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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Fungo Squiggly said:
Okay. I've just seen so much dumb shit re-shared online (*cough* mom *cough*) that I'm never sure if the person reposting gets the joke. :lol:
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When you see memes, your eyes automatically go first to anything circled/highlighted. So I first see what this clown says, then look at the photos, then back to what this clown says to make sure I didn't misread it, and then back to the photos to verify that yep she is wearing a fingertip oximeter. I literally chuckled out loud and said "what a fucking moron". :lol:
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Have her go run a mile with the mask and let her tell us how she feels. I Ran a drill in practice this week with the kids... or should say, we needed evens and had odds so I was in the drill with them. I have to wear a mask when coaching. 100 yards into running and I was huffing hard. Mind you, I do a minimum of 40 minutes of hard cardio every day... my CV system is in better shape than any time since I stopped playing lacrosse after college. Hate the damn mask but continue to wear it, even when in the drills with the kids.
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Face shields not allowed?
 
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Just wanted to share an excerpt from Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills (Mitch Rapp novel) that is amazingly on-point for the present situation in my IMO. I read this last night.
The book has a 2019 copyright. Page 269. Parenthetical statements are mine for clarification.

"The initial reaction (to the "Spanish flu") of the medical community had been slowed by its focus on the war (WWI), but when the scope of the threat was recognized, the country pulled together. Surgical masks were worn in public to slow the spread of the disease. Stores were prohibited from having sales to prevent the congregation of people in confined spaces. Some cities demanded that passengers' health be certified before they boarded trains.
There was no denying that the United States and its citizens had been strong in the early twentieth century - accustomed to death and hardship, led by competent politicians, and informed by an honest press.
So much had changed in the last century. The American people were now inexplicably suspicious of modern medicine and susceptible to nonsensical conspiracy theories. They were selfish and self-absorbed, willing to prioritize their own trivial desires over the lives of their countrymen. Their medical system, designed less to heal people than to generate profits, would quickly collapse as it was flooded by desperate patients and abandoned by personnel fearful of being infected.
And during all this, America's politicians and media would use the burgeoning epidemic to augment their own power and wealth. That is, until the magnitude of the crisis became clear. Then they would flee."
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Mind you, I do a minimum of 40 minutes of hard cardio every day...
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So, for only the second time since I began tracking the seven-day-moving-average (SDMA) of COVID deaths back in early April, a Thursday has had a higher SDMA than the day before. Today's SDMA of 687 was 11 higher than yesterday's SDMA of 676. The only other time than a Thursday had a higher SDMA than the previous Wednesday was May 21st when its SDMA was 1,411 which was eight higher than May 20th's SDMA of 1,403. I bring this up because in the few weeks prior to that minor Wed-Thu bump on Mar 20/21, there was no increase in cases...in fact, the SDMA for cases continued a slight decline from weeks prior all the way through the bump. However, since about ten days ago there has been a noticeable increase in national case SMDA, so we'd expect to see at least some corresponding increase in the death SDMA within a few weeks of the start of the case increases.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
So, for only the second time since I began tracking the seven-day-moving-average (SDMA) of COVID deaths back in early April, a Thursday has had a higher SDMA than the day before. Today's SDMA of 687 was 11 higher than yesterday's SDMA of 676. The only other time than a Thursday had a higher SDMA than the previous Wednesday was May 21st when its SDMA was 1,411 which was eight higher than May 20th's SDMA of 1,403. I bring this up because in the few weeks prior to that minor Wed-Thu bump on Mar 20/21, there was no increase in cases...in fact, the SDMA for cases continued a slight decline from weeks prior all the way through the bump. However, since about ten days ago there has been a noticeable increase in national case SMDA, so we'd expect to see at least some corresponding increase in the death SDMA within a few weeks of the start of the case increases.
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Well, the SDMA dropped by a full 10% Friday from the previous day (616, down from 687 on Thursday). With the current spike in cases nation-wide and with the 3-day 4th of July weekend now happening, the third week of this month should tell us a lot about just how lethal the virus truly is.
 
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