Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?

Are you personally worried about catching the Coronavirus?

  • Yes

    Votes: 41 41.0%

  • No

    Votes: 59 59.0%
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uihawk82 said:
Good point but it is as much a case of ethics if you kill someone doing that. Research like this on live humans who are healthy is very tricky. Now when you have people who are pretty ill or very ill who will probably die like with cancer patients then it is easier to get experimental trials permitted. Smallpox was one of the first deadly diseases where they used a sharp lancet needle with virus on it to slightly cut a person's arm and introduce the virus to promote immunity.

But the story with smallpox is interesting in that the Doctor Jenner who did the smallpox vaccination first noticed that milk maids who milked the cows did not catch smallpox which is pretty infectious or the maids got a minor case of smallpox. Not sure if cows showed cowpox but basically Jenner thought the maids were getting an immunity from the cows. Jenner would take puss from a sore on a maid and cut it into well people and they were immune. it was much later that cowpox and smallpox were identified as viruses in the same family of viruses.

I am sure researchers are trying to used killed covid 19 virus or weakened, attenuated virus as the two main ways a vaccine is created.

I said at one time I wondered how many people who thought they were really healthy would choose to get a light exposure of covid to so called 'get it over with". I would like to get it over with getting the virus but man that 15-20 of people who get it bad or die does not sound like good odds.
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Gavin has turned in to a Trump supporter through all this ...

 
HuckFinn said:
This is truly a beautiful thing. It’s perfect. It is the great answer to our problem with this flu bacteria and you will find out I am the one who discovered it because I have great intuition. I really understand this stuff. Many people have told me they think I am a genius.
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we will give you an anal shot to test it out
 
Hawk1960 said:
I've been wondering, in 8-9 months are we going to see another baby boom as a result of the stay at home orders? Or will the birth rate drop because of the cooties factor?
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Well, there aren't any random hookups with trash you bring home from a party are a bar.
 
The situation in US nursing homes is terrible. The NJ home with about 70 dead or maybe more, I cant keep up with the count, had 17 bodies piled up in the building. And the kicker is the local authorities say they cant get tests to find out who of the remaining 100+ residents have it or dont so they can move the infected to hospitals or isolate.

The truth is the idea given on March 6th by Trump that our testing is 'great' and 'everyone' can get a test is total bullshit lies. And Fema and HHS wont even go help.
 
Ireland shut down early on about March 10 well before the cancelled St Patrick days revelry. Ireland has really kept the virus outbreak under control with about 13000 cases compared to neighboring UK with over 100,000 and Ireland only has 490 or so deaths compared to UK 13500 deaths. Smart moves and now nursing homes in Ireland are showing an uptick in cases so their leadership is pivoting to but most assets at those homes and other hotspots.

And what is up with the UK having about 11% death rate. They must really have about 500,000 to 800,000 cases
 
Von Miller of the Denver Broncos test positive for the Coronavirus. I hate to tell you this, but no vaccine means no football this year.
 
EstronHawkKing said:
Von Miller of the Denver Broncos test positive for the Coronavirus. I hate to tell you this, but no vaccine means no football this year.
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I'm not sure I agree with that. It's April 16th. None of the professional athletes who've contracted the virus have seemed to get that sick. I guarantee you when it comes to sacrificing their million dollar salaries or getting paid and having some risk of getting the virus almost all of them will choose to play. There's eventually a point that you just have to let people decide what they want to do. You can't stay quarantined/sheltered in place for a year. That's just not feasible. People have to get back to work even if it involves risk.
 
uihawk82 said:
Ireland shut down early on about March 10 well before the cancelled St Patrick days revelry. Ireland has really kept the virus outbreak under control with about 13000 cases compared to neighboring UK with over 100,000 and Ireland only has 490 or so deaths compared to UK 13500 deaths. Smart moves and now nursing homes in Ireland are showing an uptick in cases so their leadership is pivoting to but most assets at those homes and other hotspots.

And what is up with the UK having about 11% death rate. They must really have about 500,000 to 800,000 cases
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Being on an island with a small population like Ireland certainly helps. Can't drive in/out. Hawaii looks even better if you look at the total death rate. 98 per million in Ireland and only 6 per million in Hawaii per worldometers.info.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
 
Donating plasma is a GREAT way to catch up on this forum.

Typing messages with one hand can get a little tricky, and I don't want to look like I'm talking to myself, so no voice activation typing either.
 
HawkGold said:
Yes I do. There is an art to it. My job gets me out in the country a lot. Where I live you can see a long ways.

I did have one form right over me a couple of times...you can read the signs about where to be. Right on top is rather random though.

My dad was a cop and I would tag along...was hooked.

The Albert Lea one was a few blocks away from my home at the time,ut b the winds were so strong I couldn't get away from the basement steps to get a better view due to trees and houses. Some of the trees were bent to the ground.

It was awesome. One house in the middle of the destruction looked fine until I realized it was on the other side of their pool.

We all have a vice. This is mine aside from playing mind games with Dean
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Ideally you want to be at a right angle to a tornado (usually south or east of it as most tornadoes move Southwest to northeast. There is usually less debris with inflow winds than outflow winds and that is the side of the tornado least likely to be rain wrapped.
 
HawkGold said:
It was the Barneveld outbreak. June 6. In Albert Lea it was mostly over the lake but still destroyed 12 homes and damaged like 60. There are photos of the ambulance building which was demolished which was near my home. It missed downtown where a celebration was taking place. People were still there when it hit.
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When driving to Madison on 151 the Deer Valley golf course will be on your right when you go past Barneveld. The tornado charged through that valley, and thus created a head start on building a golf course, just before destroying Barneveld.

That was an extremely violent and long lived tornado for this part of the Midwest. It was more typical of a Kansas or Oklahoma tornado. It first touched town just across the river from Dubuque and sideswiped Belmont and Mineral Point, before hitting Barneveld as an F-5, and a high end F-5 at that. It lifted again just before Black Earth, where the famous Shoe Box is located, and finally dissipated near Lodi-100 miles from where it originated.
 
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