Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

in NYC, major crime is down but commercial burglaries are up and continue to rise...expect that to be a trend throughout the country with more and more people losing their jobs and getting desperate

Lots of people ARE losing their jobs but with the Feds kicking in $600 a week on top of what people get from regular unemployment, some people may actually make more money being out of work. People will just have to be a little patient with the system as it's going to be a slow process. I've been lucky to still be employed, even though I had to take a 10% pay cut.

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by intoanewlife

Europeans got it from travelling to China and bringing it home and taking it to the US as did American travellers. Native 'Chinese' residents were the only ones stopped from going into the US when the supposed 'ban' came into effect. Chinese Americans and other Americans who had travelled to China were allowed in as were travellers from everywhere else in the world coming in from China.

it was a rhetorical question....point is, it originated in China and spread from there

[Lee A Stewart]

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Lots of people ARE losing their jobs but with the Feds kicking in $600 a week on top of what people get from regular unemployment, some people may actually make more money being out of work. People will just have to be a little patient with the system as it's going to be a slow process. I've been lucky to still be employed, even though I had to take a 10% pay cut.

The smart thing to do would've been for the Government to tell business's that they would cover wages and got companies to continue to pay people as normal. It would've stopped the mass unemployment we are all seeing and made it much easier to keep money flowing through a much smaller amount of business operators instead of dealing with every single individual American which is going to be a massive ordeal. It would've also stopped a lot of people scamming the system.

[AnamorphicWidescreen]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

in NYC, major crime is down but commercial burglaries are up and continue to rise...expect that to be a trend throughout the country with more and more people losing their jobs and getting desperate

Makes perfect sense. People are not out & about nearly as much due the pandemic/shelter in place, so the "crimes of opportunity" are not occurring as much (robbery, assault, etc.).

I also suspect that DWI arrests are down. I.e., a lot of these occurred because people were out drinking @ a bar/restaurant and then had to go home because it got late/the place was closing, so stupidly drove home drunk. Now that bars/sit-down restaurants are all closed (at least as far as I know), this specific type of thing wouldn't be happening.

Of course, people can still go to a friend's house & drink & then drive home intoxicated. But, in at least some of those cases they can spend the night & sleep it off there.

Obviously, people should drink responsibly anyway & not get into a car while intoxicated under any circumstances. So, if you're into drinking do it at home - or somewhere where you can just spend the night & then wake up sober.

[intoanewlife]

I haven't had a drink in over 4 weeks

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by zman73

I am aware according to those models its not going to be rosy in the near future but based on the rules in place things will catch up and we will start seeing the drops in the newer cases and deaths. Those models severely mispredicted my states future in regards to the virus but is seems to have improved over the last few updates from over 5000 deaths to around 600

I am doing my thing, going to work, eating well, exercising, getting plenty of sleep. I feel for those who have severe anxiety over this based on location, previous conditions.

Yeah the models get more accurate with more data and elapsed time. Surely the big unknown that they underestimated, was the effectiveness of the shelter in place. Now that they can quantify it more accurately, the model improves.

[Lee A Stewart]

When they said this week was going to be brutal, they weren't exaggerating!

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Dubstar]

Originally Posted by intoanewlife

I haven't had a drink in over 4 weeks

I've been slowly drinking small amounts of the last bottles of vodka and sherry I have stowed away.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

There are states that don't have shelter in place, please point out how much worse they are experiencing this than the other states.

Although they don't have a statewide mandated shelter in place (yet, although I think most of the larger cities within these mostly rural states do have one in place), they have pretty much all closed schools, many non-essential businesses and are advising most of the same guidelines such as social distancing when outside and minimizing non essential travel. So the effect on the economy is not much different there than elsewhere, even without a formal statewide SIP.

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by Dubstar

I've been slowly drinking small amounts of the last bottles of vodka and sherry I have stowed away.

I have 3/4 of vodka left that I bought home from Madrid before I got sick, but I've had almost a month off working out and have just got back into it again so I am holding off until I have got rid of the blubber I have put on from laying on my back for a month before I use it to celebrate

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by intoanewlife

I have 3/4 of vodka left that I bought home from Madrid before I got sick, but I've had almost a month off working out and have just got back into it again so I am holding off until I have got rid of the blubber I have put on from laying on my back for a month before I use it to celebrate

liquor stores are closed where you guys live? we have a few in my area that delivered before this whole ordeal, so ive got plenty of options

although, my house does not run out of liquor, its an essential item

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

liquor stores are closed where you guys live? we have a few in my area that delivered before this whole ordeal, so ive got plenty of options

although, my house does not run out of liquor, its an essential item

Nah they're still open. I'm not an 'at home' drinker unless I have guests over. I usually only drink when I go out.

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by intoanewlife

Nah they're still open. I'm not an 'at home' drinker unless I have guests over. I usually only drink when I go out.

do you have kids lol?

im drinking more due to this lockdown then ever before

[Penton-Man]

follow-up to 3/4/2020 - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...r#post17404003
There have been changes to the original study design of Remdesivir, as per - https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/...&draw=2&rank=4

[intoanewlife]

Originally Posted by Lacit170

do you have kids lol?

im drinking more due to this lockdown then ever before

Nope.

My family has the 'alcoholic' gene so I do my best to avoid it. I'm the only one out of the 4 of us who doesn't have a major drinking problem.

I only drink when I go out because I have social anxiety, if I didn't I highly doubt I would drink at all really.

I don't mind the drunk feeling as such, but I HATE hangovers. I also hate being around drunk people, I get very on edge especially if I am sober.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

follow-up to 3/4/2020 - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...r#post17404003
There have been changes to the original study design of Remdesivir, as per - https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/...&draw=2&rank=4

Laymen’s explanation to ^, see - https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotec...imary-endpoint

[bruceames]

I'm still swamped at work, so I guess I'm lucky to have that as a distraction.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

Those of you in NY, would you be brave enough to go to The Park and get pictures of these supposed death camps?
It isn't that I don't trust the news, but I don't trust the news.
They've already shown themselves to lie, and not just during this outbreak.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1...ients-nyc-park

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

The CDC estimates this season's flu burden could be as high as 60,000+ deaths, so if by "bad" they're referring to death toll and not communicability, are the CDC morons? There have been 14,865 deaths listed in the US so far from COVID-19 and that represents all deaths where someone tested positive for the virus (as per Dr. Birx) which means that figure does not represent the virus causing death but rather someone dying who then tested positive for the virus or had already tested positive for the virus. What are the actual figures for deaths where symptoms of COVID-19 were present?

The Lancet says the following:

"Our estimated overall infection fatality ratio for China was 0·66%"
https://secure.jbs.elsevierhealth.co...sent?code=null

That is very similar to seasonal flu, but seasonal flu has a high burden so why do people think it's marginalizing COVID-19 to compare it to something that kills tens of thousands of people annually in the US? It's not like saying "COVID-19 is like a knee scratch"



There are states that don't have shelter in place, please point out how much worse they are experiencing this than the other states.

There is no quarantine, lock-downs, or shelters in place with the flu. The flu also has a yearly vaccine. Do you honestly think the death rate for COVID-19 could be as low as the flu if there were zero lock-downs, and it was allowed to spread uncontrolled in NYC, Wuhan, and everywhere else in the world? You let that happen, and it becomes clear as day that this would be far deadlier than the flu. The fact that we already surpassed the low end of a yearly flu death rate here in the US in roughly a little over a month, and that's with shutting things down, is enough to prove that.

The combination of a 2 week incubation, and asymptomatic transmission is an absolutely deadly combination that makes this several magnitudes worse than the flu.