Locals are asking you to please stay home

T M wrote:

Of course I am Bill. I have accepted this though. I hope you can as well. :-)

Hope you are doing more than just accepting you are doing that.

T M wrote:

Because Biden or Bernie would have us back to 100% right? lol  Biden can't even complete one sentence without stroking out and Bernie...c'mon now..this bum speaks mumbling jibberish on the reg. He doesn't stand a chance. For the record,  I don't like or hate Trump. I have never met him or had a conversation with him just like all of you. I do not go off of hearsay and public news (they are all liars including fox) to make my decisions and run my life. I am very conservative in my views but that comes from the Bible.  I also do not vote..yea I said it. I fought for this country and I will decide if I ever want to vote for which rich person gets to sit their fat ass down in that big white house next. What really gets me is that all you republicans and democrats are still being dooped daily into thinking these politicians actually give a shit about you. lol Spoiler!..they don't. They are all snakes in the grass..liars who have perfected their craft. All of this is just the beginning, things will get much worse. Trump has you all trolled 24/7 and it cracks me up! Stay safe, make smart decisions, and take care of your families the best way you can. That's all you can do.

What a yikes... 

The classic "I will criticize you for trying to make a choice and pat myself on that back for never doing anything" go vote if you want to talk politics. If you do not vote you have no right to criticize anyone who does.

And do not pull your Christian "turn the other check" act on me. You were hateful and proud in your post you don't fool anyone by trying to be the peace maker in your follow ups.

so how did a bunch of people Not from the North east end up hijacking this forum to talk politics> Novel Idea STFO... ;)

Zach Anatta wrote: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/u-k-says-3-5-million-tests-that-show-virus-exposure-coming-soon

This is the important thing.  Only once the results from this mass testing begin to roll out will we really know what we're facing.

If it shows that very few people have contracted the disease, then we'll know that we're facing a killer and it's all hands on deck.

If it shows that millions have contracted it and recovered just fine, proving that hysterical politicians and "public health experts" have destroyed the world's economy over what is no worse than H1N1.... hehehe, it'll be all hands on deck too, won't it? And a few heads.

Lining up my memes...

Two nights ago I transferred a otherwise healthy 40 year old from my step down unit to the ICU cause he'd gone from room air to 10 liters of O2 in 12 hours, he was still statting below 90. I'm guessing at this point he's on a vent.

If it's all a hoax those of us working with patients have yet to see it.

Nick Goldsmith wrote: so how did a bunch of people Not from the North east end up hijacking this forum to talk politics> Novel Idea STFO... ;)

Well, I was born in the North East  : /

Zach Anatta wrote:

Well, I was born in the North East  : /

I think I flew over the NE once...

Patrick Vernon wrote: Yay!  We have the greatest number of cases in the world now!  Probably the worst testing rates too.

Exactly, which means we have even more cases than we know.

With no street noise in NYC, I now constantly hear ambulance sirens going to elmhurst hospital, the one with the freezer trucks out back because they had too many deaths in one night. 

​Rural Counties with Recreation Economies Show Higher Infection Rates​​​

​DEEMI tracking visitors to Maine​​​

Mike Morin wrote:
Rural Counties with Recreation Economies Show Higher Infection Rates

DEEMI tracking visitors to Maine

Chart from the first article for those who may not click through:

Etha Williams wrote:

Chart from the first article for those who may not click through:

Forget it.
No one will persuade the selfish ones.
They are going to ignore all orders that are trying to keep Covid 19 under control.

Etha Williams wrote:

Chart from the first article for those who may not click through:

This is a little disingenuous. Several of the “recreation economy” counties are essentially Seattle suburbs, with a side of loggers (I grew up in one of them). Those alone could skew the chart. Eagle County and others hosting ski resorts had cases brought in by international travelers. Another one is the Navajo Nation, which makes no sense. 

I live in Maine and I’m getting really annoyed by the flood of New York license plates, but I don’t think we can pin this on recreation. 

Cosmiccragsman AKA Dwain wrote: Forget it.
No one will persuade the selfish ones.
They are going to ignore all orders that are trying to keep Covid 19 under control.

I'll follow legal orders, but until I see reliable data I'm going to keep my critical faculties in order. Read this article from a professor at Stanford who writes on epidemiology. This is not just some guy out spraying half-baked theories.

We lack key information needed to determine the danger presented by COVID-19

More recent follow up by the same professor transcribed from a podcast:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/munk-debates-were-making-high-stakes-covid-19-decisions-without-reliable-data

His suggestion, which is that we may find that the best method forward is to protect only those most at risk while preserving the world's economy and social stability, is not outrageous. Some countries are already trying out variants on that theme.  Often those countries (like Israel) are doing this by using mass spying, but that's unfortunately probably the inevitable outcome of this pandemic. As I pointed out a week ago.

You got calif plates now so Read the Thread title!

Zach Anatta wrote:

Well, I was born in the North East  : /

right now, we're all pretty glad you left....

ed "let's not kill grandma...." e

T M wrote:

Well I just did and I don't always turn the other cheek. I am not perfect as stated. I will do whatever I want Jon and there isn't anything your going to do about it. 

Great! Lets applaud TM for being a narcissist!

Apologies if this has been posted before:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/27/822799169/governors-say-theyll-force-out-of-state-visitors-to-quarantine?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates

A Poison Tree
BY WILLIAM BLAKE

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,
When the night had veild the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

Oh it’s poetry hour

Fire and Ice
by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. 

DGoguen wrote: I find the people from Unknown Hometown to be so helpful in this time of mutual need.
I hope to visit unknown hometown in the future to pay it forward.

Its time we start questioning these people. Are they even real?