The Virus - Are You Affected?

[Jokodo]

I think I have Covid-19 right now. I've been a little bit tired for a week, which is, how I normally react to colds. But it's not going away in a few days. It's the same. Talking to others who have had it it seems like this is it.

I don't have a cough. My sense of taste hasn't gone. But I've ruled out a cold and the flu. Which only leaves Covid-19.

I'm in very good shape and with no risk factors. So I wasn't likely to get it bad. My friends I work out with who have had it had a similar development

How exactly have you ruled your a cold, other than it takes longer than ie usually does?

 

[ZiprHead]

I think I have Covid-19 right now. I've been a little bit tired for a week, which is, how I normally react to colds. But it's not going away in a few days. It's the same. Talking to others who have had it it seems like this is it.

I don't have a cough. My sense of taste hasn't gone. But I've ruled out a cold and the flu. Which only leaves Covid-19.

I'm in very good shape and with no risk factors. So I wasn't likely to get it bad. My friends I work out with who have had it had a similar development

So you guys were not social distancing and adding to the problem?

 

[bilby]

I think I have Covid-19 right now. I've been a little bit tired for a week, which is, how I normally react to colds. But it's not going away in a few days. It's the same. Talking to others who have had it it seems like this is it.

I don't have a cough. My sense of taste hasn't gone. But I've ruled out a cold and the flu. Which only leaves Covid-19.

...and a couple of hundred other plausible ailments.

I'm in very good shape and with no risk factors. So I wasn't likely to get it bad. My friends I work out with who have had it had a similar development

How do they "know" that they've had it? If their diagnostic criteria are as poorly informed as yours, then they don't - so their anecdotes are useless as a basis for your assumptions.

The only way to know whether or not you have Covid-19 is to be tested for it.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The insufferable prick that is the dictator of California has issued further nonsensical decrees about how the citizens of California are to behave and run their businesses. In his last press conference the prick spewed out a word salad about “phase two” and the criteria for which businesses can open. Apparently toy stores and bookshops can open for business for curb side pickup. Fucking toy stores ?!! The man’s a fucking moron. And he is allowing some beaches to open but with a stern warning that if we didn’t behave he would swiftly close them down.

Yeah, I’m the authoritarian. Newsom is out of his cotton picking mind.

What's the obsession about toy stores? So long as it's curbside pickup I don't give a hoot what they are selling.

As for beaches--we have been able to see case spikes connected to beach crowds. The threat is real.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The tyranny is worse in the UK;

You experiencing a little inconvenience, nothing more.

I never said I was experiencing inconvenience. But others have lost their livelihood, their businesses, their jobs possibly permanently. That’s not an inconvenience it’s life changing and yet there is no explanation as to why this lockdown persists other than jargon from Newsom.

I was at Home Depot earlier today. Absolutely packed with people getting their essentials. But curb side pickup only for toy stores?! Fucking toy stores ?! Beaches closed or if they are open they are open at specific times and woe betide the person that lays down a towel to sit down. Hilarious, the state lets child molesters out of jail in case they get Covid and replaces them with someone who wants to sunbathe.

The power has gone to their heads.

I had to venture into Home Depot when our water heater died. A scary place, too many assholes not respecting the threat or 6' spacing. I'd much prefer curbside pickup but it's not practical for something like a hardware.

 

[bleubird]

I work at a liquor store.Cray cray! Sales have been at least 50% higher than normal. Talking great summer time numbers. Now, AK is a big drinking state,but this is nuts.

 

[Jokodo]

I work at a liquor store.Cray cray! Sales have been at least 50% higher than normal. Talking great summer time numbers. Now, AK is a big drinking state,but this is nuts.

Quite possibly though, overall consumption is still down, not up. With restaurants and bars closed, a lot of the volume that would otherwise be handled by them shifts to household consumption and thus becomes visible at your store.

 

[DrZoidberg]

I think I have Covid-19 right now. I've been a little bit tired for a week, which is, how I normally react to colds. But it's not going away in a few days. It's the same. Talking to others who have had it it seems like this is it.

I don't have a cough. My sense of taste hasn't gone. But I've ruled out a cold and the flu. Which only leaves Covid-19.

I'm in very good shape and with no risk factors. So I wasn't likely to get it bad. My friends I work out with who have had it had a similar development

So you guys were not social distancing and adding to the problem?

We used to work out together before the plague. We do not work out together now. But we still talk.

In spite of being sick, I'm just pushing on and working out as usual. I'm just a bit more out out breath. I'm running slower. Based on talking with other fit people recovery isn't improved by being lazy. So I'm just going to keep doing this.

 

[DrZoidberg]

I work at a liquor store.Cray cray! Sales have been at least 50% higher than normal. Talking great summer time numbers. Now, AK is a big drinking state,but this is nuts.

I thought liquor sales were an accurate indicator of how the economy is doing. The healthier the economy the less people drink.

 

[DrZoidberg]

I think I have Covid-19 right now. I've been a little bit tired for a week, which is, how I normally react to colds. But it's not going away in a few days. It's the same. Talking to others who have had it it seems like this is it.

I don't have a cough. My sense of taste hasn't gone. But I've ruled out a cold and the flu. Which only leaves Covid-19.

...and a couple of hundred other plausible ailments.

Sure. But it's Covid-19 ripping through our lands and people around me are starting to get sick. I know quite a few now who have had it. Sure, it could be something else. I'm no doctor. From me it's not going to get better than a wild guess

I'm in very good shape and with no risk factors. So I wasn't likely to get it bad. My friends I work out with who have had it had a similar development

How do they "know" that they've had it? If their diagnostic criteria are as poorly informed as yours, then they don't - so their anecdotes are useless as a basis for your assumptions.

The only way to know whether or not you have Covid-19 is to be tested for it.

It's either tests or they live with somebody who has been tested positive for it. It's quite common among my friends that in shared flats or couples where only some people are healthy and work out, the non-fit people get sick and the buff guys seem to be mildly affected or not at all. It's a pattern among my friends. In both Sweden and Denmark. It's increasingly easy to get tested here now.

I don't think I'll go and get tested. I see no benefit in putting in that work. What am I supposed to do with the information? I'm already social distancing. Just like everybody else.

 

[ZiprHead]

72 COVID Positive After Attending Large Event

Two weeks ago, roughly 1,500 people gathered at the Capitol in Madison to protest Gov. Tony Evers’ safer-at-home order, saying the order violated their freedom and was problematic for businesses.

Some scheduled speakers said they were not afraid to die or afraid of the coronavirus, with many hosting signs calling the pandemic a hoax.

On Friday, the state Department of Health Services said there have been 1,986 confirmed cases since the weekend of the rally. Of those, 72 people reported having attended a large gathering, according to The Progressive. However, people who tested positive were not asked specifically if they had attended the protest in Madison.

This is a shift in how contact tracers, the people who meet with individuals who test positive for COVID-19 to find out where they have been, who they have been in contact with and what places outside their homes they have visited, approached positive individuals following the April 7 election.

Karma, bitches.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

*forget about it*

 

[TSwizzle]

While Newsom fusses about people sitting on the beach, accuses nail salons of spreading the disease and trashes the economy into a $50billion deficit, the most vulnerable of people are obviously not being protected.;

Nearly half of all the people who have died of the coronavirus in California were residents and staff of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, a huge increase over previous estimates, state data released Friday show. In all, 1,276 patients and staff in senior residential care facilities have died of COVID-19-related causes, according to May 7 numbers provided by the state departments of public health and social services. The number — which currently amounts to 49 percent of deaths statewide — continues to grow and likely is an undercount, experts have said, because it relies on self-reported data and in some cases may not include deaths that occurred after people left those facilities for hospitals. The numbers are even more alarming when compared to overall infection rates. As of May 7, 11,344 residents and staff of nursing homes and assisted living facilities had tested positive for the virus, about 18 percent of the state’s total cases. That means nursing home residents and staff are dying at a far higher rate than others who contract the virus.

Mercury News


Another Newsom creation;

The streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District have experienced a 300 per cent increase in the number of homeless tents since the coronavirus outbreak began, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the community and a law school. Residents, businesses and the University of California Hastings College of Law are suing to demand the city clean up drug needles and human waste which have littered the streets. About 400 tents currently occupy the neighborhood as San Francisco has had 1,943 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, which has been blamed for 34 deaths. David Faigman, chancellor and dean at UC Hastings, which is heading the case in federal court, says the suit was filed because 'our neighborhood has become a pandemic containment zone,' reports Fox News. 'The city has basically cordoned off our area. Tents are blocking the streets. Tents are blocking doorways. There are needles in the streets. There's open-air drug dealing' Faigman says.

DailyMail

California, a failed state run by morons.

 

[Elixir]

*forget about it*

You misspelled fuggedaboudit.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Cleveland Playhouse Square have effectively cancelled the rest of the 2019/2020 season. My Fair Lady shifts to summer 2021, Frozen... some time in the future (won't lose sleep over that one).

They also delayed the beginning of the 20/21 season to January. I think this really gives us an idea of what the bigger money is expecting for delays in mass gatherings. After all, it'd be an absolutely crime against humanity for people to get ill and die because of attending an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical! It just isn't worth the risk.

 

[ZiprHead]

Armed anti-quarantine “protestors” issue Facebook death threats against Michigan’s governor

Right-wing militant crazies are now advocating violence against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in advance of their next planned rally.

A small faction of protestors reportedly instigated and funded by shadowy conservative groups — groups launched by billionaire oligarchs including the Koch family and the Mercer family, the folks behind the infamous political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica that leveraged data siphoned from Facebook to help Trump win the 2016 election — are protesting against coronavirus pandemic restrictions in Michigan that are designed to protect the lives and safety of others.

The protestors see the public health initiatives as unconstitutional restrictions on their freedoms to infect anyone they please — responsibility to others in society be damned — and they have taken their grievances against their inability to work and earn a living as most businesses remain shuttered.

 

[Copernicus]

Angels do exist. A local resident in my area (Bellevue, WA) has two CD printers that can manufacture plastic face masks according to a government design. Recently, he decided to run those printers nonstop and has been donating two masks to any household in surrounding neighborhoods who wants them. My wife and I ran out of paper masks, so we asked for a couple. He personally drove to our house to deliver them. Here is what they look like:



The black filter is made from fabric used in vacuum cleaner bags, and you can tell that these were designed by the government. They could be standard issue on a deathstar. I plan to wear it tomorrow when we go out for supplies, especially since it should help to scare away germ-laden covidiots and their offspring.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Angels do exist. A local resident in my area (Bellevue, WA) has two CD printers that can manufacture plastic face masks according to a government design. Recently, he decided to run those printers nonstop and has been donating two masks to any household in surrounding neighborhoods who wants them. My wife and I ran out of paper masks, so we asked for a couple. He personally drove to our house to deliver them. Here is what they look like:

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The black filter is made from fabric used in vacuum cleaner bags, and you can tell that these were designed by the government. They could be standard issue on a deathstar. I plan to wear it tomorrow when we go out for supplies, especially since it should help to scare away germ-laden covidiots and their offspring.

I think HEPA-filters can be dangerous to strap to your face. It's not what they are designed for. You can get godknowswhat silica particles into your lungs and that can cause havoc

 

[DrZoidberg]

In the latest episode of TWIV they compare different countries response to the Coronavirus. They did say something very interesting contrasting Sweden with USA. Sweden has not locked down anything other than major festivals and life goes on pretty much as normal. But Swedes are staying home anyway. They're respecting the recomendations and following them, even though they don't have to. Americans, in contrast, aren't respecting the lockdown, even when there's laws in place and they risk fines. It's cultural differences. In Italy its a national sport to do everything the government tells you not to. So they need extremely harsh measures for it to have an effect.

The result is that Swedes have social distanced more than Americans. Which is why their numbers of dead is higher than Sweden's. Sweden was ill-prepared for this pandemic. Without social distancing it would have been a total shit show.

The bottom line, countries are different. Geography and cultures are different. The same rules can have different results depending on country.

It's an interesting chat.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-611/

The first hour is how to avoid spreading Coronavirus in a dentists. Perhaps not super interesting. But after that.

They also discuss the conspiracy theory video floating about. The one debunked by this.

https://bigthink.com/coronavirus/th...FZ61RyjutwftKRr0_Cze9F_IVJMllO54BQ9m9vovKnCDA

 

[TSwizzle]

The insufferable prick Newsom acts like the petty tyrant he is;

Gov Gavin Newsom has informed a California county that it cannot reopen after two thousand people defied the state's stay-at-home order to attend a rodeo on Sunday. Pictures showed large groups congregating at the Cottonwood Rodeo in Shasta County. Many attendees sat close to one another without face coverings. Once Newsom learned of the rodeo, he announced Monday evening that the event directly led to a delayed reopening for the county. According to a statement from the Shasta County Public Health officials, the rodeo 'has delayed the county's ability to re-open retail businesses, restaurants and more during Stage 2'. Officials noted that the rodeo made national headlines and ultimately caught the attention of Newsom.

DailyMail


Meanwhile, Elon Musk has restarted production at the Tesla factory in Alameda County, daring the authorities to arrest him