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Showing content with the highest reputation on 03/22/20 in all areas

  1. I have it. I caught it from my brother who has it. His wife has it. My whole family has it. It has the potential to be nasty. I have 2 kids who have had no symptoms and 2 that have had relatively mild symptoms. My brother (46 and his wife 42) have been hit rather hard. They are heavy drinkers and she is a smoker. I still have symptoms on day 6 but they are mild. I started with pain in my neck (lymph nodes) that shot to my head and became a nasty headache. I have not taken any advil or pain killers. I had no fever. No squirts. I have had neck pain, headache, fatigue, cough and some breathing issues. Tonight is day 6 for me and I am feeling better. I had to drive 1.5 hours to get my brother some of the items i posted up thread. He and his wife were on day 9 and were not recovering *danger zone*. No one wanted to go help but knowing I caught it from him, I decided to try. i gave them the myricetin, isatis root extract, and buplerum root extract(helicase, protease inhibitors). She barfed it all up initially. Once she got a smaller amount down, she passed out. I wouldn't say either is in good health. Today, I received a text that she felt 100% better. He was the same. I do not sell any of this stuff. I gleaned the info from the national health library archives. Myricetin is not attainable at this point but the isatis root extract is and mega doses are out there for cheap. Some other things that help. My wife, and 2 non symptom children are in great physical health. They are swimmers and my wife is a dietician, BS in nutrition from aggy. I am almost 50 so I am no spring chicken but do consume a lot of fruits and vegetables, hit them hard. Stay away from processed sugar. Processed sugar kills the immune system.
    15 points
  2. Read those first two sentences again slowly. You posted that he has told you about the inner workings of the White House's response implying they have been working all out for weeks... during a time-frame that would seem incredibly inconsistent with the official response from the President. Who apparently naps all day according to your "Friend" Now suddenly he doesn't know much? Are you just making some shit up to fit a narrative or to feel important? Because I have to tell you, that's how it looks. And yup congratulations, you cracked the code... I'm a Gator. Been around since 2008... Came to shaggy based on a link to Thujone's paint... enjoyed the witty comedy and irreverent posts. Is it ok if I stick around Mr HOA president?
    14 points
  3. Fuck the cruise lines. Go ask Panama or the Bahamas or Liberia for a bailout. If corporations use a loophole to avoid paying taxes in the US and to avoid US laws and regulations then they don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to getting US tax dollars when shit goes south. Fuck em.
    13 points
  4. Can you just jump already? Paul voted against the first COVID relief bill. He should be forced to quarantine for 2 weeks without pay. Since he doesn’t think anyone else deserves it.
    12 points
  5. Sir, will you kindly stay the fuck out of the way of a contingent of posters here who are merely tending to the business of cheering for someone’s death that they’ve never met.
    12 points
  6. So you want what is basically already happening but it need it from the top because because. Got it. As to the rest, go find whatever you like. I mocked the hysteria. Still do. I also prepped, put my company on WFH 12 days ago and haven’t been around other people since that time while sequestered with my now very irritated wife and kids. If I said it wasn’t a big deal, pull it up. Making fun of y’all’s bullshit and not expecting millions of Americans to die by the end of April doesn’t make me flippant. Beyond that, you committed fraud. You admitted to it on this board. You lied to a pharmacist to get a prescription filled by claiming that you needed a drug so you could go on a scuba trip to Honduras and be protected from contracting malaria. That’s wingnut level shit, plain and simple. One of the biggest problems with the way this has unfolded is that now the preppers feel fully empowered to go balls deep with apocalyptic claims and the rest of us just don’t get it. And that will be the thing from here until the end of time because a virus has come along and started ravishing the olds and pummeling the healthcare system (we still presume). It’s like when the sooners or bama idiots win a title. Then they’re right on everything.
    12 points
  7. Washington state has dramatically slowed infections. If anyone wants good news
    12 points
  8. I seek out news sources that flatter me as a truth-seeker, confirm my worst fears, and lay the blame on people I already distrust and dislike. So, even though I'm descending into borderline sociopathology where anyone who doesn't tell me what I already think seems like a non-person, I get a real rush out of feeling like there are "sides" to this thing and my side is rational and blameless. It's a nifty bit of faux self-actualization, pointing fingers at other passengers on a sinking boat. I love it, if we get through this I hope something even worse happens (to other people).
    12 points
  9. Rooting one way or another just so you can be proven right is idiotic but par for the course here. If we could get a treatment or vaccine tomorrow, that shuts this thing down in its tracks, and that means Trump gets to crow over everyone and gets reelected, I'll take it. People that are being snarky about overrun hospitals don't know what the hell they are talking about. Do you think all elective surgeries are equal? Some places have stopped doing "elective" cardiac surgeries, aortic aneurysms, oncologic resections etc. That will have an effect on people's lives that will not be directly measured as a Coronavirus statistic. I was at the VA yesterday and one of the medicine floors was calling down to the SICU to ask for N95 masks because they had rule out patients with no proper PPE to wear. Ambulatory surgical centers are bringing their vents to the tertiary hospitals. But please, keep posting about overreacting.
    11 points
  10. 11 points
  11. American industry’s reliance on Chinese factories over the last twenty years has left the country extremely vulnerable to China, who at any moment could cut off key supplies of thousands of products. It is no coincidence that Trump has praised China and Xi in the last few days. They have obviously cut-off a lot of medical supplies, but no one wants to say that because it would cause a major panic here, and Trump would receive a ton of criticism. This is what happens when you pursue an “America First” policy so blatantly and openly with little to no diplomacy. You make other countries even less willing to cooperate. And of course those countries will also adopt an “every man (country) for himself” mindset. And the shipment of equipment to Italy was China’s way to remind Trump they hold a lot of cards too. Just another example of disastrous policy in action.
    11 points
  12. The Republicans losing their Senate majority because they were infected with the virus by Rand Paul may be the greatest story ever told.
    10 points
  13. Can you guys do the rest of us a favor and be clear about you mean when you demand a federal lockdown? I’m trying to understand what further steps you demand beyond every school, restaurant, bar, sports arena, mall and the like all being shut down, while 90+% of the population is unwilling or unable to congregate with more than immediate family members, will meet your standards. You keep repeating this shit every fucking day, so walk it out for us. What else needs to happen? Also, preemptive caveat, if you’re begging for a full scale calling up of the military, national guard, and state and local police services to swing into high gear on martial law, then just fuck your own faces and ignore the request for an explanation to your regular shrieking. One of you committed fraud to get an early prescription for a possible COVID treatment after self-diagnosing in rural Oregon and one of you has been hiding under a bed for over a month already. I’m interested in what the next steps are that you require.
    10 points
  14. All 50 states should form a governing board and vote for an executive leader so that decisions can be made under a federated organization for the benefit of all States.
    9 points
  15. You realize that tests do not exist to confirm your expectations and retroactively validate your behavior, right? He was exposed and chose to risk exposing others by doing things that I'm not doing and I'm not letting my kids do. As I write this three members of my extended family are in self-isolation due to exposure to an infected person. They are isolating themselves because they aren't assholes and don't want compromised people and others to be hurt as a result of their behavior despite having no reason to "suspect or expect a positive result". His politics are far too insubstantial for me to get worked up about, but he's a lousy, unproductive Senator and apparently also an inconsiderate human being. I can't speak for anybody else, but that's why I'm shitting on him. Fuck Rand Paul.
    9 points
  16. 9 points
  17. The Republicans losing their Senate majority because they were infected with the virus by Rand Paul may be the greatest story ever told.
    8 points
  18. Looking at him is no picnic, either.
    8 points
  19. Greenspoint has to be the most insufferable cunt on this site. I would rather get the virus then be stuck in a room with him for 2 hours.
    8 points
  20. Honestly? Because we are a center right nation that is deeply racist. basically half (if not 2/3) of white people dislike/fear POC, to the point it drives every other aspect of their life outlook, knowingly or unknowingly. Trump says the quiet part out loud, and that gives them a deep sense of belonging and alignment. Your traditional suburban business types aids and abets because they just can’t bring themselves to pull the lever for the Democrats. So they go with the incompetent devil they know, who also won’t hurt their race and class type (also, Trump re-enforces traditional gender roles and structure, which is soothing for your suburban dude worried about a woman taking his job or worse). It’s racial watergate in this country: follow the racism.
    8 points
  21. Italy actually banned Chinese flights on January 31. They were the first EU country to do that and they did over a month before Trump did. https://www.thelocal.it/20200131/italy-suspends-all-china-flights-after-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-rome/
    8 points
  22. With regards to Covid 19, we've seen the full spectrum of illness in our hospital. We've got a lot of positives or people in isolation being tested. Many are stable enough to go home, some in good shape, some on home oxygen equipment.. The truly ominous thing we're seeing in our ICU is that once people go onto ventilators, they aren't coming off, unless they die of course. These people are going to tie up ventilators for many weeks or worse. Our regional leadership has asked us to essentially triple our ICU capacity. Transitional care unit and post surgical recovery areas are being prepared to deliver ICU level care. ICU doctors are already spread very thin. So the plan is hospital based internal medicine docs such as myself will take over many ICU patients. Clinic internists and medical specialty consultants (probably mostly cardiology, GI, etc) will help out the hospitalists. I assume there will be similar plans on the nursing side with regular floor nurses asked to take care of much sicker patients than they are accustomed to seeing. There are probably a lot of surgeons, etc who are twiddling their thumbs with all elective surgeries cancelled and almost all clinic visits converted to phone/skype appointments. 2 more days until I get a day off though and will spend it block sanding and barring rain, putting some primer on the Chevelle. Looking forward to it. Some of the things I hear about alcoholic beverage makers switching to produce alcohol for hand sanitizer and other companies gearing up to make masks, ventilators and other medical equipment is encouraging. 'Merica!
    8 points
  23. Reminder: I did. No, not this EXACT crisis. But I knew that SOME crisis would occur, and this is exactly what you get when you have an incompetent narcissist in charge. This is exactly the kind of thing many folks warned against, we’re afraid of, and none of it fucking mattered. We put a deranged, utterly unqualified psychopath in the pilot’s seat. Now the plane has hit some birds and lost both engines. What follows...is exactly what you’d expect.
    7 points
  24. I think the private sector is going to save our asses. Elon and the Detroit boys working on making ventilators and Facebook donated 720,000 masks they had in case fires had stayed around longer. These are just a couple examples...but even medical scientists are about to pull off some super hero shit.
    7 points
  25. He had 6 ribs broken and part of his lung removed following a tackle by a 5'6" 140# retired anesthesiologist.
    7 points
  26. Corona Virus, just when I think you couldn't be any worse....
    7 points
  27. She should do what her doctor tells her. JFC what is wrong with you people?
    6 points
  28. Same here. What was ok 3 weeks ago and what is supposedly ok now are two different things. We ran through a lot of PPE in the first week or two discarding everything between patients. Gowns and gloves are still thrown away between patients. Face shields are bleach wiped and used repeatedly. Masks you can’t bleach. You just reuse. I’m on the same mask and face shield for the last 3 days. It’s not ideal. And I’m talking about known positive patients.
    6 points
  29. baharat and sumac roasted chicken with red onions, preserved lemons and olives
    6 points
  30. I am pleased to announce the wife just got back from the store with another bottle of laundry detergent.
    6 points
  31. Tapatalk will probably accept / upload these out of order. Not gonna bother trying to fix. Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk
    6 points
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