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Of Dr. Levine, I point to this commentary. Of the Chinese Bat Soup virus, I just wanna shoot every bat-**** stupid moron I see wearing gloves and masks in public. Especially if they're medical idiots, like these morons... More thoughts
Of Dr. Levine, I point to this commentary. Of the Chinese Bat Soup virus, I just wanna shoot every bat-**** stupid moron I see wearing gloves and masks in public. Especially if they're medical idiots, like these morons... More thoughts
All right. I’ve got a little free time on my hands for once in about a week. I’ll play.... I don’t have a whole Lot of time because I’ve got to go back to building and testing more ventilators.
Being intimately involved with the medical community one thing I can tell you is this thing is not a joke. I delivered a prototype to the respiratory therapy division of the hospital today and I can tell you there is some serious pucker factor there right now.
We went from nine patients on vents last week to 43 this week, and we are some of the lowest numbers of positive cases in the nation. Unfortunately, we have an epicenter to our south. Double that number,and we come close to running out of Standard ventilators. Then, on to the emergency ventilators. Then to whatever the hell we can cobble together..macgyver style.
In the words of an article that I’m going to send from a respiratory therapist acquaintance of mine that was pretty cavalier to start with. “Holy **** this ain’t the flu.... “ https://www.propublica.org/article/a...young-patients
Put your questions out there and I’ll try to answer them when I have time.
Read whatever you want to read in the mass media,but if you want to hear from the people that are actually dealing with this crap: this is serious business and this is not as simple as the flu. Yes the debacle of the lack of testing Will skew the numbers. I hope of all hopes this will only be one or 2% but in certain parts of the country particularly like the south that has huge amounts of comorbidities I’m afraid to say I will be shocked if it’s that low. Particularly if people don’t slow the burn and keep it from overwhelming the system. The sheer amount of medical demand of this thing is what is going to kill people when it overloads the system more than anything else.. The stuff hits and it hits hard.
and by the way what those medical professionals are doing is twofold. Part of it is trying to stay healthy to save people like you and the other is they have no idea if they’ve already been exposed and could be giving it to everyone else! Which would make the problem worse.
Please tell me y'all don't think this came from a bat.....please.
I don't know where it came from and I'm not into speculation on it either. I just know it's here, I expect things to get ugly and I am thankful that I am not locked in my house defenseless.
Since I am an "essential worker", and still have to go from place to place for service calls , I try to wash my hands and sanitize as much as I can during the day and keep a distance from most people if possible. It It still amazes me that when the state is in a supposed lock down, except for groceries etc etc, how many people I see driving the roads, walking dogs, jogging, walking, meandering around shops that are closed.
Just sayin........
I do not think this came from a bat... I have my own theories, but none of that makes any difference right now...
Just for anyone interested...
Italy = 11.7% death rate
Spain = 8.8% death rate
USA = 2% death rate
As I said earlier...
Originally Posted by Sous
In a years time, I believe most if us will know someone that has been effected by this in one way or another. Whether they were infected by the virus and lived, infected and died, missed graduation, went out of business, took on a second or third job afterward, able to take advantage of refinance rates, bought a car with 0% interest, moved to the country, sold belongings to make ends meet, took up a new hobby, stocked up on TP/food/ammunition, missed primary voting, cancelled a family trip to Disney World, were laid off, were let go, got a new job, changed career paths, enjoyed working from home, etc...
If people don't get serious about this like South Korea did and help mitigate the spread of the virus, our nation will without a doubt be following the death numbers of Italy and Spain. This is not a good chart to be at the top of, but if the Darwin award candidates keep making selfish and stupid decisions, well then Brian is going to be busy for a long time to come.
it is certainly plausible that it came from a bat or other exotic species. Those wet markets are perfect breeding grounds for stuff like this. High density population, poor sanitary practices, high number of stressed species sandwiched in on top of each other (literally). It will happen again too if not banned outright. Lots of lessons to be learned when over this among them.
And a lot of people gave me strange looks and responses over the years when I talked about how I was an isolationist and thought that we should just stick to ourselves over here. So far they've given us this chirus, the emerald ash borer, stink bugs, spotted lantern flies and probably some other things that I can't think of right now. There are very few things that we would need to import from other countries because we don't have them here.
And a lot of people gave me strange looks and responses over the years when I talked about how I was an isolationist and thought that we should just stick to ourselves over here. So far they've given us this chirus, the emerald ash borer, stink bugs, spotted lantern flies and probably some other things that I can't think of right now. There are very few things that we would need to import from other countries because we don't have them here.
Chinese tallow tree, kudzu, Bush honeysuckle,Asian beetle (invasive lady bug), on and on...
It was a man made virus, perfect timing when our economy was in its all time high, and president Trump was found innocent in this whole impeachment crap, and china lost the trade war. Perfect timing don't you think???
Now now, just cause there was a biotech lab that "researches" these kind of viruses a block or two from ground zero at the wet market dosen't mean it was man made and "accidently" released at perfect timing by a chided Bloomberg associate. That's just right wing conspiracy theories talking.
Wait what's that you say? The Hunter Biden thing was true? Hmmm,...
Nah, still gotta be a rightwing conspiracy theory
It was a man made virus, perfect timing when our economy was in its all time high, and president Trump was found innocent in this whole impeachment crap, and china lost the trade war. Perfect timing don't you think???
Originally Posted by Wes444
Now now, just cause there was a biotech lab that "researches" these kind of viruses a block or two from ground zero at the wet market dosen't mean it was man made and "accidently" released at perfect timing by a chided Bloomberg associate. That's just right wing conspiracy theories talking.
Wait what's that you say? The Hunter Biden thing was true? Hmmm,...
Nah, still gotta be a rightwing conspiracy theory
Haha, yup Adam, good stuff. I have heard and read so many different things. I know it's NOT what we see, but what is it really? If this virus is so damn contagious, why do the spouses of people who catch it not get it also? Why are people not dropping like flies with sickness? Is it really 5G? Is it trying to tank the economy before the election? Why did it appear just days after the impeachment debacle and failure? SO many things are not adding up, just by common sense.
It was a man made virus, perfect timing when our economy was in its all time high, and president Trump was found innocent in this whole impeachment crap, and china lost the trade war. Perfect timing don't you think???
I'm not in that camp but I don't have the answer(s). After the dust settles China will be the one to pay the biggest price as they have pissed the whole world off and their economy will not recover in my lifetime and I expect it will not be forgotten until the next generation to be born comes into power. Much like Japan didn't recover from their actions at Pearl Harbor until the WWII veterans' kids came into power in the late 1970's. I will agree that things were really humming along well here and all my life that has been when Murphy has raised his ugly head and set everything back a few notches. Of all that has happened the one thing that really took me by surprise is the fact that many of our drugs come from China and India. I thought all we got from them was the fake Viagra that they're always trying to sell me. If anything I think they had an experiment that got out if it's not something that grew out of their unsanitary ways.
OTOH...I am not all that religious of a person but when you start having things like Rachel Levine spearheading your health department it's time for a good cleansing. I haven't heard anything lately but there is supposedly a swarm of locusts of biblical proportions eating its way through the eastern hemisphere as well.
Haven’t had much time to read this thread, however I went to junkyard today and pulled a transmission for this car.
While I was there I looked for injectors to help another FTE’er but they didn’t have Any 7.3’s. I was able to get a transmission for this car and it works fine. I love going to the u pull it, took me and a friend 45 minutes to drop the K frame and remove the transmission. Surprisingly a brake hose will hold the entire frame/engine and tranny off the ground!!! I get a kick from cutting everything attached to the motor with a sawzall, but missed a brake hose.
Since the total cost for a transmission is $155 and I really enjoy going to my local Pick and pull, I am considering starting a thread posting where my local u-pull its are, and hoping others from around the country would post there local yards effectively creating a thread that would advise others around the country of potential places to get parts. Anyone interested in contributing?
03-31-2020, 04:05 PM
