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Let her talk and talk and talk and talk.  When she stops talking make your point, but attribute it to something you agree on no matter how small it is.  Then change the subject.  You're welcome. 

From what I heard, you now have immunity.  You don't have to stay on the island.

And then the prison system breaks down, and now we have a plot for ConAir 2.

I am not sure why it is so hard for people, especially leaders, to understand that the main issue is the strain it puts on the hospitals.  And that affects people with non-virus health issues.
 

And then the prison system breaks down, and now we have a plot for ConAir 2.

If we lose a significant number of essential staff - custody officers, medical personnel, warehouse personnel, maintenance and culinary staff in particular - we are in deep stuff.

I was joking of course, but I do agree that the cascading effects of various industries shutting down/limiting staff in the coming weeks could get pretty serious. Especially in certain industries where there isn’t a ton of remote work ability or skill redundancy among employees. Like I think of the company I work for... there are a couple of fairly low-level guys that if we lost would basically ruin our productive capability fairly quickly.

And then the prison system breaks down, and now we have a plot for ConAir 2.

I usually keep about a year’s worth of household supplies at home anyway (meaning I buy all that crap roughly once a year, then wait for it to get low, then re-supply). Not because I’m worried about anything, it’s more just me not wanting to do it once or twice a month. Once a year seems much more efficient. Just did the big TP, paper towel, household cleaner, deodorant, soap, toothpaste run in like late January. Feeling good about that now. That said, I did go to the store here today to grab some steak for dinner. Wasn’t any more crowded than a normal Saturday, and supplies of everything other than TP seemed perfectly normal. There was a teenage kid there disinfecting every used cart as it came in though.

The thing that honestly concerns me most isn’t the mortality rate (though that’s a huge issue for certain populations)... it’s the number of people that might require hospitalization/real medical attention of some kind. Everything I’m hearing seems to suggest that’s about 1/5 cases. That’s a huge number.

I’m sure you’d know better than me. If it gets to a point of true overwhelming of hospital staff in an area, maybe it could be a matter of law enforcement becoming part of a sort of default medical treatment/triage staff though. Just a thought, as I assume most LEOs have some degree of basic medical training. I’m obviously hoping it doesn’t get to that though, and y’all can keep to the standard day to day duties of course.

The thing that honestly concerns me most isn’t the mortality rate (though that’s a huge issue for certain populations)... it’s the number of people that might require hospitalization/real medical attention of some kind. Everything I’m hearing seems to suggest that’s about 1/5 cases. That’s a huge number.

The thing that honestly concerns me most isn’t the mortality rate (though that’s a huge issue for certain populations)... it’s the number of people that might require hospitalization/real medical attention of some kind. Everything I’m hearing seems to suggest that’s about 1/5 cases. That’s a huge number.

We're living in a very tumultuous time right now. Some people are scared and are panicking. There're wearing protective masks when out in public, and many are hysterically buying supplies off store shelves out of sheer ignorance or panic. I'm older than most on this board and lived through something very similar to this many years ago.
It was 1949 and the Polio epidemic was just reaching its peak in Los Angeles. Back then my 17 year old  brother caught the disease and was in an 'iron lung' for three months (and spent another three in a hospital bed recovering and re-learning how to breath and swallow on his own). I had a younger brother, 8 months old, who also caught the polio virus, but he didn't survive.
Our home was put under mandatory quarantine for two months. Signs were posted on every window and door. The only occupants allowed to leave were my parents. And they were only allowed to leave to go to the hospital to visit my older brother. And even they were escorted to and from.
The Diary truck would have to leave our milk & eggs on the front sidewalk, and the 'Helms man' who delivered the bread would have to do the same. Some of the neighbors would often leave cardboard box's of caned goods for us on the sidewalk as well. No one was allowed to approach the front porch or house any closer than the front sidewalk.
My sister was 10 and I was 5 and we had to stay inside the house for the whole two months. We couldn't even go into the back yard. We didn't have a TV back then (not many people did), so we had to entertain ourselves. There weren't many programs on the radio for kids back then either. I'm pretty sure that I learned to read by repeatedly reading and memorizing 'Archie', 'Lil Abner', and Donald Duck comic books.
I wasn't aware what was happening in the outside world at that time, but my parents later told me it was very similar to what is happening now. There was panic buying and confusion over the facts of how the (polio) virus was being spread. When people are scared they often do stupid things. And when sane people see other people doing stupid things they begin to panic also. 
My Prayer is that all of you stay safe and don't have to experience what I went through. But I assure you that before this epidemic is over there will be some families that will have gone through a living Hell. 

Did you get the chips?

Nice crapper. Good shower access. That’ll be important when you run out of TP.

Nice crapper. Good shower access. That’ll be important when you run out of TP.

Nice crapper. Good shower access. That’ll be important when you run out of TP.

Nice crapper. Good shower access. That’ll be important when you run out of TP.

In Trump's defense, he is a fucking moron.

This sounds like a person that's never been to flavortown.

You should come to the Midwest.

Got some coronavirus, all gonna die
Life is in short supply, not gonna lie
Ev'ry one lay down, look at the sky
Bitch will not save you, just say goodbye.
 
CoronaRap!
 
 

I actually don’t think the skill sets are terribly disparate from the farmer side. Data and data analytics applications have been gaining a lot of steam in the ag industry over the last 10 or so years. There are a lot of young people that grew up in that industry that understand the value of things like NDVI data and want to apply it (or have applied) it to ag endeavors. A lot of the old school guys aren’t developing apps of course, but there are plenty of younger people in that space that understand the value of modern information processing and how it can help their bottom line.

Yeah, that’s some BS there. I went to college with a lot of people that grew up in farming families. And yeah, the guy that runs a local liquor store or a fast food employee in those rural areas might be a dumbass (maybe), but the people running successful farms are most certainly not. Most of the time, in fact, they’re very well educated. Engineering, chemistry, and biology degrees are pretty common within that group of people in my experience. It takes a lot to keep a farm running. A knowledge of hard sciences, economics, and freakishly good/easily adaptable mechanical skills are an absolute must. People shitting on them like they’re all backwoods hicks with a fifth grade education is one of the things I really dislike about urban lefties. It simply isn’t true, and just a tiny bit of effort thrown towards understanding the issues in those communities would go a long way to getting past that.