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Post by matisse on Mar 24, 2020 16:05:48 GMT -5
As wheelers I think we should start planning for dealing with CV19 as the new normal. Since it's a flu, I don't see why we wouldn't have to be dealing with it every year like the regular flu. Like the regular flu there will be vaccines, but like the regular flu those vaccines will be for the best guess of the mutations that will be prevalent in that year's CV19 season.
We can't and won't be doing economy shut-downs and stay-at-home orders whenever this comes around. This is the first shut-down; I think it will be the last after we see how much we have fucked ourselves economically to deal with something that can be handled by applying known and achievable hygiene practices: just don't touch your fucking eyes or nose with your hands or anything unless you know they are clean!!!!. It's doable. As I said before, I get sick once every few years, even when my wife and 4 kids all get sick, which means those germs are in the house for 2-3 weeks. I have also avoided getting sick when my helpers are sick.
Create standard practices for you and your helpers now, and then just stick them--forever. My helpers use hand sanitizer who knows how many times during the course of helping me. Including any time their hands are near my face, and including any time they touch their own skin. I did tighten the screws due to CV19, and I am not going to loosen them after this scare is over.
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Post by Dr. BiPAP Sachin on Mar 26, 2020 12:46:53 GMT -5
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Post by pam on Mar 26, 2020 13:19:55 GMT -5
I saw that on Facebook. What a waste of groceries, especially since there are shortages now. Did she just want to be stupid or want attention. This is not the time to do something like this. I hope they make her pay it back, even though she'll never pay back that much.
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Post by raindrop on Mar 26, 2020 14:06:03 GMT -5
I saw that on Facebook. What a waste of groceries, especially since there are shortages now. Did she just want to be stupid or want attention. This is not the time to do something like this. I hope they make her pay it back, even though she'll never pay back that much. Can’t they disinfect it? Or if not washable then wait a few days? I don’t see why it has to be thrown out.
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Post by Manda2212 on Mar 26, 2020 16:49:09 GMT -5
True, I mean, animals and bugs poop on produce and people pick their noses and touch stuff on a good day so people should be washing the crap out of their produce anyway.
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Post by darthoso on Mar 26, 2020 17:10:28 GMT -5
Massive heads up to the US working cripples here!
If you are on SSI 1619B Medicaid, unemployment is unearned income and if it is $20 bigger than what your non1619B SSI check would be, you're off SSI and therefore Medicaid. Look into your State's Medicaid Buy In as an alternative.
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Post by infinatedreams on Mar 26, 2020 17:21:35 GMT -5
darthoso christ things are complicated in America, I just take healthcare for granted, turn up get treated go home, no cost, no means testing, sure its funded through taxation but isn't it a duty of government to look after the health of its citizens? .... idealistic I know
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Post by darthoso on Mar 26, 2020 17:57:20 GMT -5
darthoso christ things are complicated in America, I just take healthcare for granted, turn up get treated go home, no cost, no means testing, sure its funded through taxation but isn't it a duty of government to look after the health of its citizens? .... idealistic I know It is a system created in the 60s that's been covered head to toe with bandaide solutions for this or that. No one designed it, it just is because fixing it is now really complicated.
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Post by infinatedreams on Mar 26, 2020 18:15:48 GMT -5
Am I being naive in thinking that this means some people dont get medical aid? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ sorry bit it's an alien concept to me.
Surely there is some kind of cover for everyone? Isn't a democracy to be judged by how it treats the most in need? I guess I'm feeling philosophical at the moment, a reminder of how fragile our grasp on life can do that.
A fraction of what is spent on weapons of mass destruction .... imagine what could be done with that .....and guess what, mother nature has shown us the folly in being so obsessed with killing each other.
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Post by wonk on Mar 26, 2020 18:22:56 GMT -5
Talking about weapons, what about all those guys with AR15's? How will they respond if they feel let down by the government?
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Post by infinatedreams on Mar 26, 2020 18:26:15 GMT -5
Meanwhile over here, 500,000 people have volunteered to help out the needy and the nation turned out to applaud the healthcare workers as a gesture of appreciation. Its nice to see that kind of humanity still exists in our materialistic world
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Post by matisse on Mar 26, 2020 19:15:12 GMT -5
Like the regular flu there will be vaccines, but like the regular flu those vaccines will be for the best guess of the mutations that will be prevalent in that year's CV19 season. I saw a report that it is the same everywhere so far, not mutating. Hopefully that doesn't change.
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Post by pam on Mar 26, 2020 19:39:27 GMT -5
Meanwhile over here, 500,000 people have volunteered to help out the needy and the nation turned out to applaud the healthcare workers as a gesture of appreciation. Its nice to see that kind of humanity still exists in our materialistic world we have people applauding them and helping them here too. Many people are making the masks for them to use. My Facebook feed is full of people who appreciate healthcare workers!
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Post by pam on Mar 26, 2020 19:41:14 GMT -5
Talking about weapons, what about all those guys with AR15's? How will they respond if they feel let down by the government? I'm going to assume you are joking because that is a totally ridiculous question to me, if we are talking about just the average person. I forget that we have some crazies running around. Yeah, it could happen with some unhinged person, although I certainly hope it doesn't.
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Post by someonerandom on Mar 26, 2020 19:55:31 GMT -5
Talking about weapons, what about all those guys with AR15's? How will they respond if they feel let down by the government? If you can shoot a coronavirus with .223 then you are the world’s best deadeye and Clint Eastwood will make a movie about you
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