Just call the Houston Chronicle. They’ll deliver TP to your house every morning.
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Ever since I was a prepubescent teen I knew China as a sleeping enemy. If they want a WAR. I say we judiciously try our best to avoid it. If they attack then God help them. We are a war tested nation for the past 19 years and are ready. Dont want it but if we must defend ourselves then we go.
I cancelled the crapicle months ago and told them why! I still get telephone calls and tell the person off when they call. But I get another call the next week. Funny they keep sending me offers also in the mail to renew and with cheaper and cheaper rates. I finally wrote a letter the their President and included one of their offers and said I won’t ever renew your paper and wouldn’t wipe my arse with it if I was out of TP because I wouldn’t risk the possible infection. Then I get another offer this weekend. They are clueless like much of todays media.
I think they are watching what happens in NYC this week with the drug tests starting tomorrow.
Preliminary results are promising. Hopefully it will work! But what if it doesn’t? Not going into isolation because you hope a miracle last minute cure is on its way, is hardly a smart strategy!
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I think you missed my point and maybe the point of the post you were replying to.
I grew in a blue collar home on the east side of Houston. I understand the working class and what they deal with on a daily basis.
For those not making a livable wage, I agree 100%. That’s not half the country though.
I know people that make decent to good money and pretty much live paycheck to paycheck. They drive much nicer cars than me for example.
It doesn’t take much to skim a little off the top to set aside something for a rainy day. As far as I remember, having a 6 month emergency fund has been recommended. You don’t need to have your own personal financial planner to follow that, you just need to stop buying things you dont need or lower your quality of life so you can bridge your expenses in case of an emergency.
Too many people need to learn the difference between their “wants” and their “needs.” This is true of both the rich and the poor as well as those in between.
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I am just glad we don’t argue politics here lol
Definitely some leakage with some of those posts.
I posted an article above that talked about this. We need to pray for heavy rain for several days and high heat every afternoon. More specifically anything 86 degrees and above!
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Yes, I am all thumbs with that. There has been articles over the past several weeks that argued on both sides and most have been its a wait and see.
From all that I have read on it and heard some medical professionals speak about it, I am anticipating that it will certainly be dampended with the higher temperatures and higher humidity and it appears there is a good chance the virus will not live long in the air from an infected person’s breaths, coughs, and sneezes.
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Forgot about the weather. Worry about the next 2 weeks. Even the surgeon general is now saying the next 7 days will be bad. This is the same guy who refused to contradict his boss when he said there was nothing to worry about!
We’re worried about all of it, today, tomorrow, this week, this month, next month, and months to come.
Researchers are studying the potential impact of weather on the virus. Why wouldn’t that be part of our interest just like the multiple options that are being pursued with drug testing.
Glad to see Gov Cuomu include the balance in of the economy and begining to open the valve on the economy pragmatically during his daily state of the virus address for NY state today.
If hot weather and humidity work, why the heck are case numbers rising in India? Australia saw continued rise despite the hot weather there. India has basically shut down too, same for next door Pakistan. I am not sold on heat and humidity being limiting factors.
New Delhi is at 30C (85F) or higher (according to weather.com) with close to 70% humidity, they’ve had to shut down the city. South and central India have been hotter for weeks now, and still the virus has been spreading!
Ultimately, short of a vaccine or guaranteed cure, only social distancing is guaranteed to work.
No one is saying weather will make it go away. Only that it should help.
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NY Post article
Yes HOPE!
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Many researches are anticipating dampening of the life of the virus as it exits the body through coughs and sneezes as the effect of heat and humidity has had on other viruses. Not proven totally yet and they are researching it. Plenty to read up on it.
India, by far the 2nd most populated country in the world at 1.4B people. They shut down trips to China and SK about the same time we did. They are at 438 infected, 9 deaths, and 24 recovered in one of the most polluted countries in the world. Pretty minimal compared to other highly people concentrated areas.
I have no reason to date based upon researchers analysis that our heat and humidity won’t have an impact on the virus. Hopefully it will prove out.
If correct, the heat and humidity will help dampen and flaten the curve with other protective measures. Dampen the curve and buy time for drug use discovery or development and testing.
So much for social distancing in India as their prime minister called for it yesterday for the first time. Good luck with that in India. But interesting their numbers are relatively low per their population numbers with infections and deaths. Something has kept their numbers down in that over crowded, filthy country with tremendous air pollution that supposedly only makes Coronavirus impacts worse.
Yeah… Trusting India’s numbers is a bad idea. Not because they are lying, but they’re testing infastructure makes ours look like Taiwan/SK. Those numbers are most likely way, way low. It’s why 30 Indian states have put lockdowns in place. They know they don’t have to either the ability to test or the medical infastructure to handle a serious influx of patients.