The Coronavirus Thread

Oh god. And we might have to face it every year. If no vaccine comes, I doubt that I'll make it to 70!

Well, that one didn't last long.

Curious coincidence... someone has posited (don't know how seriously/authoritively) that the malarial regions might have some resistance. Wont help me, because I didn't grow up here (India).

Chicken soup! Why didn't we think of CHICKEN SOUP!

You sound like a London caff man! I certainly couldn't eat that much but I love those fry-ups. For lunch as well as breakfast . And a good mug of tea too.

 

I can imagine. My dad is retired and he’s at the supermarket at 8:00am and he gets all the good stuff. I get my liversausage from a butcher at walking distance and he hasn’t had stock issues. Most people go to the supermarket for meat though which is in the same mall.

 

I'm just surprised no one's brought up powdered milk yet in this thread, since it can keep for absolute ages and is calorie-dense. Plastic jugs? Bags? Y'all weird

 

Powdered milk is nasty, grew up in the 60's on mix of Carnation powdered and skim milk. (Parents are depression era babies, cheap to the table was the operative word). Like my milk still but won't touch anything under 3%.
Milk in a LDPE plastic jug is so much more than the contents: easy to cut to make a funnel for oil changes, a bailer for your skiff , bait/chum flinger when fishing the mangroves, fill the toilet tank from the pool or canal if the pumps go down and make ice blocks before the hurricane hits to make your fridge/freezer cold for several days beyond the power outage. Try doing all that with a poly bag or cardboard carton.

 

You guys are making me want to get strips of bacon and have a bacon party with it.

 

I'm a few pages behind in this thread, so I don't know if this has been mentioned. I know NPR tends to be leftward leaning, but if half of what Max Brooks said is true, I'd be really pissed right now if I lived in the US.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/820601571

 

LOL. Powdered milk has a place, it's not in my cappuccino though.

If things go full zombie apocalypse I'll use it in my instant coffee. I hope it does not get that bad.

Also, milk freezes just fine. A 4 liter jug takes forever to thaw though......

 

The signs were all there, they had to be, I sold the rest of my stocks the first week of February and bought a camping stove and some other supplies.

But, I don't blame are gov't for taking a wait and see approach. They always do. And I don't really think I was expecting this, but I'm not sure what I expected either.

 

Some info from a doctor on the front lines.

 

I ordered some DIY wire from Trevor at Norne, to have a project to work on if/when I have to stay home. He said he was going to ship it on Monday, but I haven't heard anything back from him this week. Before ordering I checked that operations were still running normally and he said they were, other than shipments going out a bit less frequently. Not sure where he's located (his emails are tagged PDT, that could just be the Gmail server), but I hope he's OK.

To be clear, this isn't a "Why hasn't my order shipped?" rant. Just wondering if anyone has more direct contact with him and knows if he's OK.

 

You are full of shit. We don’t know yet if we build up effective antibodies to Covid-19 once we catch it. So far with other corona viruses, we do build up immunity to them. If scientists in China are to be believed, it appears that we probably do based on tests on another primate species. Read here:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/science...-Is-it-possible-to-be-reinfected-15154426.php

 

That was a worthwhile 60 minutes. Thank you. The one bit that really doesn't square with my experience is duration. His high end of 14 days is the low end of nearly 20 different positive cases (all from NYC btw) with whom I've spoken and my partner is just turning a corner on day 20. And none of those cases required overnight hospitalization either. I don't know what to make of that discrepancy.

 

He replied to my Email two days ago. He had taken a couple of days off to decompress. He will get back to you. If you have not heard from him for a week, send him another email. Your order should not take long to fill unless he is out of something..

 

Recent statements from Fauci is that likelihood is that yes, people do develop an immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after recovering from infection. That's pleasant.

 

Here is the problem right now. The U.S. is risking more infections and victims because the virus was initially not taken seriously while about 30 million people are uninsured or receive little to no medical care because they are poor (or worse homeless).

The number of cases according to various news sources is surpassing China's numbers already.

Even in the best cast scenario (while research is still ongoing) the U.S. can say "we have positive findings" but the potential clusterfuck that awaits, oh damn.

P.S. I am not that positive about NL either. At least access to healthcare is better so urgent cases can be spotted earlier.

P.P.S. I am quite worried. Trying to not become a cynic these days.

 

You and me both, friend. I'm actually focusing more on meditation (hey it helps) and catching up on a backlog of used books (mostly fiction) I have lying around than keeping up with every new development outside; just randomly came across a pleasant piece of news with happy implications, breathed a sigh of relief.

Not sure how things are in NL, but I believe that despite the best efforts of idiots in office* people will get through this.

*https://amp.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...us-duterte-ally-koko-pimentel-blasted-putting

EDIT: Less fun update! Friend of mine was locked in dog cage for breaking curfew, I just found out. Worried she wasn't replying, then I hear about this bullshit.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/26/philippines-curfew-violators-abused