Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[S_jenks]

It’s in Oregon now

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020...in-oregon.html

[eta] Klaus’s beat me to it

Looks like I'll get to keep my $5 bet on Mt. Hood being the first ski town to get infected.

What pisses me off with the virus arriving in CA is that we're more likely to get it in MT. It's the perfect storm for some rich trophy wife to carry it up to their second home in our state.

Maybe they will stuff a jade egg up their cooch to ward off infection.

[Ripzalot]

Good read to send to panicked friends/family...


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...orse-you-think

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[wooley12]

Unless their over 70 according to the text.

[bennymac]

I’m not worried about death. I’m worried about overwhelmed health care facilities, schools being shut down, police and fire and truck drivers being sent home for two weeks etc etc etc.

Is this the end of the world? No.

Is it potentially a huge issue until there is an effective vaccine? Ask China what life’s like there right now and imagine that for 6+ months.

[Ripzalot]

Unless their over 70 according to the text.

I guess i underestimated the number of septuaginarians on this forum. My bad.

Continue panicking.

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[Ripzalot]

Switzerland has banned public gatherings over 1000. Canton Bern just announced no more than 250. Up to 15 cases in CH.

https://lenews.ch/2020/02/28/swiss-g...ge-gatherings/

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[summit]

My wife is gonna be sad when Tay Tay has to cancel her tour

[riser4]

Looks like I'll get to keep my $5 bet on Mt. Hood being the first ski town to get infected.

What pisses me off with the virus arriving in CA is that we're more likely to get it in MT. It's the perfect storm for some rich trophy wife to carry it up to their second home in our state.

Maybe they will stuff a jade egg up their cooch to ward off infection.

Pics or it didn't happen.

[jgb@etree]

This (now deleted) tweet didn't age very well:

[sb]

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/a...23467b48e9ecf6

[MarcusBrody]

Good read to send to panicked friends/family...


https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...orse-you-think

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I don't know. I think most people's answer to the author's rhetorical question "would you take an over the counter medicine if there was a 98% chance it was safe?" would be a resounding "no" rather than an "of course, I don't know why I was worried about so etching with a 2% fatality rate."

[Benny Profane]

Looks like I'll get to keep my $5 bet on Mt. Hood being the first ski town to get infected.

What pisses me off with the virus arriving in CA is that we're more likely to get it in MT. It's the perfect storm for some rich trophy wife to carry it up to their second home in our state.

Maybe they will stuff a jade egg up their cooch to ward off infection.

Hey, maybe Yellowstone will be quarantined! Hey, no, wait, arent they like that anyway?

[powdork]

This (now deleted) tweet didn't age very well:

I don't believe that tweet ever happened. Google it. The only sources you can find are hard right wing disreputable sources.

[frorider]

Yup, the bizarre capitalization of ‘Balance’ suggests a Trumptard created it.

[grinch]

@estump feeds on that shit. Kids a bit slow on the draw

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[rideit]

He was eating paint when the first solo Jerry album came out.

[powdork]

it's not Trumptards that create things for the gullible. Things like that are created for the sole purpose of pushing us further apart.

[sb]

Reported 10% mort rate in Iran

[powdork]

Looks like I'll get to keep my $5 bet on Mt. Hood being the first ski town to get infected.

What pisses me off with the virus arriving in CA is that we're more likely to get it in MT. It's the perfect storm for some rich trophy wife to carry it up to their second home in our state.

Maybe they will stuff a jade egg up their cooch to ward off infection.

How does Lake Oswego = Mt. Hood?
If that's the case Tahoe's suburb of South Sac had it way first. Just sayin.

[Mustonen]

Reported 10% mort rate in Iran

Well, no.

The number of deaths is around 9% of reported infections. That isn’t a mortality rate and likely has more to do with testing and reporting. The same ratio is less than 1% in South Korea.

[powdork]

Reported 10% mort rate in Iran

Take that with bag of rock salt pellets. They don't have the testing ability and official reports are thought to be complete BS. The number of high ranking officials is crazy.

misinformation in/from Iran- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51677530

Actual number of infected is supposed to be near 20,000 (study) - https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-c...virus-outbreak

Death toll in Iran over 200 hospital sources claim - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51673053

[summit]

Reported 10% mort rate in Iran

That indicates that ~75% of their cases are not being identified due to poor screening and testing.

[grinch]

it's not Trumptards that create things for the gullible. Things like that are created for the sole purpose of pushing us further apart.

This^^ i posted and false quote meme on pense yesterday. Left/right it has a good chance of coming from the same source

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[Rideski]

Its very sad to envision the turmoil when this hits the millions of homeless refugees wandering around Eurasia.

[PowderHorse]

I’m not worried about death. I’m worried about overwhelmed health care facilities, schools being shut down, police and fire and truck drivers being sent home for two weeks etc etc etc.

Is this the end of the world? No.

Is it potentially a huge issue until there is an effective vaccine? Ask China what life’s like there right now and imagine that for 6+ months.

This. School potentially closing is giving me a lot of anxiety. And what it's going to do to my business in an already tight Boulder market (real estate). Sure I can work from home but are buyers still going to fly here? Will sellers keep their homes on the market and let people from all over the place walk through?

I'm healthy as is my daughter but being cooped up for weeks and losing business is really stressful. I know 5 adults in the last 12 days that contacted the regular flu.

Boulder isn't panicked yet but one confirmed case on the front range or summit county and shit could get ugly. I went to Costco on Thursday and the greeter guy was wiping down every cart handle before they let you in!

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