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03-18-2020, 09:25 PM | #6616 |
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03-18-2020, 09:27 PM | #6617 |
THE RED MENACE
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03-18-2020, 09:28 PM | #6618 | |
I love your mom
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The whole world got caught with there pants down. |
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03-18-2020, 09:30 PM | #6619 |
Wasted away again...
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03-18-2020, 09:32 PM | #6620 | |
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Some good news on the hand santizer shortage is that local breweries are converting their production to making hand sanitizer and usually giving it away to hospitals and nursing homes that have shortages. I’m stopping my social distancing to take a car full to a nursing home from one of our local Breweries. Last edited by BigRedChief; 03-18-2020 at 09:41 PM.. |
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03-18-2020, 09:39 PM | #6621 | |
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03-18-2020, 09:40 PM | #6622 | |
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The 'stop the spread' idea is only temporary. Then with the warmer weather will come some easing on movement to allow for the 'flatten the curve' idea to go into full effect and attempts at herd immunity. And in that 2-4 weeks where we try to put the clamps down, we'll be trying to ramp up our manufacturing base to try to be able to tread water. Once you start to get a better handle on what the respective approaches entail, you can actually see how they may dovetail together. Frankly, I think the idea of 'cyclical contractions' is going to be just as bad as simply letting the thing take hold. You give people that kind of uncertainty and we'll continue with this national tension for a year or longer. That's not tenable. But if you have a genuine plan in place where you squeeze tight at the beginning and then relax before allowing nature to take hold (and improved therapeutic treatments/additional supplies to reduce its impact) you're probably gonna see the best combination of outcomes. But I think it requires a more clear articulation of intentions by national leadership. Give people a target and they'll chase it. Give them a seemingly interminable grind and they'll give up. |
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03-18-2020, 09:41 PM | #6623 |
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03-18-2020, 09:43 PM | #6624 | |
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03-18-2020, 09:47 PM | #6625 |
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03-18-2020, 09:49 PM | #6626 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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For the record - what happens in China over the coming days is MASSIVE.
If they open the taps and this thing explodes in 10 days it means 2 things: 1) They probably weren't sitting on this for as long as theorized and in fact, it did spread extremely quickly and with savage results. 2) That the 'virus suppression' approach is dead in the water. But if it doesn't explode, that suggests pretty strongly that this thing actually spreads pretty damn slowly, they WERE sitting on it for months (whether they knew about it or not is not for the apolitical thread) and that they've probably acquired just enough herd immunity to prevent another epidemic. That would also likely suggest that the number of unreported cases is exceptionally high and the mortality rate lower than feared. Oh...and then it could just mean that it's China doing China things and by throwing all foreign journalists out, they've put the clamps on reporting again. In either event, how China rebounds over the coming weeks can tell us a ton. |
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03-18-2020, 09:51 PM | #6627 |
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Don't believe a ****ing thing China tells us.
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03-18-2020, 09:53 PM | #6628 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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03-18-2020, 09:55 PM | #6629 |
THE RED MENACE
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03-18-2020, 09:55 PM | #6630 |
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