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Corona virus, the non-asshole thread
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Take back your life and stop worrying unless you are in an at risk group, which most of us are not. Most of all, turn off the 24/7 yellow journalist.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-we-know-about-the-wuhan-virus-11579716128
Ditch the hand sanitizer and go with soap and water.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/photos-show-why-hand-sanitizer-doesnt-work-as-well-as-soap-and-water-to-remove-germs/ar-BB10QqXg?ocid=spartandhp
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-we-know-about-the-wuhan-virus-11579716128
Ditch the hand sanitizer and go with soap and water.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/photos-show-why-hand-sanitizer-doesnt-work-as-well-as-soap-and-water-to-remove-germs/ar-BB10QqXg?ocid=spartandhp
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One USC athlete tested for coronavirus and another self-quarantined, Ray Tanner says
https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/other-usc-sports/article241187046.html?fbclid=IwAR175Rqmm1K_k5oanZT7KPh0K2a_nkN8B1t4PussffKv3OTDwcOkw6WsaXY
Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/other-usc-sports/article241187046.html?fbclid=IwAR175Rqmm1K_k5oanZT7KPh0K2a_nkN8B1t4PussffKv3OTDwcOkw6WsaXY#storylink=cpy
https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/other-usc-sports/article241187046.html?fbclid=IwAR175Rqmm1K_k5oanZT7KPh0K2a_nkN8B1t4PussffKv3OTDwcOkw6WsaXY
https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/other-usc-sports/article241187046.html?fbclid=IwAR175Rqmm1K_k5oanZT7KPh0K2a_nkN8B1t4PussffKv3OTDwcOkw6WsaXY
Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/other-usc-sports/article241187046.html?fbclid=IwAR175Rqmm1K_k5oanZT7KPh0K2a_nkN8B1t4PussffKv3OTDwcOkw6WsaXY#storylink=cpy
https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/other-usc-sports/article241187046.html?fbclid=IwAR175Rqmm1K_k5oanZT7KPh0K2a_nkN8B1t4PussffKv3OTDwcOkw6WsaXY
Kids came home from school and were playing the ‘coronavirus game’. Essentially old school ‘you got cooties’ with a new name.
Zion paying arena workers salaries for the next 30 days in NO.
Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized
Disturbing and likely true according to experts. I don't want to raise the panic level anymore than it is, but we could have thousands spreading this all over while showing no symptoms of the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-spread/index.html
Disturbing and likely true according to experts. I don't want to raise the panic level anymore than it is, but we could have thousands spreading this all over while showing no symptoms of the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-spread/index.html
CORONAVIRUS
The Hand Sanitizer You Can't Find Is In This Putz's Garage
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/the-hand-sanitizer-you-cant-find-is-in-this-putzs-garage
During troubling times it is psychologically helpful to know where to vent your anger. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we had the face of Osama bin Laden. With the Coronavirus, there really isn’t anyone specific to blame, and it’s hard to make a dartboard out of a blown-up photo of an infected cytoplasm. The current pandemic isn’t one specific person’s fault, but there are individuals who have found in this global panic a route to becoming a real jerk.
Chief among them is Tennessee’s Matt Colvin who, with the aid of his brother Noah, was inspired by news of the potential for over 1 million American deaths to turn a handsome profit.
The retired Air Force technical sergeant is the new face of price gouging, thanks to a profile in Saturday’s New York Times. Beginning March 1st, Colvin, whose primary income is reselling collected goods on sites like Amazon, hit the road and bought as much hand sanitizer as he could find. For a while, the money was rolling in. But when his prices soared, Amazon, eBay and other marketplaces rightly shut him and his fellow panic profiteers down. He estimates he now has 17,700 bottles of the virus-killing ooze, as well as hand wipes and all the other highly sought after materials you can’t find in a store right now. The cleaning products are collecting dust.
The Times suggests that Colvin is just one of thousands of resellers that gobbled up prevention goods with an eye toward making a small fortune. (But he’s the one they photographed in a t-shirt that says “Family Man Family Business” in front of shelves of Purel and Clorox wipes he can not sell.) Chris Anderson of Central Pennsylvania estimates he made about $25,000 on masks, similar to the ones that hospitals are now rationing. An Ohio-based online seller by the name of Eric says he has made between $35,000 and $40,000 on masks. He declined to give his last name, not out of shame, but fearing “a retaliation from Amazon.”
On the one hand, you wonder if you can really blame these men? Buying low and selling high is an American tradition with roots as deep as the buttonwood tree where a group of traders created the New York Stock Exchange in 1792. Then you read Matt Colvin, hoarder of hand sanitizer, suggesting that price-gouging laws “are not built for today’s day and age. They’re built for Billy Bob’s gas station doubling the amount he charges for gas during a hurricane.” As if Coronavirus isn’t the world’s biggest hurricane.
As it happens, making your own hand sanitizer isn’t impossible. My wife cooked up a huge batch made of aloe vera gel, rubbing alcohol and some essential oils. (And I am proud to report we are not selling it online at inflated prices.) Additionally, all signs point to soap and water being an effective, if not the most effective, weapon against viruses.
The Hand Sanitizer You Can't Find Is In This Putz's Garage
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/the-hand-sanitizer-you-cant-find-is-in-this-putzs-garage
During troubling times it is psychologically helpful to know where to vent your anger. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we had the face of Osama bin Laden. With the Coronavirus, there really isn’t anyone specific to blame, and it’s hard to make a dartboard out of a blown-up photo of an infected cytoplasm. The current pandemic isn’t one specific person’s fault, but there are individuals who have found in this global panic a route to becoming a real jerk.
Chief among them is Tennessee’s Matt Colvin who, with the aid of his brother Noah, was inspired by news of the potential for over 1 million American deaths to turn a handsome profit.
The retired Air Force technical sergeant is the new face of price gouging, thanks to a profile in Saturday’s New York Times. Beginning March 1st, Colvin, whose primary income is reselling collected goods on sites like Amazon, hit the road and bought as much hand sanitizer as he could find. For a while, the money was rolling in. But when his prices soared, Amazon, eBay and other marketplaces rightly shut him and his fellow panic profiteers down. He estimates he now has 17,700 bottles of the virus-killing ooze, as well as hand wipes and all the other highly sought after materials you can’t find in a store right now. The cleaning products are collecting dust.
The Times suggests that Colvin is just one of thousands of resellers that gobbled up prevention goods with an eye toward making a small fortune. (But he’s the one they photographed in a t-shirt that says “Family Man Family Business” in front of shelves of Purel and Clorox wipes he can not sell.) Chris Anderson of Central Pennsylvania estimates he made about $25,000 on masks, similar to the ones that hospitals are now rationing. An Ohio-based online seller by the name of Eric says he has made between $35,000 and $40,000 on masks. He declined to give his last name, not out of shame, but fearing “a retaliation from Amazon.”
On the one hand, you wonder if you can really blame these men? Buying low and selling high is an American tradition with roots as deep as the buttonwood tree where a group of traders created the New York Stock Exchange in 1792. Then you read Matt Colvin, hoarder of hand sanitizer, suggesting that price-gouging laws “are not built for today’s day and age. They’re built for Billy Bob’s gas station doubling the amount he charges for gas during a hurricane.” As if Coronavirus isn’t the world’s biggest hurricane.
As it happens, making your own hand sanitizer isn’t impossible. My wife cooked up a huge batch made of aloe vera gel, rubbing alcohol and some essential oils. (And I am proud to report we are not selling it online at inflated prices.) Additionally, all signs point to soap and water being an effective, if not the most effective, weapon against viruses.
Here's the real kicker. That "Antibacterial" label is more effective at selling more soap than it is at actually keeping the little bugs away. Regular old soap works just as well.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/antibacterial-soap-you-can-skip-it-use-plain-soap-and-water
I read the same article yesterday. I think that’s sorta always been the fear. People typically young who seem fine mingling with others who may not be and passing it along. The issue is we have to learn from China and South Korea about it since its new. We aren’t learning much from cases in this country because we have issues getting people tested en masse to get a good sample.
Disappointing.....there's so much we don't know.
This article is sad but telling:
Philadelphia didn't cancel a parade during a 1918 pandemic. The results were devastating
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/philadelphia-1918-spanish-flu-trnd/index.html
Today is rough. Markets then more close to home, having both kids home while both my wife and I are attempting to work from home is very difficult. Schools making the kids do online work, yet provided no instruction about it and its new concepts. So who has to help...the parents. So now I am teaching and working. Trying to make the best of it.
ADA just recommended that we dentists shut down for three weeks...our state board will follow tomorrow...if you all have any dental issues I would get it taken care of ASAP as I am concerned that 3 weeks is a pipe dream
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yes, that NC Board of dentistry has made that call...the problem with the ADA making the call is that it has lumped everyone into the same boat. I am doing everything I can to shut down ASAP but it is not as simple (for me at least) as just rescheduling everyone. I wish that our board of dentistry would put out a statement to the general public. The ADA probably represents 30% of all dentists while the Board of Dentistry represents 100% of dentists in the their respective states. My area (east of Knoxville up to maybe Whytheville, VA and over to all othat part of VA and TN has one case thus far). I know that it is coming...it is a matter of when and not if...shutting down practices for 3 weeks no big deal...shutting down for 6-10 weeks will mean massive layoffs in our field. I will do whatever is best for the community!
