alphanguy74

It's not up to them. It would be interesting if Trump tries to push this, and the blue states stay locked down, and red states open up and have a HUGE spike.

They need to mine the vaults. There are literally millions of hours of shows from the last 60 years just waiting to be put on some kind of digital format. HELLO Y&R vaults!

Hope he gets better soon...keeping him in prayer.

San Francisco has only had 13 death as opposed to almost 10,000 in New York. The mayor's early action made all the difference: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-san-francisco-london-breed/609808/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=coronavirus-covid-19&fbclid=IwAR2f-_bZeji128SOAzkrwQhXeiMlvyz0lMJobR2xdcDFo0s3wLXNqXxPLOM

Don't know what it's like in other states... but since the stay at home and social distancing has been taking place, From the week ending March 21 to the week ending April 4, Missouri flu cases have gone 3,849 down to 332. See what social distancing and extra hand washing does? I'm convinced the reason this virus is so hard to manage boils down to the asymptomatic component, which the flu does not have, and the longer incubation period. If it weren't for those 2 factors, this virus would be on the ropes by now.

You're not joking about the restroom hygiene. There are men that I call "Urinal huggers", they literally go up and let their forearms touch the sides of the urinal. I guess because they are afraid someone next to them will see something? Then they leave and put their arms around their girlfriend or whatever. Creeps me out. One thing I noticed is that every man who does that seems to be under the age of 35.

Oh, how I miss the days of no abs and no manscaping.

It will be interesting to see if the recommendation for people wearing masks will make a big difference. I believe it will, and should have been done long ago. I suppose one good thing about this virus, is it has taught a lot of people about germ transmission and how lacking their hygiene is.

That is right on the money. In a way this is worse than what happened to Jimmy Carter, in a way it's not. Trump can just play this "It's not my fault, it's the Chinese" card... while back in 1980, the sky high interest rates were considered horrible for the economy, but some people cleaned up like someone at the crap table on a roll.

I think Bernie's supporters are all talk, and no action. Just like all the hippies that were going to change the world in the 1968-71 time period... and you see what happened in the 1972 election.

Today's results show that New York is holding steady, and not increasing it's rate of positives. Let's hope they can start dropping soon. 40% is still WAY too high, compared to all other states. Even hot spot Louisiana's rate is still HALF of New York's.

Darcy already answered the question, the report was from a St. Louis official that said 100% of ST LOUIS deaths from coronavirus were black, not all Missouri residents. The last thing this country needs in the middle of a national emergency is false information flying around. They have been wanting to privatize the postal service for a long time. Good luck sending a letter to podunkville, 20 miles from the nearest gas station for less than 5 bucks.

Haha!! I was thinking the same thing.

You might be wise to simply have a discussion like a grown person, instead of playing the part of some playground bully, trying to get all the other "children" not to play with me. All because I said something that offended you six years ago. Before that time, we had perfectly normal discussions for the better part of 5 years. Just let it go already.

Thank you. And you are correct. The report was for St. Louis county and St. Louis city, not the whole state. I found the report. The St. Louis metro as of yesterday had 57% of the positive cases in the whole state, with around 25% of the population. Why the black population has this rumor going around that black people are immune is beyond me. https://www.newsweek.com/all-coronavirus-deaths-st-louis-missouri-have-been-african-americans-1497199

Huntress... I wish things around here were that deserted. The traffic doesn't seem to be much different than normal days. Maybe a bit.

You responded to me just 3 days ago. I thought this thread was supposed to be a discussion. Someone had given you information that was patently false, and obviously Gray Bunny heard it as well... and I only asked what outlet it was.

Where did you hear that bit of fake news that all the deaths in Missouri are black?

If they were claimed by family, they would be buried in whatever cemetery the family uses, and not in a mass grave. You can bring in refrigerator trucks from anywhere. Even 5 states away. They are on wheels, you know. A bunch of these are most likely undocumented people and homeless. That is not true. One of our first deaths in the state was Al Grimes, the Henry county Democratic party chairman. And he most certainly is white. As a matter of fact, 40% of deaths so far have been white. you can see that right here: https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/novel-coronavirus/results.php

That is extremely sad, and what happens in a huge city like that where you are a faceless number. So many people with nobody to claim their body.

Yes, many rural hospitals closed. But I have to tell you, most of those rural hospitals blew chunks to start with. Their quality of care was crap 30 years ago.

Nobody is going to church on Easter. Living in this area, I can assure you that church gets cancelled when we have 6 inches of snow. There are a couple of nutball congregations in the south that are holding service, but by and large, 99% aren't. So... how many are being tested? Missouri people tested - .65% of the total population New York State people tested - 2.05% of the total population. So that means a little more than three times the amount of the general population of the state of New York has been tested, yet they have FORTY FIVE TIMES the amount of positive cases than Missouri has.

Ebay is where you have to get them at this point.