How are you greeting the end of the world?

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,602

    I suppose I can spam a video

     

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    Ivy said:
    Sevrin said:
    Ivy said:
    Sevrin said:

     A lot of the store employees are wearing gloves but that doesn't help if they cough or sneeze on to the gloves. 

    Yeah, I noticed a cashier with gloves yesterday.   It's not like you get infected through the skin on your hands.

    I have a friend that works at walmart that has beeen wearing them since she started working there. Not because she afriad of getting sick. But it helps her to be able to count the money with out having to lick her fingures, when the bills stick together.   There are other reasons why people wear rubber gloves besides avoiding getting sick.

     people still use paper money?

    Of course.

    I am usually the cashier of where I work so I have to handle a lot of cash.  I rather not wear the same gloves as food prep gloves and they rather not buy a unique type of gloves just for money.  I do not want to handle some dirty money and then go get some fries for the customer with the same gloves.  (money is dirty, not because it was gotten in a dirty way but because of how some people handle it and how dirty their hands are aka sneezing in the hands with the money etc etc etc

    I decided to search on a stock site which has 3d models for virus and found this model.

    you could try light cheap latex free surgical light rubber gloves, you won;t hardly know your wearing them.  when they were available they we only $9 a box of 1000 at Walgreens . I buy and use  the heavy duty Industrial Rubber gloves I get at Lowes or Home depot . they are much heavier , bright orange and can stand up being used for hard work but still have that light surgical glove feel . I use them for yard work and cleaning house. etc.   Those are about $13 a box pre 1000 cost more but are much better for my use.

  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,156

    The Panic is worse than the Virus.

    People buy the shops half empty, stealing from hospitals...

    People should engage their brain before the panic and take what is needed for ALL.

  • bikdinglebikdingle Posts: 40
    McGyver said:

    Well... As long as you know where your towel is, just remember not to panic and all will be fine...

    Best advice ever. yes

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162

    Panic buying is like a virus and is highly contagious. 

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited March 2020

    @Cybersox

    The issue is that not everyone is going to get sick and die , most people will get the c-19 virus and not know they have it. what @McGuyver not stating is. The issue at hand is most people are unprepared for events like this including the governments with lack of test kits and the cdc and health org are trying to keep people from getting the c-19 virus all at the same time, which if that were to happen there is not enough hospital beds or health care professionals, medicines  to take care of everyone and it would over whelm the health care system if millions demanded help all at once because they got sick. that is why all the closures to avoid that issue

    Even doctors and nurses are getting sick & dying from this, and the doctor that was a healthy 33 yrs old who discovered this virus in china has dies so that makes this unpredictable.. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-doctor-who-issued-early-warning-on-virus-dies-11581019816   it s not that people won't get this eventually i am sure it will make the round to everyone . But hopefully there will be a vaccine for it by then   if not this spring then maybe this fall  But what the health organizations are trying to do is lesson the demand for hospital beds all at once .  People that are panic buying are ones who were caught off guard  and didn't even have a crumb stored in their house to eat let alone anything else.  people should always try to have basic supplies on hand , just incase a chorine truck on the interstate overturns and they need to Evacuate people in a 20 miles radius those m95 mask are pretty useful for those bug out situations. back a few years ago a train derailed Pa carrying amoninia  caused a mass evac . thats why people panic buy out stores , people are just un prepared and become scared.

     

    Sorry for the edits my dyslexia is showing again.

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  • cherpenbeckcherpenbeck Posts: 1,413

    Well, I work in healthcare, which gives me about 100% of catching the virus - nothing left which could protect us, panicked people bought everything before we realized the extent of their panic and the shortage of our stocks. It's absolutely sure that we will have plenty of contact with ill patients. On account of my age I belong to a risk group, Imagine how happy I am!

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    Yeah, yeah, there's a new bus.  That thing's a petri dish.

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 7,850

    Next on the list "Avoid Public Transit" due to social distancing.

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited March 2020

    Well, I work in healthcare, which gives me about 100% of catching the virus - nothing left which could protect us, panicked people bought everything before we realized the extent of their panic and the shortage of our stocks. It's absolutely sure that we will have plenty of contact with ill patients. On account of my age I belong to a risk group, Imagine how happy I am!

    That is what makes panic buying  the worst case senaro because the health care workers need those supplies. My hubby worked in the ER 47 years  you learn to prep when your a health care worker 

    That is why we been stocking & prepping at for years to avoid those panic buyers emptying the stores. Our Tn governor Bill Lee reported this morning  the TN hospitels in our area & Vanderbuilt are set up with stock piles of supplies, they were stocked for mass influx of demand and have been disturbing some supplies to harder hit areas of the country.

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,085
    edited March 2020

     

    Sevrin said:

    Yeah, yeah, there's a new bus.  That thing's a petri dish.

    It took me a second to realize that that was The Count under the mask, and then it was LOL.  I have to wonder how many people will even catch the reference to the plague ship in Nosferatu, but those rats are the perfect touch.  Are they Noggins or Sixius'?

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  • Seven193Seven193 Posts: 1,111
    edited March 2020

    Seems appropriate:

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    Well, I work in healthcare, which gives me about 100% of catching the virus - nothing left which could protect us, panicked people bought everything before we realized the extent of their panic and the shortage of our stocks. It's absolutely sure that we will have plenty of contact with ill patients. On account of my age I belong to a risk group, Imagine how happy I am!

    It's heartbreaking to hear that HCPs are being forced under these circumstances, and we hear the same thing from all over the world.  Fear itself is indeed something to be feared, and this brings that home.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562

    Italy.

    On 21 February, 16 more cases were confirmed – fourteen in Lombardy, including the doctor who prescribed treatments to the 38-year-old Codogno man,[27] and two in Veneto.

    On 22 February, a 77-year-old woman from Casalpusterlengo, who suffered from pneumonia and visited the same emergency room as the 38-year-old from Codogno, died in Lombardy.[37] Including the 78-year-old man who died in Veneto, the number of cases in Italy rose to 79.[5][38] Of the 76 newly discovered cases, 54 were found in Lombardy, including one patient in San Raffaele Hospital in Milan[39] and eight patients in Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia,[40] seventeen in Veneto, two in Emilia-Romagna, two in Lazio and one in Piedmont.[41]

    On 23 February, a 68-year-old woman with cancer from Trescore Cremasco died in Crema. The number of cases in Italy rose to 152, including fourteen patients being treated at Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia.[42][43]

    On 24 February, an 84-year-old man with pre-existing medical conditions from Villa di Serio died in Bergamo while hospitalised in the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital.[44] An 88-year-old man from Caselle Landi, who resided in Codogno, died on the same day.[45][46] An 80-year-old man from Castiglione d’Adda died at the Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan. He was previously hospitalised in Lodi because of a heart attack, and then transferred to Milan when confirmed as positive.[46][47][48] A 62-year-old man with pre-existing medical conditions from Castiglione d'Adda died in Sant'Anna Hospital in Como.[49] Lombardy governor Attilio Fontana announced that the number of cases in Lombardy had risen to 172, with a total of 229 confirmed in Italy.[50][51][52]

    On 25 February, an 84-year-old man from Nembro, a 91-year-old man from San Fiorano and an 83-year-old woman from Codogno died from complications caused by the infections.[53][54][55]

    The number of cases in Emilia-Romagna rose to 23, spreading through the provinces of Piacenza, Parma, Modena and Rimini. These were all linked to the Lombardy cluster.[56][57][58][59][60]

    A new case linked to the outbreak in Lombardy appeared in Palermo, Sicily when a 60-year-old woman from Bergamo tested positive and was admitted to Cervello Hospital.[61][62] A 49-year-old man who previously visited Codogno tested positive in Pescia, Tuscany.[63]

    Officials in Liguria confirmed that a 72-year-old female tourist from Castiglione d'Adda tested positive in Alassio while she was staying in a hotel. The woman was treated at a hospital in Genoa.[64] Later in the day, a second case in Liguria was confirmed, a 54-year-old man who had visited Codogno for work and tested positive in La Spezia.[65][66][67]

    On 26 February, a 69-year-old man from Lodi with pre-existing medical conditions died in Emilia-Romagna.[68] The mayor of Borgonovo Val Tidone, Pietro Mazzocchi, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and underwent a voluntary isolation at home.[69]

    Additional cases involving six minors were identified in Lombardy. A 4-year-old girl from Castiglione d'Adda was admitted to Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, and a 15-year-old was hospitalised in Seriate Hospital in Bergamo. Two 10-year-olds from Cremona and Lodi tested positive and were discharged. A 17-year-old from Valtellina who attended a school in Codogno, and a school friend from Sondrio, also tested positive.[26][68][70]

    Officials in Apulia confirmed that a 33-year-old man from Taranto, who returned from Codogno on 23 January, tested positive and was admitted to San Giuseppe Moscati Hospital.[71]

    A close advisor to Lombardy governor Attilio Fontana tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Although Fontana tested negative, he decided to put himself in preventive isolation as well.[72]

    Officials in Campania confirmed two new cases. A 24-year-old woman from Caserta, who had visited Milan, tested positive. A 25-year-old Ukrainian woman from Cremona, who previously visited Lombardy, tested positive at a hospital in Vallo della Lucania. Both were transferred to Hospital Domenico Cotugno in Naples, where they underwent isolation.[73]

    On 26 February, a woman that had returned from Milan in the days before the emergency in Lombardy started tested positive for the virus in Catania, Sicily.[74]

    On 27 February, two 88-year-olds and an 80-year old died in Lombardy.[75]

    Officials in Abruzzo confirmed that a 50-year-old man from Brianza, Lombardy tested positive and was admitted to the intensive-care unit at Giuseppe Mazzini Hospital at Teramo. He and his family were staying in his holiday home at Roseto degli Abruzzi.[65][76]

    On 28 February, four people died, including an 85-year-old Lombardy resident in one of the quarantine zones at a hospital in Piacenza, a 77-year-old and two others over the age of 80.[65]

    Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Italy by age ( v t e )
    Classification Cases Deaths
    Number (%) Number (%) Rate (%)
    All 8,342 100.0 357 100.0 4.28
    Age Above 80 1,532 18.4 202 56.6 13.2
    70–79 1,785 21.4 114 31.9 6.4
    60–69 1,471 17.7 37 10.4 2.5
    50–59 1,453 17.4 3 0.8 0.2
    40–49 891 10.7 1 0.3 0.1
    30–39 470 5.6 0 0.0 0.0
    20–29 296 3.5 0 0.0 0.0
    10–19 85 1.0 0 0.0 0.0
    0–9 43 0.5 0 0.0 0.0
    n/d 316 3.8 0 0.0 0.0

    Source: analysis by Istituto Superiore di Sanità on partial set of data, as of 2020/03/09.[137]

    Source Wikipedia

  • GalaxyGalaxy Posts: 562
    edited March 2020

    Thus even if someone is above 80 there is more than 80% survival posibility. It can further extend by prevention taking warm water, fooding (corona diet) which prevents similar viruses, not expose to cold weather for longer period, and of course cleaning hands etc.

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051
    Sevrin said:

    Yeah, yeah, there's a new bus.  That thing's a petri dish.

    Great render! 

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051
    Mystiarra said:

    Lol. I think this a time when humor is really needed to break the mood of impending doom by so many. This would probably go viral on Twitter!

  • I am quite concerned for my frail 89 yo father. However, it has to be remembered that the attrition rate for men over 80 in the UK about 50% every 5 years, so he is one of the 25%-ish already. He is also the oldest known man in my family by 16 years, and that's following his ancestors back to the 1600's. So.. if he gets it and he's not one of the lucky ones, I'll bask in the cold comfort of knowing he was relatively long lived. But I'd miss him so.

    What is worse, given my wife's job in a library, and the fact that day before yesterday 10,300 people came through the turnstile into the library, we really shouldn't go to visit as the chances we're going to get it is approaching 100%.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051

    For those who have parents in nursing homes, I really recommend getting two Amazon Echo Shows. You can check in on them any time and communicate via video.They don't have to know any technology.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,678
    edited March 2020
    PBR said:

    The Panic is worse than the Virus.

    People buy the shops half empty, stealing from hospitals...

    People should engage their brain before the panic and take what is needed for ALL.

    The older one gets, the more one realizes that way too many people don't engage their brains, they just let other people drive their brains.indecision  An open secret known and used by the successful social manipulators of all types.

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  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 2,985

    Comparing the number of people having caught the virus with the number of people living on this planet - or just comparing the same for China - this talk about a pandemic isn't really understandable for me.

    Add to that the nearly neglectable rate of deaths compared to more common diseases like some kinds of the flu, I see it more as a media hysteria than a serious threat to my life.

    So, yeah, the end of the world will come.. but not through this upgraded flu. Instead we all should rather wait for the next dinosaur club from space, an solar storm destroying everything electric or the Yellowstone Big Bang... devil

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,051

    Comparing the number of people having caught the virus with the number of people living on this planet - or just comparing the same for China - this talk about a pandemic isn't really understandable for me.

    Add to that the nearly neglectable rate of deaths compared to more common diseases like some kinds of the flu, I see it more as a media hysteria than a serious threat to my life.

    So, yeah, the end of the world will come.. but not through this upgraded flu. Instead we all should rather wait for the next dinosaur club from space, an solar storm destroying everything electric or the Yellowstone Big Bang... devil

    Tell this to Italy. Read this story coming from Italy: https://apple.news/AMi1i74YOQA2_z3dHIznUUA

    A 19 year-old says this: "There is no space left in intensive care so if I get really sick, they would have to remove someone else to save me since I would have a better chance of surviving. This is why I almost never go out. I don’t want to be the reason for someone's death."

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    Well, there's overreacting, and there's underreacting, which, in hindsight, isn't working out so well for Italy.

    If this thing gets people to wash their hands more, it will not only prevent coronavirus infections, but seasonal flu infections, as well.  Win-win.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    crying  they canceled events at the cherry blossom festival  https://nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,559

    Is March Madness canceled?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    Now for a public service announcement...

    Stop touching your faces...! Get those grubby little booger flickers outta yer face holes!

    Thank you, you may now resume regular programming.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,678
    edited March 2020
    Mystiarra said:

    crying  they canceled events at the cherry blossom festival  https://nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

    Not to belittle the beauty of the cherry blossoms or the thought behind their gift, but having been a resident of Washington, DC I can honestly say that the cherry blossom festival time was dreaded by city inhabitants.  It marks the beginning of tourist season with all of them immediately making a bee-line to one tiny area of the city.frown  Experienced residents of Washington will avoid, at all costs, driving on any street or avenue that goes within 5 blocks of the Tidal Basin (which includes the Lincoln Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial and Haines Point park and even the WWII Memorial).  And forget actually trying to see the vaunted cherry blossoms up close yourself unless you are willing to walk a mile from the nearest Metro station.  Even bicycles are usless because of the crowds of gawkers and would be photographers clogging the sidewalks and lawns.  Yes, they're pretty, but I made that mile long walk once and took my pictures which were no better than the ones in any of a zillion giftshops in the city.  Actually if one is driving on the 14th street bridge there is a quick spot where while you're zooming into the city from Virginia you can spot the pink glow around the Tidal Basin in the distance, and then the six lanes of traffic that you are in, whiz you right on by at 60 miles an hour.surprise  Just don't try to get off the expressway until you're a couple of exits into the city or you'll be caught in bumper to bumper traffic going nowhere.enlightened

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  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
    McGyver said:

    Now for a public service announcement...

    Stop touching your faces...! Get those grubby little booger flickers outta yer face holes!

    Thank you, you may now resume regular programming.

    There's gonna be a run on oogiebears.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,813

    Comparing the number of people having caught the virus with the number of people living on this planet - or just comparing the same for China - this talk about a pandemic isn't really understandable for me.

    Pandemic is defined by geography, not numbers. There are self-perpetuatng clusters of the disease in multiple countries across a wide range of regions, that makes it a pandemic.

    Add to that the nearly neglectable rate of deaths compared to more common diseases like some kinds of the flu, I see it more as a media hysteria than a serious threat to my life.

    It's more lethal than most flus, the exceptions have been major events in themselves.

    So, yeah, the end of the world will come.. but not through this upgraded flu. Instead we all should rather wait for the next dinosaur club from space, an solar storm destroying everything electric or the Yellowstone Big Bang... devil

     

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