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11-12-2020, 12:08 PM | #76 |
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Victoria, Australia is an island (duh), and both South Korea and Taiwan are China. They of course didn't infect themselves outside the initial "Oops I did it again...I ate funky bat...I wrecked the US. Oh baby baby"
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11-12-2020, 12:18 PM | #77 | |
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11-12-2020, 12:18 PM | #78 |
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11-12-2020, 12:21 PM | #79 |
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11-12-2020, 12:22 PM | #80 |
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11-12-2020, 12:25 PM | #81 |
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Happy to report that my dad seems to have done okay with COVID.
He's 85, living in a retirement place in St. Louis. Diagnosed on 10/24, (I think), tested negative last week, was able to leave his apartment this week. Talking on the phone, his breathing was noticeable, but has improved. He says it exhausted the hell out of him, he was sleeping 11-12 hours a night and felt low energy most of the time. No treatment was given, he ate some vitamins, etc, and the hospital called to check on him daily. He bitched a LOT about his boredom. Really glad he did okay - I dig my dad, he's a terrific guy. He has always been relatively active and in good health. Still keeping my fingers crossed for no longer term issues. Lost my uncle (also 85) to it a few months back, he had to be put on a vent for a few days, improved a lot, went home, then crashed badly and died. |
11-12-2020, 12:40 PM | #82 |
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Glad to hear about your dad. I really dread a phone call from my parents saying they're positive. Luckily, they're super paranoid and careful. We had planned to try to isolate and see them over Christmas, but I think we've now abandoned that plan with the current direction the outbreak is heading.
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11-12-2020, 12:40 PM | #83 |
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Canada's response is kind of variable. But fortunately for them the virus is not transmitted through moose.
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11-12-2020, 12:43 PM | #84 | |
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Should we be doing it better? Yes. We should be testing everyone who gets into theater but we don't. We had a COVID case 2 weeks ago. Fortunately it didn't spread through the center (we contact traced and through a bunch of people into isolation). If it did, a lot of big things would have come to a halt. National strategy bad. There are some places that can't afford to even have one case. |
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11-12-2020, 12:44 PM | #85 |
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"Just the flu."
The flu is a ****ing scary virus. It's unfortunate we do not give it the respect it deserves. Anyways, I'm in the middle of my second quarantine so far this year after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive. What's crazy though is that it took them a week to identify it and notify me, and the last time it took almost 5 days. Luckily I'm pay protected this time. Last edited by samb; 11-12-2020 at 01:44 PM. |
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11/11 143K 11/10 140K 11/09 119K 11/08 109K 11/07 128K 11/06 124K 11/05 125K 30 days ago when the people that are dying now got it 10/12 40K (weekend) 10/11 50K 10/10 57K 10/09 52K The roughly corolating last for days of deaths 11/11 1892 11/10 1436 11/09 690 (weekend) 11/08 462 (weekend) 11/07 1036 11/06 1154 11/05 1173 So early/mid December we can expect to be in the 3K deaths/day range roughly and that is baked into the cake. I had expected to se the daily case rate to inflect and be slowing it's rise about now, but it looks like the national alarm goin out leading to more cautious behavior is delayed further and we are looking at more days if quickly rising cases than I expected. This will make the spring death bump look pretty tame. Quote:
If it keeps going up like it is, could be 3-4,000,000 new cases? Those models seem extremely conservative, the simple box models I am creating are giving ranges between 2-4,000,000 new cases by then. Guess we will see. I really hope I am just completely wrong, that would be great, and my super simple models overshot in the end of the summer/beginning of fall so here's to hoping they are wrong again. Yea, and unlike all the other holidays Thanksgiving is all about intergenerational re-connection and will infect, as you point out, "those unable to fight it off.". |
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11-12-2020, 12:49 PM | #87 |
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11-12-2020, 01:21 PM | #88 |
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COVID-19... gonna be COVID-1 Million soon. WEAR A MASK AND DON'T QUOTE TROLLS
For those that don’t mask or think this virus is no big deal, ask them one question.
Who have they designated to suffer permanent disabilities or death? Is this a relative or friend? Anywho, Go Badgers! The spread of COVID-19 across Wisconsin is off the charts, literally. So many counties are so far past the Dept. of Health Services' highest classification for case activity, that it needed to create a brand new category. And, although its minimum cutoff is nearly three times higher than the old top category: https://www.nbc15.com/2020/11/12/cov...-new-category/ |
11-12-2020, 01:28 PM | #89 | |
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11-12-2020, 01:31 PM | #90 |
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This morning I was pleasantly surprised the owners of my workplace made masks mandatory... again.
We will see how long this lasts. |
11-12-2020, 01:50 PM | #91 | |
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11-12-2020, 02:07 PM | #92 |
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11-12-2020, 02:43 PM | #93 | |
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11-12-2020, 02:45 PM | #94 |
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Has anyone been quarantined from work? You get paid still or have to use PTO/vacation time? My work would be PTO if you don't have it but in contact with someone who did have it.
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11-12-2020, 02:46 PM | #95 |
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11-12-2020, 02:47 PM | #96 |
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11-12-2020, 02:55 PM | #97 | |
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I've had a site "The Brain From Top To Bottom" on my favorites bar for some time. It's neat in that you can set the level of the information presented to different degrees of familiarity, so it's accessible to a lot of people. Reading stuff here, and other things about how our thinking works, I've relaxed how I think about mindsets, including my own. And my own biases.
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I also been with a woman for about 18 months now that is very far apart from me on stuff like medical interventions. I am very evidenced-based. She is very steeped in complimentary medicine. In a lot of other parts of her like, she is not dependent on anecdotal evidence, be not here. She is also bullish about it, and feels her knowledge is experience that demands respect. So I should detox my liver. I asked her if she know how the liver works, and that it is not a filter, but a two-step chemical plant. It's job is to be full of toxins, bind to them and send them off to sanitation for further processing. She found that interesting, then went on about all the toxins that are positioning me. She got some Arnica creme for arthritis. "It has arnica in it and it works great." It has like 0.01 x 10^ -7 % Arnica. Now, I am not against doing things that actually work, but I am not going to be spending 10 days outside in a tent stuffed with sage for an intervention if I get COVID19. She has made it clear that if she gets it, the last thing she wants is care from medical doctors, specifically being admitted to a hospital, and she does not really believe the other results, like blood clots, and new capillary growth, etc "What did they do, perform autopsies? No, because the families can't afford that. They can't know that. People have blood clots in them all the time." I may make a counter statement, but I don't get into a discussion because it's pointless. Like, "Yes, they investigate as part of the effort to understand the new disease. It's not on the families, it's on taxpayers." This was all very bothersome to me, that she has so much contempt for Western medicine and it's practitioners, and the entire traditional healthcare system. She is a care taker, and she treats practitioners with great distrust. She also thinks that because I see a Dr., I automatically just do whatever it is they tell me. She also believes that the things that may help her with a medical issue, that substance can't harm her if it doesn't work, and these things work for some people because of their energy or whatever. She keeps pushing folic acid on me for an antihistamine. "It works for me, but it only lasts an hour or two. Some people it doesn't work for." But she's where she is, and believes it's truth as much as I believe in mine. Actually more. I have room for believing some of hers, and disbelieving some of mine, like a Dr telling me to watch salt so I don't get the high blood pressure. Years ago I changed my belief about that. |
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11-12-2020, 03:10 PM | #98 | |
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But it was done kinda poorly (or the staff was dumb, you make the call) - Although it was labeled as "use this time if you get COVID or need to care for someone that has" there was no requirement of proof. It was treated like sick time...as in you don't need your supervisors approval, you take it as you need it. So many people (IMO) abused it...just used it like it was auto-approved vacation time. That + the large number of furloughing we did with staff = daily emails from units saying they are understaffed and need assistance. |
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11-12-2020, 03:19 PM | #99 |
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I "love" the alternative medicine "you're full of toxins and should detox" people.
No. That's not how the body works. If "toxins" start building up in your body, bad **** starts happening real fast. Like, "trip to the ER with multiple organ failures" fast... And you can't fix it with carrot juice. It's like the joke goes, "What do you call alternative medicine with proof?" A: "Medicine." That's not to say that Western Medicine has all the answers, there's plenty of stuff that hasn't been adequately tested or thought of yet. But unproven is unproven, at best. |
11-12-2020, 03:26 PM | #100 |
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