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4 minutes ago, Pauly said:

Because they have over 15,000 confirmed cases and Ohio has a few hundred. Studies are showing that the best possible way to "contain" the spread is to identify carriers early and isolate them from the public. NY is doing their best to handle the situation. They are a major US import city. A total lockdown of state borders and traffic would put a huge dent in the spread, but that won't happen. It is in our best interest to let NY test as many people as possible, so long as they are making sure those testing positive are adequately quarantined. 

I just think if there was mass testing across all states there would be similar numbers in all states. I still think it's been here longer than we realize and the testing is just confirming it.  Also think the testing does nothing more than give us a gauge at this point. If your only going to test the ones you already think pretty much have it already what's the point. 

Disclaimer this is total ricer math here and maybe I don't have all the current information but........

Amy Acton said a couple days ago that Ohio only had less than a few thousand available test total.  Yesterday alone New York had over 5000 new confirmed cases. Also heard a possitive rate of 10%(ish) of all the test taken. So that means NY took around 50, 000 test 2-3 days ago(due to the the testing time table) How in the hell does NY get that many more test than other sates.  Just seems almost criminal. 

12 minutes ago, durk said:

I was out and about yesterday and saw cops everywhere. They were in places I typically don’t see them.  I was thinking of a motorcycle ride Thursday but if it’s going to be worse than a holiday weekend I don’t know that I want to deal with it. 

Probably shouldn't be railing it hard at this time anyway. Two reasons. One I really wouldn't want to make trip to the ER right now. And two the roads are covered with pea gravel and winter debris still. As far as just being out durring the stay at home, I really don't think cops are going to care as long as your not being a tool. 

Literally seen twelve cars on my way to work this morning. Two of them were cops. 

20 minutes ago, Killer_kaw said:

. Hated checking it. That dipstick gets hot as hell. 

My wife's scout is in a stupid place too. They recommend checking it after running it for 2 or 3 min but the dip stick is behind the freaking header pipe. No way to check it without mechanics gloves on.

30 minutes ago, Pauly said:

The Voyager took 5.5 qts of oil. Seems excessive. 

Jesus I thought the 5qts the connie took was a lot.

7 minutes ago, Killer_kaw said:

It’s official. Due to the danger of the corona pandemic and orders imposed by our governor. My facility is moving to a 24/7 work week. Management has found a loophole. Apparently painting sheet metal is essential to life. 

I went to worked yesterday voluntary. Half the people that volunteered didnt show. So they sent us home and paid us for 4 hours. I'll take it this time of year. When the weather breaks, hell no.

My work made it "official" today. All employees will be backed by the general counsel of our multi billion dollar company if we are stopped for being out.

Heard this morning that our machine upgrade that was scheduled for next week has been canceled. So no week off for me now we are going to keep on truck'n. 

Anything that you can claim the 1st Amendment on is an exemption. You can just say you on a mission from God to do what ever you want. 

Klim K FIFTY 1 RIDING JEAN would get my vote. Cordura abrasion resistance and full D30 hip and knee armor. 

Working 12 hours today 6 hours tomorrow all OT.  Your welcome.  

19 minutes ago, Pauly said:

Medicine is essential. How is this funny?

Just found it funny because in less than a decade we went from "it's illegal you will go to jail" to "it's essential" no problems with that just struck me funny. 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-coronavirus-lockdown-cannabis-essential-business

1 minute ago, TimTheAzn said:

Every time I get annoyed that I'm still having to go into the office I think of my friends that have lost their jobs already. Makes me feel a bit better.

 

Then I remember my boss is working from home and then I'm mad again.

I'm not mad at all, just found this funny. I'm glad to still be working. Little jealous of the ones sitting at home collecting the pay but it is what it is. 

23 minutes ago, Tpoppa said:

Now might be a good time to buy stock in cruise companies.  Carnival dropped from about $60 to around $10/share. 

That's the plan if and when we get any or that money Trump says is coming. If not oh well. 

Just canceled our cruise for April. Good news is since the wife probably can't get any more time off past July that might mean a week long bike trip for me in late summer. 

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. 

The number ill be looking at comparing us to anyone else is cases per million. Obviously S.K. will have fewer cases and deaths the US has 6 times more people.  But those number won't tell us anything till it's all played out. 

7 hours ago, NinjaDoc said:

All information I say take it with grain of salt as I am purely a kidney guy. (But we are the most common sense / numbers driven field in medicine/ so all my opinion are too rational to be true in medicine. )

 First off if you had a dx of dvt in past/ or active risk of dvt/ the use of or lack of aspirin doesnt play a big role. Aspirin can take an edge off risk if you never had dxed dvt issues or risks but not in a significant way.  Only presence or absence of blood thinners matters/ plus if it was dvt / PE most likely you would have been typing this message from hospital bed during recovery. - we can rule out PE ( I should never say never in medicine I guess) 

then the symptoms, this year flu was bad, common theme seen was despite vaccination people getting hit bad. Even young healthy people. And significant cases of double impact as in one episode recovered some time end of fall winter and another during dec Jan period. Most have been dxed with test proven Inflz para inflz etc but  Recently after corona news started I was also thinking same whtr those rare tests that came back negative was corona which when ever knew. But currently based on the info available, corona is highly contagious and if it was here that early we would have seen a massive influx of cases already and not such spotty rare presentation. 
 

in short that was most likely one of the common viruses running around which was really debilitating this year. Also the sub Acute symptoms like runny nose  continue to run for sometime. 
 

having said that if you have one leg swelling and pain etc make sure you get ultrasound. 

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. 

Okay now that we have this topic of maybe I have or had it.

Over four weeks ago I had a surgery on my backside to fix a fistula and to check out a growth of somthing that shouldn't be there.(no worries it was benign) Now I have been on an aspirin regimen for a few years because I have gotten and I'm susceptible to getting DVT in my lower legs. Before my surgery I stopped taking my aspirin per the doc's orders. About a week after my surgery sure enough I felt pain in the pit of my knee and calf indicating my DVT was returning. At that time me healing was good so stated to take my aspirin again. About the same time I was fighting what I thought was a sinus infection with runny nose, little cough and body aches. 5 or 6 day after stating the aprin again I stated to get chest tightness and really needing to gasp for breath sometimes. I mean it was very obvious just walking a flight of steps was making me gasp for air. I couldn't bend down to pick something up with out getting winded. I essecaily winded laying flat on my back. I actually thought that maybe a clot in my leg had traveled to my lung and may have had a very mild PE (pulmonary embolism) of course my stubborn ass said I'll deal with it unless it gets worse. Continued for maybe 5 to7 days even after I returned to work then it almost overnight went away after a little over a week. Had the sinus head cold issues since then, running nose and froggy throat. Still kinda do.  Everything Ive read said impact from even a minor PE should last weeks not just days. So now with all this info I read about the Covid19 makes me wonder if all that was actually and infection of the Corona

What do you think @NinjaDoc? 

We are finally caught up on amazon stuff. But was hit with a influx of Heinz (which is way more than ketchup), General Mills, Pepridge Farms, Fritolay, Pepsi and Campbells (which is way more than soup), and still working on Chewy back orders. Also a customer that makes carry out containers and cups called Graphic Packaging is now back logged. We are working all weekend to catch up.