How are you greeting the end of the world?

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    Gordig said:
    Galaxy said:

    I am sure hundreds of lives are saved (road accidents etc.) worldwide than this virus is claiming.

    Somehow on an almost empty street there was a major car accident with injuries just a few blocks from me. There are almost no cars out, yet people manage to get into accidents. Crazy!

    Every time I've left the house in the last few days, I've seen at least one accident, and they all looked fairly serious. I guess it's mostly just the idiots that are still out on the roads.

    The universe may or may not be infinite.

    There may or may not be an infinite number of universes.

    We don't know if God exists, or if indeed said being is infinite.

    ... Human stupidity? There is evidence that that is infinite.

  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,837
    Left my apartment for the first time in 9 days for meat. (Found plenty) It's like some bad Hollywood Apocalypse movie cliche out there. The grim silence, the masks& gloves. Went home.. Did my improvised workout... Showered and set up one of the two final shots of my animated feature film...to Render on one computer ... And buried myself in detailing this conforming armor for the G2 male in blender ,over on my new machine.
  • ReneWReneW Posts: 149
    kyoto kid said:
    Greymom said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Greymom said:

    Social distancing is not a problem for me.  I have bagpipes and an inflatable T-Rex costume, and I am not afraid to use them!

    Um...my sons request that I NOT test-fire the bagpipes...no appreciation for classical music.

     

    ...but do you have a unicycle and hazmat clothing? 

     

    For me:  Unicycle = instant death (I have no balance anymore).   I have a cheap disposable hazard suit.

    The Unipiper is a unique character! laugh

     

    ...he's a Portland icon and living testament to this city's weirdness. .  

    Yep, the Unipiper and his friend Moshow the Cat Rapper are two of our local ambassadors for keeping Portland weird. smiley

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,618

    better singer not racist one

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,200
    Ivy said:
     

    How do you keep your bread from getting moldy?  Every time I bake bread, it barely lasts 3 or 4 days before it's got green spots all over it.  I would consider it a huge win if I could get my baked bread to last 7 days outside of the fridge.

    My guess is your not eating iyour bread fast enough. So if you make more than you can eat you should wrap it good with plastic wrap and freeze it. or refrigerate it .  But its also pretty well know that you add 2 table spoons of Honey to your bread recipes to extend homemade bread freshness and keep it from molding ..... But don't take my word for it . Look it up, you seem to not believe anything else i wrote wink

    Back in the days of Salem witch trials a mold called Ergot grew on rye bread that caused psychedelic effects for the residents and the cows and is a derivative of LSD. Other mold is a precursor to penicillin. Bread creates interesting molds! 

    Actually LSD would be the derivative since it is a chemical compound and Ergot is a natural forming mold.

     

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,200

    I don't why you are saying 'unbelievable'? This is the kind of event that the charter for the National Guard was established for. They answer to the Govender and are used to aid local communities. They will be able to build temporary hospitals and provide security to doctors and medical supplies if things do get worse and people try to steal supplies. They can also assist local law enforcement to keep order and pass supplies if stores start closing.  I should also add that that per the Constitution, they have no law enforcement powers and cannot act as a Gestapo as some people think.

     

    I am not insinuating that was what you meant, just adding it as information.

     

    This is actually happening. Unbelievable! 

     

     

     

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 7,851

    Most our officials are not suger coating it any more,  They're saying not weeks, but months. Schools will be off indefinitely at this point.  We're living through an historical event right now.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,225

    Here is a glimmer of hope.  Not proven.  Yet to be fully analyzed.  But hopeful, nonetheless.

     

    Even in the absence of a fully vetted antidote, analysis of data from countries with extensive testing of people without significant symptoms (eg. South Korea) may, repeat may, result in an eventual flip of the quarantines.  It may be possible to isolate people at higher risk of severe reactions, while people likely to experience no symptoms, or only mild symptoms, can begin functioning again.

     

    Fingers crossed.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162

    It is beginning to sound like the Black Death or the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.............frightening.

  • shadowhawk1shadowhawk1 Posts: 2,200

    Most our officials are not suger coating it any more,  They're saying not weeks, but months. Schools will be off indefinitely at this point.  We're living through an historical event right now.

    I have already canceled my plans for coming home in June to visit my family and my sons graduation from high school/collage. I have a feeling it will be later this year possibly early next year before we see an end to all of this. 

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562

    Now it looks like tornedo. While it last it is affecting everything. However Coronavirus: Wuhan to ease lockdown as world battles pandemic.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52016139

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,225

    Here are inconveniences.  My friends had to cancel their wedding (I was going to officiate).  My niece's graduation was canceled.  

    It is much, much worse for the people suffering.  Cataclysmic.  Wishing all well.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,865
    Fishtales said:

    It is beginning to sound like the Black Death or the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.............frightening.

    The 1919 flu was worse as a disease, and the Black Death was far, far worse (though now it would be treatable wih antobiotics, unlike a viral illnes).

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,317

    What has been most striking to me is how this parallels what it must have been like for the indigenous peoples when Europeans first step foot on their lands, bringing their sicknesses. 

  • There has been studies that link the mini-iceage of the 1700's to the carbon sequestration by the Amazon forest as so much re-grew after smallpox & other diseases killed off the native south americans. That gives an idea of how many people died. Horrific.

  • BendinggrassBendinggrass Posts: 1,373
    kyoto kid said:

     

     

    Ivy said:

    Something that was relayed to me today . People that still need basic supplies might try looking in places like walgreens and rite aid  other drug stores. I was told by one of our preepper friends this afternoon  that they have bread and milk and other simple food items  they were in a walgreens and they were full stocked with the those basic items tha its why I am writing this to advise people should check those stores as well. in these times try to think outside the box.  you may pay more but chances are those drug stores have not been cleaned out because people are avoiding them for fear of being around sick people getting their prescriptions.. Just some friendly advice that was relayed to me today through the our network.

    Stay safe

    ....sadly everyone else in the city. centre are thinking the same thing.  Shelves everywhere are pretty much empty of paper goods (TP and Towels) . Today I went to the Safeway (new weekly sales begin every Wednesday) to get some super lean ground beef for my past sauce that i saw was on sale for 2.99$/#. When I got there the entire fresh butcher counter was empty and only a few very expensive pre-packed quantities were in the cooler.  Nixed that as not going to pay 8$ - 9$/#.  Also. apparently there as a run on red potatoes for some reason (was looking to get some to have with the fish I prepare every Friday).  Don't really want to get on one of those "rolling Petri dishes" that is a city bus to try and find what I need. 

    Red potatoes.... !?!?!?!?

    please......... white potatoes all the way.......... oh, I'll definitely be growing my own potatoes this summer.

    How do you grow potatoes? Some potatoes I had started to grow roots and I was about to throw them out. I have a 12 inch pot with dirt on my balcony. Can I just put some in there or do you need an actual garden? 

    basically put them in a deep pot in only a bit of soil and cover them as they grow with more loose mixture, straw is good

    I have stacked old tyres one at a time and filled with pea straw

    it will fill with potatoes and you pull it apart afterwards

    here is some DIY ideas
     

    Wow, I never knew potatoes had leaves! Cool. I will take them out of the trash and plant them! 

    Don't know if this was mentioned..... the white stalk on your old potato, the "eye", is put in the soil attached to a piece of the potato. That piece does not have to be very big at all. Don't forget you will need fertilizer. Farms often use manure, but in the city you can use pellet fertilizer. A useful general fertilizer is 12-12-12, which refers to the ration of nitrogen-potassium-phosperous; root crops such as potatoes and carrots use all three elements. If you plant in a pot or bucket it might be better to mix the fertilizer with your soil.

  • NathNath Posts: 2,856
    Fishtales said:

    It is beginning to sound like the Black Death or the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.............frightening.

    The 1919 flu was worse as a disease, and the Black Death was far, far worse (though now it would be treatable wih antobiotics, unlike a viral illnes).

    I assume that by the 1919 flu you mean the second wave of the 1918 virus? Which was indeed worse than the first wave.

    The Black Death does indeed still occur - and is apparently reasonably easily treatable, so yeah...

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,618
    edited March 2020
    kyoto kid said:

     

     

    Ivy said:

    Something that was relayed to me today . People that still need basic supplies might try looking in places like walgreens and rite aid  other drug stores. I was told by one of our preepper friends this afternoon  that they have bread and milk and other simple food items  they were in a walgreens and they were full stocked with the those basic items tha its why I am writing this to advise people should check those stores as well. in these times try to think outside the box.  you may pay more but chances are those drug stores have not been cleaned out because people are avoiding them for fear of being around sick people getting their prescriptions.. Just some friendly advice that was relayed to me today through the our network.

    Stay safe

    ....sadly everyone else in the city. centre are thinking the same thing.  Shelves everywhere are pretty much empty of paper goods (TP and Towels) . Today I went to the Safeway (new weekly sales begin every Wednesday) to get some super lean ground beef for my past sauce that i saw was on sale for 2.99$/#. When I got there the entire fresh butcher counter was empty and only a few very expensive pre-packed quantities were in the cooler.  Nixed that as not going to pay 8$ - 9$/#.  Also. apparently there as a run on red potatoes for some reason (was looking to get some to have with the fish I prepare every Friday).  Don't really want to get on one of those "rolling Petri dishes" that is a city bus to try and find what I need. 

    Red potatoes.... !?!?!?!?

    please......... white potatoes all the way.......... oh, I'll definitely be growing my own potatoes this summer.

    How do you grow potatoes? Some potatoes I had started to grow roots and I was about to throw them out. I have a 12 inch pot with dirt on my balcony. Can I just put some in there or do you need an actual garden? 

    basically put them in a deep pot in only a bit of soil and cover them as they grow with more loose mixture, straw is good

    I have stacked old tyres one at a time and filled with pea straw

    it will fill with potatoes and you pull it apart afterwards

    here is some DIY ideas
     

    Wow, I never knew potatoes had leaves! Cool. I will take them out of the trash and plant them! 

    Don't know if this was mentioned..... the white stalk on your old potato, the "eye", is put in the soil attached to a piece of the potato. That piece does not have to be very big at all. Don't forget you will need fertilizer. Farms often use manure, but in the city you can use pellet fertilizer. A useful general fertilizer is 12-12-12, which refers to the ration of nitrogen-potassium-phosperous; root crops such as potatoes and carrots use all three elements. If you plant in a pot or bucket it might be better to mix the fertilizer with your soil.

    I have seen people scraping the pigeon shit off of the concrete under bridges laugh and bagging it

    it needs to be well rotted and diluted though like chicken manure

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681

    Most our officials are not suger coating it any more,  They're saying not weeks, but months. Schools will be off indefinitely at this point.  We're living through an historical event right now.

    We're always living through historical events, just not noteworthy ones.indecision  Or if they are, they make it into the wrong history books.frown

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,845
    Galaxy said:

    Coronavirus arizona man poisons himself by self medicating himself.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/chloroquine-poisoning-coronavirus.html

    Darwin awards winner for sure...

    Seriously, fish tank cleaning? How could he even think it was a good idea? o_O

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    Leana said:
    Galaxy said:

    Coronavirus arizona man poisons himself by self medicating himself.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/chloroquine-poisoning-coronavirus.html

    Darwin awards winner for sure...

    Seriously, fish tank cleaning? How could he even think it was a good idea? o_O

    Thinking had nothing to do with it.  There's nothing like a good disaster to find out who panics easily.  I'm surprised no one has posted this yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jG8WCp6Njg  

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562

    Lockdown Slows Coronavirus, Isn't Enough, Warn Stanford Professors
    Our current actions are only buying time. That time must not be wasted. We must use it to prepare and fight back.

    The hard truth is that sheltering in place will only slow the onslaught of the coronavirus...More importantly, the social costs of unemployment, gaps in education, social isolation and depression might rival or well exceed those from the virus...Finally, and worst of all, the shelter-in-place approach may eventually break down...

    https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/stanford-op-ed-on-coronavirus-lockdown-lockdown-slows-coronavirus-isn-t-enough-2199115?pfrom=home-opinion

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 430

    This was Terry Nation ( writer for Dr Who, Blake's Seven  and other UK science fiction ) take on it from 1975. A bit blurred and some very 70's fashion and attitudes, but scarily familiar .....

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAyjkaFYnzE

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,067

    I guess this is going to be a thing for a while now... go shopping and drop your dirty little hand condoms on the ground so someone else has to pick them up...

    I'm seeing this everywhere... people leave them behind in shopping carts, drop them outside their cars, right out side the store... anywhere they take them off they just drop them on the ground.

    I guess this is the same group that leaves cups of coffee on store shelves when they are done... 

    I think the punishment should for both of those should be you have to eat the gloves and drink someone else's rotting coffee.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,681
    edited March 2020
    McGyver said:

    I guess this is going to be a thing for a while now... go shopping and drop your dirty little hand condoms on the ground so someone else has to pick them up...

    I'm seeing this everywhere... people leave them behind in shopping carts, drop them outside their cars, right out side the store... anywhere they take them off they just drop them on the ground.

    I guess this is the same group that leaves cups of coffee on store shelves when they are done... 

    I think the punishment should for both of those should be you have to eat the gloves and drink someone else's rotting coffee.

    So sad, that the average unhuman being is a pig.  Most noticeable, where large numbers of them gather to enjoy themselves on public land for a few hours and leave behind anything that isn't valuable and isn't attached to them, and now they're even removing the gloves which actually are attached to them, sort of. frown  

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,565

    Everyone who can work from home seems to be home and the rest seem to be without work and stuck at home.

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 7,851
    edited March 2020
    McGyver said:

    I guess this is going to be a thing for a while now... go shopping and drop your dirty little hand condoms on the ground so someone else has to pick them up...

     

    I'm seeing this everywhere... people leave them behind in shopping carts, drop them outside their cars, right out side the store... anywhere they take them off they just drop them on the ground.

    I guess this is the same group that leaves cups of coffee on store shelves when they are done... 

    I think the punishment should for both of those should be you have to eat the gloves and drink someone else's rotting coffee.

    So sad, that the average unhuman being is a pig.  Most noticeable, where large numbers of them gather to enjoy themselves on public land for a few hours and leave behind anything that isn't valuable and isn't attached to them, and now they're even removing the gloves which actually are attached to them, sort of. frown  

    There have always been people who are inherently self centered and selfish. It's just more obvious in times of crisis.

    Post edited by FirstBastion on
  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783
    edited March 2020
    McGyver said:

    I guess this is going to be a thing for a while now... go shopping and drop your dirty little hand condoms on the ground so someone else has to pick them up...

    I'm seeing this everywhere... people leave them behind in shopping carts, drop them outside their cars, right out side the store... anywhere they take them off they just drop them on the ground.

    I guess this is the same group that leaves cups of coffee on store shelves when they are done... 

    I think the punishment should for both of those should be you have to eat the gloves and drink someone else's rotting coffee.

    Agreed. nothing like a pandemic to bring out the worst in humanity. Had a lady at work today scream at me because i would not give her some gloves and a mask when they are only for emlpoyees and there are none in the store for customers to buy. Thing is, if she would have asked nice and polite like, I would have given it to her, but when you come in with that entitled customer routine and get ugly, all bets are off.

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  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562

    Most our officials are not suger coating it any more,  They're saying not weeks, but months. Schools will be off indefinitely at this point.  We're living through an historical event right now.

    We entered inside a horror movie or all are dreaming a bad dream at once.

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