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Don’t take this as a critic against the country, but high time our priority is reorganized. it’s amazing that we are spending 2 trillion on military equipment and fighting a war Against an Imaginary enemy some where that nobody wants and nobody wins. Throwing all the young men and women of the future on to that shit show only for them to return older and broken both in mind and body. Then the audacity to ignore them and then use them for votes and image building. mean while the next generation of enemy is not imaginary but invisible like a virus that’s going to eat away our very existence both in our real life and virtual world. Funding should be throw into research science both medical and other higher end socio techno financial end goals. It’s appalling to see the wealthiest and what used to be front running nation among all of humanity reduced to a state that we are asked to reuse PPE for front line healthcare workers and having to ration our tests and wait years for results on who ever we were able to test. We can be , should be better than this, hopefully this episode is a reset on everything. again this should also be an eye opener on health care delivery. Healthcare is something where we should strike a balance between. Capitalism and socialism. Because unlike wealth which we can accumulate based on our personal hard work, we are sometimes only as healthy as our fellow human beings are. This episode should open our eye, if majority of the population are unhealthy and cannot afford healthcare it doesn’t matter how much gold mark mega insurance we carry, we will also suffer. Let’s discuss that in another topic

I think the 400 is a better overall package than the 650. I looked at both of them and the 900. Still bought the 400. I'll let you ride it sometime...

Many patient who were vulnerable and even more family and bystanders in the elderly age group kept coming to hospital last week with no concern for the disease. When we would advise them to be safe avoid contacts and stuff they would tell me it’s all a hoax and i was wondering where is such a View point developing. All I see was panic and more panic in social media. I don’t have tv hence don’t know what actual media says. Then One of the Doc in forefront of the fight bought this clip up in discussion and I couldn’t believe it. Worst part is just a random search shows avg age of Fox News audience is 64-65 / a major chunk above 80 that’s even worse. 😑 I do understand these days it’s all opinion channel and there are no news channel. That’s why I don’t even have tv and waste time on it. People just want to watch what they want to see and hear. There is no gathering info and analysis by individual, just spoon fed vitriol and hate 24x7 from either side. All over the world same deal. it’s propaganda spreading and political mind altering from left or right happening on a daily basis. But when it comes to actual science there should be no excuse for this kind of approach and attitude. a hard truth based on science and facts which affects all of humanity shouldn’t be altered like this. Media shouldn’t be the judge of what’s right and wrong about science as it evolves. This right here was a massive disservice to the US.

Meanwhile in the desert....

Yea I was on Eliquis for two years before the doc told me to switch to the asprin. Pain in my leg is also gone now after i returned to active duty and got back on the asprin. But about that bug I had. I have to add i have never in my life felt shortness of breath life that before ever. Felt like running up a flight of steps while doing nothing for a period of about a week.

She is doing what she needs to. She has talked to state.

Medicine is always risk vs benefit, even just taking a Tylenol has risk vs benefit. You doing the right thing, no need to worry. You have to take care of responsibility which there is no other solution. What is shunned upon is Gang of people just hanging out and spreading stuff for non life essential things like may be spring break. Protect your self as much as you can, wear mask and gloves during house visits etc. despite this , if you start to have symptom rest up heal up and don’t go out anymore for calls. but Sometimes I don’t know the right answer, I might be biased as well. As in I am critical of people are traveling via planes and mass transit for non essential trip etc, but what’s essential is an undefined entity. If you ask me I will say for sure motorcycling is a safe hobby to pursue now( as I said I am biased) ( the classic OR rides) since minimal human contact, minimal socialization, minimal gas stop, high quality all the PPE all the time, but some others might point fingers at that and say don’t do it.

I feel like we might be off to a decent start so far compared to China.italy might have been unique, Italy roughly 60 million in 120k sq meter space with major chunk smoking elderly. USA it’s 320 million in roughly 4 million sq meter with elderly in nursing homes and old age places too debilitated to be functional smoking and mingling. Don’t know if that makes any difference but at least here in Midwest it seems to be, coasts were more dense population and more active older folks in society is present it’s hitting harder. @snot regarding going back to old life I am hoping these peak in about 3 weeks and starts to plateau and wean off in 8. Just arbitrarily plucking these numbers based on what I am seeing just in my area. Started as 1 First then 2-3-4 came. Then now about 7-8 suspicious cases pending confirmation , it still in its up swing.( test results takes forever)

But unlike the flu, its killing or hospitalizing older people and people with other semi common conditions or particularly respiratory issues at rates much higher than the flu or whatever we're used to (I've seen numbers like 20-30% and more for really old folks?!). This is over loading the health system and that means they can't respond to normal medical issues that arise whether or not there is a pandemic going on.

If they are healthy people.. how is it transmittinging without coughs and sneezes? Just not following handwashing process and sharing surfaces?

Well the Mrs. got reassigned to a phone answering gig at Ohio Health's Covid-19 Command Center in Dublin. Right now handling scheduling and canceling of appointments, screenings and elective procedures. Ohio Health is canceling everything till the first of June and she assisting patients with those things. Once that phone traffic subsides from that she will switch over to their call in hotline to answer questions and info line for the Covid-19 shit. I'm glad she getting hours and not per say on the front line. But she's more than willing to do that too if needed though.

Never know what's in @Tpoppa's personal inventory. @MidgetTodd Is a class 3 dealer

I will believe it when I read it on the AP Wire.

China was widely blamed for doing this hush hush job resulting in world spread. We should have learned from them. then we proceeded to do the same by not believing it and other crap. I think mr trump was taking more information and input from political and economic pundits rather than actual Cdc and health care experts. It was sort of gamble to save the economy vs acting on an unseen threat. It was quite evident from the difference in opinion about this disease right from the podium by mr trump and dr faucci On hind sight he should have trusted the scientific world and information that was gathered from around the world. Instead of encouraging and reassuring investors and market should have focused on common people. Er on the side of caution and approached this aggressively from the start and led the fight. Would have had a better outlook when compassion clarity and strength coming from the top. better approach would have been mobilizing more fund like what happening right now, keep economy in life line and stop and curb this way earlier. Mike DeWine is doing exactly The right thing. Need extreme approach to start with, as they say any measures we take before pandemic appears extreme and afterwards it seems inadequate.

From what I read... South Korea rushed their COVID 19 test development. They took a chance and released a test that skipped some of the normal testing steps. They took a risk and it paid off, thankfully. If it had not worked, South Korea might be in a situation like Italy. But it did work. Our CDC on the other hand took a less risky approach, which took more time, and did not result in a better test than South Korea's. The CDC's protocols exists for a reason, but in the case a a fast spreading, mutating virus...speed is critical. I'm certain the CDC will be reevaluating their methods. Why not do both? Why not have a fast track plan A, with a less risky plan B running concurrently?

My oldest daughter Tory and I got out for a bicycle ride. We both enjoyed the ride, but man am I out of shape.

just wanted to highlight this from earlier post just in case it was missed in wall of text. Avoid any nsaids for the time being until more info starts coming in. When flu like symptoms and body ache starts this will be the first line meds we all grab, but as of now hold off. So far tylenol seems to be clear to use.

My wife lost her job recently and she had three interviews for new jobs this week.... Every single one of them told her interviews are on hold until further notice... This shit is ridiculous. Yall sick mfs need to stay tf home.