Life! (corona virus, non informative, non hysterical post)

Tenman

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People down here in the south Missippi. We used to fight. I was one of em. I was a boucer at some rough juke joints. Back in the day 70's/ 80's. Me and my buddies went bar hopping alot. It was a 50/50 chance one of us was gonna get into some shit. Drunk country boys. Plenty of guns in trucks. I saw a few guns shot in the air. I only remember 1 shooting. Mfr killed my ex daddy in law over a pool game. Saw a drunk stab a bouncer friend of mine with a Kabar knife. He said " If wouldnt been so fat that sob woulda killed me."
Countries With The Highest Murder Rates
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  4. Honduras (41.7 per 100,000) ...
  5. Lesotho (41.2 per 100,000) -- 89. U.S. (5.43 per 100,00) Mississppi has 19.4 per (100,00) 4th highest in the US and the majority in Hind county. Jackson Ms.
 
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Here is a sobering though for all of us. My wife's uncle was diagnosed with COVID- 19 just the other day. He is now in an Idaho hospital on a respirator fighting for his life. He had no underlying conditions, was an avid skier, and very fit and healthy for his age. This is a serious virus. The medical professionals are discovering that this virus can cause permanent lung damage. It's nothing to joke about.
 

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New York had its first case of COVID-19 diagnosed on the Ist of March. As at 25th March it was 25,665 cases. The seasonal flu doesn't skyrocket like that.

And Guns? I thought you guys would know about that, what with 100 Americans dying per day.
The New York cases don't surprise me....it's New York....a whole lot of residents, and probably one of the most visited cities in the world. And, with increased testing, "maybe" turns into "confirmed". No offense intended, but I'm not buying 100 gun deaths/day. Wikipedia, to me, is not a trusted source. Wikipedia also claims that the Civil War began because of slavery. Slavery was a factor, but not the primary cause.
 

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I agree, this is serious. I know the title of this post is 'non hysterical' but here's a few numbers to consider.
From the Johns Hopkins site referred to here earlier, China has (had) 82,000 cases within their population of 3.9 billion, that's one in 17,000.
USA has 69,000 cases or one in 4,700. That's 3.5 x the case density of China, and USA is still reporting an increase of 12,000 cases per day. At that rate USA will surpass China this weekend and has less than 1/10 the population.
 

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For the past week I have been doing my part to hopefully help slow down the Corona spread by staying close to home, so far no confirmed cases in the county and hopefully it stays that way. Around here grocery stores are very busy but most other business appears pretty slow So I believe most folks are attempting to do their part to help.
 
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ballisticexchris

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Here is a sobering though for all of us. My wife's uncle was diagnosed with COVID- 19 just the other day. He is now in an Idaho hospital on a respirator fighting for his life. He had no underlying conditions, was an avid skier, and very fit and healthy for his age. This is a serious virus. The medical professionals are discovering that this virus can cause permanent lung damage. It's nothing to joke about.
Damn Damn Damn!! My Wife's uncle just passed away a few minutes ago. Horrible. Please everyone I beg you to take this virus seriously. You can be perfectly healthy and die from this.
 

EricV

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When you talk about numbers, the two things being ignored are "where" and I mean specifically, not just US or Aus, etc. And time span. The flu kills lots of people. Not as fast as those that die from CV-19 and not in the high density for locations that overwhelm hospitals that CV-19 does. Gun violence generally shows spikes in populated urban centers. It would be silly to scream about the gun deaths in Illinois, as if the entire state was like Chicago. Never mind the numbers of people that die in car crashes every year. Yet no one cries out to ban cars, because, you know, cars kill people.... :rolleyes:

COVID-19 spreads easily. It doesn't impact everyone the same. Those that think they are low risk have been ignoring that they have contact, knowingly or unknowingly, with higher risk people. The flu changes every season. COVID-19 has already become at least two varieties. A vaccine will likely only help with the one variety that it's been designed specifically for. Just like the flu shots. Perhaps, like the flu vaccine, it will help some with the other varieties. Or since this is a completely different RNA type of virus, it won't help at all.

CV-19, when it hits someone bad, they go from reasonable shape to bad to dead very quickly. The flu lingers longer and doesn't have the high numbers of victims showing up at hospitals at the same narrow time frame in the same cities. It's spread out more, in terms of crisis cases. This is what scares the Medical folks, how quickly CV-19 can bloom and kill, when it does, and how quickly it can overwhelm a single location/staff group.
 

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I have been hearing that the "14 days before symptoms showing up" is not necessarily true. I've been seeing/reading more & more that by day five, you show symptoms. By day nine, you're either improving.....or by day 14 your dead. To me, the silver lining of that is not infecting people, unknowingly, for that extra week before symptoms present.
 
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ballisticexchris

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I have been hearing that the "14 days before symptoms showing up" is not necessarily true. I've been seeing/reading more & more that by day five, you show symptoms. By day nine, you're either improving.....or by day 14 your dead. To me, the silver lining of that is not infecting people, unknowingly, for that extra week before symptoms present.
My wife's uncle was showing no symptoms until the other night with just shortness of breath. Now he is dead. This virus is horrible and more risky than we can imagine. Yet a lot of people are not heeding the advice of the medical community.
 

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I have been hearing that the "14 days before symptoms showing up" is not necessarily true. I've been seeing/reading more & more that by day five, you show symptoms. By day nine, you're either improving.....or by day 14 your dead. To me, the silver lining of that is not infecting people, unknowingly, for that extra week before symptoms present.
If you think you have symptoms we are told self isolate for 7 days. If someone you live with has syptoms you isolate for 14 days
 

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It's been a while since I did FMLA in '05, but it was a lot of paperwork and they didn't pay me for my time taken off unless I used vaca or comp time. (No sick pay at that corporation) Dad was dying of cancer, which stretched out for 8 months. I pushed up against the maximum number of allowable days, but didn't cross over it. Start that paperwork as soon as possible and read up on the employee handbook to see how to best manipulate the days you count as FMLA time.
 

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Damn Damn Damn!! My Wife's uncle just passed away a few minutes ago. Horrible. Please everyone I beg you to take this virus seriously. You can be perfectly healthy and die from this.
Really sorry to hear it Chris. Sure does bring it home and makes people pay attention when it's not just a news report.
My thoughts and prayers are with your family.
 
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