Never watched or listened to Rogan, does he hawk supplements?
Nope. He has two podcasts.
One is about MMA/beating people for money in front of people … and one where he gets some interesting people on and some wackos.
I don’t agree with much Rogan has to say. But I was surprised to hear and read him come out as someone voting for Sanders.
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OK, I won’t complain about the side effects from this Red Death ever again!
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The hand sanitizer hoarding seems pretty wide spread, we were out as well here in Maryland. Plenty of TP though.
Tell them they’re right, this is no worse than the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak which had a 2.7% death rate and is widely considered the last great pandemic to hit. This one only has about a 3.4% death rate, after 100 years of improved medicine.
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My first thought was, “I bet those places would be difficult to get out of if someone “accidentally” used a bulldozer to pile dirt over the entrance”.
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If the very wealthy are indeed bugging out to New Zealand, it’s not 'cos of the Coronavirus.
It’s 'cos of the hoi polloi’s reaction to the Coronavirus.
They don’t fear catching the illness. They fear a general breakdown in the social order.
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I’m so wealthy that I can afford to pay someone to get the virus for me.
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Well, maybe. The best data we have is probably from Korea–which leaned quickly and heavily into mass testing, and so is capturing cases with light symptoms and asymptomatic cases. It suggests a 0.7% fatality rate–though that could of course be affected by the availability, or lack thereof, of supportive care as patients with more severe disease are recovering. Still several times that of seasonal flu, of course, and still plenty of reason to be careful, but also not a SARS/MERS/1918 Spanish Flu.
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sigh I knew I was going to get called on that, and yes, you’re right and I’m aware it could possibly be much lower (we won’t know until it’s over of course). I meant it as a useful comment for idiots like the ones being talked to who are spouting nonsense like “look at how few deaths in China.” It at least gives them pause since they clearly aren’t paying attention to ANY of the facts.
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The only downside I see to “Richies Under Glass” is that it would make it hard to eat the rich.
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Yeah, this ain’t panic by any stretch. Give it two weeks. Once all of the independent labs the trump administration prevented from doing testing start releasing results and FEMA still hasn’t been deployed, shits gone get real real.
“But there aren’t any cases in my state/county/town!?!”
Oh, yes there are, sweetheart.
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And the whole gibberish about flu fatalities is so utterly moronic. First of all, COVID-19 doesn’t give a shit if you’ve had the flu, you can die from both. Second, the fatality rate is expected to be 2.5-3.4 times higher than flu which means the 100K number people keep floating can turn into 2.5+ million (can, not will). Third, even one death that could have been prevented by early action is unconscionable.
Yeah, Korea is what the US should look like at this stage, instead, we’ve only tested ca. 4500 individuals in total.
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It is a hard one isn’t it.
COVID-19 can be like a mild cold, or it can be severe enough to require hospitalization. Something like 10% to 15% of people that contract it require medical attention, and if they get it almost all of them survive. Without medical support most of those people die.
So if you contract it when medical resources are not overcommitted your chance of death is small, similar to the flu. If you contract it when medical resources are under stress if you get triaged into the full care bucket you almost definitely live. Young and in otherwise good health means you might be assessed to have more life-years saved, so you are likely triaged as getting support even when medical resources are under significant stress (for example where Italy is just now). If you are older, or they mis-triage, or the medical stress is high enough that “young 26” doesn’t make the cut because the last vent is in use by “young 22”, well you die. (that is a big chain of if’s, but really numbers people are throwing around is eventually 80% of people will have it, so if we can keep the stress on the medical system low by not having it all at once about 2% of the 80% die, if we can’t keep the stress on the medical system low more like 10% to 15% of the 80% die).
So I don’t know what the right level of concern is either. I don’t know if when CA says gatherings of over 250 people are a bad idea (I don’t know if they are actually illegal at the moment) if I should think “about time!”, or “too little! it should only be trips to the grocery store!” Or if maybe the prior day’s Santa Clara announcement that gatherings of over 1000 were not allowed was actually the proper number.
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There are (in my state, county, AND town), but people seem to be going about things pretty much as normal. I’m “off the deep end” and only really started social distancing about a week ago, and only really in earnest as of Monday.
Don’t underestimate people’s ability to ignore danger.
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Keeps 'em fresh!
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Try Factory Direct, of all places. The Newmarket store had medium-sized pump containers from a local company. (Limit of 2/customer.) I couldn’t find it their online product list.
I haven’t tried igniting it yet, so I can’t speak for the potency.
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For work I drive around servicing different sales accounts including a lot of super markets.
I would not say people are panicking, but it does seem to be escalating along those lines. Earlier this week we saw our first confirmed cases in the area. I’ve seen multiple people with masks on for the first time today. Supermarkets are swamped, many of them are short of meat and certain kinds of produce. Paper goods of all kinds seem to be in short supply.
People are legitimately avoiding Corona beer, and our first case was at a local brewery. Their sales tanked in the last 3 days. Running into many people who are repeating misinformation about biological weapons and Chinese people eating bats.
Most people are still joking about it, but taking it seriously. But my beer distributors are telling me that they have many customers booking home delivery of large amounts of water, like 200 cases a week. Most of them wealthy people who have relocated to their summer homes from NYC and are basically bunkering up.
And as of today there’s a fuck ton of people on the road. Like it took me 25 minutes to get through a parking lot earlier today.
I really think part of that is speculators jumping out. Over the last few years we’ve seen rapid ups and downs around a pretty stable “all time high” point as investment jumped from industry to industry and financial vehicle to financial vehicle. Often in response to whatever came out of Trump’s mouth that day.
That looks very much like a classic speculation driven market. People switching horses continually in search of whatever was gonna grow based on US policy, or in response to Brexit.
So a lot of those falls could be less panic than people finally pulling their money out to wait out a long awaited market correction. I suspect that might be why OPEC chose now to get in a shit fit with Russia over oil pricing. If things are gonna slow down anyway thanks to the pandemic, and you think oil prices need a correction to avoid problems. Might as well do it while the market in general corrects.
Problem being if that pushes us into a whole host of serious shit waiting in the wings. But again don’t know if we’re exactly seeing panic yet. Yet.
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May not have to. I mean, they’re getting into an enclosed space for hours on end to only get to another enclosed space. This can’t go well.
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After denying it for a while. Not so early on, after all.
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The Last of the Gay would be a awesome LGBTQ+ band name.
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