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04-01-2020, 09:25 AM | #14566 |
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04-01-2020, 09:28 AM | #14567 |
"Think BOOM!"
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04-01-2020, 09:28 AM | #14568 | |
Mindful Taoist German
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Prepare yourself. Prepared people don't panic. If you have children start talking to people close to you about taking care of your family should something happen. Have a plan should anyone in your family get sick. Large groups are bad but now is not the time for people to be living alone. This thing sometimes moves fast and if you're one of the unlucky ones you can go from the onset of symptoms to ICU in a day. Be kind to people. We'll all be relying on each other before this is done... |
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04-01-2020, 09:29 AM | #14569 | |
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04-01-2020, 09:32 AM | #14570 |
The Maintenance Guy
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Renovated Bugeater Estate
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Yeah they're stealing it from other employees and redistributing it, probably to avoid unemployment claims against them. At least that's what I'm picking up here, that article was very vague.
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04-01-2020, 09:33 AM | #14571 | |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
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I do think it's still important - not for the purposes of driving policy necessarily, but for our own mental health - to keep in mind the context a bit. It sounds like most are now expecting this to be in the range of 100k to 200k people dead in the U.S. For context, cancer and heart disease both kill around 600k people per year, and accidents, respiratory illness, accidents, and Alzheimer's disease all kill around 150k per year. For an individual person in their 80s, this probably moves their chances of death in the next 12 months from like 15% to 20%. Is it concerning? Absolutely. Should we be taking precautions? Of course. But chances are, a vast majority of the people you know will be just fine. All of the work we're doing is still absolutely necessary, as without doing anything we'd likely be talking about deaths in the millions. My only point is just that, if we all hunker down and do what we're supposed to do, we'll remember this time more in terms of everyone getting stuck at home and the economic impacts rather than because the number of fatalities was unfathomably horrific (and I say that as a good thing). I'm more worried about developing countries than I am about the U.S., Italy, or Spain at this point. |
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04-01-2020, 09:33 AM | #14572 |
Please squeeze
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Clinton, MO
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Florida is up to almost 7k cases and growing fast. Should have locked that state down but probably to late now.
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04-01-2020, 09:35 AM | #14573 |
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04-01-2020, 09:35 AM | #14574 | |
In Search of a Life
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04-01-2020, 09:37 AM | #14575 |
"You like to drink?"
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Location: "I like to drink."
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04-01-2020, 09:39 AM | #14576 |
Wasted away again...
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: in Margaritaville
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I kind of assumed he was joking.
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04-01-2020, 09:39 AM | #14577 | ||
Mindful Taoist German
Join Date: Aug 2000
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/peop...r-offices.html Yes, dirtbags are stealing the stuff from hospitals and everywhere else... |
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04-01-2020, 09:44 AM | #14578 | |
Mortgage the Future Please
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Location: Diontae Johnson dreamland
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Accurate. Come play me on Golden Tee. I am Golfnado. I will take you for all your fake coins are worth. Yes. I have a large supply of chunky beef soup. |
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04-01-2020, 09:45 AM | #14579 | |
Mindful Taoist German
Join Date: Aug 2000
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This will be bad no matter and the world wide economic and political damage will linger long after the bug has passed. |
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04-01-2020, 09:48 AM | #14580 | |
Life is changing..
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