Walking through the Pittsburgh Home and Garden show today. Every vendor had a big bottle of hand sanitizer out for everyone to use. Didn't see anyone wearing a face mask.

I havent seen any mask'ers either... the parking lot of the Corona Corral is a full as it's always been. And no dip in visitors at my gym.

After the Home and Garden show. We went to Sam's Club to pick up a few things. It was almost out of bottled water, toilet paper, and cleaning disinfectants. There was some empty shelves. Don't know what was on them.

I have yet to see one person wearing a face mask in my area. I went to Atlanta this past week to preview my new worksite (which I ended up declining the work transfer), and didn't see any masks in that area either. How is every vendor/store/e-store/company sold out but have yet to see anyone using them?


Hopefully no one at the Home/Garden Show had the virus. I'm trying to avoid crowded place as much as I can. I read that the average person will recover in the event s/he contracts the virus. What I see on the media is how many people are suffering/dying, but not a single story about any recoveries.

At work, I went up to the clinic and scored a few bottles of hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes, hand wipes and sanitizing wipes for electronics. I was going back to my office looking like I looted CVS..lol

Just so we dont all lose our minds here. Perspective:

According to the cdc, 26 million in the us have gotten the flu during the the current 19/20 flu season. Of that number, 250,000 have been hospitalized and 14,000 have died. Again, thats just in the states.


Oh, in full disclosure as some have required when posting on this thread: my uncle is a Dr, another is a Dentist and my sister dated a Pharmacist once in the past. So.... :rofl2:


The MSM can go and suck it!

Great.. NOW I have to worry about the common flu too??
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Ha ha... i know, right. Sorry!

This how the media is so powerful to decimate fear and hide the truth.
Btw Zington does your sister open to the idea of dating a Proctologist?
Just saying.

Maybe at some point... she's more into Urologists these days. But I'll give you a heads up if that ever changes.

The problem is, we still don't have a good handle on what we are dealing with when it comes to nCoV. Yes, it could turn out to be just a bad case of the flu. But then again, it could become something similar in effects to the Spanish Flu. Only time will tell.

In the meantime, I'm taking some precautions (mainly beefing up my emergency supplies a little) but not going overboard.

Y'all ever hear the saying, "find out what the really big money is doing, and then do that thing?"

The global banks activated corporate resiliency plans this weekend. Moving trading floors to dispersal locations.

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From a friend of mine who is an infectious disease scientist @ MIT:

"Another note on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

MIT has cancelled all events with >125 people and prohibited all international business travel. Stanford is moving to all-online classes. Why such extreme measures despite so few deaths so far?

The goal is to slow the burn of the pandemic. There is no preexisting immunity to COVID-19, so many or most of us will get infected with it at some point. This is a reality we are unlikely to avoid. So far, the numbers (including from countries with huge operations for detecting mild cases) suggest that >10% of infected people require hospitalization. If we can slow the spread, we can avoid overwhelming our hospitals. If we exceed the capacity of hospitals, the death rate will be elevated above the estimated 0.5%-2% of cases. People will begin to die from unrelated and treatable causes, due to lack of hospital capacity.

Why are we seeing such alarm now, more than anything we can remember? This virus appears to have a unique combination of infectiousness and lethality. While mathematical estimates of these features are hard to nail down in the early stages of a pandemic, it is very likely that this is the worst combination of infectiousness and lethality that the world has seen since 1918 Spanish flu. Note that these lethality estimates of >0.5% are much worse than seasonal flu and are coming from countries with good healthcare. (It remains possible that many infections are so asymptomatic that they are impossible to detect even with surveillance, but it will take time to do the serotests to make this determination.)

The good news is that we live in a modern era, where we can prepare. We can enhance hand hygiene, decrease travel, lower exposure, and use teleconferencing solutions to replace some features of large gatherings. Infectiousness is a property of our behavior, as well as of the virus itself. Another bright spot is that this virus does not appear to have high lethality rates in children and young people.

This is all to say -- I think the attached graphic is fantastic. It nicely explains the goal of public health measures. We can't prevent this pandemic from infecting a huge number of us, but we can save lives by slowing its burn."

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Well in that case, let’s name them all: common cold, flu, AIDS, STD’s, MMR, chicken pox, small pox, VD....

And thanks to the media who lured in suckers like me, P&G/J&J/etc. are making a killing off of mass bulk buying.

Does Rush Hour 2 count? Chris Tucker playing James Carter and while talking to Lee (Jackie Chan) says, “Follow the rich white man....”

Once the hospitals are overwhelmed. The death rate will sky rocket. Iran and Italy come to mind.