2019 Novel Coronavirus

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

Triple?

*don't ban me*

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Uh, they buy the Maserati so they can drive out to the Hamptons during the summer.  Duh.

As for driving stick - my mom still does.  She actually prefers it.  Though I feel bad when we're in stop and go on the LIE or going through the Bronx.  I wonder if her arm gets tired shifting back and forth from 1st to 2nd then down again.

LIE (Long Island Expressway) one of the most misnamed roads. There is saying about it but I dont remember.

Stop and go up there was bad because it was so flat, you couldn't just take foot off brake and coast a little bit like other places

 And the vehicle I was driving first was supposed to be 0-10, but in reality it was 0-5, so usually wound up just going straight into 2nd.

NYC only place I have ever been honked at for letting an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens on pass.

The arm isn't what gets tired.  It's your clutch leg.

I developed a conditioned response where I would bring my left leg forward to push clutch in, even when driving personal vehicle which was automatic

 

[Road Guy]

Florida is generally warmer and brighter than NY, so that might be it since virus doesnt survive in warmer weather and sunlight. ,

Not by the shear magnitude the difference is though, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

Not really certain why everyone is in love with Cuomo to be honest - Florida has literally the highest # of elderly & obviously a better regional hospital system, but you are literally way more likely to die in NY than FL

 

[blybrook PE]

I drive a manual transmission Ram 3500. Prefer the stick for winter conditions as I don't have to worry about the transmission shifting on me when things start to slip. Much better control in winter conditions. I grew up driving a manual and had to special order the truck to get it. They are harder and harder to find.

Added bonus of theft deterrent and the wife can't drive it. 

 

[JayKay PE]

You have to leave NY state to go upstate? Where to?

You can.  If you're taking I think 80 or 380?  You pass through Jersey and some of Pennsylvania.  Not for long, but enough that you can get that cheap-cheap gas.

NYC only place I have ever been honked at for letting an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens on pass.

To be honest, that is one of the things I am still having a problem with after moving from NY.  People...who are traveling in the other direction...will stop for emergency vehicles.  As in.  Stop in the middle of the lane they're traveling.  Maybe something is wrong with me, but I feel like that would cause more problems and accidents than help the emergency vehicle.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

You can.  If you're taking I think 80 or 380?  You pass through Jersey and some of Pennsylvania.  Not for long, but enough that you can get that cheap-cheap gas.

To be honest, that is one of the things I am still having a problem with after moving from NY.  People...who are traveling in the other direction...will stop for emergency vehicles.  As in.  Stop in the middle of the lane they're traveling.  Maybe something is wrong with me, but I feel like that would cause more problems and accidents than help the emergency vehicle.

I will stop if approaching intersection and vehicle is coming from other direction, in case it is turning.

I had to go to a town in PA once along NY border, had to go into NY to get to it, since mountains blocked access from PA side

 

[Platypus Engineer]

I drive a manual transmission Ram 3500. Prefer the stick for winter conditions as I don't have to worry about the transmission shifting on me when things start to slip. Much better control in winter conditions. I grew up driving a manual and had to special order the truck to get it. They are harder and harder to find.

Added bonus of theft deterrent and the wife can't drive it. 

That work vehicle I never worried about it being stolen. Manual transmission, diesel engine, company name on sides and back.

Full four door cab, eight foot bed, even when I parked it well, it would take up two spaces. Rear wheels on line between spaces, rest of bed hanging over into next space.

 

[Roarbark]

Not by the shear magnitude the difference is though, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

Not really certain why everyone is in love with Cuomo to be honest - Florida has literally the highest # of elderly & obviously a better regional hospital system, but you are literally way more likely to die in NY than FL

I've seen a headline or two talking about Vitamin D deficiency factoring in to COVID prognosis. That might stack the deck in favor of states like Florida and HI. Although you'd think CO would be in that category as well?

I've been surprised and pleased by how much HI has tapered our curve. We're in single digit growth for many weeks. Considering our main city areas are more dense than Denver, I expected trouble. Thank you, Sunny D?

Edit: I feel like NYC's biggest problem is just plain population density. Manhattan has 66,940 people per square mile, according to a quick google search? Didn't know you could stack people that high.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Edit: I feel like NYC's biggest problem is just plain population density. Manhattan has 66,940 people per square mile, according to a quick google search? Didn't know you could stack people that high.

Yea you can put a lot of people into the concrete canyons. And a three story townhouse in other parts of country would be made into a 3 or 6 apartment unit up there.

And the public housing is basically people warehousing. Tall brick buildings that take up multiple city blocks

 

[Master slacker]

I feel like NYC's biggest problem is just plain population density. Manhattan has 66,940 people per square mile, according to a quick google search? Didn't know you could stack people that high.

Evidently, nursing homes can be stacked pretty high with infected people, too...

 

[mudpuppy]

To be honest, that is one of the things I am still having a problem with after moving from NY.  People...who are traveling in the other direction...will stop for emergency vehicles.  As in.  Stop in the middle of the lane they're traveling.  Maybe something is wrong with me, but I feel like that would cause more problems and accidents than help the emergency vehicle.

Generally it's the law to stop if you're approached by an emergency vehicle in either direction.  Perhaps NY is different, but Michigan's law is:

The driver of another vehicle shall yield the right of way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to and as close as possible to the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway, clear of an intersection, and shall stop and remain in that position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when otherwise directed by a police officer.

 

[Road Guy]

(not related to the nursing homes, but NYC in general)

 

[Road Guy]

heard this on the radio this morning, had to do a double take to see if there was already a song out called "Six Feet Apart"...

 

[Ble_PE]

24 minutes ago, Road Guy said:

heard this on the radio this morning, had to do a double take to see if there was already a song out called "Six Feet Apart"...

Luke Combs is one of the best country singers to come out in a long time!

 

[Road Guy]

I’m a sucker I already bought it.......

 

[jeb6294]

Ohio has just started doing antibody testing and has already traced cases back to January (Ohio's first reported case was March 9th and shut down started March 23rd). I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they find it's been around even longer than that.

The school was sending out the usual "flu emails" in Nov/Dec warning about the number of students absent due to the flu and keeping your kid home if they're sick. Makes me wonder if COVID was already making the rounds.

Of course, there wasn't worldwide panic in the media yet so I guess none of this could possibly be true.

https://www.wlwt.com/article/antibody-testing-reveals-covid-19-has-been-in-ohio-since-january-health-officials-say/32438290#

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Ohio has just started doing antibody testing and has already traced cases back to January (Ohio's first reported case was March 9th and shut down started March 23rd). I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they find it's been around even longer than that.

The school was sending out the usual "flu emails" in Nov/Dec warning about the number of students absent due to the flu and keeping your kid home if they're sick. Makes me wonder if COVID was already making the rounds.

Of course, there wasn't worldwide panic in the media yet so I guess none of this could possibly be true.

https://www.wlwt.com/article/antibody-testing-reveals-covid-19-has-been-in-ohio-since-january-health-officials-say/32438290#

Yes. I think it will be found that this was here well before any one realized. Especially with how long it took to impose international travel restrictions. Just heard a quote from President where he said Fauci originally did not want to restrict travel to an from China

 

[Road Guy]

So the wife and I have both tested negative for antibody's. 

Almost everyone  at our gym was sick in January so we all assumed it may have been around then too (which it has) but 2 other people from our gym ( 5 am time slot regulars) also got tested and were negative for antibody's - so I think we were all just hoping we had already had it.  I have heard it doesn't stay in your body longer than 8 weeks - but also heard Faucci say otherwise.   Even though we had the flu shot I think we just had some version of the flu because I recall being too sick to ski several days, and usually anytime there is fresh snow and I take a pass I must feel bad..

I think the world will go nuts with online school in the fall.

My youngest will be a senior next year and he has already asked if he can move to Tampa with my parents and finish his school year if school here is online next year - I told him just to get a full time job and half ass your schooling like you have been doing already and getting A's and make some $$$$ - but I think its going to be depressing as fuck to continue the online schooling into next year.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

So the wife and I have both tested negative for antibody's. 

Almost everyone  at our gym was sick in January so we all assumed it may have been around then too (which it has) but 2 other people from our gym ( 5 am time slot regulars) also got tested and were negative for antibody's - so I think we were all just hoping we had already had it.  I have heard it doesn't stay in your body longer than 8 weeks - but also heard Faucci say otherwise.   Even though we had the flu shot I think we just had some version of the flu because I recall being too sick to ski several days, and usually anytime there is fresh snow and I take a pass I must feel bad..

I think the world will go nuts with online school in the fall.

My youngest will be a senior next year and he has already asked if he can move to Tampa with my parents and finish his school year if school here is online next year - I told him just to get a full time job and half ass your schooling like you have been doing already and getting A's and make some $$$$ - but I think its going to be depressing as fuck to continue the online schooling into next year.

This has frankly gone beyond public health and trying to control people's lives.

I was listening to some political talk radio earlier. Host was saying keeping schools closed helps depress economy because people need to be home to watch kids. Have to watch kids, then you can't work, then you become dependent on government.  Can't say I completely disagree with this thought.

 

[Dleg]

Jesus F Christ people. The virus is real and this is not a massive conspiracy to impose socialism on the US. If this virus was going around last October and November, it would have been obvious from the number of people in the ICU and on ventilators. Which was not the case. How do I know that?  Because the US and the rest of the world have robust public health surveillance systems that have been in place for decades (a century??) designed to detect waves of unexplained flu-like illnesses. 

A lack of information is not indicative of a conspiracy. It is simply because this is all new, and even the smart people don't know everything about this virus yet. 

But hey if you don't believe it, go out there and start licking doorknobs to prove that the experts are wrong.