Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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20 Mar 2020, 10:05 pm

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Friday night ghost town. 90% empty. Freaky. And sad. All these nice little businesses and resturants going out of business.

All so that those like me in the 3-5%, will not catch a virus.

Older people make up a lot more than 5% of the population.
We don't know which 3-5% of those are *not* going to make it.
Russian Roulette, sort of thing.
So it is more the case of *all* people over 60, and you. :wink:

Don't be hard on yourself, Ezras.
That is *my* job. :mrgreen:

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20 Mar 2020, 10:06 pm

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Initially I was puzzled as to why it seemed like NYC wasn't taking more extreme measures earlier given the number of people that could be affected by this virus. I was shocked to read, for example that public transportation was business as usual.

Australia's Morrison government has limited public gatherings to 100 and that's likely to be lowered to 50 soon.

What seems illogical is that hundreds of people are crammed in trams and trains and buses during peak hour every day in enclosed spaces breaching social distance.

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20 Mar 2020, 10:08 pm

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You guys should learn to use the Lota , to use less toilet paper daily.

Or a Bidet

lotas can be used by everyone, no need for special installations, and cheap or can subsitute with similar looking items you already have

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20 Mar 2020, 10:13 pm

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To each their own... He looks mean and lawyer-like (they all have similar noses, the mean ones at least). I like people who have noses that don't look like they've gotten a workout from fuming with anger all the time.

Nose-ist alert!
Sound the horns!
Nose discrimination will *not* be tolerated!
To the stocks, with her!
Bring cabbages and tomatoes!

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20 Mar 2020, 10:15 pm

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Hospitals being strained is probably a result of everyone with a sniffle reporting to them.

Also due to all the panic and stress people are getting sick. High blood pressure and all that.

Probably a big increase in alcohol consumption and drug use.

Probably attempted suicide rates are going up. Along with actual suicides.

You're a hypocrite. You've been saying that you want only simple raw data that you can see with your eyes, and you're not interested in predictions or maybes. Heck, you even posted a picture of a crystal ball a few pages back to mock a fellow poster. And now, here you are, making stuff up without any proof.

Also, if you look at the part of the WSJ article that is visible without having to pay for it, it says specifically that "large hospitals have already exceeded the capacity of their intensive-care units." You're not going to the ICU for a sniffle.

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20 Mar 2020, 10:17 pm

As Ezra is getting out his own crystal ball to make predictions with, here's the picture he used to mock another poster with:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=384318&start=2175#p8478829

EzraS wrote:

eikonabridge wrote:

Pepe wrote:

eikonabridge wrote:

Here is the plot. See with your own eyes how beautiful an exponential curve it is.

When I was in school, an "exponential graph" looked like this:

Yours is in linear-linear scale. Mine is in log-linear scale. They are of the same shape. Just different presentation scales.

And similar to:

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20 Mar 2020, 10:19 pm

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cyberdad wrote:

blooiejagwa wrote:

You guys should learn to use the Lota , to use less toilet paper daily.

Or a Bidet

lotas can be used by everyone, no need for special installations, and cheap or can subsitute with similar looking items you already have

That is a shite load of money for a fancy toilet seat!

But then again, on the black market, a weeks worth of toilet paper goes for 3 times that amount! :mrgreen:

Lotus ATS-908 Advanced Toilet Seat Bidet added Constipation Relief Function
Advanced Bidet with 5 years Warranty
Brand new
AU $1,192.02
From United States
Buy It Now
Customs services and international tracking provided
+AU $133.83 postage

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20 Mar 2020, 10:20 pm

And yeah, Ezra, what eikonabridge posted there did show exponential growth. The growth was clearly exponential, because the curve was rising linearly on a logarithmic graph.

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20 Mar 2020, 10:21 pm

Pepe wrote:

blooiejagwa wrote:

Nose-ist alert!
Sound the horns!
Nose discrimination will *not* be tolerated!
To the stocks, with her!
Bring cabbages and tomatoes!

Are you saying that because you also have that type of nose?

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20 Mar 2020, 10:22 pm

I don't even need to shop again until like September. Started making plans to self-isolate back in January, and stocked everything I needed over a month ago. Nothing that is happening now should be surprising to anyone who followed the news in China and took scientists' warnings seriously.

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20 Mar 2020, 10:23 pm

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As Ezra is getting out his own crystal ball to make predictions with, here's the picture he used to mock another poster with:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=384318&start=2175#p8478829

What you, and that other guy, call "mocking", I call "banter".
You will need to toughen up if you want to survive the coronavirus apocalypse, lady. :mrgreen:

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20 Mar 2020, 10:25 pm

I thought this article from last month was quite prescient:

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-wi ... ype=earned

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20 Mar 2020, 10:28 pm

Syd wrote:

I don't even need to shop again until like September. Started making plans to self-isolate back in January, and stocked everything I needed over a month ago.

You and me both, sister.
We were ahead of the curve.

When I started stocking up, all the shelves were full.
Not a toilet paper empty space to be seen.

If I am not viewed as being prescient by my community,
I should be.
Call me Paul Atreides, aka Muad'Dib. :mrgreen:

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20 Mar 2020, 10:34 pm

blooiejagwa wrote:

Pepe wrote:

blooiejagwa wrote:

Nose-ist alert!
Sound the horns!
Nose discrimination will *not* be tolerated!
To the stocks, with her!
Bring cabbages and tomatoes!

Are you saying that because you also have that type of nose?

I take that as a very offensive suggestion.
I have nose time for lawyers.
We call them "solicitors", over here, btw.

But why do you have to ask, when my picture is right there on the left of my posts for all to see? :scratch:

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20 Mar 2020, 10:40 pm

Pepe wrote:

Call me Paul Atreides, aka Muad'Dib. :mrgreen:

blooiejagwa wrote:

Are you saying that because you also have that type of nose?

The great Nostril-damus, he has common scents and nose everything.

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20 Mar 2020, 10:42 pm

If this is true, then I hope it's in the works to be mass-produced and used worldwide.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/japanese- ... cials-say/

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