Interesting. F3800RC no longer exists. The posts are still there, it doesn't say banned. He is just gone.
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Coronavirus
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Lucky things like Ebola have a high mortality rate keeps them from spreading as they kill the host to quickly.
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An exponential graph of concern.
Mad Mike
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Ebola doesn’t spread as easily. I believe it spreads thru body fluid exchange.
Like this one on page #1 (Feb.7). How many on the ship wandering around off Panama right now are infected? Is this the 5th or 6th ship quarantined? I've lost count.
Someone discovered his secret identity.
Mad Mike
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Still have the same thoughts?
Wasn't that good at disguising it. The car in his profile pic and bike list in his sig. didn't help.
Hearing lots of first-hand accounts on social media about Canadians having full-blown flu-like symptoms, but they are being denied testing for COVID-19 because they didn't need to be hospitalized.
We can shake our heads at the Americans about how high their confirmed cases are, but something tells me that if we tested as much as they are right now, our per capita numbers would be right up there with them.
We can shake our heads at the Americans about how high their confirmed cases are, but something tells me that if we tested as much as they are right now, our per capita numbers would be right up there with them.
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If that happens then there'll be some who won't realise that they need hospitalisation until it's too late.
There are three people in just my home with severe flu like symptoms,we're not being tested and told not to come to the hospital unless absulutely necessary,I"m sure that there are many other people in the same situation that are not in the statistics being presented to the public.The good news is that its been six days since I came down with this and I'm starting to feel better.
Nope. Now that we have more factual information, not at all.
It's the people who still haven't done the same (changed their mind in the face of new/updated/factual/scientific facts) who are the problem right now. There's no longer anymore reason for people to not have the facts, although places like Fox news continue to spread "alternative facts", which is a big part of the reason the USA is now the pandemic leader.
Cruise ships are still very clean, however. But stick thousands of people in any confined space right now and the same spread will happen. Cruise ship or, say, all the large gathering places that are closed right now like bars, churches, stadiums, etc etc. Same result. It doesn't mean cruise ships are inherently dirty...it just means this virus is particularly good at spreading easily.
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The actual "regular" flu is still going around as well FWIW.
And personally, I wouldn't be going anywhere near a hospital right now unless I *needed* to, IE, I can't breathe. If I got Covid tomorrow and had symptoms that didn't leave me needing a hospital, I wouldn't go to one just to get a test to confirm what we might automatically suspect anyways. Isolate and quarantine yourself until it passes. Save the hospitals for the people who NEED them because they are failing.
Having a "yes" or "no" checkbox on a test wouldn't mean much to me personally once you're down and out sick in bed at home anyways.
Their testing situation down there is still a mess, as is the overall picture, so don't automatically think they're doing better than us. We have family in Mississippi. Their governor just override counties a few days ago and said restaurants could reopen, and mandated gun shops as "essential services". Our expat family living there are shaking their head. I have a snowbird friend who just fled Florida last week and came home with endless stories about how many of his Florida resident friends are still in outright denial that this is anything more than a "hoax". It's the PEOPLE there that are going to cause this to blow up because a large percentage of US residents aren't taking this seriously, and a percentage of that group think it's all a big "liberal hoax".
Want a small slice of proof? Go read Killboy's facebook page. They blocked one end of the Tail of the Dragon a few days ago because they are trying to discourage people riding it...coming down and spreading the virus through tourism, stopping in big gatherings as often happens there, and of course, crashing on it and overwhelming their very rural hospitals and emergency services. Now, the head shakers are in the comments - many people basically saying "**** this, they're trampling in on my rights as an American citizen, this is all a big joke, I'm going to ride halfway across the country and do what I damned well please" blah blah blah.
THAT's their biggest issue right now. Denial of reality.
And on top of the denial of reality.......
"as of March 11, the United States had performed only 23 tests per million people, while the U.K had performed 347 per million, Italy 826 per million, and South Korea 3,692 per million, according to an analysis by multiple media outlets and the COVID Tracking Project."
"First, many test kits released by the CDC on Feb. 4 were defective. Designing and manufacturing these tests is challenging, and sometimes problems arise. There have been reports that early Chinese tests may have had a false negative rate as high as 50%. But rather than encourage university labs and private companies to help with test development, the FDA withheld permission for such work until Feb. 29. Contrast this with the response in South Korea, where a private biotechnology company began developing a test on Jan. 16, had a working version ready by Feb. 5t and had government approval for use one week later. That company is manufacturing enough kits to test a million people per week."
CDC Director Robert Redfield was testifying in front of Congress, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asking who was responsible for ensuring that those who needed to be tested could be tested. After several attempts to dodge the question, Redfield fell silent. He had no answer. He stared down at his desk, before slowly turning to a man seated next to him. It was Anthony Fauci, director of infectious diseases at the NIH. He had the courage to say what Redfield wouldn't. "The system is not geared to what we need right now," he said. "And that is a failing."
Recent polling shows 60% of the US believes the government is doing a good job at managing the situation. We might need to deploy troops on the border soon.
Some phones do pulse ox as well I think. Not sure how accurate it is. If your blood ox drops, you'll know. Its never a bad idea to have more information to give to give to paramedics/hospital. It shows you are being responsible and only getting help when needed instead of running screaming through the streets.Three weeks ago I ordered this pulse-oximeter from Amazon for $53.
If any of us get sick, tool will be invaluable to determine when you need to seek professional help, i.e. you are having trouble maintaining blood oxygen levels.
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Interesting. Didn't know such things existed on the consumer market. May look into one myself.Three weeks ago I ordered this pulse-oximeter from Amazon for $53.
If any of us get sick, tool will be invaluable to determine when you need to seek professional help, i.e. you are having trouble maintaining blood oxygen levels.
Three weeks ago I ordered this pulse-oximeter from Amazon for $53.
If any of us get sick, tool will be invaluable to determine when you need to seek professional help, i.e. you are having trouble maintaining blood oxygen levels.
you‘ll know before that....when your lungs make a crackling sound when you breath.
Many Samsung phones have this built in part of the Samsung Heath app. Uses the sensor on the back by the camera.Three weeks ago I ordered this pulse-oximeter from Amazon for $53.
If any of us get sick, tool will be invaluable to determine when you need to seek professional help, i.e. you are having trouble maintaining blood oxygen levels.
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