Happy Birthday!
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Thanks!
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Cake day!
I hope this includes good whiskey too.
Anything whiskey cannot cure, there is no cure for.
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Indicators are all over the board, so you’d be justified in either opinion right now lol
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I rather hope there is some immunity, because we are well and truly hosed if we have to do this for 18 months on the not certain chance of a successful vaccine.
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It is quite interesting, actually. Apparently most of the gated communities took action to lockdown much faster than even the state government.
Add in FLA’s low-ish population density and negligible public transport, and it becomes a little clearer why they aren’t getting absolutely hammered.
NYC is a clusterfuck, but there is likely to be NYC specific reasons as to why that is the case.
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NY just ran similar antibody tests (3,000 Sample size) and the results were similar to the CA data set. Nearly 20% of the tests in the NY city area were positive. With lower rates further upstate which is understandable.
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A family friend just died within the past hour.
But let’s just get dis straight muh bros! She had comorbidities. So she died from da comorbidities, not from da Rona! Rememba, dey’re countin’ deaths wit Rona as deaths cuz of Rona!
Wit don’t mean cuz!
In all seriousness, I’m supposed to believe that many people who were still trucking along with comorbidities go poof in the same month from them, as if in Spring 2020 the Grim Reaper got exceptionally impatient. My mom’s friend’s husband, poof too! 
Three people in my coworker’s family just died from the virus. Both of his children have sickle cell and will die if they come into contact with this. A security guard at my job dropped dead today too. Most of my workforce has been sick already, many of them are in the hospital with complications, and all the blue-collar people around here are starting to realize they poured gasoline on the fire for weeks by not “really” adhering to government guidelines.
And my job is not enforcing any of the guidelines a reasonable business would employ, like temperature checks and quarantines for infected people. There is no contact tracing. Top executives are coming into work sick. In fact, there are more people than ever running through Starrett City Powerplant in East New York now than there ever were, because they’ve decided that now is the time to do renovations. Needless to say I am working from home doing my other job. Management is literally killing people.
On a larger scale, Trump and state governors are doing the same thing to us all and eventually this will spread to all of the states that are choosing to reopen right the fuck now so they can kill off all the poor minority small business owners. Nobody who’s alive right now has even seen the devastation this kind of uncontrolled and poorly responded to pandemic has the potential to create.
I don’t know how nobody else is seeing it
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As said, my old job at a skilled nursing facility in Jamaica, Queens, had 54 deaths amongst residents and two amongst workers.
I used to work near ENY, in Bushwick.
That’s terrifying. Unfortunately I wasn’t exaggerating when I said they’re throwing old people out the windows of nursing homes, almost literally. Manhattan has mass graves now.
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A few deaths in less than a week here.
I’m very sorry to hear that. I hope you didn’t take my post as being blind to the seriousness of this, because I assure you, I am not. I am well aware that this is serious, I’m also not in the ‘we must reopen ASAP’ crew.
But pointing out that population density and local reaction may have an effect on this virus is not undermining that response.
It’s also entirely appropriate to note that it is entirely likely we will all move to a Swedish model once we’ve all sufficiently upscaled medical capacity. That’s very possibly the case regardless of what either of us think or want.
Hope you and yours are ok, Brick.
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Thank you! I in no way took your post like that. This is a multi-faceted situation and the virus doesn’t affect all who have it the same way, and the spread of it is dependent on location too. So what everyone here has made reasonable statements and there are people more intelligent than I am contributing to the thread.
Also, I guess I sunk back into a bad posting habit with much sarcasm that can be misinterpreted. So I apologize.
It’s all good. 
And thanks again!
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@Legalsteel see my apology in my edit above.
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Think nothing of it, we’re all good, Brick.
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My condolences first and foremost, and also, I get what you’re saying. I’ve heard so much bullshit from so many entirely unqualified and several downright stupid people, it has diminished my already low opinion of humanity to an extent that it is probably irretrievable.
Fortunately, I had a check up with my cardiologist, and he said that with my over all strength and conditioning where it’s at, I would likely shake it off pretty easily.
I was having a little back and forth with my bro in law because he has all kinds of tough talk. Reminded him that like 6 people directly in our family, that we have holidays with, are prime candidates for getting snuffed right out by this-including his own wife.
He deleted all of his blustery bullshit.
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I accept without reservation! Just wanted to make sure you didn’t lump me in with the ‘we must save the stock market at all costs’ crowd!
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What does anybody make of it when people expect you to speak like Pogo? In the sense that if they get angry at you if you won’t.
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This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Ain’t nothing rich ass WASPy people like more than their security. Unless it’s Starbucks.
I also think that the “outdoor” nature of most Florida pastimes results in some health protection. For most of the outbreak Colorado had a very low proportion of deaths and hospitalizations compared to their case # s. They’ve “popped” up since, but I find it interesting.
However, for the life of me I can’t figure out why the large numbers of old people in Florida haven’t bumped their numbers higher.
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