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  • slimslob
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    #286
    Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

    Originally posted by NeoMatrix
    Re. Corona virus and the Bull-run on shopping centres to buy up Toilet paper.

    I'm a tad perplexed... I'm actually at lost for any sense of reason.

    Why would there be a bull-run on stocking up on toilet paper supplies in an emergency?
    Why wouldn't people stock up on food supplies first and foremost?

    In all sincere logic and reasoning ,if you don't eat, you don't crap Ie. no food supply.
    If you don't crap, then you don't need toilet paper.

    I'm at a serious surprised loss as to how many people are being drawn into social media hysteria.

    Is there an increase in stock exchange prices for toilet paper shares?

    In a few more weeks time I will be able to barter with sheets of toilet paper as an exchange system. Monetary paper and toilet paper are not on an equal par. In an pandemic emergency monetry paper has less useful value than toilet paper...

    just saying...
    For some reason it often sometimes takes very little to kick the citizenry into a toilet paper buying frenzy. Many of you are probably too young to remember this The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973

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    • slimslob
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      #287
      Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

      Originally posted by bsm2
      Whats to dislike it's the TRUTH!
      Very little, if anything at all, you post is truth.

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      • Phil B.
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        #288
        Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

        Originally posted by slimslob
        very little, if anything at all, you post is truth.
        he wouldn't know the truth if it coughed in his face! :d

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        • slimslob
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          #289
          Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

          '''Don'''t panic''' says US woman who recovered from coronavirus

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          • slimslob
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            #290
            Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

            Coronavirus patient says disease '''not the scary thing that everyone thinks it is''' | Fox News

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            • jmaister
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              #291
              Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

              i worry for my parents and grandps...
              Idling colour developers are not healthy developers.

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              • roho
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                #292
                Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                My company only has a small number of techs. We will be dispatched from home starting Mon and we are not to be in the office at the same time. Trying to avoid having the whole crew in isolation.

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                • mikadonovan
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                  #293
                  Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                  Yeah, coming from a man appearing to be in his 40's and healthy. Oh, and he is laying in a hospital bed, and has been tested twice by the test (you know, the one that is not going to be available for a month). Prediction from the government Dr in charge of this in the US says that 150,000,000 people in this country will likely catch the virus. As far as i can tell by crunching available numbers, there appears to be about a 4% fatality rate. If he is correct, that would mean when this is all said and done 6,000,000 people in this country alone will die from the "not so scary virus".
                  NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING

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                  • mikadonovan
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                    #294
                    Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                    Originally posted by jmaister
                    i worry for my parents and grandps...
                    Me too. Both my parents are just shy of 80 years old, and my mother is already in poor health.
                    NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING

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                    • slimslob
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                      #295
                      Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                      Originally posted by mikadonovan
                      Yeah, coming from a man appearing to be in his 40's and healthy. Oh, and he is laying in a hospital bed, and has been tested twice by the test (you know, the one that is not going to be available for a month). Prediction from the government Dr in charge of this in the US says that 150,000,000 people in this country will likely catch the virus. As far as i can tell by crunching available numbers, there appears to be about a 4% fatality rate. If he is correct, that would mean when this is all said and done 6,000,000 people in this country alone will die from the "not so scary virus".
                      I am wondering where you got that 150,000,000 number? You realize that it is roughly 50% of the US population projected to be 333,546,000 this year. It is also the same number that Joe Biden claimed killed by guns since 2007.

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                      • FrohnB
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                        #296
                        Omertà

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                        • jmaister
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                          #297
                          Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                          Something changed, I wonder what did... If it's people's behavior we are talking about, I wonder what exactly that caused the change.

                          What else are they not telling?


                          The thing is, this isnt just 14 days quarantine and you are cleared for good. Until Vaccine is ready, and this thing is understood...gosh who knows...

                          Its not as bad, but man the ones not coming back didn't go in peace..
                          Idling colour developers are not healthy developers.

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                          • bsm2
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                            #298
                            Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                            Originally posted by slimslob
                            Very little, if anything at all, you post is truth.

                            Let's Play Very little, if anything at all, you post is truth.
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                            • TheBlueOrleans
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                              #299
                              Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                              Originally posted by bsm2
                              Let's Play Very little, if anything at all, you post is truth.
                              Somewhere there is a tree working hard to produce oxygen for you to live, NOW GO APOLOGIZE TO IT!

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                              • Copier Addict
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                                #300
                                Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                                Originally posted by jmaister
                                Something changed, I wonder what did... If it's people's behavior we are talking about, I wonder what exactly that caused the change.

                                What else are they not telling?


                                The thing is, this isnt just 14 days quarantine and you are cleared for good. Until Vaccine is ready, and this thing is understood...gosh who knows...

                                Its not as bad, but man the ones not coming back didn't go in peace..
                                And even though there have been breakthroughs on a vaccine, one won't be available for from several months to a year by the time all the testing is done.

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