Coronavirus hysteria is hurting every one.

[FastEddieB]

There is no talk about boosting immunity, just panic at the disco.

The human immune system is finely balanced. Unless one has a known deficiency, “boosting” one’s immune system has its own risks, increasing inflammation and possibly leading to cardiac and vascular issues. For the most part, “Boosts Your Immune System” is a marketing ploy, nothing more.

 

[azblackbird]

The human immune system is finely balanced. Unlisted one has a known deficiency, “boosting” one’s immune system has its own risks, increasing inflammation and possibly leading to cardiac and vascular issues. For the most part, “Boosts Your Immune System” is a marketing ploy, nothing more.

The main thing is to keep your PH levels up. Plenty of vitamin C, zinc, green veggies etc. Drink plenty of water to keep your system flushed and you will rarely get sick. The last time I was truly sick (flu) was over 40 years ago. I’ll get a fever here and there but that’s usually my body changing over from summer/winter like a heat pump works when changing from condenser to evaporator.

 

[bnt83]

The human immune system is finely balanced. Unlisted one has a known deficiency, “boosting” one’s immune system has its own risks, increasing inflammation and possibly leading to cardiac and vascular issues. For the most part, “Boosts Your Immune System” is a marketing ploy, nothing more.

Balanced when it has everything needed to operate correctly, and the individual isn’t inundated with environmental & emotional stresses. Virus panic, during daylight savings time shift, cancel school, (where are my kids gonna go) employers cutting hours if not cutting staff, travel ban and the list goes on. I bet there is quite a bit of viral junk coming out of dormancy in a lot of people right now.

Boosting/promoting/feeding/ immune systems doesn’t = inflammation, heck excessive sugar intake does that.

The media and the government have basically yelled FIRE! In the movie theater while blocking the exits

 

[JOhnH]

The end of the world, as we know it, is taking place in Florida.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/...navirus-all-florida-bars-to-close-for-30-days

DAYTONA BEACH — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday ordered all bars and nightclubs in Florida to close for the next 30 days beginning Tuesday at 5 p.m. in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

New rules also have been issued to restaurants including an immediate reduction in seating by 50 percent and that all tables must be staggered and at least six feet apart to allow social distancing for customers.

I'm not real upset about reducing the seating capacity of restaurant. I don't even mind if they raise their prices to offset the loss.

But CLOSING THE BARS! Oh my God, the Apocalypse is upon us!

 

[Juliet Hotel]

Not attacking you or anyone but just consider immunity for a minute, everything that the government has done is basically having negative affects on people’s immunity.

Wow. Just wow. First of all I don't think I agree at all but lets put that aside and say you're absolutely correct. Here's the thing. Sometimes the cure ends up hurting a little. When your house is on fire and fire department shows up, they don't knock, they bust down the f*cking door. They don't take care not to step on your expensive flowers. They don't wipe their feet before they step on your expensive rug. So yeah, it might hurt a little. It's what has to happen if we want to keep as many people alive as possible. Get over it.

 

[bnt83]

Wow. Just wow. First of all I don't think I agree at all but lets put that aside and say you're absolutely correct. Here's the thing. Sometimes the cure ends up hurting a little. When your house is on fire and fire department shows up, they don't knock, they bust down the f*cking door. They don't take care not to step on your expensive flowers. They don't wipe their feet before they step on your expensive rug. So yeah, it might hurt a little. It's what has to happen if we want to keep as many people alive as possible. Get over it.

There are definitely segments of the population being harmed from all the media and government response, some are mentally unstable patients and the staff managing them.

Hopefully weeks from now it seems like a gross overreaction and we can all get on with it and economically recover quicker.

 

[flhrci]

Our grocery stores, on the Kansas side, can sell beer. On the Missouri side they can sell anything.

On the KS side the liquor stores are open Sundays, I'm pretty sure the MO side is the same.

Legal to cross the border from the other side with booze? LOL

 

[Juliet Hotel]

There are definitely segments of the population being harmed from all the media and government response, some are mentally unstable patients and the staff managing them.

Some people being harmed and many other people being not dead seems like a pretty fair trade to me. But I shouldn't be surprised that someone would feel the need to complain about it. Carry on.

 

[Caramon13]

My son was going to go back to school on 3/30, now not going back until 4/15, at the earliest. Will do classes remote they say for a couple weeks. Wonder how that's going to work out.

 

[WannFly]

I heard in parts of MN they will do online school after the initial 2 weeks off. ND is debating that as well.

On a panic note, Costco here today has no beef, chicken, eggs and milk along with other stuff that weren’t there to begin with like you know .... TP.

Don’t know about pandemic, but panic for sure

 

[murphey]

Russet potatoes are also on the missing list. But red and yukon golds are in plentiful supply. True, russets make the best baked and french fries, but red and yukon make the best roasted potatoes!

 

[asicer]

On a panic note, Costco here today has no beef, chicken, eggs and milk along with other stuff that weren’t there to begin with like you know .... TP.

I sure hope that stuff doesn't end up in a landfill.

 

[patrick wentworth]

Another first world problem..... we are locked down shelter in place.. Not a major issue except my plane will be out of annual and there is no one that can come out to play.
I wonder if they (the FAA and Insurance Gods) will be like the tax folks and offer an exemption for a couple of months till we get back on our normal annual treadmill.

If Disneyland can close and offer extensions I would expect the government and insurance companies could do the same.


Anyone got a number I can call I have TP for trade

 

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[schmookeeg]

Idle thought while out for a walk this evening and terrifying the neighbors at my wanton publicness:

Would a variant of china's social credit score make hospital triage "automatic" so to speak? Just run down the high score list when passing out those scarce hospital resources.

I know anything socialist in nature is automatically unamerican, but I can't think of a reason we can't do something like that. We all bemoan personal responsibility all the time -- here's the ultimate form factor it can be tallied in.

 

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[topgun260]

More elegant solution for the fancy people.

 

[write-stuff]

The main thing is to keep your PH levels up.

Keep your acid/base levels up??

 

[FastEddieB]

Boosting/promoting/feeding/ immune systems doesn’t = inflammation, heck excessive sugar intake does that.

There used to be a podcast by an infectious disease specialist called "QuackCast". One episode was titled "Boost Your Immune System. And die". I can find a link to the podcast but the link is apparently dead.

Anyway, I'm not knowledgable enough to defend his assertion: that, for most people, the immune system is fine as is and does NOT need to be "boosted", and that if it could be the results would be deleterious.

In the absence of that podcast or a transcript, I found this article basically mirroring the sentiment.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320721#Can-the-immune-system-be-boosted?l

 

[azblackbird]

Keep your acid levels up??

Keep your alkalinity up. Viruses don't do well in an alkaline environment. I've eaten the equalivent of 3 lemons per day for the last 30+ years. I rarely get sick. If I do it's only for a day or so and then I'm back to normal.

 

[NoHeat]

We've got some really mixed-up science going on here.

Keep your alkalinity up. Viruses don't do well in an alkaline environment. I've eaten the equalivent of 3 lemons per day for the last 30+ years. I rarely get sick. If I do it's only for a day or so and then I'm back to normal.

 

[azblackbird]

We've got some really mixed-up science going on here.

Lemon juice pre-digestion is acidic. Once metabolised it becomes alkaline.

 

[FastEddieB]

I may have mentioned I have been selected for the position of "Enumerator" for the 2020 Census. I can't help but wonder if that's going to be delayed.

I wouldn't be thrilled sitting in a classroom any time soon, nor going door-to-door counting folks.

 

[murphey]

I may have mentioned I have been selected for the position of "Enumerator" for the 2020 Census. I can't help but wonder if that's going to be delayed.

I wouldn't be thrilled sitting in a classroom any time soon, nor going door-to-door counting folks.

Much of the census is online or paper forms to be mailed. Inperson will be a substantially small number overall. Of course that small number is really big, considering 300 million people needing to be counted. I did the online, took about 5 min.

 

[FastEddieB]

I did the online today.

Still, lots of folks need to be either counted in person or verified or both. In 2010 I just had to canvass a portion of a N GA county for homeless folks to count. There weren't any to be found, which made my job really easy!

 

[Palmpilot]

I heard in parts of MN they will do online school after the initial 2 weeks off. ND is debating that as well.

On a panic note, Costco here today has no beef, chicken, eggs and milk along with other stuff that weren’t there to begin with like you know .... TP.

Don’t know about pandemic, but panic for sure

I can't figure out what the thinking is on hoarding perishable foods. Beef and chicken can be frozen, but eggs and milk, not so much.

 

[Matthew]

I still think that part of the food run is that schools are closed so no school lunches, and restaurants are closed, too. More people are having to cook at home now. Add on the uncertainty of when the stores will restock and you have many people buying what they need, plus what they think they might need, plus a safety margin

 

[chartbundle]

I still think that part of the food run is that schools are closed so no school lunches,

I don't know the exact logistics, but our local school district is putting lunches on busses and sending them out to all the kids so they still can get lunch.

 

[Pugs]

Keep your alkalinity up. Viruses don't do well in an alkaline environment. I've eaten the equalivent of 3 lemons per day for the last 30+ years. I rarely get sick. If I do it's only for a day or so and then I'm back to normal.

Pretty sure I saw this in the Andromeda Strain. Not saying Covid IS the Andromeda strain but not saying it isn't.



FWIW, my flying club just extended everyone's annual check ride date six months. (obviously not to exceed the FAA two years). The annual rule kind of makes sense in the weird case as everyone is still good to fly.

 

[write-stuff]

Keep your alkalinity up. Viruses don't do well in an alkaline environment. I've eaten the equalivent of 3 lemons per day for the last 30+ years. I rarely get sick. If I do it's only for a day or so and then I'm back to normal.

Sounds like solid science to me. Eat lemons and your body's alkalinity goes up. Amazing how that works. I'm going to have to go back and brush up on the Kreb's Cycle.

 

[Kenny Phillips]

If psychology is a science, how do you get An expert psychological witness for the defense and an expert psychological witness for the prosecution to come up with two completely different answers to the same question?
I’ve taken psychology classes. Its bs. Psychological experimenters are delighted when they get a correlation coefficient of 0.6. Where The chemist would call that a failure and wonder what went wrong.

Oh, please. I've watched two 'real doctors' fight it out in a courtroom over a cause of death. And note that in chemistry, doing a certain thing a certain way will cause a certain result. Not so in humans, as some are abnormal. These are also easily identified.

 

[bflynn]

I still think that part of the food run is that schools are closed so no school lunches, and restaurants are closed, too. More people are having to cook at home now. Add on the uncertainty of when the stores will restock and you have many people buying what they need, plus what they think they might need, plus a safety margin

In my case, because I apparently do not know what to buy and always buy the wrong stuff. We (2 adults who rarely drink milk) now have two gallons of milk in the house because I bought milk from Walmart for $2.07, but I was apparently supposed to get the organic, non gmo, additive free milk from Whole Paycheck for $6.99 because that is what she bought the next day.

I only got milk for a recipe and bought a gallon because I figured it would be nice to have some milk for a change, but she corrected my “mistake”.

 

[weilke]

I still think that part of the food run is that schools are closed so no school lunches, and restaurants are closed, too. More people are having to cook at home now. Add on the uncertainty of when the stores will restock and you have many people buying what they need, plus what they think they might need, plus a safety margin

There are some indications that this is not rational buying:
- Why are are grocers out of fresh chicken products yet there is no shortage of fresh pork and beef ?
- Why is all the packaged sliced white, wheat and potato bread gone and plenty of whole-grain left ?

 

[Fiveslide]

Why are are grocers out of fresh chicken products yet there is no shortage of fresh pork and beef ?
- Why is all the packaged sliced white, wheat and potato bread gone and plenty of whole-grain left ?

Because white bread is delicious and whole grain bread is healthier and not delicious. Do not pretend it is that it's delicious, cause it's not. It's got stuff in it and crunches and it's dry and usually brownish in color. People don't eat whole grain bread because they enjoy it. They force it down because the white stuff will kill you, slowly.

I don't know what's with the chicken shortage, but I'd bet dollars to donuts a bunch of it is going to be fried up. Cause KFC is going to be shut down.

 

[JOhnH]

I may have mentioned I have been selected for the position of "Enumerator" for the 2020 Census. I can't help but wonder if that's going to be delayed.

I wouldn't be thrilled sitting in a classroom any time soon, nor going door-to-door counting folks.

I would advise delaying the census. The numbers may change a bit in the near future.

 

[FastEddieB]

Because white bread is delicious and whole grain bread is healthier and not delicious.

I recall an experiment where rats were fed solely white or whole wheat bread. Those fed white bread fared better. That’s because, in general, white bread is “fortified” with more vitamins and minerals than whole wheat. Paradoxical in that they strip out a lot of the good stuff to make white bread, but then overcompensate to make up for that loss.

 

[Fiveslide]

I recall an experiment where rats were fed solely white or whole wheat bread. Those fed white bread fared better. That’s because, I general, white bread is “fortified” with more vitamins and minerals than whole wheat. Paradoxical in that they strip out a lot of the good stuff to make white bread, but then overcompensate to make up for that loss.

I like a good wheat bread. He said whole grain, not wheat. The kind of bread for which they make the dough and then dump a bag of horse feed into it, then sprinkle more grain on top of it.

White bread is just like a ton of other stuff, eat too much and you'll get plump.