2019 Novel Coronavirus

[Platypus Engineer]

VT is trying to restrict what Big Box Stores can sell right now. Stating that they can only sell "essentials" (food & pharmacy) and all other aisles need to be blocked off or items removed from shelves. non-essentials being clothes, sporting goods, crafts, etc. 

I went to college in central VT. Our only option for school supplies (besides on campus) was Walmart. Kids are at home so blocking off crafts & office supplies is fecking stupid. 

Plus they talk about mental health, so no craft supplies means lack of diversions. My brother's kids are bored out of their mind right now.

plus the closest store to me with office supplies is a walmart, part of MD stay home allows travel to pick up materials for work from home.

 

[Tiger15]

More updates from my sister: NYC/LI guidance is now saying patients in cardiac arrest should not be transported to the hospital if they cannot be saved in the field, and paramedics must withhold CPR due to it forcing vapors into the air during the process.

Fuck.

WOW

 

[Master slacker]

More updates from my sister: NYC/LI guidance is now saying patients in cardiac arrest should not be transported to the hospital if they cannot be saved in the field, and paramedics must withhold CPR due to it forcing vapors into the air during the process.

Fuck.

That's some straight up bullshit right there.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Sunrise in Myrtle Beach SC (from a conference a few years ago):

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

Picture just taken out my front window:

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The wildlife is taking over!!  

Looks like my 'hood.

 

[ruggercsc]

More updates from my sister: NYC/LI guidance is now saying patients in cardiac arrest should not be transported to the hospital if they cannot be saved in the field, and paramedics must withhold CPR due to it forcing vapors into the air during the process.

Fuck. Golly

Fixt.  Reminds me of June Cleaver translating "Jive" on Airplane.

 

[csb]

Wyoming also has a population density of 6/sq mi. They can get out of the house and practice social distancing.

 

[Road Guy]

Sounds cruel but most patients who have to continue to receive CPR once they are in the hospital may live - but most dont really have a great QOL afterwards, part of the problem in all this is that our medical professionals in the US are actually too good at keeping people alive.  

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Sounds cruel but most patients who have to continue to receive CPR once they are in the hospital may live - but most dont really have a great QOL afterwards, part of the problem in all this is that our medical professionals in the US are actually too good at keeping people alive.  

that is likely true. heard that was one of the issues with treating Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, injuries that were previously fatal now not. Literally didnt know what to do.

 

[csb]

Just got an ad on here for my own pulse-ox meter from a company called Banggood. 

1. Bro, I'm so asthmatic I already own one. 

2. Heh. 

 

[Road Guy]

 

[Dean Agnostic]

And your point would be??

Just an observation my friend.

 

[Dean Agnostic]

Let's be sensitive of the cuisines of cultures other than our own, everyone! Thank you!

Good Call mod!

 

[JayKay PE]

Just got an ad on here for my own pulse-ox meter from a company called Banggoodwell. 

1. Bro, I'm so asthmatic I already own one. 

2. Heh. 

fix'd.  Can't abide bad grammar in my ads.

 

[Master slacker]

I called around to two authorized vendors of a handgun I want to buy and both said they're out and don't know when they'll get more in stock. 

 

[Road Guy]

Try the pawn shops?

 

[Master slacker]

Nah.  I highly doubt they'd have the particular one i'd want.  Besides, I wanted to take the boys with me.  And if we went to a pawn shop, we wouldn't be able to leave until they walk out with a couple of janky weedeaters or lawn mowers.

 

[Road Guy]

my daughter, 18, has some money burning a hole in her pocket and has been trying to find a semi automatic rifle but they are also sold out (except for the very expensive models)

I feel good about my stockpile of buckshot ammo to be honest.  

 

[Road Guy]

Email from my kids school - “Good news we won’t be raising tuition next year”

My reply- “you can raise the tuition if you let me send him back to school”

 

[Exengineer]

Alice Cooper said it best: "School's out forever!".  Fantastic.