Posted on 03/14/2020 4:18:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Nothing is in short supply where we are in northern VT - plus it’s sugaring season, so everybody has a barrel or two of maple syrup.
I agree, but what happens (like in Italy) when modern first-world hospitals are overrun and all the miracle products are no longer available for the flood of critical patients?
When the ICU beds and ventilators are all full, and there are 10 people stacked in the hall who can’t breath?
Then, it might as well be 1918. If you are dying in March of 2020, you can’t wait for a hypothetical vaccine in March of 2021.
Do you think they are just faking this in Italy, (and in Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, etc) to panic Americans and hurt Trump?
FYI, Milan is much more similar to Zurich or Vienna than to Naples. That is, it’s “first world” medicine and hospitals that have been overrun by sheer numbers.
Now they are dropping the triage age from 65 to 60.
You just run out of modern miracles when you are faced with EXPONENTIAL growth.
Dirty little secret: Toilet paper is as versatile as duct tape!
And your point is?
It was a great move by Trump to fill up the SPR.
It’s just folks stocking up before the hoarders arrive.
Let’s compare outlooks in one month, okay?
Spain has isolated itself - just in time to cut itself off from marauding Americans. Their supermarkets are stacked with toilet paper which seems to be an international attractive nuisance. Americans would have been flying there to bring back toilet paper.
Sheeple,,,
I’d say
“Lemmings!”
Welcome to Venezuela....
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Same thought crossed my mind looking at those pictures.
Yeah ... lesson learned.
We’re surrounded by know-nothing fools and that’s just the way the career politicians and their media hounds want it.
...or too much ammo.
Lots of stores are doing that. Problem is, every member of the family grabs a shopping cart and each one buys the limit.
Italy screwed the pooch concentrating their ill in one place, which guaranteed that they would lose control of sanitation even though it’s a hospital.
Italy also does not have first world health care. They have Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, a happy brand of single payer government healthcare. They have decided to let old people die.
I’ve got 45 pounds of kidney beans coming in next week which will about do it for me.
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About 2 ounces of kidney beans should do it for me.
I still have my masks from way back. Still in their plastic. Perfect condition. Being prepared is never a mistake.
We have that book. It’s been invaluable.
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Sounds cool,
BIL sells Leather
and such at
“Reenactment” doings.
Like Howard Hughes, you and and a lot of other Doomers are raging paranoiacs. It has literally eaten y’all alive. You’re in love with the prospect of apocalypse. It HAS to happen, you think. Otherwise your entire world view collapses into dust. You think that world is out to get you. With that attitude, sooner or later it will.
Well, I hated to disappoint you. The sun will rise tomorrow. It will rain. It will snow. Life will go on. You, me, and every single FReeper don’t matter a whit to Mankind in the long run. Mankind will survive and prosper.
That’s my point.
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