Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away

[jinx 2635]

So, I've read most of this thread and a lot of the articles and other stuff.  I appreciate the variety of views and information, but I still feel extremely uninformed.  At least this group of idiots knows how to survive a pandemic while still making jokes about our trip through the twilight zone.

Based on my completely uninformed opinion, I have come to the conclusion that:

1 - We stay in our houses and away from each other for about 12 -16 months

or

2 - A large segment of the population is gonna get this thing

Am I wrong?  What portion of time do the Greenspoints of the world think we need to SIP for this thing to leave us alone?  Does anyone want to be the guinea pig for the vaccine?  

I get flattening the curve, but that just stretches the volume of infected over a longer period of time to keep from locking up the health care system.  Count me in the group wondering when our illustrious leadership will come up with a plan.

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

While they're at it they should make people with STDs wear an STD on their forehead. It would make dating easier. 

If you want anyone to heed those warnings you better put em on the titties or ass.  

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 minute ago, Trey3216 said:

The highway project pretty much built suburbia, and made it relevant 

That was my point. Dwight pushed for a strategic road system that would facilitate rapid troop movement (Thanks Adolph for the autobahn).

[SydneyCarton 47809]

1 minute ago, ChiTownDoc said:

If you want anyone to heed those warnings you better put em on the titties or ass.  

But the time I’ve gotten to bare titties and ass informing me the situation at someone’s house or apartment, good chance I’m rolling the dice regardless unless that message is blinking AIDS.

[gmr548 16427]

I think the word that you're looking for is 'redundant'...unless you meant to compliment my brethren.

Fuck. I'm a certified English teacher. I know what that word means. And yet, thanks to my poor attempt at clever wordplay, my brain fart reveals that I am, in fact, one of those millions of morons.

[bolverk 29261]

2 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

The highway project pretty much built suburbia, and made it relevant 

Well, that along with the feds making low-interest mortgages available as part of the GI Bill. It was both of those policies together along with Euclidean Zoning.

As an architect, I would think Onboard would be very familiar with this history. Maybe he's just playing dumb for effect.

[Trey3216 15321]

2 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

That was my point. Dwight pushed for a strategic road system that would facilitate rapid troop movement (Thanks Adolph for the autobahn).

Yep 

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

But the time I’ve gotten to bare titties and ass informing me the situation at someone’s house or apartment, good chance I’m rolling the dice regardless unless that message is blinking AIDS.

I mean if it's not blinking AIDS and she's hot enough, you're going to risk it anyway.  That's how I've heard some guys think. 

[gmr548 16427]

The highway project pretty much built suburbia, and made it relevant 

It was a piece, it facilitated development. But it was far from the only factor.

[Guadaloopy 10890]

11 minutes ago, WBT said:

You're got this close to making a good point but you never quite got there.

[SHOOTER12 8782]

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

He’ll stop when you buy a car from him.

Car salesmen never, ever stop.  They'll hide in your closet, they'll hide in your garage, hell they'll even hide in your bathroom.

[Trey3216 15321]

Just now, gmr548 said:

7 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

The highway project pretty much built suburbia, and made it relevant 

It was a piece, it facilitated development. But it was far from the only factor.

It was a driving factor.  Suburbia wouldn’t be what it is without an interstate highway system direct into the cities. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Just now, gmr548 said:

7 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

The highway project pretty much built suburbia, and made it relevant 

It was a piece, it facilitated development. But it was far from the only factor.

THREAD DRIFT FOR SURE HERE:

A major piece, but true not the only factor.

[RayDog 682]

23 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

So does that mean as an A+ blood type I should have worried more about malaria all this time and never knew it?

I was wondering if there is a blood type tie in too, but it is not my area of expertise.  Maybe one of the docs has an opinion on that.

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

3 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

Thought we all volunteered Oklahoma to open up first

Arkansas beat em to the punch by just remaining open the whole time.  Zero fucks. 

[gmr548 16427]

Well, that along with the feds making low-interest mortgages available as part of the GI Bill. It was both of those policies together along with Euclidean Zoning.
As an architect, I would think Onboard would be very familiar with this history. Maybe he's just playing dumb for effect.

My man

[Trey3216 15321]

Just now, Onboard 2.0 said:

THREAD DRIFT FOR SURE HERE:

A major piece, but true not the only factor.

No, but the major, driving factor.   

[gmr548 16427]

It was a driving factor.

ISWYDT

[Scary Stranger 1711]

Just now, Trey3216 said:

No, but the major, driving factor.   

But not the only one. Right?

[Trey3216 15321]

Just now, ChiTownDoc said:

Arkansas beat em to the punch by just remaining open the whole time.  Zero fucks. 

And they’ve apparently not been Mayan’d yet 

[bolverk 29261]

Just now, gmr548 said:

My man

We could also discuss the effects of redlining and desegregation in public education, but I don't think we want to go there.

[Deej 76396]

10 minutes ago, jinx said:

So, I've read most of this thread and a lot of the articles and other stuff.  I appreciate the variety of views and information, but I still feel extremely uninformed.  At least this group of idiots knows how to survive a pandemic while still making jokes about our trip through the twilight zone.

Based on my completely uninformed opinion, I have come to the conclusion that:

1 - We stay in our houses and away from each other for about 12 -16 months

or

2 - A large segment of the population is gonna get this thing

Am I wrong?  What portion of time do the Greenspoints of the world think we need to SIP for this thing to leave us alone?  Does anyone want to be the guinea pig for the vaccine?  

I get flattening the curve, but that just stretches the volume of infected over a longer period of time to keep from locking up the health care system.  Count me in the group wondering when our illustrious leadership will come up with a plan.

Distance as much as you reasonably can. Be smart. Wear a mask. Wash your hands regularly. Get yourself healthy. Eat healthy. Exercise. A large segment will get this. A large segment won't die. 

[SHOOTER12 8782]

In lieu of a handshake, I'll stick with Jett Rinks' little side arm wave in Giant


 

Edited April 14, 2020 by SHOOTER12

[Deej 76396]

7 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Car salesmen never, ever stop.  They'll hide in your closet, they'll hide in your garage, hell they'll even hide in your bathroom.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Well, that along with the feds making low-interest mortgages available as part of the GI Bill. It was both of those policies together along with Euclidean Zoning.

As an architect, I would think Onboard would be very familiar with this history. Maybe he's just playing dumb for effect.

Well, it was more a planning/zoning/social issue than a strictly architectural issue, but yeah I'm familiar with it, see my original interstate highway system comment. 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

7 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

No, but the major, driving factor.   

Sub-tle like a Mack truck....

[gmr548 16427]

We could also discuss the effects of redlining and desegregation in public education, but I don't think we want to go there.

For sure.

Maybe, in the interest of compromise and not thread jacking, we acknowledge federal highway investment was instrumental to development in the suburbs and made it possible at scale, but the built environment took the form it did due to a host of factors already named. Many of which have a root cause called racism.

[bolverk 29261]

1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Well, it was more a planning/zoning/social issue than a strictly architectural issue, but yeah I'm familiar with it, see my original interstate highway system comment. 

 

I figure if you went to architecture school you'd be familiar, so that's why I suspected you were being a little coy in your response.

[EuroHorn 3204]

Georgia Tech stadium and surrounding buildings in blue to honor front line workers. 
 

the Cheetah is lit up in blue to honor all the blue balls in the city. 
 

Edited April 14, 2020 by EuroHorn

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 minute ago, bolverk said:

I figure if you went to architecture school you'd be familiar, so that's why I suspected you were being a little coy in your response.

Nah, just didn't wanna come off as all showy, and shit..

[workswithseed 2028]

10 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

I'll stick with Jett Rinks' little side arm wave in Giant


 

I need to get the girlfriend to watch this movie at some point.

[bolverk 29261]

5 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Nah, just didn't wanna come off as all showy, and shit..

Touché 

[SHOOTER12 8782]

Just now, workswithseed said:

I need to get the girlfriend to watch this movie at some point.

Hard to believe but I had never watched it until 5 or 6 years ago, by now I've probably watched it 20 times or more.

Damned great movie.

[workswithseed 2028]

1 minute ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Hard to believe but I had never watched it until 5 or 6 years ago, by now I've probably watched it 20 times or more.

Damned great movie.

I've only watched it the once about the same time 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 minute ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Hard to believe but I had never watched it until 5 or 6 years ago, by now I've probably watched it 20 times or more.

Damned great movie.

I've seen it dozens of times over the years. I didn't know till a few years ago Dean was dead before it was released.

[Pato del Muerto 52232]

28 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

If you want anyone to heed those warnings you better put em on the titties or ass.  

Normally I’d say listen to this man, he was pre-med, but in this case a lot of effort could be spent just to get a peek at the warning, plus you won’t exactly be in the most analytical state of mind when you get there. 

[EuroHorn 3204]

Interesting documentary on the Spanish flu 

 

 

[SHOOTER12 8782]

12 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I've seen it dozens of times over the years. I didn't know till a few years ago Dean was dead before it was released.

Yes, that blew my mind when I found that out.  It's a shame he didn't even get  to bask in the glory of it's success.

Edited April 14, 2020 by SHOOTER12

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Normally I’d say listen to this man, he was pre-med, but in this case a lot of effort could be spent just to get a peek at the warning, plus you won’t exactly be in the most analytical state of mind when you get there. 

Haha, definitely do NOT listen to me on these things.  I have played a lot of russian roulette in a past life, and lived to tell about it.  

[InkaUtexas 25289]

Thailand is reporting the first fatal case of the novel coronavirus being transmitted from a dead patient to a medical examiner, a finding that experts say adds to safety concerns for morgue and funeral home workers amid the global pandemic.

“This is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a Forensic Medicine unit,” said a Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine study released on Sunday.

“The disinfection procedure used in operation rooms might be applied in pathology/forensic units too,” wrote the authors, Won Sriwijitalai of the RVT Medical Center in Bangkok and Viroj Wiwanitkit of China’s Hainan Medical University. “At present, there is no data on the exact number of COVID-19 contaminated corpses since it is not a routine practice to examine for COVID-19 in dead bodies in Thailand.”

 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/coronavirus-spread-dead-body-coroner

[Pato del Muerto 52232]

Is amazon down for anyone else?

nm back up

Edited April 14, 2020 by Pato del Muerto

[StruggleBus 3922]

4 hours ago, Hate said:

 

4.  handshakes are no longer the accepted greeting.  I don't think the US will adopt the bow, but some other form of greeting will become the custom.

That’s unfortunate. You can tell a lot about a man by the way he shakes hands 

[EuroHorn 3204]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Thailand is reporting the first fatal case of the novel coronavirus being transmitted from a dead patient to a medical examiner, a finding that experts say adds to safety concerns for morgue and funeral home workers amid the global pandemic.

“This is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a Forensic Medicine unit,” said a Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine study released on Sunday.

“The disinfection procedure used in operation rooms might be applied in pathology/forensic units too,” wrote the authors, Won Sriwijitalai of the RVT Medical Center in Bangkok and Viroj Wiwanitkit of China’s Hainan Medical University. “At present, there is no data on the exact number of COVID-19 contaminated corpses since it is not a routine practice to examine for COVID-19 in dead bodies in Thailand.”

 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/coronavirus-spread-dead-body-coroner

How do they know it came from a dead body and not just picked up from someone or somewhere else?

[InkaUtexas 25289]

Just now, EuroHorn said:

How do they know it came from a dead body and not just picked up from someone or somewhere else?

No idea. Hope this not true, but was something I was wondering about. 

[GRHorn 105]

Things definitely calming in NY. We had several docs in our group volunteer with Mt Sinai health system  after they initially asked for volunteers. They got back to us now and said we aren’t needed anymore. 

Edited April 14, 2020 by GRHorn

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

50 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Is amazon down for anyone else?

nm back up

You know you have it bad when you run to check futures instead of the damn site after seeing that post.  

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

48 minutes ago, EuroHorn said:

How do they know it came from a dead body and not just picked up from someone or somewhere else?

Narrator: they dont

[RayDog 682]

An acquaintance who is known as Banana Man runs an organization that feeds over 200 kids a day who live in a nearby slum. Today the mayor shut them down because the kids don't have masks and can't maintain social distancing. The mayor did offer to distribute the food if it was given to him. But the mayor had the slum bulldozed in October and he is too busy doing photo ops handing out food packages to families that can afford to own or rent homes or apartments. 

[tbone_ 14016]

Isn’t that the point of being the mayor in a place like that?

[aggie08 21292]

58 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

That’s unfortunate. You can tell a lot about a man by the way he shakes hands 

I find that the only people that really take this to heart are the douchebags who clasp way too early and grab your fingers. Fuck them.