So you've experienced a pandemic.....

Swine flu (H1N1) in 2009 made pandemic status

"CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus."

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html

I made my first appearance in an ICU April 2009 and almost died, it had nothing to do with the pandemic either.
 
Can't decide between the flood and locusts, or watch the parting of a sea. Decisions, decisions...
 
It's actually my fourth:

  • Hong King Flu (H3N2) in 1968;
  • Russian Flu (A/H1N1) in 1977, which I actually contracted;
  • Swine Flu (H1N1) in 2009;
  • COVID-19 in 2019 - 2020.

I survived the first three, and I'll most likely survive this one. Whether I / we / the nation / the world will survive the response is less certain.

Rich
 
Hoping for a vertical recovery. I'm ready to go. If we've all been in lockdown for a month already, who is still getting sick?
 
bflynn said:
Hoping for a vertical recovery. I'm ready to go. If we've all been in lockdown for a month already, who is still getting sick?
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Been in lockdown? Hahahaha half the US suddenly became essential.

Heck we had a case in our office next door and everything kept on trucking. MS is on stay at home orders but driving through our small town its like pre virus days. But I've been working normally and I come into contact with many many many people in a day and I suspect most people do too.
 
denverpilot said:
Disneyland? :)
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In the mid-nineties I was on assignment in Anaheim for a year. I stayed at the [then] Hilton Orange Suites, which overlooked Disneyland. I couldn't get any of my co-workers to take me [BT,DT], and they told me that it was a bad idea to go alone, as a near-forty-year-old man, as there was hysteria about child abuse going around at the time.
I could probably sneak in now, and get a good behind-the-scenes look.
 
Kenny Phillips said:
In the mid-nineties I was on assignment in Anaheim for a year. I stayed at the [then] Hilton Orange Suites, which overlooked Disneyland. I couldn't get any of my co-workers to take me [BT,DT], and they told me that it was a bad idea to go alone, as a near-forty-year-old man, as there was hysteria about child abuse going around at the time.
I could probably sneak in now, and get a good behind-the-scenes look.
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It might look like those videos people take of abandoned malls.

This is one that I remember when it was alive:

 
Take a vacation, enjoy life, wait until September 1st to see if I get a furlough letter. My girlfriend and I wanted to go to Seychelles but I’m trying to save some money during these next few months so we’ll probably just go somewhere in the states.
 
bflynn said:
Hoping for a vertical recovery. I'm ready to go. If we've all been in lockdown for a month already, who is still getting sick?
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I was wondering that too.. but if the TSA data is still showing 88K daily activity that's still a lot of people moving around, etc.

Plus, this thing apparently lives for *days* outside the body.. so that box of pasta you bought at the store 3 days ago and that you just touched to make dinner and then scratched your face with the same hand (all in the comfort of your locked down home) could still get you sick.. despite wearing a mask in public. The chances are probably tiny.. but still

Also, not everyone is locking down. I live downtown and there have been a fair amount of ragers people are throwing in their homes. Having 20 people in your apparent drinking and dancing is dumb. Kind of defeats all the virtue signal posting they did on Facebook all week about "staying home" and wearing a mask in public
 
flhrci said:
And checked that off of your bucket list. Now what are you going to do next? :D
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Buy an Icon, get stoned, do low altitude stunts over the Gulf.

Oh, wait - I think somebody already tried that.
 
Tantalum said:
I was wondering that too.. but if the TSA data is still showing 88K daily activity that's still a lot of people moving around, etc.

Plus, this thing apparently lives for *days* outside the body.. so that box of pasta you bought at the store 3 days ago and that you just touched to make dinner and then scratched your face with the same hand (all in the comfort of your locked down home) could still get you sick.. despite wearing a mask in public. The chances are probably tiny.. but still

Also, not everyone is locking down. I live downtown and there have been a fair amount of ragers people are throwing in their homes. Having 20 people in your apparent drinking and dancing is dumb. Kind of defeats all the virtue signal posting they did on Facebook all week about "staying home" and wearing a mask in public
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There's a reason I wipe the groceries with an alcohol wipe before they get put away.
 
FormerHangie said:
There's a reason I wipe the groceries with an alcohol wipe before they get put away.
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Meh.. do you do that as well because of the flu? I mean people die of the flu even after having the shot. Plus this is from the CDC...sure extra caution is great but...SmartSelect_20200417-094302_Chrome.jpg
 
This reminds of the thread about taking your shoes off before you enter your home. I've done it a few times recently, not because of Covid, but because I have been walking off the pavement and mud or sand is stuck to my shoes. I wonder how many people wipe off their groceries. I considered it the first time and wiped off a few containers, but it seemed like too much of a PITA.
 
Half Fast said:
Isn’t it closed?
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LOL yeah. Surprised they didn’t get themselves declared “essential” though. LOL Was just a joke and a reference to the song by Dada.

Saw an article that leaked out of FL where Disney was setting up some fast track system for their staff going on unemployment — which bypassed the massive line of those already trying to apply, and really ticked those people off.

Not really a fan. Karen has Mickey Mouse crap everywhere. At least the 1930s Disney Air Race posters are cool. :)
 
Everskyward said:
I wonder how many people wipe off their groceries. I considered it the first time and wiped off a few containers, but it seemed like too much of a PITA.
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Karen is making us do it, that whole immunosuppressed thing. Or they sit in the garage a while.

We have an acquaintance who just had a transplant who was doing that plus much more for a while since his prep was to kill his immune system even harder to avoid rejection. I was surprised they went through with the transplant just a few days ago. Talk about interesting risk choices!

As we go along we’ll probably get more lazy about it, right as the entire supply chain is hit and getting it on to most packaging. Hahaha.
 
denverpilot said:
Karen is making us do it, that whole immunosuppressed thing. Or they sit in the garage a while.

We have an acquaintance who just had a transplant who was doing that plus much more for a while since his prep was to kill his immune system even harder to avoid rejection. I was surprised they went through with the transplant just a few days ago. Talk about interesting risk choices!

As we go along we’ll probably get more lazy about it, right as the entire supply chain is hit and getting it on to most packaging. Hahaha.
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I can totally understand an immunosuppressed or vulnerable person doing this, but since I went to the grocery store to buy the groceries, I figure I was more exposed there. I can see how the Covid situation has slightly changed my reaction to certain things, even though I didn't want them to change. The other day I was in the park and a couple asked me to take their picture at a scenic spot, with their phone. I hesitated for a split second, which is something I never would have done in the past. But I took the picture. Afterwards, the woman offered me hand sanitizer. Yesterday, I bought something with cash, and the merchant gave me coins for change. I held them in my hand, while I was deciding where to put them. Finally I put them in my pocket and wiped them off when I got home. Maybe it's a good thing that I am thinking about these types of things, but I kick myself for doing so and wish it was not so.
 
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Half Fast said:
What do you use to wipe down the box of wipes?
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They've been in the house since last year, so nothing

simtech said:
Meh.. do you do that as well because of the flu? I mean people die of the flu even after having the shot. Plus this is from the CDC...sure extra caution is great but...View attachment 84841
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I'm not particularly afraid of Covid-19. If there were some way for me to get a case of it intentionally, be sick for a week, and then get over it and be mostly immune, I would do it. My older daughter has a mild case of asthma, and more importantly my wife is an RN and gives cardiac stress tests to some fairly sick people (and some pilots who need them to keep their medicals), and it's very important that she does not become a carrier, so we're taking what I think are appropriate cautions.

Everskyward said:
This reminds of the thread about taking your shoes off before you enter your home. I've done it a few times recently, not because of Covid, but because I have been walking off the pavement and mud or sand is stuck to my shoes. I wonder how many people wipe off their groceries. I considered it the first time and wiped off a few containers, but it seemed like too much of a PITA.
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We always leave our shoes in the garage, it keeps the floors so much cleaner. If you don't have any risk factors I can see why you'd not want to wipe off things that come in your house. Once you get a routine going, it's not bad, at least until you do a Costco run.
 
Await the killer asteroids.

 
Go to the range and shoot some of the ammo I bought right when the beginning of the craziness started.
 
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