Forced to stay home!

So you’re doing all of this posting while you’re on the Work Clock?...Niiccceee Originally Posted by ManSlut

Shhhh.....

Soooo --- why was the 1918 Spanish Flu called the Spanish Flu?

West Nile Virus
Ebola
Lyme Disease
Japanese Encephalitus
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Marburg Virus
Zike Fever
German Measles
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

All named after the reported place of origin. Nothing new. Move along.

I've never been into the chat room thing, but if you guys wanna do it, go for it!

A long time atf who had disappeared (maybe a county vacation) texted me about a hour ago, begging me to go see her. Had to turn the offer down Originally Posted by BLM69

Yeah, I have a SB that is begging me to come by and see her (I'm sure its because she's broke and needs the money and not my fabulous bedroom technique. LOL).

But I had to tell her no. As horny as I am for some backdoor fun, right now, I just don't want to take the chance that I'll catch the virus.

Funny thing is, I'm not worried about a STD, we're both clean (or were before this virus thing started), but I sure as hell am worried about the Corona Virus.

I'm not in the mood to be in bed, rasping for air for a few days or a week.

Soooo --- why was the 1918 Spanish Flu called the Spanish Flu? Originally Posted by Go4it

Just in case you're already bored staying at home:

https://www.history.com/news/why-was...he-spanish-flu




Spoiler alert - it didn't come from Spain.

Good points, but not the whole picture IMHO.

I'm not an Epidemiologist, a doctor, or even a medical professional. But there is a lot more to the problem than pure stats on how many will be infected, how sick will they get, and how many will die.

A number used by the governor of NY - no more qualified than me or Texassapper - was how many ICU beds they'll be needing. He said 30,000 with 3,000 available.

Let's say he's wrong on the high side by 50% - that's still 15,000.

What is trying to be accomplished now is to spread that number out over a longer period of time.

If 15,000 people need ICU care in the same week, 12,000 will be turned away.

If it can be spread over 5 weeks i.e. 3,000 a week then the current capacity can meet the needs.

Make sense? Originally Posted by mtabsw

Another issue is hospital beds particularly ICU beds are not all empty. Patients already in the hospital could be using half of those 3000 beds. Also those who are sick probably won’t recover in a week. I fear no matter what we do millions will die.

Spoiler alert - it didn't come from Spain. Originally Posted by Massagejunkyie69

Since the rest of us were busy killing each other on the Western Front, it was Spanish newspapers that reported on the flu the most.

If memory serves, it was thought to have originated in Kansas, and been spread through the movement of US soldiers from base to base, to Europe.

Whoever stated that is following our great leader Originally Posted by georgecam

And the Chinese press. Because the CHINESE press was calling it the Wuhan Virus first.
Grace Preston - How do you tell someone that you want to order Chinese takeout? Do you say, I'd like oriental food from a place close to Korea?

Calling it the Chinese virus isn't racism, it's simply accurate. The Chinese are the ones behind the whole "it's Racist" crap because they're trying to avoid culpability for their lies and coverups.

As for math, I was told there would be none after college ;-).

I hope the world bands together and incinerates China with nuclear hellfire for trying to weaponize it and losing containment.

And the Chinese press. Because the CHINESE press was calling it the Wuhan Virus first.
Grace Preston - How do you tell someone that you want to order Chinese takeout? Do you say, I'd like oriental food from a place close to Korea?

Calling it the Chinese virus isn't racism, it's simply accurate. The Chinese are the ones behind the whole "it's Racist" crap because they're trying to avoid culpability for their lies and coverups.

As for math, I was told there would be none after college ;-). Originally Posted by texassapper

We knew about the virus back in November. What was hidden? CDC had no team in China which they had 3 years ago. I wonder why?

Let’s say you got the flu in late 2019. You were the first patient to get it in the world. Nothing new, just a flu. Should 2019 flu be called American Flu ? or TX Flu? or Dallas Flu?
I am not saying Chinese did everything right however it could happened anywhere.

I hope the world bands together and incinerates China with nuclear hellfire for trying to weaponize it and losing containment. Originally Posted by Lester Krinklesac

Just pure ignorance

Yeah what you have to say has any importance... smh total ignorance!
Every single bug comes from that shithole, with the exception of African ones.

We knew about the virus back in November. What was hidden? CDC had no team in China which they had 3 years ago. I wonder why? Originally Posted by georgecam

Maybe because the CDC was too busy worrying about guns in your home instead of worrying about infectious diseases. The CDC doesn't have a team in Paris because it's not a third world shithole with wet markets where chickens, pigs and seafood of every kind are kept in close quarters.

Let’s say you got the flu in late 2019. You were the first patient to get it in the world. Nothing new, just a flu. Should 2019 flu be called American Flu ? or TX Flu? or Dallas Flu? Originally Posted by georgecam

Common flu doesn't pose the same supposed risks as the Wuhan Flu. But yeah if a pandemic virus originated in the US... you know damn well we'd be calling it the Texas pot cooker or some other shit. Americans tend to call a spade a shovel. At least we used to before our media outlets decided to go all in on destroying their political opposition.

I am not saying Chinese did everything right however it could happened anywhere. Originally Posted by georgecam

You didn't even read the f*ckin article and your ignorance is on full display here. The Chinese still claim only a couple of hundred people died in Tieneman square. They lied about the severity and discovery of this virus and now they're lying about the fact that they're all good.

Socialists and Communists lie in abundance. They have to because only morons believe there crap when they tell the truth.

Tx, you are loosing it. Go out get some fresh air. Keep distance from others. It won’t kill you (unless you are over 60)

1.2% IS 1.2 PER 100, NOT PER 1000. THAT'S 12 PER 1000 OR 4.32 MILLION DEATHS. The idea is to locate the individual 'carriers', isolate them until no longer contagious, and prevent the spread. Like we should be taking advise from someone who can't do basic math?

Whoever stated that is following our great leader Originally Posted by georgecam

100% true. Trump purposely started calling it the "Chinese Virus" as a way to redirect blame for his early bungling of this crisis. One thing the stable genius failed to calculate is how morons would begin blaming and harassing Asian Americans. The only reason this concerns Trump at all is the impact on the 2020 election. Otherwise, he doesn't give a shit what Asians think.

Socialists and Communists lie in abundance. Originally Posted by texassapper

Sounds like Trump took some queues from those Socialists and Communists:

https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...p&ruling=false