Coronavirus ...

[spiritofmusic]

Thank god you guys all have guns

Erm Lagonda, all we're armed w in the UK is sarcasm and satire. I kinda prefer it that way.

 

[Tuckia]

Thank god you guys all have guns

Wouldn’t a quarantine sign have about the same effect?
What caliber works on the virus?

 

[Lagonda]

Wouldn’t a quarantine sign have about the same effect?
What caliber works on the virus?

I miss my guns !

 

[Lagonda]

Erm Lagonda, all we're armed w in the UK is sarcasm and satire. I kinda prefer it that way.

You remember how to defend yourself against a man attacking
you with a banana ?

 

[spiritofmusic]

You remember how to defend yourself against a man attacking
you with a banana ?

Yep, drop a 16 ton weight on top of him.

You are speaking to WBF renowned Python devotee.

 

[NorthStar]

Do you guys know how to read graphs and maps and stats; I assume you all do ...
? https://covid19info.live/

? https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

 

[spiritofmusic]

Yep, drop a 16 ton weight on top of him.

You are speaking to WBF renowned Python devotee.

I always liked that the instructor went easy on the assailant first. Disarm, peel, and eat the banana first.

Only in the final instance drop the weight. That's only fair.

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

There are people over-reacting and there are those under-reacting and there are those appropriately reacting but it will only be in hindsight that we’ll know which ones are which and which one’s are we. I try and start from the middle ground generally but even that is hard to call at the moment.

I figure doing what is absolutely necessary and delaying the unnecessary, ensuring the most vulnerable are safest placed and the strong should help out more where possible when they can.

Accepting that we will make errors simply because we are travelling in the unknown and while minimising unnecessary contact may also carry with it negative impacts but it is shaping up as generally the wiser path.

Clearly not a great week to be hugging and kissing strangers but an opportunity to take time to make sure your loved ones and those around you are OK as well as looking after ourselves as best we can and simply trying to stay true to our compass.

Absolutely agree 100%
I am also on the weekends and evenings expanding my horizons into Prog music via Spotify since unnecessary trips are avoided or being combined into one trip.

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

I always liked that the instructor went easy on the assailant first. Disarm, peel, and eat the banana first.

Only in the final instance drop the weight. That's only fair.

Wait a minute, I thought after he pealed the banana he shot him with a gun.

 

[NorthStar]

Regarding your comments.

influenza numbers from previous years don’t pertain to this virus. It’s origins are such that the herd hasn’t built up a resistance in an particular group and it is reported to be much more contagious than a garden variety flu. The potential for deaths in the tens of millions exists. This is why these drastic measures are warranted.

Relax and be smart is good advice. It‘s easier to relax when you know what’s going on. Recent herd behavior suggests there is some stress due to the lack of credible information. But I think this situation is improving.

there was a lot of new discovery in the last couple days regarding world lock down policy. Hopefully most people are now prepared and have reached a safe place. To be sure there are some who haven’t. I wish them the best.

You speak reality; some are not aware of it yet.

 

[bonzo75]

 

[the sound of Tao]

Absolutely agree 100%
I am also on the weekends and evenings expanding my horizons into Prog music via Spotify since unnecessary trips are avoided or being combined into one trip.

Streaming... the gift that keeps giving as music loving audiophiles we have been practising our whole lives for locking ourselves into a room and enjoying life.

 

[NorthStar]

I fully appreciate that this is an answer to a completely different question, but does this global daily fatality statistic put the fatality risk of the virus in any kind of numerical perspective?

Ron, if your quote above was in reply to my previous post ...
1. I didn't see it.
2. Now that I did I simply don't have an answer.

Be safe; you, your wife, your family, your pets.

 

[RogerD]

From the VIA located in the high desert in the Eastern Sierra.......

Summary:

• Spainish impose 15-day lockdown effective immediately
• France announces national lockdown
• NYC confirms 1st coronavirus death
• Trump says he was tested for Covid-19, White House expands travel ban to UK and Ireland
• US death toll hits 51
• Louisiana declares first death
• Mississippi becomes 32nd state to declare emergency
• Newly diagnosed cases jumped by +3,000 in Italy
• Latin American states follow US with travel bans of their own
• Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell updates world on his condition
• 10 US servicemembers test positive
• UAE suspends tourism industry
• De Blasio refuses to close schools
• Israel limits gatherings to 10 and closes leisure businesses
• ireland reports 2nd death
• North Carolina becomes latest state to close schools for 2 weeks; more than a dozen states have done so
• India case total hits 84
• White House virus task force delivers update
• Switzerland total climbs to 1,359
• Airlines cancel flights to Spain
• South Carolina issues emergency medical licenses for out-of-state practitioners
• Dallas municipal court suspends jury duty
• Chile quarantines 2 cruise ships, Bahamas refuses ship entry
• Seattle halts evictions
• Apple closes stores outside Greater China
• Washington State re-takes lead in US case total
• Gaming Commission shuts down Mass. casinos
• 1 man dies in New Jersey

* * *

Update (1805ET): The first coronavirus death in the state of Louisiana has been reported Saturday, according to a news release from Gov. John Bel Edwards. The deceased was a 58-year-old Orleans Parish resident with underlying health conditions who was being treated at Touro Infirmary Hospital and Medical Center in New Orleans.

 

[Hi-FiGuy]

Beat me to it...Sorry... and now for something completely different, a man with nine legs. In an off stage voice "He ran away."

 

[Ron Resnick]

Ron, if your quote above was in reply to my previous post ...
1. I didn't see it.
2. Now that I did I simply don't have an answer.

Be safe; you, your wife, your family, your pets.

No Bob; it was not in reply to your post or to any other post.

 

[spiritofmusic]

Wait a minute, I thought after he pealed the banana he shot him with a gun.

Gun, 16 ton weight, carnivorous cat...take yr choice.

 

[NorthStar]

Absolutely not, and I didn't today when we went out to eat and had our food prepared by other people. I also am not going to live in a state of paranoia and fear. If this is the oogie boogie disease that ends the world, you are not going to find me dead sitting inside a house wishing I had done more than hide.

Rereading your question that's silly. I always clean or cook raw food before I eat it, but that being said every single thing in your life has been touched and handled by many people before you consume it, even if its inside a sealed hard container you can clean, whats in it was touched at some point by someone.

On that same note, we have open fruit baskets at work for clients and yesterday there was two kids rummaging through it touching every piece of fruit in it. I watched and waited until they were done and then threw it all away and told the boss no more fruit baskets for awhile. They have been canceled for the time being. And for the record I never eat out of it anyways, I bring my own. All open foods for clients in the nineteen brands we have here are canceled, probably indefinitley.

Mike, have you been in a pandemic before; neither I.

 

[Lagonda]

Wait a minute, I thought after he pealed the banana he shot him with a gun.

Exactly ! Marc has seen the “no guns”
U.K. version Even their police are running around without guns.
I once watched this british apocalyptic movie, nobody had guns.
I kept thinking. Get a gun ! Get a gun !

 

[KeithR]

We’ve gone from underreacting to something more serious than flu to overreacting in the span of two weeks. Watching cnn is dangerous for ones health - all about what *could* happen. Closing all schools and causing mass storage of paper products is lunacy. I heard one person say 1.7mm people in the US could die- I’ll bet my life savings that doesn’t occur. Media is causing actual hysteria.

We went out today and had a lovely morning at a restaurant and a few shops - I’m glad the suckers stayed home and are eating canned soup.