(06-30-2020 06:13 AM)tnzazz Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 08:43 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(06-26-2020 11:10 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  I tested positive on Monday

Its not even a bad cold. 2 days of chills. Thats it.

Im 48

My sister (a nurse) was fine for 4 days, then it changed drastically. She was a breath away from being on a ventilator a week later. Don't take this lightly. Make sure you take care of yourself. Sorry for being so blunt, but this is no joke my friend.

Edit: She's 61.

Yep, this thing is all over the board. Some have nothing, some have minor issues, others go to hospital but no ventilator, and others die. I’ve talked to people that have experienced these differences or have loved ones that had passed away. One person who went to the hospital, still has issues after being released several months later.

I mean should this disease even be called SARS. They're beginning to believe it's more of a vascular disease - a clotting disease causing these problems. Which goes after not just the lungs, which is a nice entry point, but potentially every organ in your body. and they still don't know how this plays out with disability a year or two or three down the road. Lots of unknowns.

(06-29-2020 11:44 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(06-27-2020 03:34 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  The virus is invisible everyone will get it at some point... A majority will survive after they get it and many won't unfortunately.

That's my take on it.

I don't get this take. Unless you live in California, and your mom is named Karen, you aren't getting Polio. I never got Polio, and am glad the medical community didn't jump on the "everybody just needs to go ahead and get Polio" train.

Ummmmm....Did we curl up in a ball and close down the economy when polio was out there. Did we all hide in our homes until polio was eradicated? Nope. We literally didn’t do anything other than live our lives.

Right now, it makes sense to me to open as much as possible without being dumb. I suspect with social distancing and masks we can open the vast majority of the economy. What I don’t see coming back anytime soon is bars and large scale gatherings. I just can’t see a way to make those reasonably safe. Those activities may just be on the shelf until we get a vaccine or achieve herd immunity.

(06-30-2020 10:10 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 11:44 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(06-27-2020 03:34 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  The virus is invisible everyone will get it at some point... A majority will survive after they get it and many won't unfortunately.

That's my take on it.

I don't get this take. Unless you live in California, and your mom is named Karen, you aren't getting Polio. I never got Polio, and am glad the medical community didn't jump on the "everybody just needs to go ahead and get Polio" train.

Ummmmm....Did we curl up in a ball and close down the economy when polio was out there. Did we all hide in our homes until polio was eradicated? Nope. We literally didn’t do anything other than live our lives.

Right now, it makes sense to me to open as much as possible without being dumb. I suspect with social distancing and masks we can open the vast majority of the economy. What I don’t see coming back anytime soon is bars and large scale gatherings. I just can’t see a way to make those reasonably safe. Those activities may just be on the shelf until we get a vaccine or achieve herd immunity.

That might work.... Except there is a large portion of the US population that is crying, kicking and screaming about having to wear a mask and refuse.

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(06-30-2020 10:10 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 11:44 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(06-27-2020 03:34 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  The virus is invisible everyone will get it at some point... A majority will survive after they get it and many won't unfortunately.

That's my take on it.

I don't get this take. Unless you live in California, and your mom is named Karen, you aren't getting Polio. I never got Polio, and am glad the medical community didn't jump on the "everybody just needs to go ahead and get Polio" train.

Ummmmm....Did we curl up in a ball and close down the economy when polio was out there. Did we all hide in our homes until polio was eradicated? Nope. We literally didn’t do anything other than live our lives.

Polio/Covid-19 is not a very apt comparison at all.

Unlike Covid-19, which affects the entire population during every season of the year, Polio was a children's disease, which tended to be transmitted during the summer months.


from: Remembering the dreaded summers of polio

"Every summer, a tremendous fear would descend.

When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the March of Dimes in 1938, he chose research to be a cornerstone of the effort to defeat polio.

Tens of thousands of children in the United States would fall ill with paralytic poliomyelitis, also known as infantile paralysis. The major outbreaks would start around Memorial Day and become more and more prevalent, spiking in August before essentially ending for the year around Labor Day. Not everyone who contracted the virus would come down with a severe case of polio, but they would be carriers. Those with severe cases that survived were in iron lung respirators and often crippled for life, and many who could return to school came in wheelchairs or leg braces.

For reasons that are still not fully understood, polio would hit certain areas harder than others, and the following year it would show up in other areas. There was no rhyme or reason, and no one knew how polio was contracted, although many believed it traveled through the water. Beaches and swimming pools were closed. Bowling alleys and movie theaters closed. Families left the city. The slightest illness in a child would cause a parent to panic."

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/remembe...s-of-polio

*A Robert Stack update*
I’m sitting at a bar belly up in central Texas.
It’s Packed. They don’t give a shite about this government scare tactic.
God Bless Texas.

(06-30-2020 07:21 PM)jedclampett Wrote:  

(06-30-2020 10:10 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 11:44 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(06-27-2020 03:34 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  The virus is invisible everyone will get it at some point... A majority will survive after they get it and many won't unfortunately.

That's my take on it.

I don't get this take. Unless you live in California, and your mom is named Karen, you aren't getting Polio. I never got Polio, and am glad the medical community didn't jump on the "everybody just needs to go ahead and get Polio" train.

Ummmmm....Did we curl up in a ball and close down the economy when polio was out there. Did we all hide in our homes until polio was eradicated? Nope. We literally didn’t do anything other than live our lives.

Polio/Covid-19 is not a very apt comparison at all.

Unlike Covid-19, which affects the entire population during every season of the year, Polio was a children's disease, which tended to be transmitted during the summer months.


from: Remembering the dreaded summers of polio

"Every summer, a tremendous fear would descend.

When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the March of Dimes in 1938, he chose research to be a cornerstone of the effort to defeat polio.

Tens of thousands of children in the United States would fall ill with paralytic poliomyelitis, also known as infantile paralysis. The major outbreaks would start around Memorial Day and become more and more prevalent, spiking in August before essentially ending for the year around Labor Day. Not everyone who contracted the virus would come down with a severe case of polio, but they would be carriers. Those with severe cases that survived were in iron lung respirators and often crippled for life, and many who could return to school came in wheelchairs or leg braces.

For reasons that are still not fully understood, polio would hit certain areas harder than others, and the following year it would show up in other areas. There was no rhyme or reason, and no one knew how polio was contracted, although many believed it traveled through the water. Beaches and swimming pools were closed. Bowling alleys and movie theaters closed. Families left the city. The slightest illness in a child would cause a parent to panic."

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/remembe...s-of-polio

Getting tired of your liberal political spam on this board.
Post this crap on a political board.
Wrong venue to be Spamming son

The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

(07-01-2020 12:48 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

Disagree 1000%
Hide in your home if you’re afraid. Let the rest of us live.

(06-30-2020 10:10 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 11:44 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  

(06-27-2020 03:34 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  The virus is invisible everyone will get it at some point... A majority will survive after they get it and many won't unfortunately.

That's my take on it.

I don't get this take. Unless you live in California, and your mom is named Karen, you aren't getting Polio. I never got Polio, and am glad the medical community didn't jump on the "everybody just needs to go ahead and get Polio" train.

Ummmmm....Did we curl up in a ball and close down the economy when polio was out there. Did we all hide in our homes until polio was eradicated? Nope. We literally didn’t do anything other than live our lives.

Right now, it makes sense to me to open as much as possible without being dumb. I suspect with social distancing and masks we can open the vast majority of the economy. What I don’t see coming back anytime soon is bars and large scale gatherings. I just can’t see a way to make those reasonably safe. Those activities may just be on the shelf until we get a vaccine or achieve herd immunity.

And... how is herd immunity achieved?

(07-01-2020 09:21 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-01-2020 12:48 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

Disagree 1000%
Hide in your home if you’re afraid. Let the rest of us live.

Texas currently has pop up hospitals in parking lots and are preparing to be overwhelmed in the following weeks. It's not always about yourself and what you do affects others. It's about overwhelming the healthcare system, the people that work there, and the everyday heart attacks, strokes etc victims that now might not have a hospital bed if you over run the system or people that would survive covid but don't have a place at a hospital or doctor because everyone got it to quickly.

(07-01-2020 10:12 AM)Pony94 Wrote:  

Which just goes to show you, that HOW MANY are getting infected might be less important than WHO is getting infected. The Texas cases appear to strongly skewed toward the 35 and under group. They have serious complications from Covid far far less than older folks.

Surviving it doesn't mean you won't have lifelong consequences. Almost 50% of asymptomatic people have scared lungs and lung damage and from what I've read. Many younger people are developing chronic fatigue syndrome that could affect them the rest of their life. There is a lot they still don't know about it or the long term consequences.

(06-30-2020 06:59 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(06-30-2020 06:13 AM)tnzazz Wrote:  

(06-29-2020 08:43 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(06-26-2020 11:10 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  I tested positive on Monday

Its not even a bad cold. 2 days of chills. Thats it.

Im 48

My sister (a nurse) was fine for 4 days, then it changed drastically. She was a breath away from being on a ventilator a week later. Don't take this lightly. Make sure you take care of yourself. Sorry for being so blunt, but this is no joke my friend.

Edit: She's 61.

Yep, this thing is all over the board. Some have nothing, some have minor issues, others go to hospital but no ventilator, and others die. I’ve talked to people that have experienced these differences or have loved ones that had passed away. One person who went to the hospital, still has issues after being released several months later.

I mean should this disease even be called SARS. They're beginning to believe it's more of a vascular disease - a clotting disease causing these problems. Which goes after not just the lungs, which is a nice entry point, but potentially every organ in your body. and they still don't know how this plays out with disability a year or two or three down the road. Lots of unknowns.

You got me. Its a weird one.


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(07-01-2020 09:21 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-01-2020 12:48 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

Disagree 1000%
Hide in your home if you’re afraid. Let the rest of us live.

Way to care about your fellow Americans? Enjoy the beer.


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(07-01-2020 11:07 AM)tnzazz Wrote:  

(07-01-2020 09:21 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-01-2020 12:48 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

Disagree 1000%
Hide in your home if you’re afraid. Let the rest of us live.

Way to care about your fellow Americans? Enjoy the beer.


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How am I harming my fellow Americans??? I won’t be guilted into staying at home by myself anymore. I work alone from home and live alone.

What I don't like is how a virus became politicized. Tell me a person's politics, and I can bet which way they fall on this.

Makes zero sense.

(07-01-2020 09:21 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-01-2020 12:48 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

Disagree 1000%
Hide in your home if you’re afraid. Let the rest of us live.

Getting texts and now phone calls from Travis County to stay home.

(07-01-2020 12:48 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  The Governor of Texas looks like a complete idiot for allowing Texas bars to reopen in the first place.

Still waiting on your explosion of deaths, because the numbers are 14 days behind. People look at the charts. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Yes we know they are diagnosing more cases. Move down the page to daily deaths. They are consistently going down. You have to go back as far as March 28 to find less deaths. The more cases are a result of more testing. If you go to the hospital to get any procedure, you get a covid test. If you test positive, you are considered hospitalized because of Covid. Hospital emergency rooms are typically at 90 percent capacity. Empty beds equal loss of money.

I cannot figure some people out. It is almost like they are rooting for pandemic when the evidence says otherwise.