Red Mosquito

My uncle is eating solid foods again!

They might even see how he does without being on oxygen tomorrow.

Good news, dude.

elliseamos wrote:My uncle is eating solid foods again!

They might even see how he does without being on oxygen tomorrow.

Oh yeah this, just another 118k new cases today.

Glad to hear about your uncle, Ellis

I thought this was over by Nov 4!

Not now that the dumbocrats won

Saying an exact case number is dumb. Just say things remain "bad" and will get worse before they get better.

verb_to_trust wrote:Saying an exact case number is dumb. Just say things remain "bad" and will get worse before they get better.

Welcome back.

verb_to_trust wrote:Saying an exact case number is dumb. Just say things remain "bad" and will get worse before they get better.

I would say an almost 20% increase in new cases isn't just "more bad" but significantly worse. Different from quibbling over whether we hit 90k or not.

maybe we will hit 10 million before the clock strikes dumb

More Americans died of covid today than voted in precinct #483 in Milwaukee

I deeply regret bumping this thread

no, you did the right thing

LetMeSleep wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:Saying an exact case number is dumb. Just say things remain "bad" and will get worse before they get better.

Welcome back.

Do you believe our (admittedly massive) testing caught every single case today? We need to focus on metrics that actually matter.

For example, not knowing how to keep this out of nursing homes has led to a huge proportion of the deaths. But hey, we found out some asymptomatic person working from home caught it. Very helpful.

I was thinking about what would happen if this thing hit twenty years ago.

- You couldn't close down everything like we just did, since online shopping was in its infancy and nothing like uber eats existed.

- the spread would be much worse, but most of us would have no idea. You'd hear that your old sick great aunt died and that she was finished off by some particularly nasty flu or something. Then you'd go back to playing X-Box and waiting for 9-11.

BurtReynolds wrote:I was thinking about what would happen if this thing hit twenty years ago.

- You couldn't close down everything like we just did, since online shopping was in its infancy and nothing like uber eats existed.

- the spread would be much worse, but most of us would have no idea. You'd hear that your old sick great aunt died and that she was finished off by some particularly nasty flu or something. Then you'd go back to playing X-Box and waiting for 9-11.

you must've missed all those spanish flu mentions

Nobody expects the Spanish flu.

spike wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I was thinking about what would happen if this thing hit twenty years ago.

- You couldn't close down everything like we just did, since online shopping was in its infancy and nothing like uber eats existed.

- the spread would be much worse, but most of us would have no idea. You'd hear that your old sick great aunt died and that she was finished off by some particularly nasty flu or something. Then you'd go back to playing X-Box and waiting for 9-11.

you must've missed all those spanish flu mentions

It's no Spanish flu, which my phone just corrected to "slavish foot" and I was tempted to leave.

Just realized we are going to get a barrage of "9-11 remembrance" stories next year in some sad attempt at national unity.