[ALEXIS_DH]

Full asshole.
I just don't get it. I am in close contact with the folks I am always in touch with. Those that were too busy to even keep a basic level of contact the whole time, well, you made that decision a while ago, so please stick with it.

I read somewhere a person has about 20 people and about 10-20 places in its immediate memory/enviroment, and most acquaintances known for over 8 years are usually acquaintances for life.
Even if you wanted to, your memory/time just cant handle more than that. Your mind will "delete" contacts to make room for new ones if necessary. I remember this, because Im mostly in agreement.

But you need at least 100 people to get things done. The higher in food chain, the more you actually need.
Bullshit small talk and occasional gifts/calls/greetings keep the line open.

 

[Randomshot]

I texted out to about 20 people last night, good to catch up.

Well i texted my ex about 20 times. Does that count??

 

[Jm_]

Anybody else hate the term or maybe more accurately the misnomer "Social Distancing"?

That is not what we need or should want.
We need Social Closeness, but Physical Distancing.

Stay home and pick up the phone, text or skype

I for one can always use more Social D.

 

[rideit]

This is VERY interesting.
Supposedly a loss of smell/taste is possibly an early indicator that you might be infected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/h...ell-taste.html

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

As far as Social Distancing, I just continue to avoid the other humans. Only now I have a legal obligation to be a dick about it.

 

[6thElement]

Just watched Contagion with the wife. Hopefully that wasn't a bad idea.

Contagion (2011) ⭐ 6.8 | Drama, Thriller

1h 46m | PG-13

m.imdb.com

 

[Da Peach]

As far as Social Distancing, I just continue to avoid the other humans. Only now I have a legal obligation to be a dick about it.

I ran into a riding acquaintance at the top of of my climb. He offered a fist bump and was surprised when I refused.

Scary stuff when the smart people around choose to be dumb.

 

[stoney]

This is VERY interesting.
Supposedly a loss of smell/taste is possibly an early indicator that you might be infected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/h...ell-taste.html

Huh... Glad everything is starting to smell and taste off in addition to being fatigued, sore, and out of breath from walking up the stairs or picking up small child. On a side note, I just coughed up a semi-bloody, solid, mucous rock about 3mm in diameter. I wonder if these things are related?

We're assuming that Wifey and I both have it at this point and will talk with our Dr about possibly getting tests. Hannah is staying home with us for the next 2 weeks, which is going to be fucking great. Good thing we don't have any work to do.

 

[Jm_]

Huh... Glad everything is starting to smell and taste off in addition to being fatigued, sore, and out of breath from walking up the stairs or picking up small child. On a side note, I just coughed up a semi-bloody, solid, mucous rock about 3mm in diameter. I wonder if these things are related?

We're assuming that Wifey and I both have it at this point and will talk with our Dr about possibly getting tests. Hannah is staying home with us for the next 2 weeks, which is going to be fucking great. Good thing we don't have any work to do.

Take care and drink lots of fluids. Hopefully you make it through just fine.

 

[stoney]

Take care and drink lots of fluids. Hopefully you make it through just fine.

Thanks. I'm not concerned about us, but guarantee I'll be bitching. (@6thElement why you no complain when you have the penultimate chance?) I'm still very concerned about MIL though and just found out my parents (Fox/Trump'ers) are still socializing "but a few feet apart".

 

[kazlx]

 

[stoney]

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When you're forced to hangout with you're family and you've exhausted the internet but aren't ready to tackle the garage, a walk seems good.
Although I have this feeling people are going to walk away from this whole event even more anti-social than they were before. Unless of course there are widespread deaths and people are really happy to see people and want to spend time with them again... But I thing the former.

 

[Westy]

Ultimately every death is cardiovascular or respiratory failure. Reporting it as those isn’t useful.

As I understand it a lot of deaths come from secondary infections, bacteria feasting on dead lung tissue and an exhausted immune system.

What are the odd if hospitals are overwhelmed that treatment of secondary infections releases a secondary pandemic of antibiotic resistant pneumonia?

 

[Westy]

I texted out to about 20 people last night, good to catch up.

A bunch of my old buddies had a beer chugging face time conference call. They caught me on the top of a mountain covered with snow on my bike. I wish I could have mounted my phone so they could have watched the show on my way down.

 

[mandown]

Not to get too PAWN for The Lounge, but when does someone decide to make a military strike?

 

[stoney]

A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients

“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”

www.propublica.org

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Not to get too PAWN for The Lounge, but when does someone decide to make a military strike?

Hopefully before the spring break kids come to and start wandering away.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients

“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”

www.propublica.org

 

[eric strt6]

I guess I am always social distancing. Aside from my wife I have 3 casual friends in town and one long time friend in Durango. I'm good with that

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Huh... Glad everything is starting to smell and taste off in addition to being fatigued, sore, and out of breath from walking up the stairs or picking up small child. On a side note, I just coughed up a semi-bloody, solid, mucous rock about 3mm in diameter. I wonder if these things are related?

We're assuming that Wifey and I both have it at this point and will talk with our Dr about possibly getting tests. Hannah is staying home with us for the next 2 weeks, which is going to be fucking great. Good thing we don't have any work to do.

Best to you and yours.

 

[6thElement]

Thanks. I'm not concerned about us, but guarantee I'll be bitching. (@6thElement why you no complain when you have the penultimate chance?) I'm still very concerned about MIL though and just found out my parents (Fox/Trump'ers) are still socializing "but a few feet apart".

Getting out of breath doing nothing sucks.

I'm 11 days in with my symptoms. Even if not CV19 I do not want to catch it while I've already got a respiratory issue.

 

[jonKranked]

# of cases in my county is up ~40% in the last 2 days.

 

[Toshi]

# of cases in my county is up ~40% in the last 2 days.

Cases don't matter until testing is ubiquitous. From the preliminary Washington and Colorado data I have seen there's about 10% prevalence at this point in the population. This is not enough for herd immunity at this point, needless to say.

 

[jonKranked]

Cases don't matter until testing is ubiquitous. From the preliminary Washington and Colorado data I have seen there's about 10% prevalence at this point in the population. This is not enough for herd immunity at this point, needless to say.

i get that there's a latency between the # of tested & confirmed cases and the actual # of cases out there.

 

[Fool]

Pretty sure this is about as useful as consulting WebMD, but shitposting it here anyway. You know what'd be useful? Widespread fucking testing.

COVID-19 Symptom Check

Check your risk for COVID-19 based on best clinical practices, CDC guidelines, illness severity and risk factors like age and pre-existing conditions.

c19check.com

 

[Toshi]

Pretty sure this is about as useful as consulting WebMD, but shitposting it here anyway. You know what'd be useful? Widespread fucking testing.

COVID-19 Symptom Check

Check your risk for COVID-19 based on best clinical practices, CDC guidelines, illness severity and risk factors like age and pre-existing conditions.

c19check.com

If you ask Siri it'll give you a similar checklist, I believe (without clicking that link to verify)

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Pretty sure this is about as useful as consulting WebMD, but shitposting it here anyway. You know what'd be useful? Widespread fucking testing.

COVID-19 Symptom Check

Check your risk for COVID-19 based on best clinical practices, CDC guidelines, illness severity and risk factors like age and pre-existing conditions.

c19check.com

C19check dot com? I think not.

 

[Fool]

C19check dot com? I think not.

Where's your sense of adventure. Just click through the 10000 pop ups.

 

[Full Trucker]

This might be our trigger to put in a chicken coop into the backyard.

Stoney’s building a backyard wet market, that’s what I heard.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Stoney’s building Colorado’s first wet market, that’s what I heard.

Thank god. I've got all these bats and Pangolins and no place to put them any more.

 

[jonKranked]

Thank god. I've got all these bats and Pangolins and no place to put them any more.

your stomach?

 

[Full Trucker]

Thank god. I've got all these bats and Pangolins and no place to put them any more.

I’m gonna live trap all the squirrels around here, so my crazy neighbor STOPS FUCKING FEEDING THEM. Question: should they be in the cages above or below the bats and pangolins?

 

[Pesqueeb]

I’m gonna live trap all the squirrels around here, so my crazy neighbor STOPS FUCKING FEEDING THEM. Question: should they be in the cages above or below the bats and pangolins?

I just put them all in the same cage. What's the worst that could happen?

 

[6thElement]

I’m gonna live trap all the squirrels around here, so my crazy neighbor STOPS FUCKING FEEDING THEM. Question: should they be in the cages above or below the bats and pangolins?

Just make sure to have the pigs at the bottom so the new COV-20 can easily transition into whatever is left of mankind.

 

[Toshi]

Two Weeks of Coronavirus that Changed the World

The last time I posted here on March 2nd feels like a lifetime ago. We had just returned from a nine week trip filming for the Cholesterol Code Documentary and we were gearing up to do more filming…

cholesterolcode.com

An excellent post by a rational engineer.

 

[SkaredShtles]

I just put them all in the same cage. What's the worst that could happen?

Like Thunderdome for the menagerie? I like it...

 

[Toshi]

So Germany's mortality rate thus far has been on the order of 0.4%. Given that they actually test (albeit not to SKorea levels) this is probably closer to reality.

I sure hope the model-makers take their data into account: higher background minimally symptomatic prevalence thus higher R0, but also lower mortality than initially feared via low-quality data with sampling bias.

Germany's low coronavirus mortality rate intrigues experts

Some query data methodology while others say high testing rates are giving more accurate picture

www.theguardian.com

 

[stevew]

 

[rideit]

So Germany's mortality rate thus far has been on the order of 0.4%. Given that they actually test (albeit not to SKorea levels) this is probably closer to reality.

I sure hope the model-makers take their data into account: higher background minimally symptomatic prevalence thus higher R0, but also lower mortality than initially feared via low-quality data with sampling bias.

Germany's low coronavirus mortality rate intrigues experts

Some query data methodology while others say high testing rates are giving more accurate picture

www.theguardian.com

Germans, like the Finnish, generally operate on very generous personal space. Just my completely uninformed, bullshit theory.

 

[dump]

I’m gonna live trap all the squirrels around here, so my crazy neighbor STOPS FUCKING FEEDING THEM. Question: should they be in the cages above or below the bats and pangolins?

Hungry cats and/or owls work too.