Corona Virus #6

[ultrarunner]

SF, Seattle, New York are all destination cities with global draw.

Amazing the International volume and how important travel and tourism is to SF and New York...

 

[txdon]

My wife can't even take one zinc pill it makes her sick...

Mine also.

 

[shooterdon]

I hope this is OK to post as I do not wish to close the thread.

I lost a tremendous amount of respect for the leaders of my church when this got serious. They were OK with exposing people to the virus...it was all about the $$$ and they used scripture to justify their actions. Just so sad. But church is not religion and religion is not God. The sheep will soon forget what happened, as their need to trust is greater than their common sense.

I have prayed God will give the leaders of my church wisdom, strength of character and strength of faith. They really need it right now. We are measured not be what we do when things are good, but what we do when things are going south.

BTW, I think the governor of NY did a good job.

I am disappointed that production has not been ordered for sorely needed masks? They are ESSENTIAL and cheap. It boggles the mind.

 

[Diggin It]

Went to Lowes first thing this morning.

I wore gloves and the whole time I was in there,

Why?



.

 

[ultrarunner]

People have been very understanding,

The only thing that was out of normal was shopping for 2 infirmed friends and my 89 year old mother.

Picked up supplies and last stop was Walmart, Wife finished 1st and was headed out to the truck.
I had bought some extra gas and it was strapped down in a can against the tailgate in the bed of the truck.

Wife noticed a Guy standing behind my truck leaning on the tailgate arm INSIDE the bed behind the tailgate.

She finally turned toward our truck and the guy pulls his arm out quickly gets in his truck without a word- his truck had six gas cans in the bed.
He then drove off quickly.

Kind of like the PSPS when the grid was down for days and generators were the hot item... people driving neighborhoods looking for opportunity....

 

[Diggin It]

One casualty of all this....

Trust.

Another; sanity.

 

[txdon]

I hope this is OK to post as I do not wish to close the thread.

It's probably best to leave out your opinions of politicians in this thread. You might want to go back and edit your post if you are serious about not wishing to close it down.

 

[RandyT]

This is kind of an interesting site.

It shows a table for the world's most populated countries, their density of people per square kilometer, their urban density, and their share of the world population.

Draw your own unscientific conclusions as to why some countries with lower people per square kilometer have higher numbers of infections. Urban densities would be a good place to start speculating.

Population by Country (22) - Worldometer

Also noted that the U.S. now has the 3rd highest number of COVID-19 cases. It's not as simple as that's because the U.S. is the third most populated country. Wish it was. But I don't think it is.

Have you looked at the latest count for NY. Hold onto your shorts.

 

[shooterdon]

This is kind of an interesting site.

It shows a table for the world's most populated countries, their density of people per square kilometer, their urban density, and their share of the world population.

Draw your own unscientific conclusions as to why some countries with lower people per square kilometer have higher numbers of infections. Urban densities would be a good place to start speculating.

Population by Country (22) - Worldometer

Also noted that the U.S. now has the 3rd highest number of COVID-19 cases. It's not as simple as that's because the U.S. is the third most populated country. Wish it was. But I don't think it is.

Good resource...but like I said earlier. Canada is a large country but has 90% of their people living inside a strip 100 miles wide that borders the US. That skews the actual population density. Russia will be the same...having huge areas with few people.

Easy to see what could have impacted Italy.

Good data though and thanks for posting.

 

[wheelbuilder]

Another; sanity.

Sadly, both of those were in short supply already.