Coronavirus

[BennyV]

Whats going on there?

Hasidic Jewish funerals. It’s all over the post. No one cares. No one is enforcing anything.

 

[cany]

Hasidic Jewish funerals. It’s all over the post. No one cares. No one is enforcing anything.

Ahh thats not good Good ole NY thats why were the worst

 

[BennyV]

Ive seen pics and Im still out and working in NY way too many people out and about Wild guess but maybe thats why NY the mess its in now?

Problem is no one stocks up on anything anymore. No one takes shit like this seriously. Storms, pandemics, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on. After hurricane Sandy I got a good dose of reality and how bad situations can get in a short period of time. People pulling guns on each other for gas. People turning into animals. I’m hunkering down except for a few food runs now and then, the pharmacy, and take out once a week. That’s it.

 

[cany]

Problem is no one stocks up on anything anymore. No one takes shit like this seriously. Storms, pandemics, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on. After hurricane Sandy I got a good dose of reality and how bad situations can get in a short period of time. People pulling guns on each other for gas. People turning into animals. I’m hunkering down except for a few food runs now and then, the pharmacy, and take out once a week. That’s it.

We all had a warning this was coming it was laughed off by most now we are where we are

 

[CELLFISH]

Dang Cellie, I was expecting a far more eloquent and thoughtful retort than that...

I’m jealous, didn’t do well in chemistry... cellie...

 

[pequa1]

Problem is no one stocks up on anything anymore. No one takes shit like this seriously. Storms, pandemics, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on. After hurricane Sandy I got a good dose of reality and how bad situations can get in a short period of time. People pulling guns on each other for gas. People turning into animals. I’m hunkering down except for a few food runs now and then, the pharmacy, and take out once a week. That’s it.

Big difference. Shelter (housing) unaffected, everyone has electric. Except for using newsprint as TP and wondering if I will be able to put the yak in next month, no impact on me so far as I have been retired almost 9 years now. Got a delivery via UPS from Kansas City in 4 days of a ship model I thought would have been my next Christmas present. Christmas came early.

 

[cany]

Big difference. Shelter (housing) unaffected, everyone has electric. Except for using newsprint as TP and wondering if I will be able to put the yak in next month, no impact on me so far as I have been retired almost 9 years now. Got a delivery via UPS from Kansas City in 4 days of a ship model I thought would have been my next Christmas present. Christmas came early.

If only peeps would of paid attentin TP really I made a call yesterday and have a case waiting for me no one paid attention now we are where we are

 

[Roccus7]

how fast would you like it?

50,00,000 dead in one year
500,000,000 infected (1/4 world's population) before the invention of the airplane, or automobiles - hell I don't even know if there were trains back then.


That's pretty damn fast.

Good Lord Larry, are you that oblivious to history??? The train was invented by a Brit in 1825. The transcontinental railway in the US was complete when Grant was president, in 1869. Trains were the major mode of transportation at the turn of the 20th century.

The Wright Brothers first flew in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903. And don't you remember Snoopy saying "Curse you Red Baron", Baron von Richtofen of the Luftwaffe of World War I?? Yeah, there were no commercial flights.

Ford started the Ford Motor Co in 1903 and the Model T was in production in 1908. Parisian Motorized Taxis Cabs transported army troops to the front line of WWI in the summer of 1914.

And just for yucks, Babe Ruth started playing with the BOSOX in 1914...

 

[cany]

Good Lord Larry, are you that oblivious to history??? The train was invented by a Brit in 1825. The transcontinental railway in the US was complete when Grant was president, in 1869. Trains were the major mode of transportation at the turn of the 20th century.

The Wright Brothers first flew in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903. And don't you remember Snoopy saying "Curse you Red Baron", Baron von Richtofen of the Luftwaffe of World War I?? Yeah, there were no commercial flights.

Ford started the Ford Motor Co in 1903 and the Model T was in production in 1908. Parisian Motorized Taxis Cabs transported army troops to the front line of WWI in the summer of 1914.

And just for yucks, Babe Ruth started playing with the BOSOX in 1914...

THANK YOU SIR

 

[wader]

Good Lord Larry, are you that oblivious to history??? The train was invented by a Brit in 1825. The transcontinental railway in the US was complete when Grant was president, in 1869. Trains were the major mode of transportation at the turn of the 20th century.

The Wright Brothers first flew in Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903. And don't you remember Snoopy saying "Curse you Red Baron", Baron von Richtofen of the Luftwaffe of World War I?? Yeah, there were no commercial flights.

Ford started the Ford Motor Co in 1903 and the Model T was in production in 1908. Parisian Motorized Taxis Cabs transported army troops to the front line of WWI in the summer of 1914.

And just for yucks, Babe Ruth started playing with the BOSOX in 1914...

ok - I realized the train thing was off - too late to edit the post -but I figured what the hell - my point was still made.
As you said commercial flights weren't available so that ruled out carrying it by air - it still managed to kill least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

So in a years time it managed to kill 50,000,000 & 675,000 of them where here in the US.

That's still a very fast spread rate for a time when rapid transportation was unavailable & the automobile was still in it's infancy with most still not possessing them.

So my question to Glenn still stands: How fast do you want it?

 

[Roccus7]

ok - I realized the train thing was off - too late to edit the post -but I figured what the hell - my point was still made.
As you said commercial flights weren't available so that ruled out carrying it by air - it still managed to kill least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

So in a years time it managed to kill 50,000,000 & 675,000 of them where here in the US.

That's still a very fast spread rate for a time when rapid transportation was unavailable & the automobile was still in it's infancy with most still not possessing them.

So my question to Glenn still stands: How fast do you want it?

Yes, definitely a pretty quick global spread considering the travel options available at the time.

Don't forget that CRUISE SHIPS were the mode of transoceanic travel, and for the war effort, these ships were way over crowded. No problem with cruise ships and COVID, these days, right?

 

[cany]

ok - I realized the train thing was off - too late to edit the post -but I figured what the hell - my point was still made.
As you said commercial flights weren't available so that ruled out carrying it by air - it still managed to kill least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States.

So in a years time it managed to kill 50,000,000 & 675,000 of them where here in the US.

That's still a very fast spread rate for a time when rapid transportation was unavailable & the automobile was still in it's infancy with most still not possessing them.

So my question to Glenn still stands: How fast do you want it?

Never said I wanted it fast but the lack of people following ways to avoid it (in these modern times) amazes me

 

[Chinacat]

Problem is no one stocks up on anything anymore. No one takes shit like this seriously. Storms, pandemics, etc etc etc. The list goes on and on. After hurricane Sandy I got a good dose of reality and how bad situations can get in a short period of time. People pulling guns on each other for gas. People turning into animals. I’m hunkering down except for a few food runs now and then, the pharmacy, and take out once a week. That’s it.

Good point Benny
Lots of peeps joke when there's gonna be a snowstorm how others run out and stock up on bread, milk, eggs,etc...
I'm with you though. I like to be prepared best I can. I fish inshore and for the most part even when in the ocean I'm within sight of land. I have extra oil, full tool box, and basic mechanical stuff of board. I have extra clothes, foul weather gear, bottles of water, a pretty big first aid kit, and other stuff just in case.....
I have the same mentality at home the best I can. I have gas for the generator, case or 2 of water, food in the freezer, year round. You just never know.

19 years old me and some friends took a road trip up to saratoga to see a concert. My buddy's 72 Impala ran low on coolant and overheated. we were stuck on side of NYS thruway in middle of nowhere. A helpless feeling that stuck with me ever since. After that I kept more quarts of oil, tranny fluid, and coolant in the trunk than necessary, of whatever clunker I drove. Never want to experience that helpless unprepared feeling again.

I like to be prepared.....

 

[pequa1]

If only peeps would of paid attentin TP really I made a call yesterday and have a case waiting for me no one paid attention now we are where we are

I have a case and a half of scots from bj warehouse myself. Using newspaper to make sure it lasts for wife. Scots, not newspaper lol .

 

[cany]

I have a case and a half of scots from bj warehouse myself. Using newspaper to make sure it lasts for wife. Scots, not newspaper lol .

WELL if your using Newsday Obviously you didnt have enough lol

 

[pequa1]

WELL if your using Newsday Obviously you didnt have enough lol

Will last wwll into the summer. Newsprint? Used it during my wearing the green days. As for Newsday it is fine along with lining birdcages

 

[movetheboat]

Some estimates state that 80% of the native population in the Americas were wiped out due to viruses (especially smallpox) due to the European contact. Most of those natives never even had to see a white man....they traded with infected tribes.

 

[cany]

Will last wwll into the summer. Newsprint? Used it during my wearing the green days. As for Newsday it is fine along with lining birdcages

Got ya Id rather use TP but too each his own hell leaves worked when I wore orange and hunted still liked coming home to a real toilet

 

[cany]

Some estimates state that 80% of the native population in the Americas were wiped out due to viruses (especially smallpox) due to the European contact. Most of those natives never even had to see a white man....they traded with infected tribes.

Kinda like infected Americans going out and about in time of a Pandemic

 

[CELLFISH]

Got ya Id rather use TP but too each his own hell leaves worked when I wore orange and hunted still liked coming home to a real toilet

General sir, how is it ya typing so much wit all da discomfort ya have... cellie...