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Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?
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bigredfish
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Assuming Biden remembers what day it is and can remember his name, it should be a close race then
Sybertiger
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I went to Walmart, Aldi and CVS this morning...Florida Governor has issued a 30-day stay-at-home order starting at midnight. Yes, I wore my N95 mask and by eye protection goggles. I would estimate that about 1 in 10 customers were wearing masks. Almost none of them appeared to be N95 masks (probably can't get them) and some were wearing homemade cloth masks and bandanas. I think you'll see more and more of this if you haven't already. There's wasn't any stigma associated with this PPE although I kind of felt ridiculous especially when trying to talk through it. Every store has blue tape denoting 6 foot spacing with signs everywhere about social distancing requirements. Everyone was doing a great job of distancing.
See below pic of Walmart...that barrier of shopping carts? It's crowd control. You have to enter the gauntlet to the far right and get in line. There are signs about social distancing on the carts and on the sidewalk there is blue tape every 6 feet.
See below pic of Walmart...that barrier of shopping carts? It's crowd control. You have to enter the gauntlet to the far right and get in line. There are signs about social distancing on the carts and on the sidewalk there is blue tape every 6 feet.
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I was stopping by a grocery chain yesterday for groceries only to find out they close at 6pm now. Parking lot was full of it from gloves to paper towel sheets, and surgical masks, I thought WOW, that plastic latex will take 400+ years to decompose. You could smell the latex from a distance. Great job everybody, we're walking through a door with no return now 
On the parking lot I also found what seemed to be used toilet paper, not many sheets left and there was something brown hanging out of the cardboard roll. This can't get any worse 
The amount of bird droppings on carts left outside was also a spectacle to endure.
On the parking lot I also found what seemed to be used toilet paper, not many sheets left and there was something brown hanging out of the cardboard roll. This can't get any worse The amount of bird droppings on carts left outside was also a spectacle to endure.
Nope...just a bunch of "deplorables" as usual.
Sybertiger
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But everything else that flies, slithers, creeps and crawls is still on the table...yes, I meant the dinner table. 
www.newsbreak.com
Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban consumption of cats and dogs - NewsBreak
(CNN) — Shenzhen, in southeastern China, has become the first city in the country to ban the consumption of cats and dogs, the government announced Thursday. Under new rules which will come into effect May 1, the government said it will be illegal to eat animals raised as...
How funny, May 1st? Why not as of today? There will be an all you can eat buffet for the next four weeks. Enjoy while you can.
But everything else that flies, slithers, creeps and crawls is still on the table...yes, I meant the dinner table.
Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban consumption of cats and dogs - NewsBreak
(CNN) — Shenzhen, in southeastern China, has become the first city in the country to ban the consumption of cats and dogs, the government announced Thursday. Under new rules which will come into effect May 1, the government said it will be illegal to eat animals raised as...
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There's a LOT of people in positions of "upper management" who claim to be leaders and have failed to prepare.
National governments and institutions
Fed Government - Executive branch, Legislative branches, ... remember the senators get secret updates on the corona virus from the early days. Did they warn their respective states to prepare?
State governements.
Local city governments - often these folks are running the airports iirc
Hospitals - did not order enough PPE...
Media failing us - like youtube, clamping down on discussions of this topic. ( demonetizing channels, removing them from being recommended )
Many companies failing to be proactive. Still seeing little PPE for clerks at stores.... some stores now have shields to protect the clerks, a good start. Amazon finally jumped on board and will allow PPE for workers... imagine the impact of shutting down a critical warehouse in the supply chain.
Look around you will still find those claiming this is no worse than the seasonal flu....
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Hydroxychloroquine rated ‘most effective therapy’ by doctors for coronavirus: Global survey
An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors released Thursday found that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus.
m.washingtontimes.com
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Interesting findings, thanks for sharing!Hydroxychloroquine rated ‘most effective therapy’ by doctors for coronavirus: Global survey
An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors released Thursday found that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus.
So, it tops the list as being rates by the largest number of docs as the most promising/effective treatment among those listed. That's a good start.
But the data presented basically say it is popular but there is no indication of how effective it is. No listing of number of patients, mean time exhibiting symptoms, disease progression with or without it. It was considered more effective than analgesics or cough syrup etc. But where are the stats about what that means?
To me these are interesting data and I'm glad more research is underway. What the days doesn't show is any objective efficacy or safety data.
In fact it was rated just a bit better than "antibiotics" and a few more points better than "nothing" per the below slide:
So it looks kinda marginal to me. That could change dramatically in either direction based on the actual efficacy data.
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Best thing I saw today:
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Use a Squeeze Bottle as a DIY Bidet
I don’t know about you, but I am running out of toilet paper. I only have two rolls left in my cabinet, and my local grocery store has nothing but emp
lifehacker.com
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Sybertiger
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No chit!
Look at China's total cases per million compared to the top 10. And, check out that we had $27K+ cases today alone which is greater than the total number for the #9 and #10.
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Oceanslider
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A geographically tight group of nations, grouped in an area roughly the size of the USA's North East, that call themselves the EU(with basically open borders) , are now, after much Wuhan Flu devastation, talking about helping their neighbor Italy?
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I'm 99% sure that none of us were ever gullible to believe any numbers from those nations. Now I wonder how the rest of the world will react when this is all over. WION News is really on top of this stuff. I don't see other media outlets being aggressive on this other than the opinion-based reports. At the moment, the crisis is still casting over the country and much of the attention is on public awareness and number of cases/deaths. Once this is all over, the attention will shift to how the world should respond to the source of this virus. Although Italy is already doing something about it.
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