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    Quote Originally Posted by flyingillini View Post
    I am quarantined as I’m writing this in my apartment in Vietnam.
    What's the general emotion there right now? On a scale from 1 to 10... 10 being the worst... what's the panic mode at in your opinion?

    Good luck to you. I hope everything turns out okay.

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    Don’t visit old age homes and all old unhealthy people need to stay inside....other than that it’s all good

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    People just love to be scared

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    Quote Originally Posted by flyingillini View Post
    I am quarantined as I’m writing this in my apartment in Vietnam.
    Sucks man...stay safe...forced quarantine is terrible

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    Wish I could be quarantined for a couple of months. Got plenty of food, and could live off my wife's disability and post on SBR all day.

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    Over Reaction.

    MERS is a real killer.

    COVD-19, corona virus has a mortality rate of 2% for those who have been hospitalized.

    If you take into account those with COVD-19 who have not been hospitalized the mortality rate is closer to 1%.

    Pack your bags and enjoy your vacation discounts.
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    Top 10 causes of death in the US
    According to the National Vital Statistics Reports published by the HHS in June 2019, the top 10 causes of death in 2017 accounted for 74% of total US deaths. Proportions of total death per disease were gathered from 2017 death certificates issued in all 50 states, as well as in Washington, DC.
    Let’s take a closer look at each of these top 10 causes of death.

    10. Suicide
    9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis
    8. Influenza and pneumonia
    7. Diabetes mellitus
    6. Alzheimer disease
    5. Cerebrovascular diseases

    4. Chronic lower respiratory disease
    3. Accidents

    2. Malignant neoplasms
    1. Heart disease


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    5 viruses more dangerous than the new coronavirus

    John Murphy, MDLinx | February 14, 2020

    The novel coronavirus—officially called COVID-19—is bad news. It was officially identified as a new virus only about a month ago, but it has already infected 80,413 people and killed 2,708 worldwide (as of this writing). Different sources estimate the mortality rate for COVID-19 at roughly 2% to 3%—but that could change as the virus rages on.
    The novel coronavirus is deadly, but perhaps not as dangerous as other viruses currently infecting the world.

    Of course, the world has been through other outbreaks that were much, much worse. For instance, the Spanish Flu of 1918 infected an estimated 500 million people and killed at least 50 million worldwide.
    Now, weighing the impact of one virus against another isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. All sorts of variables are involved, including the mode of transmission, host defense mechanisms, virus infectivity—even the weather plays a factor. Still, it’s informative to put the current danger into some sort of perspective.
    To that end, let’s look at five other viruses that, in their own ways, are more dangerous than COVID-19.
    Hepatitis

    Viral hepatitis caused an annual 1.34 million deaths worldwide in 2015. While deaths due to other infectious diseases have declined, deaths due to viral hepatitis have actually increased—by 22%—since 2000, according to a WHO report.
    Although five types of hepatitis exist—including hepatitis A, D, and E—hepatitis B and C are responsible for 96% of all hepatitis-related deaths. Most of these deaths are due to chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer.
    Approximately 325 million people, or 4.4% of the world’s population, have viral hepatitis. And 1.75 million new infections of hepatitis C alone occur each year.
    Despite a vaccine for hepatitis B and effective antivirals for hepatitis C, few people with viral hepatitis get a diagnosis because of limited access to affordable hepatitis testing. (Only 9% of people with hepatitis B and 20% with hepatitis C have received a diagnosis, according to the WHO.) Consequently, treatment reaches only a small fraction of those infected.


    MERS

    COVID-19 isn’t the only coronavirus in town these days. Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is caused by a rare but deadly coronavirus mostly found in Saudi Arabia.
    Since it was first identified in 2012, MERS has infected 2,499 people and caused 861 deaths globally, according to the WHO. Clearly, that’s just a fraction of the numbers reported for COVID-19, but the difference is in the mortality rate. MERS has had a mortality rate as high as 37.2% compared with the current estimated mortality rate of 2% to 3% for COVID-19.
    Like COVID-19, infection from MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) shows symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Unlike COVID-19, MERS-CoV infection often stems from camels.
    “Although most human cases of MERS-CoV infections have been attributed to human-to-human infections in health care settings, current scientific evidence suggests that dromedary camels are a major reservoir host for MERS-CoV and an animal source of MERS infection in humans,” the WHO warned.
    No vaccine or specific treatment is currently available for MERS-CoV, but some are in development.
    Ebola

    Right now, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fighting the world’s second-largest Ebola epidemic on record. As of this writing, 2,249 people have died and 3,432 have been infected since the outbreak was declared in August 2018, according to the WHO.
    Ebola is rare, but it has a high mortality rate of about 50% (although that rate has ranged from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks). The 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa was the largest Ebola epidemic to occur: 28,610 people were infected and 11,308 died.
    No proven treatment has been able to stop the virus, but a number of blood, immunological, and drug therapies are in development. Experimental vaccines have been shown to help control the spread of Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


    HIV/AIDS

    At the end of 2018, approximately 37.9 million people worldwide were living with HIV. In the same year, 770,000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.7 million people were newly infected.
    Since the virus was first discovered, more than 32 million people worldwide have died as a result of HIV, according to the WHO. Although it continues to be a major global public health issue, “HIV infection has become a manageable chronic health condition, enabling people living with HIV to lead long and healthy lives,” the organization noted.
    For instance, 62% of adults and 54% of children living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries are now receiving antiretroviral therapy, which has become the primary treatment for the virus.
    More good news: New HIV infections fell by 37% and HIV-related deaths dropped by 45% between 2000 and 2018, with an estimated 13.6 million lives saved due to antiretroviral therapy. “This achievement was the result of great efforts by national HIV programmes supported by civil society and international development partners,” according to the WHO.
    Despite the good news, now is not the time to become complacent. Of the estimated 1.1 million Americans living with HIV in the US, about 14% (or 1 in 7) of them don’t know it and need to be tested. Meanwhile, more than 38,000 new HIV infections occur in the United States each year.
    Influenza

    While COVID-19 has caused a great deal of fear and concern, there’s a more widespread and more deadly virus going around—the flu. Worldwide, the flu causes about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths each year, according to the latest estimate.
    In the United States, at least 22 million people have gotten the flu in the 2019-2020 season so far and 12,000 have died from it—including at least 78 children—according to the most recent report from the CDC.
    While there’s no treatment or yearly vaccine for COVID-19 like there is for the flu, COVID-19 has warranted a high level of caution and extensive containment procedures. If seasonal flu were given as much regard, fewer people would likely die from it, experts say.
    “Which virus truly is a threat? It is the one we are all familiar with and the one people tend to not be afraid of,” said vaccine and infectious disease immunologist Steven Szczepanek, PhD, MS, assistant professor, Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    yikes!!!!

    do you think this will happen in Germany or Greece?

    was planning a European vacation but now I may have second thoughts
    You are so fukking dumb....it’s going to be everywhere and it’s already in Germany....pay the fukk attention

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    Quote Originally Posted by 19th Hole View Post
    Over Reaction.
    This

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    People are so dumb and uneducated....sad really

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    Quote Originally Posted by Booya711 View Post
    You are so fukking dumb....it’s going to be everywhere and it’s already in Germany....pay the fukk attention
    Just let him go. Let's pay for his flight actually 😁

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    I'm raiding public bathrooms and empty hotel rooms with open doors now.. Gotta have your TP, that alone could cause a State of Emergency if you take a dump and run out.

    Get it before it sells out I say!!! Paper worth more then gold now ..


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    There are two parts to this equation. Mortality AND INFECTION rate.
    Corona is predicted to infect 20-60% of the world population.
    8 billion people at (say)25% infection rate= 2 Billion people X 2% mortality rate= 40 million dead.
    I'm not making these numbers up!




    Quote Originally Posted by 19th Hole View Post
    Over Reaction.

    MERS is a real killer.

    COVD-19, corona virus has a mortality rate of 2% for those who have been hospitalized.

    If you take into account those with COVD-19 who have not been hospitalized the mortality rate is closer to 1%.

    Pack your bags and enjoy your vacation discounts.
    ~~~~
    Top 10 causes of death in the US
    According to the National Vital Statistics Reports published by the HHS in June 2019, the top 10 causes of death in 2017 accounted for 74% of total US deaths. Proportions of total death per disease were gathered from 2017 death certificates issued in all 50 states, as well as in Washington, DC.
    Let’s take a closer look at each of these top 10 causes of death.

    10. Suicide
    9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis
    8. Influenza and pneumonia
    7. Diabetes mellitus
    6. Alzheimer disease
    5. Cerebrovascular diseases

    4. Chronic lower respiratory disease
    3. Accidents

    2. Malignant neoplasms
    1. Heart disease


    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    5 viruses more dangerous than the new coronavirus

    John Murphy, MDLinx | February 14, 2020

    The novel coronavirus—officially called COVID-19—is bad news. It was officially identified as a new virus only about a month ago, but it has already infected 80,413 people and killed 2,708 worldwide (as of this writing). Different sources estimate the mortality rate for COVID-19 at roughly 2% to 3%—but that could change as the virus rages on.
    The novel coronavirus is deadly, but perhaps not as dangerous as other viruses currently infecting the world.

    Of course, the world has been through other outbreaks that were much, much worse. For instance, the Spanish Flu of 1918 infected an estimated 500 million people and killed at least 50 million worldwide.
    Now, weighing the impact of one virus against another isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. All sorts of variables are involved, including the mode of transmission, host defense mechanisms, virus infectivity—even the weather plays a factor. Still, it’s informative to put the current danger into some sort of perspective.
    To that end, let’s look at five other viruses that, in their own ways, are more dangerous than COVID-19.
    Hepatitis

    Viral hepatitis caused an annual 1.34 million deaths worldwide in 2015. While deaths due to other infectious diseases have declined, deaths due to viral hepatitis have actually increased—by 22%—since 2000, according to a WHO report.
    Although five types of hepatitis exist—including hepatitis A, D, and E—hepatitis B and C are responsible for 96% of all hepatitis-related deaths. Most of these deaths are due to chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer.
    Approximately 325 million people, or 4.4% of the world’s population, have viral hepatitis. And 1.75 million new infections of hepatitis C alone occur each year.
    Despite a vaccine for hepatitis B and effective antivirals for hepatitis C, few people with viral hepatitis get a diagnosis because of limited access to affordable hepatitis testing. (Only 9% of people with hepatitis B and 20% with hepatitis C have received a diagnosis, according to the WHO.) Consequently, treatment reaches only a small fraction of those infected.


    MERS

    COVID-19 isn’t the only coronavirus in town these days. Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is caused by a rare but deadly coronavirus mostly found in Saudi Arabia.
    Since it was first identified in 2012, MERS has infected 2,499 people and caused 861 deaths globally, according to the WHO. Clearly, that’s just a fraction of the numbers reported for COVID-19, but the difference is in the mortality rate. MERS has had a mortality rate as high as 37.2% compared with the current estimated mortality rate of 2% to 3% for COVID-19.
    Like COVID-19, infection from MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) shows symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Unlike COVID-19, MERS-CoV infection often stems from camels.
    “Although most human cases of MERS-CoV infections have been attributed to human-to-human infections in health care settings, current scientific evidence suggests that dromedary camels are a major reservoir host for MERS-CoV and an animal source of MERS infection in humans,” the WHO warned.
    No vaccine or specific treatment is currently available for MERS-CoV, but some are in development.
    Ebola

    Right now, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fighting the world’s second-largest Ebola epidemic on record. As of this writing, 2,249 people have died and 3,432 have been infected since the outbreak was declared in August 2018, according to the WHO.
    Ebola is rare, but it has a high mortality rate of about 50% (although that rate has ranged from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks). The 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa was the largest Ebola epidemic to occur: 28,610 people were infected and 11,308 died.
    No proven treatment has been able to stop the virus, but a number of blood, immunological, and drug therapies are in development. Experimental vaccines have been shown to help control the spread of Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


    HIV/AIDS

    At the end of 2018, approximately 37.9 million people worldwide were living with HIV. In the same year, 770,000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.7 million people were newly infected.
    Since the virus was first discovered, more than 32 million people worldwide have died as a result of HIV, according to the WHO. Although it continues to be a major global public health issue, “HIV infection has become a manageable chronic health condition, enabling people living with HIV to lead long and healthy lives,” the organization noted.
    For instance, 62% of adults and 54% of children living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries are now receiving antiretroviral therapy, which has become the primary treatment for the virus.
    More good news: New HIV infections fell by 37% and HIV-related deaths dropped by 45% between 2000 and 2018, with an estimated 13.6 million lives saved due to antiretroviral therapy. “This achievement was the result of great efforts by national HIV programmes supported by civil society and international development partners,” according to the WHO.
    Despite the good news, now is not the time to become complacent. Of the estimated 1.1 million Americans living with HIV in the US, about 14% (or 1 in 7) of them don’t know it and need to be tested. Meanwhile, more than 38,000 new HIV infections occur in the United States each year.
    Influenza

    While COVID-19 has caused a great deal of fear and concern, there’s a more widespread and more deadly virus going around—the flu. Worldwide, the flu causes about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths each year, according to the latest estimate.
    In the United States, at least 22 million people have gotten the flu in the 2019-2020 season so far and 12,000 have died from it—including at least 78 children—according to the most recent report from the CDC.
    While there’s no treatment or yearly vaccine for COVID-19 like there is for the flu, COVID-19 has warranted a high level of caution and extensive containment procedures. If seasonal flu were given as much regard, fewer people would likely die from it, experts say.
    “Which virus truly is a threat? It is the one we are all familiar with and the one people tend to not be afraid of,” said vaccine and infectious disease immunologist Steven Szczepanek, PhD, MS, assistant professor, Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.


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    Population control is very much needed

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    TP nice but try simply using shower wand to clean anal cavity it feels better, more clean and the warm water relaxes you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Booya711 View Post
    Population control is very much needed
    True that.. Something eventually has to give!!

    https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/





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    These people must be f'n rich!


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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaFats View Post
    TP nice but try simply using shower wand to clean anal cavity it feels better, more clean and the warm water relaxes you.
    I had a roommate in College in Santa Barbara Cali that took a shower after every dump.. NO LIE.. I thought it was nasty imagining that with shit dripping off your legs into the shower drain..

    I never tried it but I would if I ran out of TP.. I'm sure you do get cleaner with the extension shower head..

    Last edited by JIBBBY; 03-08-20 at 06:10 PM.

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    Time to saloon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Booya711 View Post
    Time to saloon
    Haterator.. This is important stuff we are discussing here Booya..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr KLC View Post
    If Captain Trips is the Coronavirus... then who do you think is Randall Flagg?

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    You might have seen an alarming headline in the Atlanticrecently: You’re likely to get the coronavirus.
    The assertion was based off an estimate from Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, who predicted some 40 to 70 percent of all adults around the world would catch the virus within a year. Lipsitch has since revised that estimate downward and with a greater range: He now estimates it’s “plausible” that 20 to 60 percent of adults will catch the disease. (If this comes to pass, while being bad, it’s not apocalyptic: Most cases of Covid-19. are mild. But it does mean millions could die.)
    In an email, Lipsitch says his model “assumes that the transmission in the rest of the world is at least fairly similar to that in China.” But “projections should be made with humility,” he adds, as there’s a lot still to uncover that will impact the forecast (like the role children play in spreading the disease).
    The bottom line of his modeling, though, is that a sizable portion of the human population is at risk of catching this virus. It might not come to pass — especially if a vaccine or other treatment is developed. But it is possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JIBBBY View Post
    Haterator.. This is important stuff we are discussing here Booya..
    Your better than this jibby...get your head out the ass of the media

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    Quote Originally Posted by Booya711 View Post
    Your better than this jibby...get your head out the ass of the media
    I'm really not better then this. Shiiit happens Booya.. ..

    Costco almost sold out .. https://www.costco.com/kirkland-sign...100142093.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by teecee View Post
    People just love to be scared

    people want to be safe but love to talk about how scared they are and battle through

    kind of like gamblers who are happier when they lose so they can say "Pity me".

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