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| Marco:
Trying to beat the stampede is not panic, it's rational. The end effect of rational decisions might be undesirable on a larger scale but who the hell wants to be stuck with shitty toilet paper? Better stock up on 3-ply now. PS. not even kidding ... |
| rgarito:
Who thinks Dave needs to do a teardown.... https://wsvn.com/news/local/pompano-beach-companys-air-cleansing-invention-in-high-demand/ I have a feeling things like this are gonna be coming out of the woodwork... |
| jonovid:
interesting how some people are more concerned about wiping their ass! than if they have enough food or water :palm: all them people that make fun of survivalism, preppers, doom's-dayers. no they are not paranoid. how many people have solar panels on the roof but its not an off grid system. useless in a power-outage. have rainwater downpipes but no water tank. gravel garden but no vegetables. what maybe biological warfare Coronavirus is a Pandemic! but no body saying so for now, no body's calling Pandemic for now because of the US 2020 Presidential Race , & other sacred cows like the Olympics! like a type of human myxomatosis to control global populations. Eugenics them that believe the world is overpopulated. if it was just anther Ebola it would have ended by now. this is something 10x more deadly! :scared: the panic will come for them that fear the reaper. Plague is nothing new. as most pandemics in human history the worlds human population will recover from this hit. insects animals & aircraft all can spread a pandemic I note a large plague of locusts muching their way from Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa all the way up-to China, locusts grasshoppers according to my grandfather, when in plague swarm will eat anything & everything green, even eating the green paint on blinding s. then dying on mass. |
| Bud:
In situations like this, one will be better off if hungry but kept his ass clean. |
| Marck:
I have been casually watching and reading the daily WHO situation reports (this is to avoid the media hype). One thing I have noticed and is by no means a fact or mathematical just very casual observation but the point of rapid increases is case numbers seems to trigger in each reported region when the new cases per day gets to about 30 percent of total cases and seems to roughly stabilise at that rate. The exception to this was wuhan itself when the confirmed cases seemed to level off at about 3-4K but I think that was where they hit the limit of their daily diagnostic capability. Here in Australia people are just being dumb. I have no issues with people doing what they think is best for themselves and their family. The first 2 things you could not find was hand sanitiser and face masks. The sanitiser I get but the advice is that face masks are not a recommendation for control of transmission unless you are sick and trying to prevent transmitting the virus to others. And now toilet paper panic buying. I gave this whole situation some thought (I am not a prepper of any kind I have trouble having enough socks to last a week). My shopping list based on the fact that everyone in my home is below 50 and otherwise healthy. 200 paracetamol tablets and 200 ibuprofen tablets and a dozen bars of soap. So if the virus makes its way into our home and the outbreak is at the point where only the very sick will be hospitalised at least I will be able to treat the aches and pains and maybe control the fever for the couple of weeks to a month we could be unwell if we don’t get sick enough to make it to hospital. And even then I feel I could be overreacting. But I have given the kids a strict hygiene plan to implement now so it’s in practice if (when?) numbers start increasing here. And that’s just washing hands in every change in environment train - school. Break-class things like that. I have told them that if numbers here start to climb that they have the go ahead to remove themselves from any situation where someone is unwell. Be it class or the train and they can Uber home whatever. Personally I think this thing is in the wild and there will be no containment. And focus now will be controlling the spread so that the medical systems can cope and not explode and all but cripple the healthcare system. And with any luck we will keep it out of our home and make it to the point a vaccine hits the market and get around it that way. But I was one of the lucky ones that got H1N1 with no traceability for its source and after the point where they where trying to contain it. My doc just sent me home with a course of tamiflu where I was quarantined to my room and my wife just left supplies outside the door and I would give reports on myself via text message incase I got really sick. We managed to avoid passing it from me to her. And I can tell you with that one I actually wanted to die. And no signs of running out of TP. M |
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