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We had to get out of the house for a while today.
Healthy snacks.
This bridge has seen better days.
In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. | |
| You know what weirds me out the most? I live pretty close to the airport, and I'm pretty geeked out about planes. These days I'm seeing about one plane in the air per day. It's not post 9/11 weird. But things are right up there on the weird-factor scale. |
I live pretty close to PTI Airport (and right under their flight paths), and I've noticed that, too. It's not a huge airport, but we get our share, until lately...kinda creepy, and makes me think of the empty 9/11-9/13 skies as well. Been seeing maybe 2-5 planes a day. Each week I'll see at least 1 huge military plane, and last Friday I saw 3 small jets flying towards PTI. Not unheard of them to do touch and go training from time to time here (Charlotte's and Raleigh's airspace is too full to allow them to do it), but along with Corondamonium it makes ya think.
I've heard some of the state borders are being scrutinized...banks are drive-thru only...pretty much the same story as everywhere else. The local Walmart stock is starting to come back, but still no TP.
The unreality (not complacently or apathy, just a constant WTF?) keeps sneaking up on me...the big horrible stuff can be processed, railed against, talked about...it's those kinda little things, like no barber shops and 3 planes or so a day that just blow your wheels a piece at a time.
Stay strong, y'all...
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Posted by blackhawk
As I predicted the US in now effectively a state of Martial Law.
In 63 years I have never seen the USA locked down like this.
They're using the term "at war".
The are limiting store hours and allowing only certain ones to be open.
A 20 minute line outside Walmart and a fat deputy protecting it.
Only 100 allowed in at a time.
Only 2 checkout cashiers lol, normal.
Why do you think they're throwing money at you?
Yeah, we're boned...
https://www.foxnew...reaching-3000-mark
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https://youtu.be/5BWHNQn4jH4
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Posted by Aran
At the risk of invoking the wrath of moderators who usually shut down threads that get too political (Hi Steed!) this absolutely is a political issue. Our president failed us. Which is not a surprise to many of us but it still burns.
Trump shut down the pandemic office because "it wasn't necessary." Trump downplayed the severity of the threat because it would make him look bad. Trump is currently withholding critical medical supplies from states who's governors don't line up to kiss his feet. Trump outright stated that he cares more about the stocks of his corporate sponsors than he does about the lives of the American citizens he swore an oath to defend.
Instead of "the buck stops here" the official Oval Office stance is "I take no responsibility." Our leadership has failed us exactly when we needed it the most, and if decisive action had been taken when this was first reported we wouldn't need a lockdown in the first place- and the blame for the impending tragedy lies squarely upon the President and his party.
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Just think about how much better off we would be under a President Joe Biden!
LOL!
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Posted by Cfourexplore
The unreality (not complacently or apathy, just a constant WTF?) keeps sneaking up on me...the big horrible stuff can be processed, railed against, talked about...it's those kinda little things, like no barber shops and 3 planes or so a day that just blow your wheels a piece at a time.
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Your environment has background noise. When there are changes in the background noise, you notice it. That's perfectly natural. There has definitely been a change in the background noise level.
I haven't noticed a decrease in truck traffic around here.
Rail traffic is about the same although the stack trains do seem to be longer and have fewer containers. I have noticed spines (the semitrailer used to transport containers on the road) moving East.
Aircraft though, have dropped off considerably.
There's a large swath of restricted airspace North of me that starts at 8000 MSL. Long distance jets avoid that area like the plague and I have a lot of high-flying commercial traffic that usually plays havoc with my amateur astronomy pursuits.
Lately, I haven't seen much in the way of commercial air traffic.
In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. | |
Posted by Radio2600
We had to get out of the house for a while today.
Healthy snacks.
This bridge has seen better days.
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What, no balloons?
Good for getting out!
RIP Blackhawk | |
What we're experiencing is similar to a plane crash. A plane crash is very seldom a single, catastrophic event, but a chain of events where each subsequent event exacerbates the previous event.
The bureaucrats handled the early stages of this pandemic according to the same old CDC & NIH playbook that has been used on every single disease that has come our way since the 1960s swine flu outbreak. Every outbreak of some deadly disease was handled the same way.
This time, they got caught a little off-guard in a way that they were not expecting or prepared for.
Similar to 9/11/01. Commercial airliners get hijacked. The playbook up until that day was: talk to the hijackers, find out what the demands are, try to negotiate with hijackers, yada, yada, yada. We all know how that turned out.
The US healthcare system is not designed for this. Hospitals in the US are designed and run to make a profit. Even the ones that are supposedly "non-profit" organizations. They remain profitable by keeping as many of the available beds as occupied as possible and are simply not designed for this type of emergency.
So for now, we're stuck with this global imbroglio and losing our minds over being Monday Morning Quarterbacks is not helping anyone.
All that being said, if something like this EVER happens again, then yes, get out the pitchforks.
In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. | |
Posted by randomesquephoto
What, no balloons?
Good for getting out!
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Pesky helium shortage is putting a damper on that.
Someday I'm going to breakdown and build a hydrogen generator.
OH THE HUMANITY!
In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. | |
Well, sounds like this choice has been deemed irresponsible, but I went exploring last night. It was eerie. Downtown minneapolis empty,
one car every 10 minutes. We did a drain, met a confused family of beavers, i tried to climb the outside of a sealed grain silo up to a big neon sign, but ripped my pants before i could even get in the ladder cage. So I sat and watched my buddy do it. Only people we saw were janitor/maintenance type works and crack heads. Weird ones too. One dude was walking around playing electric guitar out of a shitty little speaker. Sad, groovy blues. We were trying to give him praise but as we tried to approach him, he kept turning away to hide his face. The music sounded eerie as hell at 3:30 in the morning. There was another dude just walking around with a bicycle, but he wasn't riding it. Just wandering up and down the blocks shouting WHOO like he just did a big bench press or something. Very strange. One janitor was flashing his flashlight, but luckily we hadn't done anything illegal yet. Gonna post some pics later on the great lakes forum.
INFEST THE RATS NEST | |
Posted by Radio2600
What we're experiencing is similar to a plane crash. A plane crash is very seldom a single, catastrophic event, but a chain of events where each subsequent event exacerbates the previous event.
The bureaucrats handled the early stages of this pandemic according to the same old CDC & NIH playbook that has been used on every single disease that has come our way since the 1960s swine flu outbreak. Every outbreak of some deadly disease was handled the same way.
This time, they got caught a little off-guard in a way that they were not expecting or prepared for.
Similar to 9/11/01. Commercial airliners get hijacked. The playbook up until that day was: talk to the hijackers, find out what the demands are, try to negotiate with hijackers, yada, yada, yada. We all know how that turned out.
The US healthcare system is not designed for this. Hospitals in the US are designed and run to make a profit. Even the ones that are supposedly "non-profit" organizations. They remain profitable by keeping as many of the available beds as occupied as possible and are simply not designed for this type of emergency.
So for now, we're stuck with this global imbroglio and losing our minds over being Monday Morning Quarterbacks is not helping anyone.
All that being said, if something like this EVER happens again, then yes, get out the pitchforks.
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It's a very similar state in the UK right now. Our hospital systems were never equipped or designed to cope with something like this, of this scale happening.
Something like 20,000 retired medical workers and upwards of a million civilians have volunteered to work or provide assistance to the NHS in various capacities either by delivering goods, delivering vulnerable people to appointments, etc etc. It's absolutely unprecedented.
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Posted by blackhawk
More political bs.
Just the kind of shit I expect from you.
As usual my initial assessment of you was spot on.
I'm enjoying this immensely, troll.
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you pompous ass... you're the biggest fucking troll on this fading forum.
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Posted by mookster
Something like 20,000 retired medical workers and upwards of a million civilians have volunteered to work or provide assistance to the NHS in various capacities either by delivering goods, delivering vulnerable people to appointments, etc etc. It's absolutely unprecedented.
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In Iowa, nursing students that were due to graduate in May are being granted their nursing licenses so they can go to work right away and will receive their degrees once they work in the field for 3 months.
In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. | |
Posted by Radio2600
All that being said, if something like this EVER happens again, then yes, get out the pitchforks.
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Why wait?
If I lose my job, I'm definitely losing my house. I live in the middle of fucking nowhere where tourism & hospitality are the only jobs other than working at walmart or your local mom & pop pizza shop. I was put on 80% pay but if things continue into say, June (which I fully expect), my employer is going under for good. Pretty much everyone I know has lost their job. Most of them have lost their health insurance as a result.
If we start seeing people become homeless en masse, well, I'm personally not going to stand for that.
I may not believe in marriage, but I do believe in best men. | |
Grim news of coronavirus infections and fatalities continued in the U.S. on Wednesday, with the number of confirmed cases rising above 200,000 and the number of deaths surpassing 5,000.
The fatalities for Wednesday alone topped 1,000 -- a one-day toll more than double that usually recorded for lung cancer and influenza combined, USA Today reported. Some researchers predicted U.S. coronavirus deaths could surpass 2,000 per day by mid-April, exceeding daily deaths attributed to heart disease, the report said.
Amid the climbing numbers, five more states – Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada and Pennsylvania – added or expanded stay-at-home orders, while Michigan proposed a 70-day extension of an emergency declaration that had been set to expire April 7.
“Now is the crunch time for us to lessen the peak, to make the bullseye smaller so we don't overrun our health care system,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said, according to FOX 5 of Atlanta. He added that the next three weeks were critical for Georgia and that residents needed to “hunker down.”
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https://www.foxnew...tay-at-home-orders
No candy coating here for this sour ball from hell.
Posted by Radio2600
What we're experiencing is similar to a plane crash. A plane crash is very seldom a single, catastrophic event, but a chain of events where each subsequent event exacerbates the previous event.
The bureaucrats handled the early stages of this pandemic according to the same old CDC & NIH playbook that has been used on every single disease that has come our way since the 1960s swine flu outbreak. Every outbreak of some deadly disease was handled the same way.
This time, they got caught a little off-guard in a way that they were not expecting or prepared for.
Similar to 9/11/01. Commercial airliners get hijacked. The playbook up until that day was: talk to the hijackers, find out what the demands are, try to negotiate with hijackers, yada, yada, yada. We all know how that turned out.
The US healthcare system is not designed for this. Hospitals in the US are designed and run to make a profit. Even the ones that are supposedly "non-profit" organizations. They remain profitable by keeping as many of the available beds as occupied as possible and are simply not designed for this type of emergency.
So for now, we're stuck with this global imbroglio and losing our minds over being Monday Morning Quarterbacks is not helping anyone.
All that being said, if something like this EVER happens again, then yes, get out the pitchforks.
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Most of the blame goes squarely on China.
They deliberately suppressed intel, and grossly falsified the events.
The world lost critical time because China failed to act in a timely, appropriate manner and also allowed rapid dissemination of the virus beyond their borders.
Posted by blitz
If we start seeing people become homeless en masse, well, I'm personally not going to stand for that.
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Remember the great depression? My parents and their parents lived through it.
I remember the stories.
You can't stop something you don't see coming.
Compared to the Spanish Flu pandemic this is tame. Only because of a lower mortality rate and the fact that most the mortalities are not young parents in their prime.
Though more infectious than the Spanish flu, war events like WW1 didn't aid in its rapid spread.
Had the Chinese acted in good faith the coronavirus may have never been a pandemic.
Too late.
See how fast and easy that was?
Next time it may be a massive meteor impact, volcanic eruption, or any number of unforeseeable natural disasters like the great dust bowl.
There's literally only so much you can do until you're wasting resources for nothing. You may have to wait a century or more.
In the end it always ends in death, you're only true friend.
Puny humans.
At best we are all mere transients and stepping stones of the cosmos.
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Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Posted by blackhawk
Remember the great depression? My parents and their parents lived through it.
I remember the stories.
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You can't compare this economic crisis to the great depression. Between 1929 and 1932, GDP dropped 15%. They're predicting it's going to drop 50% in Q2 alone.
Posted by blackhawk
You can't stop something you don't see coming.
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Sure, but you can certainly prepare for it. Do you think the government did enough? I sure as hell don't.
Posted by blackhawk
Compared to the Spanish Flu pandemic this is tame. Only because of a lower mortality rate and the fact that most the mortalities are not young parents in their prime.
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From a medical perspective, sure. An economic one? This is MUCH worse.
Posted by blackhawk
Next time it may be a massive meteor impact, volcanic eruption, or any number of unforeseeable natural disasters.
There's literally only so much you can do until you're wasting resources for nothing. You have to wait a century or more.
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All we can do now is judge the powers that be by how they react to said disaster. Reputations will be created, and others destroyed. Let's just say I have infinitely more faith right now in state authorities to take care of it's citizens than the federal government.
I may not believe in marriage, but I do believe in best men. | |
Current US death rate is 2.16% and rising.
https://www.google...a-grim-update/amp/
The USA will recover from this fully within a year and surge into new growth phase.
Why? Because the rest of the world will be much harder hit including China. The USA was at the top to begin with and the ramifications of this pandemic will only strengthen her position.
Be glad you live in the greatest nation on earth.
Our system is working... and much better than any other on earth.
All you need do is survive.
Im a pragmatist; pessimists please feel free to use this perfect excuse to take the back door out of here
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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My city has been pretty quiet as well. I kind of love it. No assholes out driving. Everyone avoiding each other.. An introverts dream. If only it was for a good reason and not a highly contagious illness.
If your uncle Jack were stuck on a roof. And he asked for your help. Would you help your uncle Jack off? | |
Posted by Samurai
you pompous ass... you're the biggest fucking troll on this fading forum.
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Another one of the truest statements on this thread.
RIP Blackhawk | |
Posted by blackhawk
Current US death rate is 2.16% and rising.
https://www.google...a-grim-update/amp/
The USA will recover from this fully within a year and surge into new growth phase.
Why? Because the rest of the world will be much harder hit including China. The USA was at the top to begin with and the ramifications of this pandemic will only strengthen her position.
Be glad you live in the greatest nation on earth.
Our system is working... and much better than any other on earth.
All you need do is survive.
Im a pragmatist; pessimists please feel free to use this perfect excuse to take the back door out of here
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We aren't going to bounce back like you think we will. You think China's going to be much harder hit than us? America currently has more cases than Italy and China combined. Even if you think China is lying about their numbers that's an unacceptable number. We had several months notice to prepare and somehow the only thing we're number one in right now is number of people infected.
That's not a system that's working. You think the convoys of coffin trucks in Italy was bad? You ain't seen nothin yet. They've got prisoners from Rikers Island digging mass graves in NYC as we speak. The system is collapsing. Our leaders failed us. And that's not pessimism, that's realism.
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"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.
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What time was that shot at?
It's not dead here even though we are on lockdown.
Ector county saw a 1 case increases in 24 hrs, total of 12.
No deaths yet.
http://www.co.ecto...CoronavirusCOVID19
Posted by Aran
We aren't going to bounce back like you think we will. You think China's going to be much harder hit than us? America currently has more cases than Italy and China combined. Even if you think China is lying about their numbers that's an unacceptable number. We had several months notice to prepare and somehow the only thing we're number one in right now is number of people infected.
That's not a system that's working. You think the convoys of coffin trucks in Italy was bad? You ain't seen nothin yet. They've got prisoners from Rikers Island digging mass graves in NYC as we speak. The system is collapsing. Our leaders failed us. And that's not pessimism, that's realism.
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You're more gullible than I ever thought...
what a joke, however not unexpected.
Still worried about a few asbestos fibers?
My predictions will prove far more accurate than yours... I guarantee
You could use a belly full of hard living.
Might teach you some common sense... or kill you.
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