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March 13th, 2020 at 3:52:00 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18629 | Speaking of being out of stock. I did buy the last cheap digital thermometer I saw a couple days ago. $16. The only other ones I saw left were $40-80. I'm pretty satisfied with just a digital thermometer. Haven't missed a flu shot in years, so the most likely thing to cause an elevated temp is CV19. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 13th, 2020 at 4:21:46 PM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
I went to my local Costco. Got gas, that was pretty quick. Busy but not too busy No line to get in but they were busy No toilet paper or paper towels, guy held a sign at the entrance with this info I picked up water. Limit 2 large packages. I picked up just one. Picked up some frozen food Went to the grocery store. Got one of the last packages of potatoes I'm pretty stocked up on food. Don't want to eat out, right now dont trust who is cooking Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
March 13th, 2020 at 4:42:24 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
A good but unusual example can be found in the first season of "Breaking Bad." While investigating the equipment Walt stole they caught the janitor with some dope of some sort. All the parents start one-upping each other on "what to do" and the ideas get more and more draconian. Meanwhile, sometimes being a great leader means not doing something right away. Trump is right in the bigger damage is to the economy by shutting things up tight as a drum. Good news was I went out to eat tonight expecting to see the place deserted. I could not get a parking space. Packed! The President is a fink. |
March 13th, 2020 at 4:55:24 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18629 | "And the band played on." You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 13th, 2020 at 6:01:30 PM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4942 |
I get just over six weeks of paid time off (PTO). I don't think I have ever used more than 10 days in a year between vacations and sick time. Sadly we lose the remainder that we don't use every year. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
March 13th, 2020 at 8:35:48 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | I am still genuinely baffled by this toilet paper reflex. It's not just the Coronavirus. I lived in Baltimore through most of the 90's and every time snow was forecast, even if just a little, my local supermarket (Super Fresh on Security Blvd. and Rolling Road) would be packed with people buying white things (milk, eggs, bread) but especially toilet paper. I recall the news media asking people in the long lines about their purchase choices and timing and everyone always said they needed those items anyway. I have absolutely nothing to offer here -- I just am curious -- why? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
March 13th, 2020 at 9:00:30 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18629 | Coronavirus the Board Game modeled after Monopoly where you try not to land on the same space as another player and try to survive long enough for a vaccine. Chance Card sends you to a Cruise Ship quarantine where you lose ability to accumulate survival points. Instead of being sent to jail, you go to an understaffed hospital with too few ventilators. Properties you buy are your safe spaces, but unsafe for other players. and so on. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 13th, 2020 at 9:43:42 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Scissors paper rock for who gets the ventilator? The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 14th, 2020 at 3:25:21 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Some of us are preppers who keep full pantries to last a snowstorm, or whatever might close things for up to a couple weeks. We are watching this and relaxed. We are the minority. Maybe 40% of the people out there both live day to day and are easily swayed by the news. Snow, virus, whatever. They gotta just DO SOMETHING! Example is all these people buying all this water forgetting that there is all the water they need at their faucet. Americans are so used to having all they need that any expectation of any shortage causes a run. It feeds on itself. Who wants to run out of TP? Some people run low. I had a roommate kept putting off buying it once. He had an excuse "didn't have time, we rode dirtbikes" as if he was 12 years old. Lots of people like that go pick the shelves clean. I cannot find the grocery store scene from "The Day After" but we are living in a slow motion version of it right now. People just deciding "I might need this, I might need dat......." I am glad I got into prepping 7-10 years ago. My big worry is will the bakery have my donuts made because I have to work today business is killing it at the moment. The President is a fink. |
March 14th, 2020 at 5:12:00 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5054 | I think 'the less prepared' just remember a storm, or other people told them about a storm, that caused shortages. Maybe the only thing they buy at a grocery store are snacks, sodas, beer, and toilet paper. Today the stores try to get people to buy big packages of toilet paper for some reason, and due to panic they would be inclined to buy the big packages anyway. It acts itself out by TP disappearing first. I agree it's weird I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |