OK we need a coronavirus thread
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 3:26 pm
I did a search - before the Great Hiatus there were precisely three passing references to coronavirus.
Jim Bakker should be back in jail. Who knew? Maybe Tammy Faye was a moderating influence on the asshole. To me such actions (if you didn't go to the link: in summary Jim Bakker of sex scandal and air-conditioned doghouse fame has been selling - for $125 a pop - a concoction which cures coronavirus and, while it's in there, takes care of your AIDS as well) are akin to looting during an emergency: shoot on sight. I'm not a gun guy and I'm no fan of the death penalty, but I'm willing to make exceptions.
Presidential leadership is of course lacking but we knew that. It's my belief that he gave the job to Pence for two reasons. Firstly Pence will fuck up because, well, that's what he does. Which means that Trump can say - it's not my fault, I put the second most important guy on the planet in charge, I did all I could because obviously I am much to busy twatting to get bogged down in this sort of detail. Secondly, and this is how we know that the guy is a stable genius, after Pence fucks it all up he will have the perfect excuse to replace him with Nikki Haley as VP on the November ticket.
There are things anyone can do now even if Copad-19 hasn't hit your state now. Learn to do your grocery run once a week instead of pretty much once a day as I do. Tell your pastor to knock off the 'let's all shake hands' thing and just make eye contact with and smile at each other. Use those wipes they give you at the supermarket to clean the push bar on the cart. Exercise at home rather than at the gym. Give the game or the concert a miss. Don't bother with the birthday cake someone brought in and left in the lunchroom. Reducing the transmissability of this virus by a few percent will have an enormous effect on the overall spread. In epidemiology there is a factor called R zero (written as R with a subscript zero - I do't think I can do this here) which represents the average number of people infected by one individual with the virus. If R zero is <1, then the disease will not spread. So the goal is to reduce R zero by any means necessary - isolate the infected folk is the first step, but reduce all stranger interactions. Most of it is common sense.
Jim Bakker should be back in jail. Who knew? Maybe Tammy Faye was a moderating influence on the asshole. To me such actions (if you didn't go to the link: in summary Jim Bakker of sex scandal and air-conditioned doghouse fame has been selling - for $125 a pop - a concoction which cures coronavirus and, while it's in there, takes care of your AIDS as well) are akin to looting during an emergency: shoot on sight. I'm not a gun guy and I'm no fan of the death penalty, but I'm willing to make exceptions.
Presidential leadership is of course lacking but we knew that. It's my belief that he gave the job to Pence for two reasons. Firstly Pence will fuck up because, well, that's what he does. Which means that Trump can say - it's not my fault, I put the second most important guy on the planet in charge, I did all I could because obviously I am much to busy twatting to get bogged down in this sort of detail. Secondly, and this is how we know that the guy is a stable genius, after Pence fucks it all up he will have the perfect excuse to replace him with Nikki Haley as VP on the November ticket.
There are things anyone can do now even if Copad-19 hasn't hit your state now. Learn to do your grocery run once a week instead of pretty much once a day as I do. Tell your pastor to knock off the 'let's all shake hands' thing and just make eye contact with and smile at each other. Use those wipes they give you at the supermarket to clean the push bar on the cart. Exercise at home rather than at the gym. Give the game or the concert a miss. Don't bother with the birthday cake someone brought in and left in the lunchroom. Reducing the transmissability of this virus by a few percent will have an enormous effect on the overall spread. In epidemiology there is a factor called R zero (written as R with a subscript zero - I do't think I can do this here) which represents the average number of people infected by one individual with the virus. If R zero is <1, then the disease will not spread. So the goal is to reduce R zero by any means necessary - isolate the infected folk is the first step, but reduce all stranger interactions. Most of it is common sense.
My company has 4 coronovirus hotlines to report any suspected cases. I have a fair supply of masks related to using them when I dust. I have a couple of bottles of hand sanitizer in the house as a general rule. May run out of toilet paper. Heck, I work on the front lines and have been dodging germs for years so I ain't scared of no coronovirus.