Rocket Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 27 minutes ago, soupslam1 said: Maybe in New York. Many hospitals have less than half the patients they normally have since they are only doing emergency surgeries and cases. As an aside, I went to the dentist yesterday afternoon to have a crown replaced. I was the only patient in the office. It was me, the dentist, his assistant, and two women at the front desk. On a normal day there are four dentists, ten assts/hygienists and they see more than 100 patients. Don’t believe everything you see on t.v. it’s not only New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepingGiantFan Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 16 hours ago, BYUcougfan said: I have just stopped tuning them in. They keep exclaiming how quickly this story is moving. It isn't. Tune out for a couple of days. When you tune back in, you realize they are talking about the same stuff, just with a different expert. I am not sure we can 100% trust them to go against their best interest when peddling a pandemic crisis is so good for their ratings. I have not tracked the numbers in Utah for a few days. On Saturday, we had under 30 deaths with nearly 3,500 confirmed cases. That is a death rate under the flu.....at least in Utah. I don't get HBO so only watch Bill Maher when I'm staying in a hotel while traveling. So I don't know exactly when he said it but on Ben Shapiro's show yesterday afternoon he played a soundbite from a recent show in which Maher said the same as we are. Maher is my kind of liberal in that he calls leftwingers out when it's deserved and in essence Maher said broadcast media people have been providing porn for the privileged. It's small businesses and their employees who are really getting hammered by the forced shutdowns and the sensationalist slant that's supporting them. The broadcast companies see the slant as a means of propping up their Neilsen's while the anchor people stay fully employed in their 7-figure jobs. Quote Boom goes the dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FresnoFacts Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Is this a sign of how bad it may still get? Or a sign of the apocalypse? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mugtang Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Looks like this was a bust: Quote thelawlorfaithful, on 31 Dec 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:One of the rules I live by: never underestimate a man in a dandy looking sweater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, NVGiant said: I think we may be wasting our time here. He's going to win the troll derby, ya know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Just now, mugtang said: Looks like this was a bust: Moar? JFC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepingGiantFan Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 minutes ago, mugtang said: Looks like this was a bust: 5,382nd example of what an effing moron we have for a president 2 Quote Boom goes the dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealthlobo Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 16 minutes ago, mugtang said: Looks like this was a bust: I was hoping we would have some sort of effective therapy by now, but looks like we'll need to continue testing with other options. Hopefully those options can stay away from politics.... Edit: looks like the study has not been peer reviewed yet, so it's unsure of the quality of their methods. If done incorrectly the study could show no actual clinical outcome one way or the other. Just like the badly done studies "showing" it was effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, SleepingGiantFan said: 5,382nd example of what an effing moron we have for a president He'll attack the trial as biased or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FresnoFacts Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 8 minutes ago, mugtang said: Looks like this was a bust: I think Trump may have known that information since last week. Quote President Donald Trump and his allies in conservative media have subtly scaled down their hyping of hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for the coronavirus, according to a POLITICO review of White House briefings and cable news coverage. Although Trump had repeatedly promoted the decades-old malaria drug since the early days of the disease’s outbreak in the United States, his public statements regarding hydroxychloroquine have diminished significantly over the past week for reasons that remain unclear. His most recent mention of the drug at the White House’s daily coronavirus news conferences came last Tuesday, when the president announced his administration had deployed roughly 28 million doses of hydroxychloroquine from the federal government’s Strategic National Stockpile. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-196191 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akkula Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, BYUcougfan said: I went to the grocery store yesterday. No one is hoarding any more, but the grocery store shelves were still half empty. I am hoping the issue is that it will just take some time to recover from the run on the grocery stores a month ago. Otherwise, there are some supply issues starting to manifest. This is a strange phenomenon. In Costa Rica the shelves are full. Perhaps Costa Ricans don't have the buying power to clean out the stores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happycamper Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Just now, Akkula said: This is a strange phenomenon. In Costa Rica the shelves are full. Perhaps Costa Ricans don't have the buying power to clean out the stores. In Costa Rica you have to pay for toilet paper in stores and most food is bought from a market, not from "shelves". 1 Quote Remember that every argument you have with someone on MWCboard is actually the continuation of a different argument they had with someone else also on MWCboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akkula Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 minute ago, happycamper said: In Costa Rica you have to pay for toilet paper in stores and most food is bought from a market, not from "shelves". My trip to walmart today disagrees with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornontheblue Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, Akkula said: My trip to walmart today disagrees with you They have Walmarts in Costa Rica? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Fun Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 minutes ago, toonkee said: He'll attack the trial as biased or something. He'll say it is just one study we need more scientific research before we know one way or another. Then all of America will collectively do the Nathan Fillion gif. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonkee Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 minute ago, bornontheblue said: They have Walmarts in Costa Rica? They even have Denny's. My son ordered the pizza lol. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East Coast Aztec Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I don't want to go to Costa Rica anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smltwnrckr Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, BYUcougfan said: I went to the grocery store yesterday. No one is hoarding any more, but the grocery store shelves were still half empty. I am hoping the issue is that it will just take some time to recover from the run on the grocery stores a month ago. Otherwise, there are some supply issues starting to manifest. I have seen this as well... the items that were completely gone initially besides TP (eggs, paper towels, etc), are available in limited supply, but everything else is thinning out. Quote Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Fun Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 9 minutes ago, bornontheblue said: They have Walmarts in Costa Rica? Yep. Walmart also purchased Mas x Menos and Pali, which are common supermarket chains in Costa Rica. The majority of Costa Ricans live in urban areas and shop at supermarkets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akkula Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, bornontheblue said: They have Walmarts in Costa Rica? 2 minutes ago, toonkee said: They even have Denny's. My son ordered the pizza lol. They do but most of this stuff is concentrated in San Jose so if you are out in the tourist areas on the coast there are much fewer things. The Denny's by the airport in San Jose is effin expensive. God help you if you go to Hooters or Applebeas.....they will charge you like $35 dollars a plate! Walmart has superstores here that are huge like USA Walmarts. They also on other Costa Rica brands like Mas X Menos, Pali and Maxi Pali. There is also a grocer called Mega Super and Auto Mercado (this is a "high end" grocery store that costs a lot more but they have a lot of stuff from the USA). We also have Taco Bell, Burger King, McDonalds, KFC, Papa John's....so on and so forth. I have been in San Jose during the virus and things are pretty convenient here. I usually live up in Guanacaste and the closest walmart is in Liberia which is over an hour away from me. Liberia has some fast food chains too. Being an expat, though, you will note that things are a LOT less convenient than in the USA. There is no real online shopping, etc. But I kinda enjoy the challenge! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...