COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[fifth_column]

I played golf on Sunday, probably one the better social distancing activities to do, especially if you walk the course. I also had a bag full of social distancing tools if someone came too close.

Stink bombs?  Excessive bodily out-gassing?  C'mon man, don't leave us hanging.

[charby]

Stink bombs?  Excessive bodily out-gassing?  C'mon man, don't leave us hanging.

Um... a driver, 2 fairway woods, a bunch of irons and a putter if it resorts to that.

[Ben]

Um... a driver,

Well there it is. Freakin' rich white guy and his chauffeur.

[Perd Hapley]

As of yesterday, COVID is the #1 cause of death daily in the nation.

I thought it was lack of toilet paper.

[zxcvbob]

I thought it was lack of toilet paper.

No, that's the #2 cause of death.

[charby]

Well there it is. Freakin' rich white guy and his chauffeur.

Yep, this CIS Shitlord going to play again this weekend if it doesn't rain or snow.

[Perd Hapley]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-big-city-mayors-are-blatantly-violating-their-own-social-distancing-rules-heres-what-that-tells-us

Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago is an even bigger and more blatant hypocrite. A few days ago, she got a professional haircut and posed for a picture with her stylist, who was certainly standing much closer than six feet away. This is the same woman who forcibly shut down every hair salon and barber shop in the city, and reserves the right to fine or arrest anyone who does exactly what she just did. The good mayor even recorded a friendly quarantine PSA where she specifically said that getting your hair done “is not essential.”

Lightfoot has been applauded in the media for being especially strict in her stay-at-home orders. Strict to the other residents of the city, I mean, not to herself. She has not only shut down “non-essential” businesses and instated social distancing rules, but she also instructed the people of Chicago to only exit their homes for a “brief respite.” They are not allowed to jog for long distances because, she explained, “outside is not for 5Ks.” Yes, she has assumed the power to decide what outside is “for.”

Don’t worry. She has an excellent excuse for violating her supposedly lifesaving rules. When asked by a reporter, she explained that she just “needed to have a haircut” because she “takes personal hygiene very seriously.” She also insisted that her position as “public face of the city” and her frequent appearances on national television give her a special exemption.

And here I was all upset about those white golfers...

[Jamisjockey]

Get with the program, Jamis!

https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/man-crafts-wooden-exercise-equipment-after-covid-19-shuts-down-his-gym/

He's a legend.  I thought about doing an old school pullup bar at least, with some posts, concrete and a bar. 

[WLJ]

About that racial "disparity"
Somewhat more whites % wise are dying here compare to pop %
Data is for Louisville

+ 64 percent of the patients are white, 27 percent are black, 9 percent are Asian and 0 percent are multi-racial

+ 75 percent of those who have died from the coronavirus were white, 20 percent were black and 4 percent were Asian

For context, the city’s population is 67-68 percent white, 22 percent black and 10 percent foreign-born, Fischer said.

Fischer shares racial data on county’s coronavirus patients
https://www.wave3.com/2020/04/08/fischer-shares-racial-data-countys-coronavirus-patients/

[Jamisjockey]

I played golf on Sunday, probably one the better social distancing activities to do, especially if you walk the course. I also had a bag full of social distancing tools if someone came too close.

There's an amazing little 9 hole par 3 about 40 minutes from my house.  We've got a couple crappy wx days coming, and then next week the kid and I are headed over so she can play at least 9 holes next week.

[Angel Eyes]

California:  "All your PPE are belong to us":

https://patch.com/california/losgatos/coronavirus-santa-clara-county-orders-ppe-inventory-reporting

[Cliffh]

Saw this today:

Walmart customer comes up to the sporting goods counter wearing a mask - over his mouth only.  Places both forearms flat on the countertop and leans across the counter.  Stands back, moves to the other end of the counter & does the same again.

Decides on his purchase.  Pulls out his wallet and takes out some cash. He then pulls his mask down, licks his fingers and starts counting the cash!    

Cashier had him lay the money on the counter & sprayed it with antiseptic.

[Doggy Daddy]

Decides on his purchase.  Pulls out his wallet and takes out some cash. He then pulls his mask down, licks his fingers and starts counting the cash!    

Resident bus driver here.  We went to fareless operation this week.  Last week, I had 2 star students.  The fareboxes take bills.  The bills can be difficult for some people to insert into the farebox.  Specimen #1 approached the farbox with her 2 dollar bills, and gloved hands.  Knowing that she lacks the manual skills to do this, she took one bill in hand to try to jam into the farbox.  The other bill she held between her lips while she worked.  Specimen #2 is similar to above.  As he was trying to jam his bill into the box, he repeatedly wet his fingertips with his tongue.  This is not just filthy lucre, it's filthy lucre that is now being forcibly manipulated on the deposit platform of a city bus.

[Hawkmoon]

California:  "All your PPE are belong to us":

https://patch.com/california/losgatos/coronavirus-santa-clara-county-orders-ppe-inventory-reporting

From the article:

Reporting residents and businesses will not be required to donate their supplies of personal protective equipment, but county officials encourage them to do so via the Valley Medical Center Foundation.

Translation: Residents will not be required to donate their PPE because the County will take it off their hands with no further effort required on the part of the [soon-to-be former] owners.

[Ron]

Turns out doctors Fauci and Birx are both big time Clinton supporters.

Just a data point that may or may not mean anything.

I report, you decide.

[MechAg94]

Just a reminder of past pronouncements from your friendly neighborhood international health organization. 

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #ChinaFlag of China. 5:18 AM · Jan 14, 2020

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1215801616659599360

World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on #China based on the information currently available http://bit.ly/2sgvOZK 7:04 PM · Jan 10, 2020

[RocketMan]

California:  "All your PPE are belong to us":

https://patch.com/california/losgatos/coronavirus-santa-clara-county-orders-ppe-inventory-reporting

"Reporting residents and businesses will not be required to donate their supplies of personal protective equipment, but county officials encourage them to do so..."

Yeah, sure.  And if not enough residents donate PPE, men with guns will eventually come to confiscate it.

[Ron]

Niall Ferguson's latest column (paywall) notes that on Jan. 23 the Chinese cut off Hubei province from the rest of China -- but they didn't cut it off from the rest of the world. Direct flights out continued. Trump's travel restrictions kicked in only a week later.

https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1247494875894951936

Interesting if true.

[WLJ]

World Health Organization (WHO)
@WHO
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #ChinaFlag of China. 5:18 AM · Jan 14, 2020

Obviously if Hillary was president stuff like this wouldn't happen seems to be the MSM spin on this

[K Frame]

Oh, just for the record?

My response to the WHO's "no human-to-human transmission" message?

BULLSHIT.

Pretty sure that's exactly what I said.

[WLJ]

And now a word from Pope Greta

Pope Francis likened the coronavirus pandemic to recent fires and floods as one of “nature’s responses” to the world’s ambivalence to climate change.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-coronavirus-natures-response-climate-change

[Ben]

And now a word from Pope Greta
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-coronavirus-natures-response-climate-change

Half-assed Catholic here. Since viruses like this don't like warm and humid air, isn't global warming part of God's response to protect us from the plagues of the devil?

[charby]

Half-assed Catholic here. Since viruses like this don't like warm and humid air, isn't global warming part of God's response to protect us from the plagues of the devil?

Actually a warmer damper environment would be better for human pathogen survivability outside a host. Winters are bad for us since our bodies are already stressed with keeping warm.

[Hawkmoon]

And now a word from Pope Greta
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-coronavirus-natures-response-climate-change

The current pope is an embarrassment to Christianity ...

[K Frame]

A guy I know went HARD CORE Catholic some years ago. Fully drank all of the kool-aide... Kept wearing his wedding ring because, even though his wife divorced him, the Pope told him he was still married, and so forth and so on.

Good guy, but... was out there.

That started to change when Frank became pope. Not sure where he stands now, but I'm pretty sure his putting more and more distance between himself and the Church because of the new Pope's heresies.