Chinese dropping like flies

[LuxVera]

Starting to feel the economic collapse now. By the end of the month I'll be taking a 20% pay cut with my primary job. I was told "expect for people to be laid off at some point." I'll have to get in touch with some of my creditors in the next week or so. My mother doesn't know how much longer she will keep her job as they have no idea if/when/how the store will be restocked. My sister will probably be getting her hours cut or even laid off.

I was supposed to be starting a second part-time job but that's cancelled indefinitely-meaning never. I was hoping to earn a couple extra $1000s for putting into savings or helping pay some bills. All we have left are our "essential" jobs which are our only jobs.

Not only do you need to worry about your current livelihood but now you have to be worried about some asshole politicians who want to fine people in the $1000s for breaking "social distancing" protocols and going outside in general.

Can't go anywhere? Stay home and have as much sex as you want. Don't forget that you're allowed to leave your house to go and get an abortion. We can't be bringing more unnecessary mouths to feed in this economy, after all. Just watch porn instead. Want to go out and visit friends or family? Forget it, you can Facetime or call them instead. Want to check in on your elderly parents? Forget it, because visiting them isn't considered "essential." Who cares about all those elderly people anyway? They're just going to sit and rot in nursing homes anyway. Your loved ones dying in the hospital? Forget about being able to say "goodbye" in person; give them a phone call instead. Don't show up for the funeral.

What about those Sacraments? Select locations only, with limited hours. Don't expect Father to show up at your deathbed; he's tucked away somewhere underground. And maybe somewhere beneath your feet you'll hear a faint voice laughing at you while he says "Night night, baby!"

Want to find a husband or a wife? Don't bother, probably at home watching porn. Or try online dating...just what we need, more screen time and "me time." No Holy matrimonies for now. And even then, you're not allowed to invite more than 3 people and you all have to be standing at least 6 feet apart. Blow kisses instead, just make sure you're wearing face masks.

A Catholic I know texted me as part of a group and said "Isn't it so wonderful our religious leaders are doing their best to prepare us to see the gates of Heaven at this time?" Yeah right.

[clau clau]

Want to go out and visit friends or family? Forget it, you can Facetime or call them instead.

What is stopping you visiting friends and family?  I did, last weekend. I rode 60 miles on a bike to the seaside to visit a relative. Then 60 miles back, 2 days later. 

Live free or die.  I am not a number, I am a free man.

It was one of the most relaxing Saturday afternoons I can remember. Blazing sunshine, sea air, and Nat King Cole blasting away on the outdoor speakers, and 2 glasses of Pimms and Lemonade to finish it off.

Absolutely glorious.

[LuxVera]

Want to go out and visit friends or family? Forget it, you can Facetime or call them instead.

What is stopping you visiting friends and family?  I did, last weekend. I rode 60 miles on a bike to the seaside to visit a relative. Then 60 miles back, 2 days later. 

Live free or die.  I am not a number, I am a free man.

The second half of my post was meant to be taken as sarcasm.

However, certain family members are trying everything else in their power to make sure I don't visit a very good friend of mine who lives alone (and isn't on the "at risk" list). "You see him everyday at work, you don't need to visit him outside of work right now." Don't even go outside and talk to anyone, I'm told. Just stay inside and don't bother jogging either.

Even higher ups at work are urging employees to "stay inside." Can't do that when I have to show up for work.

[mikemac]

Don't look now ...   I seriously hope you can poke a bunch of holes in this one Kreuzritter.


Coronavirus might spread much farther than 6 feet in the air. CDC says wear a mask in public.

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/in-depth/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-protection-how-masks-might-stop-spread-through-coughs/5086553002/

[The Curt Jester]

Want to make some money?  Start making masks and selling them.  Go to Hobby Lobby to find out how.  People will probably pay a lot to get a hold of them.

[Xavier]

[diaduit]

Want to go out and visit friends or family? Forget it, you can Facetime or call them instead.

What is stopping you visiting friends and family?  I did, last weekend. I rode 60 miles on a bike to the seaside to visit a relative. Then 60 miles back, 2 days later. 

Live free or die.  I am not a number, I am a free man.

It was one of the most relaxing Saturday afternoons I can remember. Blazing sunshine, sea air, and Nat King Cole blasting away on the outdoor speakers, and 2 glasses of Pimms and Lemonade to finish it off.

Absolutely glorious.

highly recommend breaking the protocol, you get a real rush of endorphins.  I went to receive the Sacraments last Saturday, kids and I rehearsed our stories for the Guards if we get  to a checkpoint.  Had such a laugh.

[Greg]

Lots of people in town today most just ambling around nothing to do with work.  Warm weather is going to break the back of this lockdown in the UK.  Working classes and underclass  don't give a tinker's cus about it. Once people see others ignore the lockdown it's over.  Middle classes will moan for 3 days then come out themselves. Noticeably higher proportion of private cars on the motorway too.  I have been counting vehicles everyday. We are going out to Chilham, Kent, for a walk now.

If there ever is a serious virus with over a 10% kill rate, in the next 30 years, people globally will remember this overreaction and assume the government have overreacted again.

[Sempronius]

The catholic youtube, Matt Fradd, was tested negative for the virus and his wife, who happened to have the same symptons at the same time, was also tested negative.

[Greg]

I went to receive the Sacraments last Saturday, kids and I rehearsed our stories for the Guards if we get  to a checkpoint.  Had such a laugh.

Rebels without a cough.

[Graham]

Lots of people in town today most just ambling around nothing to do with work.  Warm weather is going to break the back of this lockdown in the UK.  Working classes and underclass  don't give a tinker's cus about it. Once people see others ignore the lockdown it's over.

The NWO reminds me of an episode of Pinky and the Brain. An incredibly complex and masterful plan for world domination, executed flawlessly, only to be defeated by some 90 iq  chavs hitting the beach.

[Miriam_M]

The models are way overpredicting by an order of magnitude, and I noticed they keep dropping the total death prediction.

For example:

If you live in the U.S. check out, in the NYT charts, death rates.  So, 3.6 deaths per 100,000 people in the U.S. 

Compare that to deaths from other diseases per 100K, and ask yourself why this is "a national emergency, "a war," and a valid reason to destroy the economy of the First World.  Colds and flus are annual pandemics, globally.

Also, ask yourself why, with such figures, Fauci is telling the American people that "even after" (I told everybody so, by the way) the elusive moment of relaxation reaches us, "life will never be allowed to be the same again in the U.S.; we will never be returned to normal."

May I ask why such a person is not arrested and strapped to a table for out of control megalomania?

More stats:
I live the next county over from one of the earliest reputed "hot spots."  Talk about hyperbole.  Since the first moment the virus appeared in this country, my so-called "hot spot" has experienced exactly one death per 100,000 people in our entire state. 
In my supposedly "hot spot" county, we have experienced less than one death per 100K people.
In the neighboring supposedly REALLY "hot spot" county that made the national news, there have been exactly two deaths per 100K people.  This is an emergency?

Some media organization needs to start peeling off the Emperor's Not-New Clothes!  What are you waiting for?

[Vetus Ordo]

Coronavirus Pandemic Update 51: State by State Projections; Ultrasound to Diagnose COVID19 Pneumonia

This video includes a discussion of recent pandemic trends and a tool from the University of Washington to assess the possible peak in each state in the United States.  Dr. Seheult introduces emergency medicine physician Dr. Jacquet to discuss the utility and accuracy of portable, point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in the diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19 pneumonia.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MufS6dnJw[/yt]

[james03]

I grabbed this from an article which was discussing problem with death reporting due to death certificate lag.  Ignore that.  Check out the deaths during the 2017 flu season:



Looks like 40,000 extra deaths.

[Greg]

In the 3rd week of lockdown we leave King Canute, Napoleon and Cleopatra behind and our homeschool turns to the expansion of gases and effects on temperature, volume and pressure.  We've launched Chinese lanterns and understood that warm air is less dense than cold and that the velocity of the air affects pressure (Bernoulli's Principle).  Soon we will send an old iPhone up to 100,000 feet on a weather balloon, once I can find a business open and still selling helium (or I'll make some hydrogen).

Children love blowing things up and the best way to learn & love science is to blow stuff up. After 90 mins this morning of making dry ice with fire extinguishers and evaporating water in hot pans we blew up an 3/4 empty can of air-freshener and then a 3/4 empty lighter refill gas aerosol.

Top safety tip, the embers can go everywhere, so make sure nothing in 10 feet of your fire will easily burn.  Don't use a cast iron or clay fire holder as the shock wave can fracture it.  Avoid burning wood with nails in.  These can act like red hot flying metal shrapnel and travel 30 feet depending on what you explode.  Don't cover the can, just leave it on top of the hot embers, and it take 10 to 20 seconds to explode.  If it does not explode in 2 mins then it won't and you can flick it out with a stick.  The tops and bottoms of the cans blow off first so make sure these are not pointed towards the audience.