IrishTxAggie said:

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You want to use a freaking nursing home as your example of otherwise?

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Well, since that's the ONLY nursing home in the US it's probably silly to worry about any others getting impacted by this.

Full of elderly clumps of cells anyhow, so no big loss...

Illuminaggie said:

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IrishTxAggie said:

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You want to use a freaking nursing home as your example of otherwise?

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Well, since that's the ONLY nursing home in the US it's probably silly to worry about any others getting impacted by this.

Full of elderly clumps of cells anyhow, so no big loss...

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All life Is meaningful and kindly go ahead and **** off for trying to imply that I inferred otherwise.

If less than perfect info is satisfactory to take preemptive measures militarily, I think the same can be said when it comes to taking preemptive measures medically. The medical folks are essentially our intelligence officers for this stuff. If they are pretty unanimously saying we need to take cover, then cover I will take. I understand I'm obviously in the minority, but that's fine by me. But I do find it rather odd that there's not nearly as much pushback over preemptive military measures as there is this.

I want to make sure I get this right, things seem to be coming under control at ground zero for the outbreak and the adjacent areas. The doomsday scenario never played out, BUT we now have to worry about secondary infections and people getting Covid-19 a second time to know for sure just how bad this will be. Is that correct??

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aginlakeway said:

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I just went to grocery store.

Plenty of everyone on hand. No panic. Even shook a few friends' hands. And I kissed the pharmacist working there.

Are chances now high I'll get the virus?

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Keep repeating that same behavior and yes, chances are high you'll get it. And pass it on to someone else.

But way to be proud of your poor hygiene during a pandemic.

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So am I not supposed to go to the store? Or shake friends hands? Or kiss my wife while she's at work?

What about any if my actions leads you to understand the personal hygiene of a stranger?

goodAg80 said:

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aginlakeway said:

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I just went to grocery store.

Plenty of everyone on hand. No panic. Even shook a few friends' hands. And I kissed the pharmacist working there.

Are chances now high I'll get the virus?

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In Lakeway you are at high risk of getting accosted by a cougar...

who is on her third marriage.

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Bingo. Much more likely.

I think his username plays into this more than anything. Anyone want to kick back and watch a movie about a Dan Brown book?

SoupNazi2001 said:

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When I go out into the real world in DFW everything is completely normal. When I go online and read this thread or Twitter it sounds like the apocalypse. Going on a ski trip in a few days for spring break. Enjoy your bunkers everyone.

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aginlakeway said:

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Illuminaggie said:

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aginlakeway said:

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I just went to grocery store.

Plenty of everyone on hand. No panic. Even shook a few friends' hands. And I kissed the pharmacist working there.

Are chances now high I'll get the virus?

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Keep repeating that same behavior and yes, chances are high you'll get it. And pass it on to someone else.

But way to be proud of your poor hygiene during a pandemic.

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So am I not supposed to go to the store? Or shake friends hands? Or kiss my wife while she's at work?

What about any if my actions leads you to understand the personal hygiene of a stranger?

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Yes. Follow the recommendation of the CDC. Don't shake hands, don't kiss. Is it really that hard to stop doing that for 2 months?

So I'm in my 30's but a lot of our office is 60+ and not all, but the majority, have some sort of unhealthyness. Should I let the olds and underlying conditions people stay home?

Illuminaggie said:

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aginlakeway said:

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Illuminaggie said:

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aginlakeway said:

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I just went to grocery store.

Plenty of everyone on hand. No panic. Even shook a few friends' hands. And I kissed the pharmacist working there.

Are chances now high I'll get the virus?

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Keep repeating that same behavior and yes, chances are high you'll get it. And pass it on to someone else.

But way to be proud of your poor hygiene during a pandemic.

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So am I not supposed to go to the store? Or shake friends hands? Or kiss my wife while she's at work?

What about any if my actions leads you to understand the personal hygiene of a stranger?

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Yes. Follow the recommendation of the CDC. Don't shake hands, don't kiss. Is it really that hard to stop doing that for 2 months?

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So don't kiss my wife? Ok.

And I'll go ahead and shake friends' hands. I'll also wash my hands throughout the day. I'll live on the edge.

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So I'm in my 30's but a lot of our office is 60+ and not all, but the majority, have some sort of unhealthyness. Should I let the olds and underlying conditions people stay home?

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I think you should make it optional to them. Let them choose for themselves if you have the authority to do so and you believe they can still contribute and get their work done via telecommuting for a bit. It'll buy you a lot of goodwill from your team too

goodAg80 said:

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Most of us (>99.9%) will survive and recover although some may have some cell damage

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Who is us? The infected, the general population, etc. ? If you are saying 99.9% of those that are infected will survive, I don't know what to say.

nothing conclusive and the purported silver bullet is like 10k a dose

Some reporter was giving Trump crap about people attending his rallies and not one peep I've heard about international women's day rally

Dan Scott said:

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Some reporter was giving Trump crap about people attending his rallies and not one peep I've heard about international women's day rally

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Or Bernie rallies.

Glad I'm not a germaphobe.

South Park is going to have a hilarious new episode soon.

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nothing conclusive and the purported silver bullet is like 10k a dose

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The HIV medication is more of what I was referring to, which does not cost anywhere close to that. Some of it is even generic.

Just got back from Costco in McKinney. It wasn't busier than normal but they are limiting purchases of water and TP to 2 per household.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-timothy-cole-rector-dc-christ-church-georgetown-tests-positive/

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Washington The first person to test positive for coronavirus in Washington, D.C., is the prominent leader of a historic Episcopal church in Georgetown, the church said Sunday.

The Reverend Timothy Cole, rector of Christ Church Georgetown, was diagnosed at the hospital Saturday night and is in stable condition, according to the Reverend Crystal Hardin, the assistant to the rector, who spoke at a press conference outside the church Sunday.

In an email to parishioners obtained by CBS News, Cole confirmed he has tested positive, and said services were suspended "out of an abundance of caution for the most vulnerable among us." All services were canceled Sunday, the first time the church has closed since a fire in the 1800s, Hardin said.

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Here's a link to the threaded Twitter article from a couple of days ago

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236095180459003909.html

One quote:

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By this estimate, by about May 8th, all open hospital beds in the US will be filled. (This says nothing, of course, about whether these beds are suitable for isolation of patients with a highly infectious virus.)

If we're wrong by a factor of two regarding the fraction of severe cases, that only changes the timeline of bed saturation by 6 days in either direction. If 20% of cases require hospitalization, we run out of beds by ~May 2nd.

If only 5% of cases require it, we can make it until ~May 14th. 2.5% gets us to May 20th. This, of course, assumes that there is no uptick in demand for beds from *other* (non-COVID19) causes, which seems like a dubious assumption.

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Oh no. Aggie baseball players just shook hands as they came off the field ...

And they'll shake hands with visiting players after the game.

Just had our first case in Nebraska on Friday. The lady was nice enough to attend a Special Olympics tournament before finally going to the ER.

aginlakeway said:

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Oh no. Aggie baseball players just shook hands as they came off the field ...

And they'll shake hands with visiting players after the game.

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Exactly what point are you trying to make?

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Now we're getting somewhere.

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aginlakeway said:

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Oh no. Aggie baseball players just shook hands as they came off the field ...

And they'll shake hands with visiting players after the game.

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Exactly what point are you trying to make?

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Just making an observation.

I was criticized for shaking friends' hands at store earlier today. And my personal hygiene was called into question.

So no idea what that poster now must think about our student athletes.

Moving on ...

Bobcat06 said:

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I just want to thank Staff for the ignore function which has made this thread much more readable

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Agree.

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IrishTxAggie said:

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So the country that was ground zero for this is beginning to wind down. This country is ~20% of the world's population. All said and done it looks like they'll have less than 4,000 deaths all while having worse health and horrid healthcare compared to the rest of the developed nations.


.00000235294% of their population....Now, back to your next regularly scheduled apocalypse.

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This type of math and positivity is not acceptable.

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How dare you post this truth ... this should be removed, this post is only for spreading fear and using scare tactics

aginlakeway said:

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Proposition Joe said:

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aginlakeway said:

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Oh no. Aggie baseball players just shook hands as they came off the field ...

And they'll shake hands with visiting players after the game.

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Exactly what point are you trying to make?

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Just making an observation.

I was criticized for shaking friends' hands at store earlier today. And my personal hygiene was called into question.

So no idea what that poster now must think about our student athletes.

Moving on ...

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Thank god you won the internet battle with an anonymous poster on whether you had good hygiene!

Come visit me in Silicon Valley. All is not normal here. Things are shutting down. Hospitals are putting up tents.

My church hasn't shut down but has added extra hand sanitizer, is cleaning more, and is discouraging handshakes. That's with 24 cases in the area.

If you are older than 50, we've been told to avoid mass gatherings. I'm older than 50 and have asthma. My husband is older than 50:and has asthma and hypertension.

I never thought of 57 and 58 being considered elderly.

We are trying to put our home on the market next month, and I'm worried about the impact this has on that. I think we will move out just before we put it on the market. I don't want to be in it after lots of people have been looking at it

Oh and we are also told not to fly, and we were going to fly out to where we were moving to find a rental. Not anymore.

Yep. Makes my day. Thanks for the congrats.

Dan Scott said:

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Some reporter was giving Trump crap about people attending his rallies and not one peep I've heard about international women's day rally

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Or Bernie rallies, or Biden rallies...