Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[glademaster]

I have what I think is a sweet quiver and a pic in the thread. If you would like to challenge whether or not I'm a skier, I'd do a Chinese downhill lap with you. "What the fuck a Chinese downhill?!?" It's where I hand you a beer at the finish line. I'll be on my second.

In other news, Idaho's Gov (one of the more red govs in the nation), just extended stay at home through 4/30. Also implemented a 14 day quarantine for out of state travelers other than essential workers coming into Idaho.

Easy there, big fella, and brush up on that reading comprehension. You and Idaho are a good fit for one another.

[The AD]

Since there are still people comparing Covid to influenza

"People" may be strong. Seems like there's just a single person at this point.

[Thurgood Jenkins]

Can some mags comment on the obesity link? My reading tells me the Covid19 is the consequence of obesity. So pretty much everyone dying is obese?

[Buster Highmen]

That is kind of hilarious. Whether it's cannonballing or failing to "shelter-in-place" all of a sudden this crowd be like "That's the law guys! You can't break the law!" Funny, judging by nearly EVERYONE here, I would've thought rules were meant to be broken or something like that.

After decades of slinging dick in the 70s/80s (most likely unprotected), doing untold amounts of drugs, skiing questionable conditions, and living some pretty darn outrageous lives (and I do mean that in the best possible way), NOW all of a sudden everyone's risk adverse and acting like a bunch of sheep. I really don't get it. I do have to laugh, though. NOW everyone's a bunch of goody-two shoes law abiders.

It's been explained a bunch of times. The analogy does not hold. I hope you and yours get through this OK.

[Conundrum]

You and Idaho are a good fit for one another.

Agreed. Why do you think I never left? So, can I be a skier?

[bennymac]

Did BGnight get the ban hammer treatment? I’d expect his noxious bullshit to be polluting this discussion right now. Steepconcrete as well.

Good riddance to those assholes if so.

[Benny Profane]

Can some mags comment on the obesity link? My reading tells me the Covid19 is the consequence of obesity. So pretty much everyone dying is obese?

From what I understand, it's not obesity, but obesity related diseases, primarily diabetes, and heart conditions. Also asthma, of course.

[Benny Profane]

Did BGnight get the ban hammer treatment? I’d expect his noxious bullshit to be polluting this discussion right now. Steepconcrete as well.

Good riddance to those assholes if so.

Just don't, please.

[skiballs]

Again, I left before the regulations came about. They were enacted when I was there. I would have thought that if people were paying that much attention to my activities, they would also have paid attention to the timeline and the fact that there were more cases with 10 miles of our home than in Switzerland.

Even if there's any point to the personal attack, the point still stands. Maybe I made a mistake, maybe I've thought about it and, heavens, changed my mind. That's all completely irrelevant.

I never understand that ad hom angle. I hope you understood I was joking when I wrote "Dick".

Carry on.

To be honest I didn’t.
Like most folks I’m a little on edge these days.
My apologies.
I’m worried about my kids and my partner.
Today’s death toll is two, so far, at her place of work.
However, one guy was 100 years old and the other in his 90’s.
So I don’t see their loss as tragic.
Sad for their families, yes.
This situation is going to get worse emotionally, before it gets better.


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[Thurgood Jenkins]

Don't they make sci-fi movies about this sort of thing?

A Darwinistic behavioral correction tailored to society's overall benefit? Everyone I know who has Type 2 late onset diabetes diligently worked very hard to get it. Darwin sends a way to clean things up and we're fighting it?

[summit]

bennymac don't awaken the various krakens

[BCMtnHound]

Collecting a paycheck. They gotta survive also.

Heh. I'm going to let my nurse wife know that the only reason she and her coworkers go to work to wipe asses, care for wounds, distribute meds, be hit/bit/spat on, and deal with emotional and irrational family/friends of the unwell, that she is just in it for the middleclass paycheque. That she really couldn't give a shit about those in her care, except as a means of paying the rent.
And should you ever need a healthcare or first responder's care, I hope you let them know your attitude regarding their dedication to their craft. Post a TR please.

[glademaster]

To be honest I didn’t.
Like most folks I’m a little on edge these days.
My apologies.
I’m worried about my kids and my partner.
Today’s death toll is two, so far, at her place of work.
However, one guy was 100 years old and the other in his 90’s.
So I don’t see their loss as tragic.
Sad for their families, yes.
This situation is going to get worse emotionally, before it gets better.


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Oh buck the fuck up already, this is not the time to wallow in self pity.

One of my favorite passages from J.W. Powell's Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons: "Bradley, a lieutenant during the late war, and since orderly sergeant in the regular army, was, a few weeks previous to our start, discharged, by order of the Secretary of War, that he might go on this trip. He is scrupulously careful, and a little mishap works him into a passion, but when labor is needed he has a ready hand and powerful arm, and in danger, rapid judgement and unerring skill. A great difficulty or peril changes the petulant spirit into a brave, generous soul."

[MultiVerse]

From what I understand, it's not obesity, but obesity related diseases, primarily diabetes, and heart conditions. Also asthma, of course.

Young healthy people are dying too, just at lower rates.

One the unexplained aspects of COVID is its heterogeneity so depending on location the risk of death from COVID is higher even for young people than the cumulative risk of death for the flu is for all ages.

[Adolf Allerbush]

I’m worried about my kids and my partner.
Today’s death toll is two, so far, at her place of work.
However, one guy was 100 years old and the other in his 90’s.

Your partner worked with a 100 year old person that was still working a full time job at that age?

[Self Jupiter]

Count on it, it is literally human nature to look out for one's own self.

The countless videos, reports and accounts of strangers putting themselves in harms way to help strangers are some of the finest work of the Deep State.

[Conundrum]

Your partner worked with a 100 year old person that was still working a full time job at that age?

My grandfather is 93 and runs his own business...puts in 5-6 days a week still. I asked why he still works and he told me if he quit working, he would get lonely at home by himself and die. Most of his friends and my grandma have already died. Those that are left are not doing much these days.

CV19 is hitting him hard. He lives a couple hours away and I don't really want to visit him in person for fear of taking something into his zone-he's 93 and has some underlying heart conditions. He usually eats out and that is becoming tough for him with shutdowns.

[2bjenny]

It's incorporating ~2 mutations within 30,000 bp a month and it's only sporadic that these mutations even amount to changes at the protein level, and so far none in important regions of the Spike receptor binding domain which would be considered the primary target of neutralizing antibodies.

As to why there are no vaccines to other coronaviruses, well they were developed or put into development for Sars1 but that was rapidly eliminated from the population, hardly anyone catches Mers so it wasn't worth the development either past academic labs. Of the other 4 coronaviruses, the 2 that have been around prior to 2000 rarely caused disease serious enough to merit vaccination and the other 2 discovered since 2000 also rarely cause serious enough disease outside of immune compromised populations to have them added to a vaccination program.

Thanks!

[MontuckyFried]

I'm going to refrain from name calling, but seriously, you think everyone is staying home because we're "a bunch of goody-two shoes law abiders"?

Well, judging by all the Karens in this thread, I'd say so ----> https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...es-of-COVID-19
Sure, avoiding mass congregating in close-quarter settings like concerts and such seems prudent. I get that. But avoiding the freaking Montana WILDERNESS is being shunned? I mean, you can't get much more socially distanced than the freaking backcountry. Haha.

[Buster Highmen]

To be honest I didn’t.
Like most folks I’m a little on edge these days.
My apologies.
I’m worried about my kids and my partner.
Today’s death toll is two, so far, at her place of work.
However, one guy was 100 years old and the other in his 90’s.
So I don’t see their loss as tragic.
Sad for their families, yes.
This situation is going to get worse emotionally, before it gets better.


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We're all on edge and hopefully have the balls for some compassion. It's easier when the futility of scapegoating sinks in deep.

My family is staying at home, except for my wife who goes out masked and gloved to procure food for us and her 90 y.o parents. BIL may lose his job. Other in law health issues.

May you and your family stay safe.

I don't want to stay cooped up in the neighborhood, I'm dying to go skiing. It's harder for the girls in the family who need the social interaction. In any case, the isolation is a good idea in the long run not only for the economy but for the family.

[liv2ski]

Heh. I'm going to let my nurse wife know that the only reason she and her coworkers go to work to wipe asses, care for wounds, distribute meds, be hit/bit/spat on, and deal with emotional and irrational family/friends of the unwell, that she is just in it for the middleclass paycheque. That she really couldn't give a shit about those in her care, except as a means of paying the rent.
And should you ever need a healthcare or first responder's care, I hope you let them know your attitude regarding their dedication to their craft. Post a TR please.

Right, fuckin people. O ya, read my signature. Silly me.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

True. I wonder how many of them would be volunteering in the hospitals to help COVID patients AFTER they got canned from said establishments.

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If they got canned they wouldn’t be allowed back in the hospital.

You should get out and work if you’re so desperate. There’s jobs. I’m sure you have the aptitude for grocery stocker or house keeping at a hospital near you. They’re looking. You could try Instacart, my 21 yo daughter can do it you might be able to.


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[AdironRider]

Heh. I'm going to let my nurse wife know that the only reason she and her coworkers go to work to wipe asses, care for wounds, distribute meds, be hit/bit/spat on, and deal with emotional and irrational family/friends of the unwell, that she is just in it for the middleclass paycheque. That she really couldn't give a shit about those in her care, except as a means of paying the rent.
And should you ever need a healthcare or first responder's care, I hope you let them know your attitude regarding their dedication to their craft. Post a TR please.

Please, your wife stops getting paid and she isn't wiping some strangers ass out of the goodness of her heart while you lose your house to foreclosure.

[Timberridge]

In the history of the PR is this thread the fastest to get to 500+ pages?

Keep up the effort and let's get to 1000 guys.

[glademaster]

500+ what? We're on page 324.

40 posts/page, or you're dead to me.