Posted on 03/21/2020 9:34:18 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826523/posts?page=1
wearing a seat belt is still a 50-50 chance of survival
Heh - about the same effectiveness as an N95 mask!
and that does not count all those men with facial hair - which renders the mask ineffective.
De Blasio was trying to keep kids in school.
Cuomo sent them home.
“wearing a seat belt is still a 50-50 chance of survival”
Oh, wearing a seat belt increases your odd of surviving a crash significantly more than “50-50”
Maybe it’s even money when your speed really gets up there, but for most crashes at a reasonable rate of speed a seat belt will save your life.
I forget the numbers, but there was a study of 800(?) people, and something like 80% of them wore their masks wrong.
I was out for a short time yesterday. One guy had his mask up on his baseball cap, and another guy with it around his neck. Never mind that both of those surfaces may have been contaminated.
Even on some documentary, the doctor checking in patients had his mask only covering his mouth - not his nose.
A USA site we can’t post interviewed Jared Anderson who flew down to Peru on March 10 to see his gf and now he’s all upset that Peru locked down the country so he can’t get back to the USA and is in a 15 day isolation. Can’t fix stupid. Sorry, anyone who wasn’t back in their home countries on March 1 shouldn’t waste their government’s time and expense of sending in planes and crews lives to save their backsides.
Italy should have known they’d bring it back after New Year’s . China was warning it’s people about New Year’s celebrations and was shutting them down. Italy has no excuse and we don’t either.
Driving home from the grocery this morning, and right on a main intersection, was a gigantic hand written sign you couldn’t miss, guess what it said!
China was warning it’s people about New Year’s celebrations and was shutting them down
??? wuhan 40,000 people january 18th
“Can’t fix stupid.”
I saw that. Here is a link to another story about these Americans in Peru. This guy is a Harvard professor, stuck there with his wife on what was supposed to be a 10 day trip. I thought to myself, “If only there were a way to anticipate that such things might happen.”
https://news.yahoo.com/americans-stuck-peru-over-coronavirus-222031945.html
Thanks for letting me know about the new thread.
I’ve been posting to myself for a day now. Just great.
Agree.
We have friends who cancelled a Costa Rica trip....finally.
They really seemed like they were going to go...up until the very last minute.
Geeeeeez.
Have you heard the twitter rumors that TX may lockdown, this evening?
You’ve been posting SO MUCH great info!!
I know it’s a lot to bring over to this thread.
We’d probably get a new thread, just as you migrated it all over here.
:- /
The local officials here in CT are asking folks to donate any N95 masks to health care workers to help save their lives—after telling us for the last couple of months that the masks don’t work so we don’t need them.
You can’t make up this stuff!
I’m not bringing it over.
If anyone wants to to see state by state and research updates from yesterday afternoon until now, they are here.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826523/posts?q=1&;page=951
There are about 150 posts on the old thread that posted since the new thread started.
I’m not getting the grocery store thing, other than allowing plebs to stock up on FOOD/essentials.
It does seem like infection, at stores, would be possible from air, fomites, person next to you, in aisle sneezing/coughing, etc.
The last time I was in a grocery store (several weeks ago) I could hear someone on the next aisle coughing....so, I held my breath and got the heck out of there, in the opposite direction.
Exactly!
And, they’ve even come out, since, saying that regular surgical masks aren’t as effective as the N95s.
They’re NOT asking for donations of regular surgical masks, now, are they? :- /
I forgot to post a field report from my wife’s CVS shift last night.
Everyone out there (N CT) seems to have calmed down—finally.
The traffic was normal—and was the usual locals.
They had paper towels back in stock, but still no toilet paper or hand sanitizer.
She is required to sanitize a whole bunch of surfaces once an hour.
Funny story—when this first started the crew got a little over-enthusiastic and someone put so much sanitizer on the auto-checkout keyboard that it crashed the keyboard interface. ;-)
GA
The case involving 12-year-old Emma, relayed by a relative, is particularly concerning as COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, so far has been less likely to seriously strike the youngest members of the population.
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Emma suffered from a fever that would not break for several days and visited the emergency room multiple times before being admitted to Scottish Rite on March 15 with what was believed to be pneumonia. But Anthony said Emma’s condition worsened and she was placed on a ventilator.
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