Coronavirus

[Kestrel]

Folks had better buy the extended warranty with those Ford models...

Dude you beat me to it.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Folks had better buy the extended warranty with those Ford models...

Hopefully, Ford doesn't still stand for found on road dead.

 

[bykfixer]

Looking at the numbers this morning for some reason does not seem so shocking. It's kinda like looking at baseball stats. The ERA, RBI, home run/stolen bases and all that. The unfortunate thing is the home of the Yankees is running away with the championship at being the worst too. We in our lounge chair reading the stats is easy. Yet I also imagine what it must be like to be in the medical profession there. Realizing MASH was a comedy show you did get a peek into the lives of unsung heroes going day after day with the battle to save lives. Only instead of bullets, bombs and bayonets, in this case the enemy is the woundeds own immune system fighting off a virus. To the death in some cases.

While New York should easily win the US championship, it now comes down to if they will win the world championship too. Some distinction, huh? Hopefully today and in the future some folks will turn their thoughts from inward and the inconvenience of life during this pandemic to outwards and send out some positive ju ju to folks on the front line not only to the home of the Yankees, but also the Tigers, the Phillys, the Saints, the Bears, the Dodgers and all those other cities with hospitals battling This Covid-19 thing.

 

[Poppy]

Folks had better buy the extended warranty with those Ford models...

Dude you beat me to it.

My last five cars were Fords, they were all problem free.

The last two had over a quarter million miles on them, and was, and is still running strong. The 1999 Crown Vic had 260,000 miles, was rear-ended and totaled. My 2008 Grand Marquis has 255,000 miles on her, and I wouldn't hesitate to drive her to Florida and back. She burns no oil between changes.

I bought the extended warranty on the '99 and @ 98,000 miles I brought it in to get anything fixed that was covered, before it hit the 100,000 mile mark. It needed a tie rod end.

 

[Poppy]

I am also looking forward to todays number for NYC.

Yesterday's numbers are promising that NYC is reaching the plateau, or better yet, has turned the corner. It may have been a fluke, but let's pray that today's numbers show that it is a trend.

From the NY Times, and from Cuomo's daily update.

• The one-day death toll from the virus, which had increased each day since the outbreak's early days, fell slightly for the first time, to 594 deaths reported Sunday, from 630 deaths reported Saturday. The state's total stands at 4,159.
  
• While the number of people currently hospitalized is still increasing, the one-day increase reported Sunday was the smallest in at least two weeks. The number grew by 574, to 16,479, from 15,905. That is a 4 percent increase. The increase the day before was 7 percent. Two weeks ago, the number was growing by more than 20 percent per day.
  
• The number of people in intensive-care units, which are equipped with ventilators, is still increasing, too. But the rate of increase is slowing. Sunday's count — 4,376 — was 6 percent higher than Saturday's — the first single-digit percentage increase recorded in at least two weeks.

 

[bykfixer]

I buy Fords and Hondas, not because they don't break, but because what breaks tends to be from model to model and being familiar with both I know how to predict issues, but more important how to fix them myself.

On my local radio station it was announced that 3 more died in a facility and the total is now 20 at that one place. Stats on our site showed 11 Friday and 10 saturday in the locality where one facility has themselves stated 20. Weird science.

Hopefully the New York situation has peaked. That would be ahead of schedule, which would be great news for those places still climbing. (and New York)

 

[Tachead]

Folks had better buy the extended warranty with those Ford models...

As long as they stay away from the GM ones...

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[BVH]

FORD = "Fix Or Repair Daily" was the buzz phrase when I was a kid. Fords are fine as are most brands out there.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Hate to be a buzzkill about New York's numbers, but at 10 a.m. PST, they had more deaths than all of yesterday. Their numbers are going up again. They had 594 deaths yesterday and 599 so far today. Yesterday, the U.S. severe or critical cases went from under 6,000 to 8,702 from Saturday into Sunday. Sunday is a bad day to base any conclusions off of. More places tend to be closed so more people are naturally quarantined at home. Monday is when the e.r. tends to get busy as many people ride it out through the weekend hoping to get better and many places to get help have shorter hours or are closed on Sunday.

 

[StarHalo]

Looking at the numbers this morning for some reason does not seem so shocking.

That reminds me of the scene in A Handmaid's Tale where the ladies are walking past the corpses hung on the wall, and Janine says with a shrug "It's amazing what you can get used to," while the others look at her in horror. There are reasons Atwood, Orwell, et al wrote things like this..

Other related news: I found a commenter some of you might enjoy, Karen Sehlke of Texas, who writes about Coronavirus being a "media driven" hoax "controlled by the radical people in powerful places," that "our government is under attack from within" while comparing the coronavirus to "the impeachment hoax" and arguing that those who take the current pandemic seriously "panic like sheep."

Wake up!!! This is what the beginning of socialism looks like!
They are leading with fear causing you to panic like sheep.
You don't need hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and Lysol. You need common sense, a sense of direction, faith, a will to fight, and of course guns!
Now wash your hands and live the life they don't want you to have!

Karen Sehlke passed away on Thursday after being hospitalized for COVID-19. Her family is now taking GoFundMe donations.

 

[bykfixer]

I saw what might be a sign for the near future of the economy in my state today. Both good and bad.

We can usually predict things based on indicators most don't notice in their daily routines. I've learned over the years in road construction that arrival of your fresh mix concrete can be an indicator. If it arrives on time and not early things are going well. If it arrives early, prepare for a belt tightening soon. If it arrives late buy stock.

So behind my work office is a cement transfer facility. The cement that goes in concrete. Train cars arrive during the night and the tanks of the facility suck up the powder and store it. During the day trucks come by and fill up with a tank full to carry to a nearby concrete plant.

Before covid 19 about 10 train cars a week were pumped into the storage tanks. Since the initial 14 day cdc reccomended slow down began one set of train cars has lasted nearly 3 weeks. Today the last car is being vacuumed of cement.

The last car being unloaded. To the right is usually train cars full of cement.
If another set of cars does not arrive overnight I will presume the cement factory has been interupted. If there are some there tomorrow or the next day I will presume orders are way down is why it took so long to unload the cars.

Now on a positive note, the warehouse next door is usually loaded to the gills with product and trucks are waiting to be loaded.

Hard to see but the lot is near empty as nearly all trucks are out on the road.


All winter I could see both facilities clearly but not that spring has sprung a green wall has grown practically overnight. Frankly I would probably self quarentine the next week or two simply because the massive pollens this year.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I went to Home Depot this morning. There were many more people sans masks than with them. HD was in one customer out - one customer in mode, only allowing 100 inside at a time. It was a good call on their part. Apparently most people have no understanding of how much six feet actually is.

 

[SCEMan]

I went to Home Depot this morning. There were many more people sans masks than with them. HD was in one customer out - one customer in mode, only allowing 100 inside at a time. It was a good call on their part. Apparently most people have no understanding of how much six feet actually is.

Kinda scary. I can understand it with family members that live together but otherwise...

 

[bykfixer]

Our local box stores have a 1 person per 20 square feet thing going. I suppose they are getting that per corparate HQ.

 

[nbp]

I went to Home Depot this morning. There were many more people sans masks than with them. HD was in one customer out - one customer in mode, only allowing 100 inside at a time. It was a good call on their part. Apparently most people have no understanding of how much six feet actually is.

I found this too. The funny thing is that it is kinda more about where people are in the store than how many are in the store. It's a giant store. You could have 300 people looking at different things all far from each other, or 10 people looking at the same things bunched up in the same aisle. Regardless of how many or how few people are in there they still have to be cognizant of how close they are to others.

 

[bykfixer]

Exactly nbp.
Mrs Fixer and I work as a team. We don't go out much lately but when we do we try real hard to stay two arms length from people. One thing I found is if you cough into your elbow people stay farther away. She doesn't hear so sporty so I stay behind her and if she hears me cough she knows it's incoming at her 6. (maybe 5-7 but you get the point.) We both use a cart to have a convoy between us and if somebody still doesn't get the hint I pick my nose. It sucks to have to scare people like that but these are crazy times we live in.

If we had 5g for a year or two they'd possibly be reading your temperature on the way in. Some cops in China have thermal cameras on their helmets. And thanks to 5g the data goes to the gubment and if a citizen has a fever they quarentine that person. 5g is crazy, what it can do. But if we end up with a couple more rounds of covid-19 outbreaks they may have tech in the States by then to read our temperature as we enter stores, banks, restaraunts etc.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I went to Home Depot this morning. There were many more people sans masks than with them. HD was in one customer out - one customer in mode, only allowing 100 inside at a time. It was a good call on their part. Apparently most people have no understanding of how much six feet actually is.

Hmm, if only there was a place that sold tape measures. :laughing:

 

[LGT]

In supermarkets, where I see most people trying to keep the six foot distance, some just don't care or have no idea how far six feet is. I also think stores should make aisles one way, up one, down the other. Even if you don't need anything in a particular aisle, you have to go with the six foot apart traffic flow. And PLEASE, in this time of pandemic, STOP READING LABELS!! Know what you're going to buy before you get there.

 

[RedLED]

I found this too. The funny thing is that it is kinda more about where people are in the store than how many are in the store. It's a giant store. You could have 300 people looking at different things all far from each other, or 10 people looking at the same things bunched up in the same aisle. Regardless of how many or how few people are in there they still have to be cognizant of how close they are to others.

The corporate general counsel, are having them take these steps as it will be part of their defense when the lawsuits start to roll in, and, if you thought all the years of lawsuits after 9/11 were bad, well, we ani't seen nothing yet!!

It will take decades to settle all of them.

Also, if there is any group that will profit off this disaster, it will be the lawyers.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Lawyers don't multiply income, they divide it.