If you want a sobering look at reality, read this. Even reading part of it slaps me upside the head.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

3 hours ago, grannyknot said:

 Hey we're all off for a month or so, come on up  Sounds like an essential service to me.?

I was reading on the BBC last night that England is asking 65,000 retired nurses and doctors to come back to work.

Aren't they in the most vulnerable category? That's a big ask.

Sounds essential to me too. Wonder if the people at the border crossing would agree. We'll do it, but maybe just not right now.    

I saw that thing about England too and you're right. That's a big ask.

I've been reading a lot of new (like not old) media, magazines and web sites that I've never heard of before.  Found this article, from the left side, that might explain why the state leaders are working so much harder than the Fed side.  Why California and New York are taking such drastic measures.  They might know more than anyone wants to say. 

I can't imagine somebody making up all of the details in the story.  Looks like real news.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/lung-fluids-coronavirus/

https://www.motherjones.com/author/lizzie-pressler/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones_(magazine)

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/lung-fluids-coronavirus/

I have heard about that. Basically you're sick for about 2 weeks. Then all of a sudden the third week hits and you start developing lesions in the lungs and drown. If you survive you can have 30-40% loss of lung function. Also the average ICU stay is 5 days. Many of these patients will be there 3 weeks. Just not enough beds for that

3 hours ago, Patcon said:

Some interesting stuff in here

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria

Best article I have read on this whole situation.  Well done!

The people of my town have clearly prioritised

8 hours ago, motorman7 said:

Best article I have read on this whole situation.  Well done!

Please be careful, those stick-your-head-in-the-sand ignore-science web sites are very dangerous!

Here is what can happen:

 

Some Science:

 

 

4 hours ago, AK260 said:

The people of my town have clearly prioritised

5.25 pounds for 24 beers?  That's like 6 U.S. dollars.  The aisles would be clear here too. 

Things like this might be the real "game changer" as far as what types of action are taken.  Interesting development. 

p.s. I'm not for or against Rand Paul, specifically, and am not promoting any of the tweets and retweets.  It's just the world we live in today.  The news is on the official Rand Paul Twitter feed.  I found it in the "normal" media.

 

Edited March 22, 20205 yr by Zed Head

Angela Merkel in quarantine

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine after a doctor who gave her a vaccine tests positive for coronavirus.

The zerohedge article I posted has been updated with a refutation by a virologist

I take all of these with a "grain of salt" the good and the bad. Then I try to balance it all out. I think the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Which could still be really bad! Just so many unknowns. One of the guys on my crossbow forum in Ontario, his grand daughter, daughter and wife have it. He is probably an asymptomatic carrier. His daughter is a nurse