(the HIV comparison was from news.au or some shit, not josh)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!š (Karl Malone), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
What I do recommend you all do is get your orders in now for better desk chairs for working from home if you donāt have anything good. I imagine Knoll, Steelcase, and Herman Miller will get somewhat backlogged
― college bong rip guy (silby), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
xpost But you don't know if and when you ever even have it! Without a test, at least. But there's no way they are going to test everyone, and you can still get it after yoou get tested. So if you leave the house, you may be passing it on. If you have it and have no reason to believe you have it, you may be passing it on. But of course if you think you have it, or think you've been exposed, stay home!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
I'm staying home because I'm in Seattle, and the public health authorities here are desperately trying to slow down the spread of an outbreak that is threatening to overwhelm the hospitals, and social distancing is the least I can do to help. Plus it sounds like this virus is pretty horrible and I'm not guaranteed a mild case, so for my own sake as well as that of others, I'd rather not get it. Since I don't have a job right now, I can realistically stay home, which makes it safer for the people who can't. I'm still leaving the house, but mainly to do outdoor things, not to take buses or go to bars or whatever.
I suspect people in many other cities are going to wish they had done more social distancing earlier, once those cities start testing properly.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
fwiw I donāt think anyone without symptoms should sequester themselves unless advised to, I was just loling at the logic of contracting the diseaseā>immunityā>not passing it to othersā>profit because it leaves out the rather important stage of... being contagious and passing it to others
Otm. Everyone i know who is calling this overblown keeps justifying it by saying "so what, I'll get sick, I'll get better!"
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
Yay!! I have a feeling my attitude may have something to do with living in a country with an actual functioning health care systemā the problem, as has been noted repeatedly itt, is that the person sitting next to you who seems fine could have it, and easily transmit itāRight, so I guess what Iām saying is, how could anyone ever know how much theyāre at risk? Unless thereās some actual data, like, someone you work with has it? If somebody I worked with had it then Iād hunker down for sure. But until that, or something like that happens, I am gonna live my life. I think??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
Whoops the ā yayā was an xpost soz
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
xp KM:
That comparison was by a Chinese physician dealing with critical cases, who has to deal with patients with depleted CD4+ T cell counts (also a key element of AIDS pathology). Covid19 serious cases are immunocompromised, at least for a while...
― sedated, paralyzed, on respirator, slowly drowning (Sanpaku), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
You should stay home and not go to large gatherings probably slightly before there is evidence of community transmission in your city, imo. But certainly after.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
Sanpaku shut the fuck up about that asinine and misleading comparison
Nobody's saying if you leave the house you're a war criminal.
Hell nobody is saying if you get the disease that you're a monster cos it'll probably happen.
Just like follow sanitation protocols, WHO guidelines, stop rimming for a bit etc
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
this is not a binary choice between total sequestration or going into crowds and kissing everyone though. everyone can make the choice to do normal stuff but not get on a bus or go to the movies, which can reduce risk by a lot.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah. Btw, how large is a large gathering?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
Itās like comparing falling off a ladder to osteoporosis because they can both break your bones or something.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
10 or more people according to local guidelines
How in the world did they pick that number?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
The movies sent me an email reading āplease still come to the movies!ā and idk man
― college bong rip guy (silby), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
fire marshall
― forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
marshal
If you give it to 10 people, and they give it to 10 people, and so on ... I'm bad at math, but I've seen "The Thing" a bunch, and that computer model was dire.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSbYEbtfoY
yeah, and if you give it to 11 people it gets bigger much much faster!
― forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
i'm actually going to the movies tomorrow lol. but *only* three people in my state have it. and there is only one mouse in my house.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
I think I will still go to the cinema, to see unpopular films
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
I haven't left the house since Saturday. I've been training for this my entire life..
― Yerac, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
and wasn't there that Li Liang who died a couple of days after he was supposed to be negative and recovered? He was young.
― Yerac, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
i'm glad i decided not to go to the AIPAC conference
― forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
lmao
― college bong rip guy (silby), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
the complete manipulation and fumbling about this in the US, I don't know how one wouldn't make an executive decision about their own health and the health around them if they have the ability. I don't know why they are allowing Trump to keep talking about this.
― Yerac, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
i'm a little sad sanpaku isn't really worried about a dog.
― Yerac, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to ZZ Top right now. Is that a symptom or a cure?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
Is my butt rocking, or is it rocking my butt?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 March 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
Camus says that the plague is listening to the same thing over and over again, so by that metric I think we all have it.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Friday, 6 March 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
I expect maybe 3 other people in tonight's 10:30 screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's safer than grocery shopping.
― sedated, paralyzed, on respirator, slowly drowning (Sanpaku), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tRETgYe.jpg
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
Iām immunologically privileged
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
l've been thinking...
if a small particle of this thing is enough to take over an entire organism, then everyone should prepare their own meals. l suggest we only eat out of cans.
― omar little, Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
In Victoria, Australia: state chief health officer Dr. Sutton says, āthere may come a point where we say no international travel at all...at the moment my recommendation is to restrict travel to New Zealand and Canada.ā
This is after a doc who went into work sick after coming back from holiday. He has now tested positive. He was skiing in Colorado. He saw 70 patients since returning.
Iām currently in a hospital right now and every wall has notices about not working and contacting a doctor about any fever you get after returning from abroad and these predate the covid-19 notices next to them.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
My son and i are currently eating peanut butter out of the jar with TJ pretzel slims to promote jar meals #jar4omar
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
I'm listening to George Clinton
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
That helps right?
My challah loaves are rising
― college bong rip guy (silby), Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
Scenes from the academic labs deputized for testing at UW: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00676-3
― college bong rip guy (silby), Saturday, 7 March 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
Last Sunday I listened to the 23 year old aide who works at my daughter's group home explain that he didn't think COVID-19 was any kind of big deal because the only people who died or got deathly ill were 'old people and people who were already really medically compromised'. He said this while feeding my really medically compromised daughter and talking to two genuine old people (65 and 70). Lovely.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 7 March 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
My ex posted the other day "those of you that say only the weak or immunocompromised will die...we can hear you"
You and her otm
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 March 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
Fuck me that's horrendous.
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 7 March 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
feels like half the country has underlying medical condition that could make them higher risk - obesity, automimmune issues, heart/blood pressure
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 7 March 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
Republicans will all just kill themselves as long as everyone just stays in their lane:
Here's something new: Americans who seem politically polarized by basically everything are taking dramatically different views of the new coronavirus. Democrats are twice as likely to say it's a serious threat, and more of them are washing their hands. https://t.co/OMLhFXCMJI— Brad Heath (@bradheath) March 6, 2020
― Alba, Saturday, 7 March 2020 02:15 (four years ago) link
republicans are more likely to live in rural areas, too, places where the busiest place in town might be a gas station, so they're probably at lower immediate risk, on average.
however, the question also highlights the different ways that conservatives often view the world (imo). coronavirus is not an imminent threat to the country because it's not an imminent threat to THEM. āI havenāt changed a single thing,ā Cindi Hogue, who lives outside Little Rock, Arkansas, told Reuters. āItās not a reality to me yet. It hasnāt become a threat enough yet in my world.ā this pattern plays out over and over, whether it's a conservative asshole being anti gay marriage until suddenly their daughter is a lesbian and they see the light, or voting against disaster aid for other US jurisdictions but then suddenly understanding the need for collective assistance as soon as a natural disaster hits their home district.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!š (Karl Malone), Saturday, 7 March 2020 02:22 (four years ago) link
That... checks out. I bet there are a bunch of black Ford F-150s with chrome packages and number stickers saying COVID IS 4 BETAS
― rb (soda), Saturday, 7 March 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link