COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[MechAg94]

Or in Kentucky

Or anywhere on the Gulf Coast though the Texas Gulf Coast may not be East. 

[DittoHead]

switch over from EVERYONE sheltering in place to just those at risk and everyone else get back to business. 

Sweden has been trying that, so far it hasn't been a disaster but it will be worth keeping an eye on.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/coronavirus-policy-sweden-claims-success-premature/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/08/is-swedens-lax-approach-coronavirus-backfiring/

[charby]

Say WHAAAT?

You have obviously never lived on the east coast.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/humidity-by-state-in-summer.php

That was my point, it's a lot higher than that, pathogen loving soup.

[DittoHead]

In addition to the death toll and the economic crisis, we'll likely get a big expansion of the surveillance state too.  

Redfield said it would be "premature" for him to specify how exactly the CDC will do this and how much staffing it plans to put in place. But he said an announcement will come in the near future. "Obviously, if we're going to try to get this nation back to work shortly after the end of this month, we're far along in those planning processes as we speak," he said.

Other places — such as South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong — that have been praised for success in "flattening the curve" of coronavirus infections have used methods for contact tracing that might not fly in the U.S. because of privacy concerns. For instance, South Korea uses a variety of tools such as surveillance cameras, cellphone data and credit card transactions of suspected cases to help map transmission.

Redfield left the door open for contact tracing in the U.S. to employ cellphone data. "People are looking at all the different modern technology that could be brought to bear to make contact tracing more efficient and effective," he said. "Are there more tech-savvy ways to be more comprehensive in contact tracing? Currently these things are under aggressive evaluation."

He added that ultimately it will be up to state and local public health departments to determine how to do contact tracing. The CDC is there, Redfield said, to offer technical assistance and to "augment personnel substantially."

[Perd Hapley]

Surprise!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/violent-felon-released-from-rikers-island-over-coronavirus-he-was-just-arrested-again

[RocketMan]

There is a large grocery distribution center at the bottom of the hill about a half mile away.  It has been bustling with activity all the way through this whole CV event as though nothing had changed.  Trucks were coming and going 24/7, product coming in and goods going out to stores.
Today it is dead, no activity at all.  Someone probably sneezed.

[WLJ]

Meanwhile in NY

Aerial images show New York ramping up burials as officials grapple with coronavirus death toll
https://www.foxnews.com/us/aerial-images-new-york-hart-island-burials-coronavirus

[MechAg94]

There is a large grocery distribution center at the bottom of the hill about a half mile away.  It has been bustling with activity all the way through this whole CV event as though nothing had changed.  Trucks were coming and going 24/7, product coming in and goods going out to stores.
Today it is dead, no activity at all.  Someone probably sneezed.

Did they have a driver in Kentucky?

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=62117.0

[WLJ]

Did they have a driver in Kentucky?

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=62117.0

Occurred in Tennessee and the suspect is from NC

[MechAg94]

Tennessee

I was close, but I guess that is a big difference.   

[WLJ]

I was close, but I guess that is a big difference.   

What keeps Kentucky from falling into Tennessee?
Indiana sucks.

[MechAg94]

Meanwhile in NY

Aerial images show New York ramping up burials as officials grapple with coronavirus death toll
https://www.foxnews.com/us/aerial-images-new-york-hart-island-burials-coronavirus

Why don't they just cremate those bodies?  They could also go a bit deeper if they are just going to stack them anyway.  

[MechAg94]

From the comments of that Fox article.

Another fake news story.....allow me to explain.

So far there has been 17,000 deaths in the US from the coronavirus, the 1st death was on March 1st.
There have been 41 days of people dying......that is an average of 414 people a day dying of the coronvirus.
Last year during the flu season there were 80,000 deaths and run primarily in December to February.....the average day of deaths to the flu is 888....double what the coronavirus is...does anyone remember the stories of all the dead bodies lying around during the flu season and the struggle to bury them?

When you include all of the deaths in the US for every reason we actually average 7,700 deaths a day.....are we supposed to believe that with an increase of 6% that we can't handle it.

The media including Foxnews should be ashamed of themselves for doing this fake news story.

[zxcvbob]

From the comments of that Fox article.

He's probably right, to a degree.  But the average number is not really relevant, what matters is the peak [so far] number.

[WLJ]

From the comments of that Fox article.

These people just can't seem to get it into their heads that the intent is to keep the numbers not much worst then the flu.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't

[WLJ]

Kind of like saying
What's the point of fighting a house fire when the fire will eventually go out on it's own.

[Ben]

Just chatted with a retired O-5 buddy of mine. His comment was that Bin Laden must be spinning in his grave. He used a dozen guys with box cutters instead of a dozen guys with a virus.

[charby]

Why don't they just cremate those bodies?  They could also go a bit deeper if they are just going to stack them anyway.  

The bodies don't belong to the state, they belong to someone. Storing until claimed.

[fifth_column]

Why don't they just cremate those bodies?  They could also go a bit deeper if they are just going to stack them anyway.  

I had assumed cremation would be mandated.  Guess not . . .

[WLJ]

I had assumed cremation would be mandated.  Guess not . . .

Greta: How dare you!

[WLJ]

Whoops 

CNN coronavirus town hall accidentally features Trump Derangement Syndrome question
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-town-hall-trump-derangement-syndrome-question

[Perd Hapley]

They're working on that vaccine.

https://babylonbee.com/news/researchers-delay-new-vaccine-until-they-figure-out-how-to-make-it-cause-autism

[Perd Hapley]

Apparently, this is racist now. 

[BobR]

^^^^^

Only if you coach football for a team in the South. Everyone else can figure it there isn't anything racist about it but hey, why let a good opportunity to shout "He's Racist" go to waste!!

bob

[Perd Hapley]

^^^^^

Only if you coach football for a team in the South. Everyone else can figure it there isn't anything racist about it but hey, why let a good opportunity to shout "He's Racist" go to waste!!

bob

So only Southerners are dumb?