Coronavirus: COVID-19

OccultHawk · 03-12-2020, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

I didn't think it could be contained but if China did it, no matter how severe the methods, we should honestly be following them

Church

OccultHawk · 03-12-2020, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

one of the few scenarios where it really helps to have an efficiently authoritarian government lol

The irony of both of us going there hasn’t escaped me. Frankly though distant ideologies can get ****ed. Ain’t no government ever more unforgiving and cruel than a virus.

OccultHawk · 03-12-2020, 10:26 PM

Trudeau’s wife has it.

OccultHawk · 03-13-2020, 06:01 AM

I’m pretty damn scared to go to the doctor today. I don’t have a fever so I don’t think I have it but something is up with my breathing that I feel like I shouldn’t ignore. I just gotta be careful, I guess.

The whole way this is being dealt with shows that China and S. Korea are lightyears ahead of the United States. We’re living in the ****ing dark ages. They tested everyone. Got real statistics. And got people segregated quickly. We’re not even testing people and we’ve known this was coming for weeks.

~~jwb~~ · 03-13-2020, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

one of the few scenarios where it really helps to have an efficiently authoritarian government lol

actually it comes in handy quite often

Plankton · 03-13-2020, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

No offense to Planck

But this is exactly right

None taken, my friend. Not sure why I should be offended either. Don't shoot the messenger, even if the messenger is relaying terrible info? lol

Lisnaholic · 03-13-2020, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I feel like there’s been a lack of testing partly because Trump wanted to keep the numbers low.

^ Yep, and partly because:-
"In 2018 the Trump administration fired the government's entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House infrastructure."

( Source: Rachel Maddow on an article in FP, whatever that may be. )

A global comparison of testing rates per million that I looked at showed the US sharing the bottom slot with Vietnam and Turkey. Other countries were doing a better job - some with rates ten times better, others a hundred times better.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

The local news here just ran a story that it’s impossible to get tested locally.

They said the health department says go to your local physician and physicians are saying go to the health department. The reporter recorded the calls to prove the runaround. Then they had a Skype interview with a woman who looked really sick saying she’s been self isolating for two weeks and has been trying to get tested but can’t. She’s just locked up in her apartment alone trying to be responsible.

^ Scares the hell out of me, as I can see me in this position all too easily.

@ Plankton: I'm going to be 66 in two weeks; could you ask your nurse friend if she could nudge her "over 65" limit upwards just a little, as a favour to me. I'd appreciate it.

Plankton · 03-13-2020, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

@ Plankton: I'm going to be 66 in two weeks; could you ask your nurse friend if she could nudge her "over 65" limit upwards just a little, as a favour to me. I'd appreciate it.

Mindy · 03-13-2020, 10:58 AM

giving my parents a full decent size bottle of hand sanitizer...

gave them masks weeks ago...

**Exo** · 03-13-2020, 11:32 AM

Just found out that with my insurance...

If I get the virus they will cover the test (which doesn't exist).
They will not cover treatment if I get pneumonia.

Thanks Big Orange Guy.

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	I’m pretty damn scared to go to the doctor today. I don’t have a fever so I don’t think I have it but something is up with my breathing that I feel like I shouldn’t ignore. I just gotta be careful, I guess. The whole way this is being dealt with shows that China and S. Korea are lightyears ahead of the United States. We’re living in the ****ing dark ages. They tested everyone. Got real statistics. And got people segregated quickly. We’re not even testing people and we’ve known this was coming for weeks. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

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03-13-2020, 11:32 AM	#260 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Just found out that with my insurance... If I get the virus they will cover the test (which doesn't exist). They will not cover treatment if I get pneumonia. Thanks Big Orange Guy. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE