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Offline Omni

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« Reply #210 on: March 13, 2020, 10:38:58 pm »
Corona now has 3.7% fatality rate.  96.7 survival rate.  Probably fatality rate is lower because of people who haven't been tested.

Maybe you learned math at Trump college.

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« Reply #211 on: March 13, 2020, 10:47:00 pm »
Corona now has 3.7% fatality rate.  96.7 survival rate.  Probably fatality rate is lower because of people who haven't been tested.

Fatality rate in S. Korea is currently 0.6%. In the US 5.9%. The US has tested ~11,000 people so far. S. Korea does that daily. Hopefully your concept of math can interpret the differences.

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« Reply #212 on: March 14, 2020, 12:46:37 am »
Around 1,300 people have died in Italy...   and this is within a couple weeks...  has it been longer?  Well a thousand people dying in a couple weeks is something very much out of the ordinary. 

It’s past time to take this thing very seriously. 

Unfortunately, the USA has a population that loves to think they’re “independent” and don’t need the guvmint telling them what to do...   plus, they have **** healthcare....   there’s the potential to get much, much worse.   
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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« Reply #213 on: March 14, 2020, 02:25:29 am »
Maybe you learned math at Trump college.

LOL.  756.u fatality rate now.
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« Reply #214 on: March 14, 2020, 12:11:55 pm »
Since last night when I wrote my post, over 140 more people are reported to have died from it in Italy....
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« Reply #215 on: March 14, 2020, 02:56:17 pm »
Jeez, where I live this whole Corona panic seemed not to be a big deal, everyone going normally about their daily business, until yesterday! I went to my local grocery store, which is a relatively small, family run store within walking distance. They were advertising canned sockeye and yogurt heavily on sale and I needed a loaf of bread. I have been going to that store for years and never have I ever seen it so jam packed. There are 4 checkout counters and the lineups to get to them were so long you joined them back at the meat section at the other end of the store. Shopping carts filled to the brim with various things but all well stacked with...yep....toilet paper. Luckily, after I got through with my little bag of stuff there is a bar across the street and I needed a break.

Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #216 on: March 14, 2020, 03:12:14 pm »
The thing is - you do start to worry that there won't be any TP.  I feel it will be fine in a few days.

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« Reply #217 on: March 14, 2020, 03:20:48 pm »
The thing is - you do start to worry that there won't be any TP.  I feel it will be fine in a few days.

I guess once everyone has laid in a stock of 2 or 3 months of TP then that rush will end. The general panic though won't be over any time soon it seems but will only grow.

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« Reply #218 on: March 14, 2020, 04:11:12 pm »
The thing is - you do start to worry that there won't be any TP.  I feel it will be fine in a few days.

People can wipe their bums with kleenex.

I don't think it will be a huge issue.  We stocked up weeks ago from Costco.  Most food is is made in Canada so that will be fine.  I don't think basic supplies will be an issue.
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« Reply #219 on: March 14, 2020, 04:22:31 pm »
People can wipe their bums with kleenex.

I don't think it will be a huge issue.  We stocked up weeks ago from Costco.  Most food is is made in Canada so that will be fine.  I don't think basic supplies will be an issue.

Ah I see, so you're stockpiling boxes of kleenex instead of rolls of toilet paper. A novel idea, but probably not a very smart budget... movement.
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« Reply #220 on: March 14, 2020, 05:08:46 pm »
We have quite a bit on hand but until further notice my local newspapers will not be going into recycling.
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« Reply #221 on: March 14, 2020, 05:20:32 pm »
We have quite a bit on hand but until further notice my local newspapers will not be going into recycling.

Good idea, I may do that too. I will be selective though, articles to do with Trump will help ease the pain.
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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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« Reply #222 on: March 14, 2020, 05:25:13 pm »
Trudeau just limited flights to Canada.  This should have been done a month ago.

My friend just arrived back from vacation at Pearson airport in Toronto.  She said there was no screening except some self-serve kiosk that didn't do jack all.  She said everyone was tense and fearful in the airport.

Travel bans don’t do anything except delay getting it.  They do more harm than good. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid19-travel-bans-1.5495919

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"What the science tells you is that travel bans are not nearly effective as you think they might be," McGeer said. "I think we really need to be focused on what we need to do to protect ourselves from community transmission in our countries as opposed to worrying about what happens when other people coming from other countries to us."

Similarly, when asked whether the Canada-U.S. border might close to limit spread, McGeer said "probably not."

"There's a bit of a temptation to say now that because we have so many fewer cases in Canada than some places in the United States that we might worry about travellers from the United States," she said. "That kind of restriction might delay our outbreak by a week … and the damage that it does is probably just not worth that week's delay."
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Offline wilber

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« Reply #223 on: March 14, 2020, 05:41:07 pm »
So far most of those infected have been associated with Canadians who have been travelling abroad and you can't refuse a Canadian citizen entry into their own country.
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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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« Reply #224 on: March 14, 2020, 07:17:24 pm »
Ah I see, so you're stockpiling boxes of kleenex instead of rolls of toilet paper. A novel idea, but probably not a very smart budget... movement.

No I got a bunch of toilet paper a couple of weeks ago.  But if stores run out of TP they can get kleenex.
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