starting Tuesday, all liquor stores and licensee service centers in those counties will be closed until further notice.

Toward the end of the month, officials said they will reevaluate the situation.

[abigkahuna]

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[janetjanet998]

Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
Having spent the day on the phone talking to local experts of various stripes, there are *many* very serious, knowledgeable people who fear this analysis is correct; NYC is headed for a Wuhan or Lombardy-style healthcare system crash.

OVID-19: New York Will Be The Next Italy, But Doesn’t Have to Be

https://medium.com/@donnellymjd/covid-19-new-york-will-be-the-next-italy-but-doesnt-have-to-be-54a5c8137d42

[Jane Long]

That's amazing...first time we've heard THAT suggestion. Just might work, for a short term solution!

Saw this....this is the first time I've seen actual faces associated with COVID-19 death toll...

Pages of obits :(

Obituaries in a local paper in Italy show the huge toll of the #coronavirus outbreak in the region.

Italy has the world’s second-highest number of diagnosed cases of coronavirus #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/3NnLit7OQV— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) March 15, 2020

[grey_whiskers]

CBS News is experiencing the coronavirus crisis at home while covering it in real time. Four employees have fallen ill and the news division's New York offices are almost entirely closed

Top. Kek.

Smarter Than You.™

{Salacious but side-splittingly funny comment deleted.}

[PA Engineer]

I’m in western PA. It is here now (last 24 hours). 3 cases. One in Washington County and two in Allegheny Count (my wife’s hospital system). I need to re-read Selco’s recollections from Bosnia. Things are moving fast.

[Thud]

French nuclear power plants are standardized, particularly their control rooms. Control room staff can be freely switched between plants based on need, so they won't have our interchangeability problem at all. My recollection is that 75% of all French electric power comes from their nuclear plants.

Plus the one thing that is standardized among American nuclear power plants is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, being feds, they hate, loathe and abhor anything that makes sense. So much for American nuclear power plant control room personnel getting priority for the types of PPE they most need. It's called the "Speed of Bureaucracy".

[Raebie]

Bkmk