Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[The Boot]

Originally Posted by AnamorphicWidescreen

Anyone who doesn't take this COVID-19 seriously is a piece of garbage. These people need to pay attention to the news. People are getting seriously ill & dying from this, and they're not all older people/people with compromised immune systems.

Originally Posted by Lacit170

... exactly why this is going to be VERY hard to contain and flatten that curve. it takes a village....

I see good ol' CinemaSickness is out there with his kid filming YouTube videos at Target. Right after retuning from his trip to DisneyWorld.

...Cool.

EDIT: He has since removed/made the video private. Good. It's dangerous to pretend everything is fine, Dave.

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

they talked about this on the news the other day that the homeless are BIG spreaders of the virus for obvious reasons...not much can be done on that front.



yes its terrible but theyre kids. kids typically think they are invincible and do stupid sh iit ... exactly why this is going to be VERY hard to contain and flatten that curve. it takes a village....

Then force them to quarantine.

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by TheBoss062

Then force them to quarantine.

Yea... where? At home? They're homeless and in LA, etc. there isn't a place for them. There's like 50,000 in LA.

edit: oops you might have been replying to the kids/millenials part. if so, mea culpa for the misunderstanding.

[The Great Owl]

Here is a great read. (Science Based Medicine articles)

It's a reassuring read toward the end. The scientific community is basically “sciencing the sh*t” out of this, to quote The Martian.

[Tony208]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Italy reports 475 new coronavirus deaths, the highest one-day toll of any country

Incidentally, the U.S. infection curve is looking to be even more severe than Italy's.

Those Wuhan leaked reports looking a lot more credible now. Rumor they were cremating hundreds daily.

[Moe Szyslak]

I was walking my dogs today when a child approached and politely asked if he could pet them. "No, I'm sorry," I replied as he lowered his head and turned away in disappointment. This experience truly gutted me.

[sfmarine]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Italy reports 475 new coronavirus deaths, the highest one-day toll of any country

Incidentally, the U.S. infection curve is looking to be even more severe than Italy's.

I just heard those latest numbers out of Italy. Not happy about what the U.S. curve is predicting.

[GenPion]

Originally Posted by sfmarine

I just heard those latest numbers out of Italy. Not happy about what the U.S. curve is predicting.

Agreed. We are on the same slope curve as Italy. Yet Italy is such a small country comparatively that it'll be much worse in the US.

[darkness2918]

Meanwhile in Florida:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs...al-distancing/

[MifuneFan]

Things in Italy will get bad for a while, but eventually, if citizens follow the lock-down properly, new cases should eventually start dropping. The fatality rate was bound to be very high because they have a pretty high life expectancy. Apparently 99% of those that died also had some other underlying illnesses, with nearly half of them having 3 or more of them.

It's looking bad in the US, especially in NY, but the increasing numbers here are also due to the increase in the amount of tests finally being done. New York did about 15,000 tests so far, and 5,000 were done yesterday alone. So numbers are going to start shooting up like crazy here, and it's going to freak people out. Right now, about 16% of those tested in NY are positive.

[The Great Owl]

I love how a bunch of us, myself included, are still posting about the new Criterion announcements for June and about the possible titles in the MGM deal with Vinegar Syndrome, as though any of us are still going to give an actual **** about new Blu-ray releases a few weeks from now.

It's instinctive to cling to normalcy.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by darkness2918

Meanwhile in Florida:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbs...al-distancing/

Florida is its own bag of crazy

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I love how a bunch of us, myself included, are still posting about the new Criterion announcements for June and about the possible titles in the MGM deal with Vinegar Syndrome, as though any of us are still going to give an actual **** about new Blu-ray releases a few weeks from now.

It's instinctive to cling to normalcy.

We're gonna need something to do when we're all in 24/7 lockdown....

[Tony208]

Remember when they said only to wear masks if you were sick? Well a lot of people didn't know they were sick so they didn't wear masks. These people are the biggest spreaders of the virus.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

Florida is its own bag of crazy

Everywhere is its own brand of crazy right now.

I went for a solo 13-mile run yesterday in the late afternoon, since exercising outdoors by ourselves is still perfectly encouraged by the medical community as a form of social distancing.

Several times as I ran though the trail park, though, I saw groups of 10-15 people hanging out together at the picnic tables just as they normally do all of the time. Friends were walking up the mountain in big clusters, talking, laughing, high-fiving each other, and such.

Still, however, I cannot justify the public shaming of these people. We're all dealing with something unprecedented, and the severity of it has simply not hit home with most. Everybody is guilty, pretty much.

[Unknown450]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

We're gonna need something to do when we're all in 24/7 lockdown....

Right?! Well I'm looking at my steam backlog and it's pretty long. lol and I still need to open/play mario odyssey.

And I need to do my binge rewatches of Kingdom s01/s02 and the WestWorld seasons. So I'll be good for a while during my "free" time.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I love how a bunch of us, myself included, are still posting about the new Criterion announcements for June and about the possible titles in the MGM deal with Vinegar Syndrome, as though any of us are still going to give an actual **** about new Blu-ray releases a few weeks from now.

It's instinctive to cling to normalcy.

I'm still hoping for a hail-mary drug regimen that will be fast-tracked and given to everyone, which speeds up recovery drastically. It could happen

[Unknown450]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Everywhere is its own brand of crazy right now.

I went for a solo 13-mile run yesterday in the late afternoon, since exercising outdoors by ourselves is still perfectly encouraged by the medical community as a form of social distancing.

Several times as I ran though the trail park, though, I saw groups of 10-15 people hanging out together at the picnic tables just as they normally do all of the time. Friends were walking up the mountain in big clusters, talking, laughing, high-fiving each other, and such.

Still, however, I cannot justify the public shaming of these people. We're all dealing with something unprecedented, and the severity of it has simply not hit home with most. Everybody is guilty, pretty much.

Yup and it's sad. Cause you know these ppl who are very stubborn about just accepting how things really are, they won't start accepting it until it hits someone they are close to. And they realize it's not something you just brush off.

[The Great Owl]

This Facebook post comes from a healthy 30-something year-old ultrarunner who paced a friend of mine at a recent 100-miler. She was officially diagnosed with coronavirus today (after she had a fever earlier, warranting the test).

“Most cases just get minor or no symptoms” “it’s like a cold” “I’m healthy, I’ll be fine” “I’m not going to see any old people, it doesn’t matter”

No. Stop. There is no reason to be voluntarily sick and there is no reason to make anyone else sick. You don’t know what other people’s underlying conditions are or what impact illness will have for them.

Last Saturday I ran + walked 14 miles without problems. This weekend I was winded carrying a load of laundry upstairs. Just laying in bed and reading, I can’t take a full breath. I don’t have a fever, so am not seriously ill, but I also can’t do almost anything I normally would, thanks to the high risk situations I was put in through work.

Going to a bar isn’t worth it. Hanging out with a group of friends isn’t worth it. Sending your kid on a play date or taking them to a park isn’t worth it. Taking a cheap vacation isn’t worth it. Don’t be that person.

[dublinbluray108]

I just heard on Twitter that a baby under 1 years old now has Covid-19 in Ireland.

https://twitter.com/Healyhack/status...7%26posted%3D1

There's some confusing information being said online about taking ibuprofen whilst getting treated for Coronavirus. Some French medical officials have said earlier today that you should not take ibuprofen at all to treat it. They are saying that taking Ibuprofen make your Covid-19 symptoms worse if you continue with it as it aggravates your symptoms. You should take paracetamol instead to get rid of the symptoms; especially if you have a fever. Is that bit of advice true or do any of get differing advice on it?

Also the number of cases for Covid-19 has risen again in Ireland.

More details here on breakdown >>> https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/...tal-statistics

A table has been designed to tell us how many cases are in each county.



Dublin currently has the highest number of cases in Ireland with 129.

3 counties in Ireland currently have no cases of Covid-19 at all. Those counties with no cases are Laois, Leitrim & Monaghan.