Corona Virus Daily Thread #27

[Mariner]

Thread #26 here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3827832/posts

[Varsity Flight]

These companies are going to attempt to ramp up China again. Listen to the speak cover beginning.

[justa-hairyape]

My oh my. China bans foreigners? Is that not racist ? What say you UN ? WHO ? Progressos ?

[gleeaikin]

Religious devotion is spreading destruction throughout the Middle East. Shiites make pilgrimages to shrines in various countries including kissing and licking icons or their containers/screens, etc. Saw TV today where cleaners are trying to wipe down glass over relics.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2020-03-23/coronavirus-exacerbating-sectarian-tensions-middle-east

My son is being sent to Afghanistan soon so you might find interesting these links I am sending him. Why don’t they quarantine them here before sending them there??

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-03-19/us-quarantines-troops-in-afghanistan-amid-
coronavirus-fallout

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19-afghanistan-coronavirus-makes-taliban-realize-they-need-health-workers-alive-not-dead

In further news Liberty University was opening again (I suppose after spring break) but Virginia gov. is ordering it closed again. Also, any word on whether the governor of Mississippi is still letting the beaches to stay open?

[dakine]

You’d be upset if the folks providing the internet access for you turned off the flow by staying home for three weeks...then again, maybe not - you’ll always have the clouds to lecture...

[knak]

President Trump issues major disaster declaration for Texas amid coronavirus outbreak

[RummyChick]

this nurse will probably be fired after all of this is over

https://youtu.be/bE68xVXf8Kw

[BusterDog]

I'm paywalled too, but when I select reader view, I can see it. Here are some snippets:

"When Camp came down in late February with a cough, he figured he had the flu or pneumonia and could tough it out. After growing up in poverty in a trailer park — the son of a construction worker father and drug dealer mother — Big Bad Joey could take care of himself.

So he carried on with his commitments, officiating at the wedding of one of his best friends and frying bacon over a hot grill at Waffle House, until eventually the chills and body aches became so severe he had to hole up at home.

Finally, when curling under the covers wouldn’t stop his chills and chattering teeth, he went to an emergency room.

A diabetic, he was diagnosed with pneumonia. After a few days, he tested positive for the virus.

Camp had no clue how he contracted the virus and assumes it came from someone who was asymptomatic. He hadn’t been overseas. He hadn’t taken a cruise or ventured to the West Coast.

After four days in the hospital, his symptoms abated. He decided not to self-quarantine at home — he was living with a family with an infant son — and became the first Georgian to live in a special quarantine site at Hard Labor Creek State Park, about 50 miles east of Atlanta.

As he recuperated in his trailer, watching Star Wars movies and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Camp was aghast as officials closed schools, urged people to work from home, and shut down major sporting events.

Camp made light of the situation on Facebook, sharing a stream of memes (“I want to get quarantined with you — flirting in 2020”) and a Tik-Tok video of a pole dancer dressed up in a white hazmat suit, black platform stilettos and orange rubber gloves spraying anti-anti-disinfectant on a pole (“When there’s a coronavirus outbreak but you have bills to pay”).

Leaving quarantine, he was shocked by what seemed like extreme behavior."

At a Circle K gas station, he watched a man put on surgical gloves to go to the restroom, take off the gloves when he came out, wipe his hands down with baby wipes, pump gas and then wipe his hands with baby wipes again.

"With minus $3.33 in his checking account and no savings, it wasn’t like he wasn’t any better off than his co-workers.

“If I have to, I’ll make a bow and arrow and go hunting in the woods,” he said after driving past the nearly deserted Waffle House.

If things got really desperate and society collapsed, at least his roommate, Trey, has a couple of pistols, an AR-15 and a 12-gauge shotgun.

A few hours later, he was on the porch with Trey when his boss called: the diner would close, at least for now.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “When Waffle House shuts down, that’s crisis mode.”

He paused, shaking his head.

It didn’t feel like crisis mode. All around him, everything was calm: wind chimes tinkled softly in the spring breeze; birds chirped as they flitted around a pair of blooming Bradford pear trees.

“I don’t know how to deal with it,” he said. “It does not compute at all.”

I editorialized the title for sarcasm's sake, it is actually: "He survived COVID-19. He’s broke. But he thinks America is overreacting"

[bgill]

Those overseas Americans knew 2 months ago to get themselves homes. Even the most lib ones should have understood this a month ago.

There was a group of students from a wealthy lib Austin, TX high school who flew to Honduras a few days ago to deliver soccer balls. Soccer balls, smh. And they had to get Cruz to take time away from working on the CV bill to sweet talk Honduras to get them home.

I was telling a friend to get her young relative home from EU. Was still telling her the day the borders there closed. The college gal had been out traveling EU by bus two days before. More, smh.

[knak]

Julia Davis
@JuliaDavisNews
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Russian state media says “coronavirus will determine the winner in the rivalry between China and the United States” and on a larger scale, “the success or failure of the United States will form a global view of the effectiveness of democracy vs autocracy.
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Julia Davis
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#Russia Braces for COVID-19 Onslaught

840 coronavirus infections newly reported, 112,000+ remain under medical supervision and the #coronavirus curve keeps on climbing. Russian experts call it “a rehearsal for bio-warfare.”

[Mariner]

New daily thread here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3828581/posts

[Black Agnes]

So, who paid his hospital bill?

4 days won’t be cheap.

How many of his coworkers can afford that?

[Mariner]

“the success or failure of the United States will form a global view of the effectiveness of democracy vs autocracy.”

Fascism is far more efficient and effective than democratic republicanism.

When it comes to achieving the goals of the state.

[bgill]

FNC - hospitals enacting DNR orders for CV patients to limit spread.

[justa-hairyape]

In the end the only ones standing will be just us old cold war veterans. Lol. Anyone out there doing essential work without a mask and gloves, is taking a huge risk.

[cgbg]

Great video—should be a PSA in flu brother land...

[bgill]

“The transmission is through the respiratory epithelium in your nose, mouth, and eyes. It’s unlikely to be transmitted in the food”

I must be eating my food wrong. Which body hole does one insert food if not the mouth? These are the same people saying to wash your hands after touching anything and to not play with feces.

I’ll pass on take out food.

[justa-hairyape]

He has to pay that 4 day hospitalization bill.

[justa-hairyape]

Now we know what was causing Chipotle sickness. The dang burrito rollers and bowl spooners.

[justa-hairyape]

Someone needs to tell Vlad that China lost that war last year. Perhaps We should send a messanger.

[justa-hairyape]

Now now. The upper crust elitists never breath threw their mouths lol.