Coronavirus General Discussion
Moderator: Global Moderator
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
As always, we're well ahead of US - you can see how some parliamentary representatives looked today during their session. There is some brave lady in the upper right corner of the photo - guess a former member of the Communist party (actually most of them are..)
Joke apart - army is already on the streets, almost complete lockdown. Haven't heard the latest news but I still hope we're allowed to breathe (at home of course).
Joke apart - army is already on the streets, almost complete lockdown. Haven't heard the latest news but I still hope we're allowed to breathe (at home of course).
- Attachments
-
- Parliament.jpg (42.76 KiB) Viewed 4924 times
- dualstow
- Executive Member
- Posts: 14289
- Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:18 am
- Location: synagogue of Satan
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
^ Bulgaria ^
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Heh, good guess. I think I've mentioned in the past from where I am, or did you get it somewhere in the news (just curious) ?
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
This Respirator is to filter incoming not outgoing breath.Vil wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:02 am As always, we're well ahead of US - you can see how some parliamentary representatives looked today during their session. There is some brave lady in the upper right corner of the photo - guess a former member of the Communist party (actually most of them are..)
Joke apart - army is already on the streets, almost complete lockdown. Haven't heard the latest news but I still hope we're allowed to breathe (at home of course).
So I do not think it is much good if you have the Flu already.
But with the Cartridges it sure will be effective and a lot more comfortable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- dualstow
- Executive Member
- Posts: 14289
- Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:18 am
- Location: synagogue of Satan
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
I think you did mention it once but I'd forgotten, and I guessed wrong. I started with Russia. Came across a twitter post tweet that said "Casual Friday in the Bulgarian Parliament" with the same photo.
- Kriegsspiel
- Executive Member
- Posts: 4052
- Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:28 pm
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Islamic housewives?
Or clothes from surgery?
Casual Friday
No escape from COVID-19
Open up wide,
Keep up social distancing,
I'm just a young boy, I need no sympathy,
I'll spread it if I cough, if I blow,
out my nose, sans elbow,
Any way this thing goes, doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Or clothes from surgery?
Casual Friday
No escape from COVID-19
Open up wide,
Keep up social distancing,
I'm just a young boy, I need no sympathy,
I'll spread it if I cough, if I blow,
out my nose, sans elbow,
Any way this thing goes, doesn't really matter to me, to me.
You there, Ephialtes. May you live forever.
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Excellent! Medium Tex could have done no better!Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:37 pm Islamic housewives?
Or clothes from surgery?
Casual Friday
No escape from COVID-19
Open up wide,
Keep up social distancing,
I'm just a young boy, I need no sympathy,
I'll spread it if I cough, if I blow,
out my nose, sans elbow,
Any way this thing goes, doesn't really matter to me, to me.
- vnatale
- Executive Member
- Posts: 9468
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:56 pm
- Location: Massachusetts
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
This Lt. Gen. from the Army Corps of Engineers (presently on C-Span with others) is absolutely wild! They ARE ready to start building more hospital spaces in every state in the country!
Vinny
Vinny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
- vnatale
- Executive Member
- Posts: 9468
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:56 pm
- Location: Massachusetts
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
What are the exceptions? How do you prove you are an exception?
Vinny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
- vnatale
- Executive Member
- Posts: 9468
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:56 pm
- Location: Massachusetts
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
If you missed it the first time around, C-Span is getting showing today's Coronavirus Response. It just started and Trump's just wrapping up his comments before he turns it over to the others there.
Vinny
Vinny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
There's some confusion here...the Chinese report was for chloroquine, which is a malaria drug that is common around the world but not available in the US. The news articles here, and the French study etc, was for hydroxychloroquine, trade name Plaquenil. It's an immune-modulating/anti-inflammatory drug used for rheumatoid arthritis, and of course already FDA approved for that indication. Using it for COVID-19 would be an off-label use, which insurance companies sometimes raise a stink about but that doctors actually do all the time. And I can't imagine insurance companies balking at paying for a cheap med for COVID patients because that would be the negative press of the century.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:09 pm I believe it is for hydroxychloroquine but my understanding is that they are very similar drugs. I'm not a doctor or pharmacist, so I can't say exactly what the differences might be.
As for whether the POTUS could order the FDA commissioner to approve a drug, the FDA is an (illegal) executive branch agency, so it is under POTUS' authority. So I'm pretty sure the Constitutional answer would be yes.
In any event, every potential treatment that has a reasonable safety record in other uses must be used if we are to head off disaster.
I'm just as confused as you guys are. Those two drugs may be chemically related, but they are NOT the same.
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
First work, then the gym, then school, and finally... my music lessons.
All of my daily out of house routines are officially closed.
It's weirdly liberating.
All of my daily out of house routines are officially closed.
It's weirdly liberating.
DITM
www.allterraininvesting.com
www.allterraininvesting.com
-
- Executive Member
- Posts: 5994
- Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00 pm
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Thanks, I guess.WiseOne wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:37 pmThere's some confusion here...the Chinese report was for chloroquine, which is a malaria drug that is common around the world but not available in the US. The news articles here, and the French study etc, was for hydroxychloroquine, trade name Plaquenil. It's an immune-modulating/anti-inflammatory drug used for rheumatoid arthritis, and of course already FDA approved for that indication. Using it for COVID-19 would be an off-label use, which insurance companies sometimes raise a stink about but that doctors actually do all the time. And I can't imagine insurance companies balking at paying for a cheap med for COVID patients because that would be the negative press of the century.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:09 pm I believe it is for hydroxychloroquine but my understanding is that they are very similar drugs. I'm not a doctor or pharmacist, so I can't say exactly what the differences might be.
As for whether the POTUS could order the FDA commissioner to approve a drug, the FDA is an (illegal) executive branch agency, so it is under POTUS' authority. So I'm pretty sure the Constitutional answer would be yes.
In any event, every potential treatment that has a reasonable safety record in other uses must be used if we are to head off disaster.
I'm just as confused as you guys are. Those two drugs may be chemically related, but they are NOT the same.
Whatever it is, it had better work or we're in for a trip through hell.
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
I have another date today with that girl I told you guys about. The one that lives down the street.
We have not been practicing social distancing.
We have not been practicing social distancing.
DITM
www.allterraininvesting.com
www.allterraininvesting.com
- dualstow
- Executive Member
- Posts: 14289
- Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:18 am
- Location: synagogue of Satan
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Haha! Stay safe (in the microbial sense at least).
Made me laugh out loud.
Last edited by dualstow on Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- vnatale
- Executive Member
- Posts: 9468
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:56 pm
- Location: Massachusetts
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
The medical person for the state of Ohio coined a different two word phrase for the ever-present "social distancing". Though I heard it within the last two hours I'm forgetting it.
She was emphasizing that we could still be social in different ways (like we all are here) but at a distance.
Could have been "Practical distancing"?
VInny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
This girl, through our conversations now knows that I studied business and used to work in finance. She has been wanting investment advice so I've been introducing her to the PP.
I could make another juvenile joke there... but I won't.
I could make another juvenile joke there... but I won't.
DITM
www.allterraininvesting.com
www.allterraininvesting.com
- vnatale
- Executive Member
- Posts: 9468
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:56 pm
- Location: Massachusetts
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
In a movie the whole movie would be about how all your constant (successful) attempts you were making to avoid her finding out about you being one of those fringe, wacky Permanent Portfolio people. Until just in the end....and then what happened once she found out??!!! "Oh, Smith1776! I do truly love you! And, I do want to marry you. But I could NEVER bring up our children in the Permanent Portfolio way! My family is Bogle Head and that I shall remain to my dying day!"
Vinny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
OMG. You're not even kidding, Vinny. The number of people who have given me a "look" when I show them the MapleGrams I carry in my wallet... and yes, some of those people were girls I was seeing. Between that and the Swiss Army Knife I carry 24/7, I must truly seem like a wacko.vnatale wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:40 pm
In a movie the whole movie would be about how all your constant (successful) attempts you were making to avoid her finding out about you being one of those fringe, wacky Permanent Portfolio people. Until just in the end....and then what happened once she found out??!!! "Oh, Smith1776! I do truly love you! And, I do want to marry you. But I could NEVER bring up our children in the Permanent Portfolio way! My family is Bogle Head and that I shall remain to my dying day!"
Vinny
I'd better put "Must be a Permanent Portfolio investor" in my dating profile...
At least I'm not a toilet paper hoarder in this whole fiasco.
DITM
www.allterraininvesting.com
www.allterraininvesting.com
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
https://youtu.be/zj3ttaiSgvs
Latest James Rickards interview concerning COVID-19's impact on the economy and markets.
Latest James Rickards interview concerning COVID-19's impact on the economy and markets.
DITM
www.allterraininvesting.com
www.allterraininvesting.com
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
If you all want to hear a first-hand account from U.S. COVID-19 patient #3, listen to the most recent episode of the Barbell Logic podcast (episode #289). The host of that podcast was apparently the third person in the U.S. to be officially diagnosed, and his story is pretty interesting.
He was only able to get tested for COVID-19 after multiple rounds of pleading by both him and his doctor. The handling of his situation by the medical system and CDC sounds laughably dysfunctional.
Short story: He's had a dry cough and an on-and-off fever with chills/aches for about two weeks now, and had to spend a couple of days in the hospital since a scan of his chest showed stuff in his lungs, but he's back home and slowly improving now.
He was only able to get tested for COVID-19 after multiple rounds of pleading by both him and his doctor. The handling of his situation by the medical system and CDC sounds laughably dysfunctional.
Short story: He's had a dry cough and an on-and-off fever with chills/aches for about two weeks now, and had to spend a couple of days in the hospital since a scan of his chest showed stuff in his lungs, but he's back home and slowly improving now.
- dualstow
- Executive Member
- Posts: 14289
- Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:18 am
- Location: synagogue of Satan
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Physical distancing? That's one I saw, although I don't know if it was an Ohioan.
Kind of annoying, people getting caught up with re-coining a term. We all know what social distancing means. It's fine. Just my opinion.
Of course not. It's not like you just did make the joke or anything.
-
- Executive Member
- Posts: 5994
- Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 6:00 pm
- vnatale
- Executive Member
- Posts: 9468
- Joined: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:56 pm
- Location: Massachusetts
- Contact:
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Now I think I remember her phrase. Another "P"! "Physical Distancing" That is FAR better than "Social Distancing". Far more precise and lacks the bad connotation of acting anti-social.Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:43 pmOMG. You're not even kidding, Vinny. The number of people who have given me a "look" when I show them the MapleGrams I carry in my wallet... and yes, some of those people were girls I was seeing. Between that and the Swiss Army Knife I carry 24/7, I must truly seem like a wacko.vnatale wrote: ↑Fri Mar 20, 2020 4:40 pm
In a movie the whole movie would be about how all your constant (successful) attempts you were making to avoid her finding out about you being one of those fringe, wacky Permanent Portfolio people. Until just in the end....and then what happened once she found out??!!! "Oh, Smith1776! I do truly love you! And, I do want to marry you. But I could NEVER bring up our children in the Permanent Portfolio way! My family is Bogle Head and that I shall remain to my dying day!"
Vinny
I'd better put "Must be a Permanent Portfolio investor" in my dating profile...
At least I'm not a toilet paper hoarder in this whole fiasco.
I've many times practiced "social distancing" in the figurative sense of the word when I'm pressed up tight against other people in the crowd at a live music show but I'm not really interacting in any way with those people around me.
Vinny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
Re: Coronavirus General Discussion
Looks like the rec centre and gym closure will be in place for a good while.
I'm heading to Walmart today or tomorrow to get some Coronavirus quarantine home workout gear.
I currently have a yoga mat and a jump rope. Legit nothing else.
If you were to spend, say, up to 100 bucks, what would you spend that money on to get the best home workout possible? Would you spend anything at all? I'm thinking of at least getting that ab wheel thing.
I'm heading to Walmart today or tomorrow to get some Coronavirus quarantine home workout gear.
I currently have a yoga mat and a jump rope. Legit nothing else.
If you were to spend, say, up to 100 bucks, what would you spend that money on to get the best home workout possible? Would you spend anything at all? I'm thinking of at least getting that ab wheel thing.
DITM
www.allterraininvesting.com
www.allterraininvesting.com