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| Nominal Animal:
I'm dead, but only on the inside. :-// |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on April 01, 2020, 02:05:59 pm ---This turns out to be a great time to evaluate who you can depend on in a crisis. Many people turn out to be surprisingly practical or cool-headed, while some just turn to mush or panic to the point and becoming a huge liability. --- End quote --- Well, I think it's a pretty well known phenomenon that bad times bring out the best in some people and the worst in some other people. --- Quote from: Mr. Scram on April 01, 2020, 02:17:12 pm ---When the guy starts by listing who to blame you know you're in for a shit show. It's a virus, a force of nature. No one responded wholly appropriately and no one could really know how so fair dinkum. Making this into a partisan or nationalist thing is backwards. How about we omit the playground justice and fix this problem best we can? --- End quote --- As far as the partisan and nationalist types getting things backwards that's hardly surprising. When you are a bit backwards yourself, and have belief systems that hinge more on doctrine and less on fact (more so than most other people's grasp of the world does) you're bound to get things backward. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on March 31, 2020, 09:13:25 am --- --- Quote from: maginnovision on March 31, 2020, 08:55:21 am --- --- Quote from: peter-h on March 31, 2020, 07:49:59 am ---This contains some recent data on how people with different health conditions (comorbidities) do with the virus once in hospital in the UK: https://www.icnarc.org/DataServices/Attachments/Download/b5f59585-5870-ea11-9124-00505601089b So, yes, as suggested earlier, being fat is really bad. But that's obvious generally. --- End quote --- There are no strong people in the UK, all fat? In numbers I'm obese, in life I'm not... Where would that leave me? --- End quote --- BMI is the most stupid number ever invented. It presumes very low muscle and bone mass i.e. it presumes that most of the body weight comes from body fat.. --- End quote --- True, BMI is just a rule of thumb, but it's still true that most people with a BMI >30 are fat rather than muscular and I doubt any of the patients were body builders. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on April 01, 2020, 03:02:11 pm ---Well, I think it's a pretty well known phenomenon that bad times bring out the best in some people and the worst in some other people. As far as the partisan and nationalist types getting things backwards that's hardly surprising. When you are a bit backwards yourself, and have belief systems that hinge more on doctrine and less on fact (more so than most other people's grasp of the world does) you're bound to get things backward. --- End quote --- The benefit of the current situation is that it's so wide scale and also that many people aren't really directly involved. They just need to sit tight and behave, but there's already enough pressure applied to reveal the cracks. Though I won't deny a significant amount of people are going through hell, for many intents and purposes it can be almost considered a dry run for a "real" disaster. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: blueskull on April 01, 2020, 03:26:55 pm ---For pet owners: Harbin vet science center, the only other Chinese P4 lab, has published a research on domesticated animal carrying the virus. Put it simple, cats and ferrets can spread the virus, dogs can rarely spread the virus, and other common domesticated animals like pigs, chickens, ducks, etc., cannot get infected and spread the virus. However, considering your pets only stay in close contact with your family, if it gets the virus, it must have gotten it from your family, so there is no need to be scared of your cats. As for feral and wild cats, it's better to stay away from them for a while. --- End quote --- It sounds like "outside cats" could bring it home if the reported is true. Do you have a link? This is the kind of information everyone wants to triple check before relaying it. |
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