Covid-19

DarkWeb · Apr 20, 2020

greg nr said:
A cow or two would help, but damn, they are a lot of work to maintain. I worked on a dairy farm in high school and I can still taste the shit in the air. You haven't lived until you get hit across the face with a tail that has been soaking in the manure/piss gutter all night.

Goats are too damn noisy. I guess buying milk isn't so bad.

Goats just stink.....we have a farm in the family. When I was a kid it had cows, pigs and 70-90 chickens. No livestock since early 90's. LOL Don't step in the mud...

curious2garden · Apr 20, 2020

tyler.durden said:
I remind people of that often, stating that as awful as this strain of virus is, we are fortunate that it has the low mortality rate it does. It could have possibly started as something much worse. The Spanish flu mutated somewhere along its evolution into a strain magnitudes more deadly than the original. I understand that it is possible for SARS cov2 to do something similar, or it could mutate into a less dangerous strain, or possibly remain somewhat consistent. Just to be clear, my post was referring to the disease that I contracted weeks ago, and how a couple of its original symptoms have resurfaced a week after they appeared to have gone. This seems to be a common pattern in people recovering from covid-19. Your response is an interesting fact, but doesn't seem germane to my post...

The usual path is to devolve toward entropy, becoming less dangerous. So I'm going with that expectation. Although you are exactly right it could remain the same, similar or worse.

curious2garden · Apr 20, 2020

greg nr said:
A cow or two would help, but damn, they are a lot of work to maintain. I worked on a dairy farm in high school and I can still taste the shit in the air. You haven't lived until you get hit across the face with a tail that has been soaking in the manure/piss gutter all night.

Goats are too damn noisy. I guess buying milk isn't so bad.

My extended family had a dairy farm. LOL memories

greg nr · Apr 20, 2020

It’s Not Too Late to Go on Offense Against the Coronavirus

To end the nightmare, lockdowns aren’t enough. We need to hunt the virus and defeat it.

www.newyorker.com

curious2garden · Apr 20, 2020

greg nr said:
It’s Not Too Late to Go on Offense Against the Coronavirus

To end the nightmare, lockdowns aren’t enough. We need to hunt the virus and defeat it.

www.newyorker.com

That reads exactly like my Tropical Medicine class; test, trace, treat.

We know this. Which just angers me why we didn't and are not doing it. This has been handled by the f'n three stooges.

Singlemalt · Apr 20, 2020

curious2garden said:
The usual path is to devolve toward entropy, becoming less dangerous. So I'm going with that expectation. Although you are exactly right it could remain the same, similar or worse.

to the point of optimal virulence. The evolutionary biological dance; virulent enough to survive (the disease organism) but not so virulent that it kills the host too soon to negatively impact transmission.

cannabineer · Apr 20, 2020

Singlemalt said:
to the point of optimal virulence. The evolutionary biological dance; virulent enough to survive (the disease organism) but not so virulent that it kills the host too soon to negatively impact transmission.

That is a fine chunk of prose. I hear it spoken by Attenborough.

Singlemalt · Apr 20, 2020

cannabineer said:
That is a fine chunk of prose. I hear it spoken by Attenborough.

I've even gotten the shortnessof breath down too lol

cannabineer · Apr 20, 2020

greg nr said:
A cow or two would help, but damn, they are a lot of work to maintain. I worked on a dairy farm in high school and I can still taste the shit in the air. You haven't lived until you get hit across the face with a tail that has been soaking in the manure/piss gutter all night.

Goats are too damn noisy. I guess buying milk isn't so bad.

greg nr · Apr 20, 2020

Fwiw, WTI Crude oil (the US benchmark for crude oil prices) futures actually went negative today. I didn't even know that was possible, but I'm not a futures gambler, so I have no idea what it means. I just checked and it was -$35!

I guess they will be paying us to fill

up now.

tangerinegreen555 · Apr 20, 2020

The US needs an 'army' of contact tracers if there's any hope of getting back to normal

In the US, roughly 2,200 contact workers are stationed nationwide. Public-health experts say it'll take hundreds of thousands to restart the country.

www.businessinsider.com

Does this mean I can get a temp job in public health and leave the house?

I can trace those microbes as well as the next guy.

And I have experience in the health field. I worked at the local hospital when I got laid off from my good a couple times. Worked in xray and developed films in the dark room. I still have my old exposure film badge somewhere.

greg nr · Apr 20, 2020

tangerinegreen555 said:
The US needs an 'army' of contact tracers if there's any hope of getting back to normal

In the US, roughly 2,200 contact workers are stationed nationwide. Public-health experts say it'll take hundreds of thousands to restart the country.

www.businessinsider.com

Does this mean I can get a temp job in public health and leave the house?

I can trace those microbes as well as the next guy.

And I have experience in the health field. I worked at the local hospital when I got laid off from my good a couple times. Worked in xray and developed films in the dark room. I still have my old exposure film badge somewhere.

Mass is hiring 1000 tracers ($27/hour) and 100 supervisors ($30/hour). They have 15k applications.

They are giving first shots to health care workers/social workers/etc idled by the pandemic.

Partners in Health is running the operation in conjunction with the state.. My bil is a very respected epidemiologist MD in Pitts, and he said this has become the gold standard for states to emulate.

xtsho · Apr 20, 2020

This damn Covid is messing with my spring cleaning. I can't clean out the garage because there is no place to donate the junk I want to get rid of.

Damn Covid-19. If I could find it I'd beat the crap out of it. :fire:

Milovan1 · Apr 20, 2020

Milovan1 · Apr 20, 2020

Home test anyone?

curious2garden · Apr 20, 2020

xtsho said:
This damn Covid is messing with my spring cleaning. I can't clean out the garage because there is no place to donate the junk I want to get rid of.

Damn Covid-19. If I could find it I'd beat the crap out of it.

Kick it once for me please.

MICHI-CAN · Apr 20, 2020

I actually saw a store shelf full of toilet paper I hope to never find myself in need of. We are making up ground people. Hang in there.

curious2garden · Apr 20, 2020

MICHI-CAN said:
I actually saw a store shelf full of toilet paper I hope to never find myself in need of. We are making up ground people. Hang in there.

Patties or meat loaves?

greg nr · Apr 20, 2020

xtsho said:
This damn Covid is messing with my spring cleaning. I can't clean out the garage because there is no place to donate the junk I want to get rid of.

Damn Covid-19. If I could find it I'd beat the crap out of it.

Put it in a box marked toilet paper or hand sanitizer and leave it in the bed or your pickup in a walmart parking lot. It won't be there when you get back.

:hug:

MICHI-CAN · Apr 20, 2020

curious2garden said:
Patties or meat loaves?

Humans contain off putting concentrations of sodium and iron. And those would be non organic. Although corn fed.

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