All things Corona Virus

[Neonred 3,562]

It may be that we are seeing shortages in my area because it is now the beginning of "snowbird" season,  when we get all those northerners headed here.  Have had quite a few already at the office and I am seeing a lot of car haulers unloading.  

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 hour ago, laylalex said:

I expect we are going to have some sort of lockdown, either on the state level here in CA (which is sort of doing okay) or on a national level after the inauguration in January. Plenty of toilet paper here at the moment, as well as Lysol wipes, Method and Mrs Meyers cleaning supplies (which is what I use), pasta, flour, rice, etc. I might start stocking up to avoid the rush. The worst that comes of it is that I have a lot of toilet paper!

 

  I broke down and bought TP and paper towels on Amazon back in June. Those large packages last forever. I am even more fascinated now by the people who bought several giant packs when we were experiencing shortages. I wonder what they expected to happen.

 

  I do try to keep more supplies on hand now though, mostly just because we have a big empty basement doing nothing anyway, so I have no excuse for being caught short. I think the lesson many people learned from the panic shopping was that it's easiest to stock up ahead of time when things are going well and nobody else is thinking about it. 

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People

 

DAVID NIELD

 

3 NOVEMBER 2020

 

Part of the challenge in controlling the coronavirus pandemic is in identifying and isolating infected people quickly – not particularly easy when COVID-19 symptoms aren't always noticeable, especially early on. Now scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence model that can detect the virus from a simple forced cough.

https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-cough-analysis-could-detect-covid-19-even-if-you-re-asymptomatic

 

[yuna628 9,676]

Whelp, the panic has begun. The store was cleaned out of all cleaning products, PT, and TP. Also strangely.. tomato sauce and soup.

[Boiler 45,499]

Why panic now?

[Steeleballz 7,550]

31 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Why panic now?

 

  Why not now?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

39 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Why panic now?

Panicked people are the easiest to take advantage of, duh.

 

They're also good conduits to tip over a good chunk of the populace who wouldn't be apt to panic but are easily influenced by their peers. 

Edited November 7, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[Boiler 45,499]

30 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

Panicked people are the easiest to take advantage of, duh.

 

They're also good conduits to tip over a good chunk of the populace who wouldn't be apt to panic but are easily influenced by their peers. 

No end of historical examples.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 minute ago, Boiler said:

No end of historical examples.

History has a way of repeating itself until people demonstrate it isn't worth repeating.

[TBoneTX 45,288]

11 hours ago, Neonred said:

shortages of toilet paper

Good place to get it on-line is through the janitorial companies.

 

We were fortunate to have reordered a 96-roll case in early March, and we didn't run out of it until the shortage had eased.  It merely happened.

[laylalex 7,284]

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Good place to get it on-line is through the janitorial companies.

 

We were fortunate to have reordered a 96-roll case in early March, and we didn't run out of it until the shortage had eased.  It merely happened.

Janitorial company loo roll sounds thin and scratchy. I'll stick with my Charmin Ultra Soft.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

4 hours ago, laylalex said:

Janitorial company loo roll sounds thin and scratchy. I'll stick with my Charmin Ultra Soft.

quilted northen will not clog as bad as Charmin 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

13 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Good place to get it on-line is through the janitorial companies.

 

We were fortunate to have reordered a 96-roll case in early March, and we didn't run out of it until the shortage had eased.  It merely happened.

In having a family of 5 (4 then), we simply stocked up on Costco toilet paper for the few of us in the house or visiting that care to use it back in Nov/Dec last year and we still have over half of it left. At the same time we stocked up on a ridiculous amount of Clorox wipes because they disappeared from Canadian shelves earlier in 2019 making me think they were being discontinued (there was no way in hell I'm using Lysol ever since their formula change years ago, Clorox wipes are now what Lysol used to be). So thankful we had excess of these things and never needed to compete with the maniacal rush for basic items.

[OriZ 3,157]

Funny watching all those people out in the streets now. For months they told us how scary covid is and that they can't even stand in line to vote because they're afraid of getting sick. I guess those who said covid will be over after the elections were right 🤣

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Just now, OriZ said:

Funny watching all those people out in the streets now. For months they told us how scary covid is and that they can't even stand in line to vote because they're afraid of getting sick. I guess those who said covid will be over after the elections were right 🤣

On the bright side, astringent Trump helped bring to the surface a segment of authoritarians who are comically transparent about it via their hypocrisy.