kerbiloid Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 That's how the proper handshaking must look like after the virocalypse ends. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 56 minutes ago, tater said: This is counterintuitive as %$#@... Makes sense. It will be amusing, particularly in the US, if a certain herb turns out to be critical as both a prophylactic and a therapy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 4 hours ago, DDE said: This doesn't square too well with New York's mass graves. Seems the mortality pattern at least shifted geographically. They main problem is then your hospital beds fills up. This is always an major problems after catastrophes or battles or in this case pandemics. Now the real nightmare will be the 3rd world, you already have 1st world countries fighting over mask and respirators as in bribing truck drivers with a suitcase money to deliver at their plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) Afair, the mass graves in NY are prepared for unclaimed bodies. Others are in fridges, waiting for funeral companies get working. Edited April 13, 2020 by kerbiloid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, kerbiloid said: That's how the proper handshaking must look like after the virocalypse ends. Hide contents Looks like standard is hand at heart in Norway, the military salute could work just as well but has lots of baggage as in only used outdoor with your cap and majors who you wanted to salute because of their rank got a bit annoyed as they had to salute back for the 29 time this hour. While fresh sergeants raised an fuss if they was not saluted. One of them called me an parody of Billy, well why don't I get an long running carton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 hours ago, magnemoe said: Now the real nightmare will be the 3rd world, you already have 1st world countries fighting over mask and respirators as in bribing truck drivers with a suitcase money to deliver at their plane 3rd world has younger population, so corona won’t hit them as hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Afair, the mass graves in NY are prepared for unclaimed bodies. Others are in fridges, waiting for funeral companies get working. Hart Island has historically been used for unclaimed bodies, homeless people, etc., yes, but not in mass graves. The bodies were stacking up too fast. They brought in refrigerated trucks to hold the bodies but those ran out of space, so they started with the mass graves, and they'll allow family to exhume and rebury whoever they want after the fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Yeah, the trouble is that the funeral homes are overwhelmed—not just because of the number of deaths, but also due to delays. The family might want a service, but they can't have a service until restrictions are lifted. All the usual stuff that would move everything along is broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotel26 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, tater said: we saw a cockroach in the kitchen, so we decided to burn the house down. Very apt. By the time we figure this out perfectly, we will have gotten some things (badly) wrong anyway. I'll give an example. A side-effect of the panic entailed in a pandemic is the phenomenon of hoarding. (The country I live in has now been credited with the invention of a new emergency, monetary system, called "toilet paper", or TP for short.) So controls have now been applied across the board to prevent hoarding. I went to buy beer recently and I typically buy a carton (24) of 500 ml cans because beer is expensive in this, the nation of the World's Greatest Beer Drinkers. The cans are net cheaper than the 375 ml bottles. (Paradoxically, we have the worst domestic beer (think Olympic training), so I buy a German pilsner (that took months to acquire the taste for) and is cheaper than domestic.) The carton I wanted was not in evidence. The anti-hoarding limit on beer is 11.2 liters. So you can no longer buy the quantity of one (1) unit of a standard 12-liter carton that I have been buying, one at a time, as needed, since 2009. If we can get something as simple as this wrong, how are we going to do taking charge of a once-in-a-century event? I'm resigned to the situation but I watch with amusement. Incidentally, there are worse side-effects to panic than hoarding. How do we all like taking a risk with hyper-inflation? Stimulus, anyone? Edited April 14, 2020 by Hotel26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 The number of people who already had this or have it now has got to be staggering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 9 hours ago, magnemoe said: Looks like standard is hand at heart in Norway, the military salute could work just as well but has lots of baggage as in only used outdoor with your cap and majors who you wanted to salute because of their rank got a bit annoyed as they had to salute back for the 29 time this hour. While fresh sergeants raised an fuss if they was not saluted. One of them called me an parody of Billy, well why don't I get an long running carton Speaking of lots of baggage, the handshake crisis has brought certain... advocates of the Roman salute out of the woodwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Spoiler Quote war Beware of Ratte tanks on the streets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 2 hours ago, DDE said: Reveal hidden contents Beware of Ratte tanks on the streets. The Ratte names "street" any route to pass through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Day one of Moscow's permit system. Of 3 mln issued, 900,000 have failed verification of the presented data and will be annulled. https://ria.ru/20200414/1570020424.html So a flawed system or flawed instructions - or mass fraud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Just for info: daily 25 mln of SIM cards are active in Moscow. So, it's 3 mln of ~20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Vaccine they think could be ready for regulatory approval by the second half of 2021 (so maybe deployed in 2022?). https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/14/glaxosmithkline-sanofi-coronavirus-vaccine-collaboration/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm New data. 14k deaths last week, all causes. Should be 56k. 27% of expected deaths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 14 hours ago, tater said: The number of people who already had this or have it now has got to be staggering. Whoa. Let's get that serological testing going. Speaking of, I just got my stimulus payment! IRS has a site set up for you to figure out when yours should land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 6 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Whoa. Let's get that serological testing going. Odd how that "around 15%" number keeps coming up. Antibody tests Germany (on humans). Antibody tests China (cats). PCR testing mothers NY... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 18 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Speaking of, I just got my stimulus payment! IRS has a site set up for you to figure out when yours should land. LOL. No stimulus payment coming to me anyway, but I was curious enough to click the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 4 minutes ago, mikegarrison said: LOL. No stimulus payment coming to me anyway, but I was curious enough to click the link. Figured people would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Afair, something is told by US diplomats about their visit to Wuhan in 2018. (Though, I'll refrain from details because not sure if true.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 8 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Figured people would. And you were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tater Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 The PCR test we need: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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