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new deadly human-to-human-transmissible coronavirus emerges out of China
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:23 PM
I'm so glad that, literally months ago, I saw this coming down the pike and got hand san and masks. That plus the 3 N95 ones I already had to alleviate the chronic wheeziness from allergies.
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:58 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Holy fuck, SIX, you have such a giant short-circuit in your brain I'd swear to god you were drinking again!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Surely, we can do better than that.
We're not even close to the 156,164 deaths per day from other things.
Even less impressive when you realize that most of those 1,000 are just taken prematurely from other categories.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That 156,164 per day ... you're talking about the USA only right???
Oh, you mean the WHOLE WORLD?
Well. How about getting some comparable figure FOR THE USA ONLY?
I know, I know ... too much logic for you! The answer is that IN THE USA approximately 7,500 people die each day. https://www.indexmundi.com/blog/index.php/2018/03/05/how-many-people-d
ie-a-day-in-the-us/ At 1,000 deaths per day from coronavirus, that's starting to make up significant fraction of "everything else" which includes heart attacks, cancer, auto accidents and homicide.
In fact, at 1,000 deaths per day, Covid-19 is the third leading cause IN THE USA, right behind heart attacks and cancer.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#STAYTHEFUCKHOME
They're simply taking the cause of death from something else that would have been on the death certificate this year in most cases.
Sorry, but I'm going to remain logical on this issue.
It can't keep doubling every 7 days even if everybody gets it, because most people are going to recover from it.
Tragic, sure... but hardly the end of the world.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:26 PM
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
One positive thing about 'stay at home' here in SoCal is that I'm getting almost no robocalls.
Though I don't quite understand the mechanics of it all. How does one even FIND a job at a call center? AFAIK it's not legal ... so ... And then, how does a call center get shut down? AFAIK it's not like they're legal employers, so what do they care about having people come in? And AFAIK it's not like the people working there are rolling in dough and can just say, take this job and shove it ... And AFAIK it's not like the people who're renting out the spaces to the robocallers' operations are monitoring whether people are coming or going, or not. It's a puzzle.
Most of them are software driven, from gathering numbers to making the calls - no or very few humans needed. It's incredibly cost effective and almost runs itself. If you think you are getting a "live" voice it's probably a recording making a pitch, and if you stay on long enough to see if it's a real person your number will get logged as a live number. Some of these just want to see if someone picks up or if it goes to a vm system. "Person answers" goes to the top.
Me: I let every call go to vm. No message = no call.
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:38 PM
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Apparently YOU don't know what a stay-at-home order is!
For the record - and this is the second time I'm letting you know...
You can post stupid sh*t 100 times and it will still be stupid.
Apparently neither of you know what you even post.
SIGNUTS: "I often go to two stores because one often has what the other doesn't."
How is that #STAYTHEFUCKHOME? How is that essential? Shopping for groceries should have been done by now. Getting fresh produce is not esssential. How many times do you HAVE TO go to the pharmacy? I haven't shopped at a grocery store for over 3 weeks and it will be another 3 before I pick anything up, and even then it will be contactless pick-up in the trunk. 6 weeks is #STAYTHEFUCKHOME
You are they types that think nothing will happen to you, "milk's running low, better hit the store," like it's any other day, and you will go and infect 3 others, who will then infect 9 others and so on... or you will pick it up and infect your family. How essential are those bananas now?
SIGNUTS: "... and the gas station bc needed a fillup. " Because she's been running around so much and not #STAYINGTHEFUCKHOME that she's almost out of gas.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
- here in California it means FOR ALL BUT ESSENTIAL NEEDS. Like yanno, picking up prescriptions and grocery shopping, or maintaining critical services and infrastructure.
"Shopping" - a girls just gotta shop.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/
What can I do? What’s open?
Essential services will remain open, such as:
Gas stations
Pharmacies
Food: Grocery stores, farmers markets, food banks, convenience stores, take-out and delivery restaurants
Banks
Laundromats/laundry services
Essential state and local government functions will also remain open, including law enforcement and offices that provide government programs and services.
And she's even yappin' with a store clerk because she's not smart enough to know that that's another way to transmit the virus. They've even had to put up plexiglass to protect check out clerks from dumba shoppers who want to chat about the weather. F*ucksake.
No one can force you to be smart, that's for damn sure.
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 9:22 PM
Geez.
lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 10:04 PM
HEY GSTRING
Quote:One has meat, the other has run out.
KIKI: Apparently YOU don't know what a stay-at-home order is!
For the record - and this is the second time I'm letting you know...
GSTRING: You can post information 100 times and I will still be stupid. (FIFY)
Apparently neither of you know what you even post.
SIGNUTS: "I often go to two stores because one often has what the other doesn't."
How is that #STAYTHEFUCKHOME? How is that essential?
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Shopping for groceries should have been done by now. Getting fresh produce is not esssential.
I don't have enuf frig space for more than a week's-worth of food, and my smallish freezer (the one that I already said was too small) only has enough room for two or three weeks of meat and cheese, and no room left over for frozen vegies. I know my storage limits. When we unpack groceries, the frig and freezer are full. By the next week, they're pretty empty. So I shop, once per week. You're LYING as usual, I see,
Quote:Once or twice a month. I've been trying to consolidate the family's refills to the same day, which meant I had to ask the doctors (all six of them) to write one-month quantities instead of three-month, which has led to all manner of confusion on their part (like writing a one month Rx with four refills instead of twelve). But some of those refills are just out-of-sync, and since the insurance companies don't let you move the refill date by more than five days for either a one-month or three-month prescription, syncing them all up is a slow process. At this point, I have ALMOST all of them captured. But at this point the pharmacy does drive thru anyway.
How many times do you HAVE TO go to the pharmacy?
Quote:I have no idea what kind of storage space you have but it must be pretty big, because there's no way in hell I could store six weeks of food. IF food supplies were cut off, we might be able to scrounge enough food over two-three weeks, and that would mean emptying the frig, freezer, and cupboards. Clearly, I'm not prepared for an earthquake.
I haven't shopped at a grocery store for over 3 weeks and it will be another 3 before I pick anything up, and even then it will be contactless pick-up in the trunk. 6 weeks is #STAYTHEFUCKHOME
AFA "contactless" ... I looked at Instacart. They're backlogged five days. I can shop for five days from now.
But it's not "contactless". YOU might not be exposed, but the person who is doing your shopping for you IS. Did you know that Instacart and Amazon employees went on strike over lack of sick pay and lack of protection? There is a high chance that the person who put your groceries together went shopping while sick. You might want to sanitize the items on the way in.
Quote:As usual, you're lying about me. I only shop once per week, and I ONLY go with a mask.
You are they types that think nothing will happen to you, "milk's running low, better hit the store," like it's any other day, and you will go and infect 3 others, who will then infect 9 others and so on... or you will pick it up and infect your family. How essential are those bananas now?
Quote:ANOTHER LIE. We have two vehicles. I filled one up a week or two ago, it's still full. The other one was 3/4 empty when shelter-in-place came down, so I just filled it up this week.
SIGNUTS: "... and the gas station bc needed a fillup. " Because she's been running around so much and not #STAYINGTHEFUCKHOME that she's almost out of gas.
Quote:ANOTHER lie.
"Shopping" - a girls just gotta shop.
Jeez, GSTRING, someone must be PAYING you to lie. You say you work from home? What work is that? Being a paid troll? How much money do you make doing that?
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 10:44 PM
Yup.
I don't see eye to eye much with Sigs these days, but I think the Captain is just trying to rile her up because he's bored.
Kiki and Sigs are about the two most paranoid people I know right now. I wouldn't worry about them getting the illness or spreading it.
But if the Captain isn't trolling right now and really believes what he is saying, I stand corrected and he is the most paranoid person I know right now. By like, a lot.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Saturday, April 4, 2020 10:49 PM
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
lol
Let's see how much you're lol'in when the suicide and murder rates start spiking countrywide.
Because they will.
Soon.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/covid-19-is-likely-t
o-lead-to-an-increase-in-suicides/
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Of all the literary masterpieces describing humanity’s experience of disease pandemics, none describes suicide more vividly than Ovid's Metamorphoses, when in response to the psychosocial distress of the plague the citizens “hanged themselves, to kill the fears of death by death’s own hand.” Just like a pandemic became a reality for the first time in more than a century, in a destructive "life imitating art imitating life" way, news of suicides linked to the COVID-19 crisis have swept the globe and sadly show no signs of abating.
K. Balakrishna, a 50-year-old Indian father-of-three, may be the first suicide victim linked to the coronavirus epidemic. Panic is suspected of precipitating his death. Historically, disease pandemics have been associated with grave psychological consequences. This should not come as a surprise. In its simple definition “pandemic” describes the spread of a disease across a large region, but words such as “pandemic,” “plague” and now “coronavirus” are not experienced in a simple way; they come riddled with fear, anxiety, grief and chaos. Balakrishna kept watching coronavirus-related videos and became convinced he had the virus and would infect his family: he was a victim of panic contagion. Panic can demoralize us, it can paralyze us with paranoia and fear, and these emotions in turn lead to hopelessness and desperation.
Keep watching the news right now and poisoning your brain with it. They have never had a more captive audience than they do right now in April of 2020.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:30 AM
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
One positive thing about 'stay at home' here in SoCal is that I'm getting almost no robocalls.
Though I don't quite understand the mechanics of it all. How does one even FIND a job at a call center? AFAIK it's not legal ... so ... And then, how does a call center get shut down? AFAIK it's not like they're legal employers, so what do they care about having people come in? And AFAIK it's not like the people working there are rolling in dough and can just say, take this job and shove it ... And AFAIK it's not like the people who're renting out the spaces to the robocallers' operations are monitoring whether people are coming or going, or not. It's a puzzle.
Quote:I do too. And I've done that for years. But it hasn't keept me from getting 45-50 (silent) recordings a week. But these last 3 weeks it's been down to ~5 a week.
Most of them are software driven, from gathering numbers to making the calls - no or very few humans needed. It's incredibly cost effective and almost runs itself. If you think you are getting a "live" voice it's probably a recording making a pitch, and if you stay on long enough to see if it's a real person your number will get logged as a live number. Some of these just want to see if someone picks up or if it goes to a vm system. "Person answers" goes to the top.
Me: I let every call go to vm. No message = no call.
So, yeah. Stay-at-home = no calls.
I think the robocall business doesn't quite work like how you think it does, since your predictions have obviously not come to pass.
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