New OOTS products from CafePress
New OOTS t-shirts, ornaments, mugs, bags, and more
Page 9 of 51 FirstFirst 1234567891011121314151617181934 ... LastLast
Results 241 to 270 of 1510
  1. - Top - End - #241
    Ettin in the Playground
     
    Lord Torath's Avatar

    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Location
    Sharangar's Revenge
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    Oh - I think I can tell you all one more thing about the covid-19 that you don't know: It tastes awful. That's not something they report in the media (and it's not something I can 100% guarantee is universal) but both my girlfriend and I have found the mucus filling our heads to have a sweetish, really disgusting taste.
    I've also heard that one of the symptoms is loss of sense of smell/taste. Can you confirm? At least in your specific case?

    Hope you have a quick recovery.
    Last edited by Lord Torath; 2020-03-26 at 02:46 PM. Reason: End/top of page
    Warhammer 40,000 Campaign Skirmish Game: Warpstrike
    My Spelljammer stuff (including an orbit tracker), 2E AD&D spreadsheet, and Vault of the Drow maps are available in my Dropbox. Feel free to use or not use it as you see fit!
    Thri-Kreen Ranger/Psionicist by me, based off of Rich's A Monster for Every Season

  2. - Top - End - #242
    Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    Denmark
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
    I've also heard that one of the symptoms is loss of sense of smell/taste. Can you confirm? At least in your specific case?

    Hope you have a quick recovery.
    My girlfriend can't taste a thing (except the mucus). I don't have that. Which is funny, because at least with wine, I can hardly ever pick up any bouquet to speak of.

    Oh, and thanks - we're both doing a lot better already =)
    Last edited by Kaptin Keen; 2020-03-26 at 02:57 PM.

  3. - Top - End - #243
    Barbarian in the Playground
    Join Date
    Sep 2019
    Location
    Florida
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by HandofShadows View Post
    You're lucky. One poor grocery store down state (in Pennsylvania) had to toss 35,000$ in food because some lady decided to cough on it (fruit, vegetables, meats). She's under arrest and might be going in for mental health treatment.
    If I read Pennslyvania law right, she could get up to seven years in jail (criminal mischief, a.k.a vandalism) if she's mentally competent.

    If she's legally insane, it may be much longer.

  4. - Top - End - #244
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Brother Oni's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Cippa's River Meadow
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    Oh - I think I can tell you all one more thing about the covid-19 that you don't know: It tastes awful. That's not something they report in the media (and it's not something I can 100% guarantee is universal) but both my girlfriend and I have found the mucus filling our heads to have a sweetish, really disgusting taste.
    Better your head rather than your lungs.

    While we may disagree on things, I hope you get well soon.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
    I've also heard that one of the symptoms is loss of sense of smell/taste. Can you confirm? At least in your specific case?
    Isn't loss of smell/taste pretty much standard for any cold or 'flu since the sinuses get clogged?

  5. - Top - End - #245
    Bugbear in the Playground
    Join Date
    Nov 2013

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    You often can't breath very well through the nose with a cold but when you clear it you can still smell something at least in my experience. And I think dry cough is more common for corona than clogged sinuses. + Apparently that symptom can occur without other symptoms https://time.com/5809037/coronavirus...f-smell-taste/

    The symptom, Kumar says, is also appearing in otherwise healthy people, indicating that a loss of sense of smell could be a vital indicator of whether somebody is carrying the virus unknowingly

  6. - Top - End - #246
    Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    Denmark
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Brother Oni View Post
    Better your head rather than your lungs.

    While we may disagree on things, I hope you get well soon.
    Hey, polite disagreement is why people go to discussion forums.

    It's interesting that I've been coughing very little. Like, I may have had something like 20 small fits of coughing spread out over something like a week and a day. And I'm asthmatic - I should be in a 'risk group'. Another thing I've observed is that it's a weirdly 'dry' disease. Dry cough, dry skin, dry sinuses. A sort of 'dry' fever.

  7. - Top - End - #247
    Colossus in the Playground
     
    BlackDragon

    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Manchester, UK
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Are you sure you actually have it? Have you been tested? You might have regular 'flu.

  8. - Top - End - #248
    Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    Denmark
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    Are you sure you actually have it? Have you been tested? You might have regular 'flu.
    Am I sure? Yes. Do I know for a fact? No.

    This is a unique experience. I maintain it's just a flu - but it doesn't feel like any other flu I ever had. But we've spoken with the hospital, and our own doctors, and no one questions that this is what we have. Denmark just ..... doesn't test. Up until yesterday, the policy was to only test those who were being hospitalised. But we seem to have gotten more test kits, and now the ambition is to test .. more.

    Regardless: This is covid-19. I have not a shred of doubt. Despite having essentially the same symptoms (except the addition of chest pain), it feels different in every way.

  9. - Top - End - #249
    Ogre in the Playground
    Join Date
    Jul 2017

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    What are some good sources if you want to ask questions about the disease/virus that aren't covered in the news? I'm following all the news but I have some questions (specifically about virus lifespan beyond the "can live up to three days on plastic or metal" figure that everybody repeats) and I don't know where to find reputable sources that are open to random public questions.

  10. - Top - End - #250
    Orc in the Playground
     
    AssassinGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    Canadia

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
    What are some good sources if you want to ask questions about the disease/virus that aren't covered in the news? I'm following all the news but I have some questions (specifically about virus lifespan beyond the "can live up to three days on plastic or metal" figure that everybody repeats) and I don't know where to find reputable sources that are open to random public questions.
    While it is not open to random questions, the source for the coronavirus lifespan on various surfaces is the National Institute of Health / CDC:

    https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news...hours-surfaces

  11. - Top - End - #251
    Ettin in the Playground
     
    Lord Torath's Avatar

    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Location
    Sharangar's Revenge
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
    I've also heard that one of the symptoms is loss of sense of smell/taste.
    Looks like the NY Times story on this had some issues.

    Long story short, the NYTimes piece cited a 30% figure of infected people losing their sense of smell, but the current data from South Korea is more like 15%
    Warhammer 40,000 Campaign Skirmish Game: Warpstrike
    My Spelljammer stuff (including an orbit tracker), 2E AD&D spreadsheet, and Vault of the Drow maps are available in my Dropbox. Feel free to use or not use it as you see fit!
    Thri-Kreen Ranger/Psionicist by me, based off of Rich's A Monster for Every Season

  12. - Top - End - #252
    Dwarf in the Playground
     
    Daemon

    Join Date
    Jan 2010

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
    What are some good sources if you want to ask questions about the disease/virus that aren't covered in the news? I'm following all the news but I have some questions (specifically about virus lifespan beyond the "can live up to three days on plastic or metal" figure that everybody repeats) and I don't know where to find reputable sources that are open to random public questions.
    There's millions of people wondering about the same questions, and public services are all but collapsed in most countries, so a one-on-one official service answering your inquiries is unlikely to happen. I think the publicly given information about the virus behavior and how to take precautions are extensive and very clear, at least here in Spain.

    Anyways, as far as I know, the experiments regarding the virus lifespan outside the human body are still very preliminary and inconclusive; right now there's a study suggesting around 72h, and then there's the Diamond Princess cruise ship; apparently virus RNA was found 17 days after a cabin was vacant. Other Coronavirus like MERS and SARS could still be present after 9 days on polished surfaces.

    I think if you got a direct hotline with the chief of the CDC he wouldn't be able to tell you much more... because no more is known.

    My own precautions: I assume the virus lives forever on plastic and steel, just in case. What I can't throw away, I wash with soap.
    Last edited by DavidBV; 2020-03-27 at 03:49 PM.

  13. - Top - End - #253
    Ogre in the Playground
    Join Date
    Jul 2017

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidBV View Post
    There's millions of people wondering about the same questions, and public services are all but collapsed in most countries, so a one-on-one official service answering your inquiries is unlikely to happen. I think the publicly given information about the virus behavior and how to take precautions are extensive and very clear, at least here in Spain.
    People still use public forums, like we're using this one right now. I'd have posed my question more directly here, but that would get uncomfortably close to board rules against providing medical advice.

    And I'm very on top of washing everything and sheltering. Again, I've read all the same information everybody else has and am sticking pretty close to it. But many food items cannot be reasonably washed and aren't meant to be cooked. Thus the wondering if there's any official word on how long they need to sit in the fridge/freezer before they can be considered safe, or if I just have to remove them from my diet until the pandemic runs down.

  14. - Top - End - #254
    Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    Denmark
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    In case anyone is interested, the 'dark figure' people here in Denmark are now working with universities - so make the dark figure research official, rather than a well-meant amateur effort.

    No results offered yet, but I just sent in an official questionaire.

    Oh ... there's another very important distinction in the research that the press doesn't care to point out: There are now 51 people who have died in Denmark while having covid-19. That's the truth. But if you look in the press, they'll say that 51 people died from covid-19, which is not the same thing.

    I don't have an accurate figure for how many actually died from covid-19. I suspect no one really does, currently.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
    Looks like the NY Times story on this had some issues.

    Long story short, the NYTimes piece cited a 30% figure of infected people losing their sense of smell, but the current data from South Korea is more like 15%
    It's my impression that some people lose their sense of taste and smell from very nearly all respiratory diseases?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
    What are some good sources if you want to ask questions about the disease/virus that aren't covered in the news? I'm following all the news but I have some questions (specifically about virus lifespan beyond the "can live up to three days on plastic or metal" figure that everybody repeats) and I don't know where to find reputable sources that are open to random public questions.
    Your doctor? That's what I'd do, anyways, but maybe other countries don't have online access like we do? I can always just send a message via web form, and expect a response in a day or so. And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, if you want actual medical advice - your doctor (or a doctor) is where you should be getting it.
    Last edited by Kaptin Keen; 2020-03-27 at 11:17 PM.

  15. - Top - End - #255
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Brother Oni's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Cippa's River Meadow
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    Oh ... there's another very important distinction in the research that the press doesn't care to point out: There are now 51 people who have died in Denmark while having covid-19. That's the truth. But if you look in the press, they'll say that 51 people died from covid-19, which is not the same thing.
    A similar thing exists for AIDS - it doesn't actually kill you, the secondary infections that occur because of your now compromised immune system do.

    For the layman and most news agencies, this is mostly semantics, but as you've pointed out, is very important for scientists trying to develop a treatment.

    That said, HIV and SARS-CoV-2 have very different resulting disease states; AIDS has no direct way of killing you, while the fluid and mucus build up in the lungs in COVID-19 can and has killed (even if the exact numbers are undetermined).

  16. - Top - End - #256
    Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    Denmark
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Brother Oni View Post
    A similar thing exists for AIDS - it doesn't actually kill you, the secondary infections that occur because of your now compromised immune system do.

    For the layman and most news agencies, this is mostly semantics, but as you've pointed out, is very important for scientists trying to develop a treatment.

    That said, HIV and SARS-CoV-2 have very different resulting disease states; AIDS has no direct way of killing you, while the fluid and mucus build up in the lungs in COVID-19 can and has killed (even if the exact numbers are undetermined).
    Well - don't get me wrong. I'm basically recovered, but it's always been a thing for me that since I'm asthmatic, when a respiratory disease (mostly the flu) ends, I spend maybe another week coughing up phlegm. That's just how my lungs work. But this time around, thinking about it too much gives me a literal cold sweat, and my mind tries to betray me with thoughts like 'maybe this could still kill you!' And because of how ironic that would be, it's even more chilling to me. I kinda expect the universe to punish my arrogance - 'here, little man, let me show you what happens to clever little tw*ts who think they're smarter than everyone else!'

    So ... yea, I'm acutely aware that this disease does kill. I just contest that it kills more than any other flu. We should not fear covid-19 (my own fears non-withstanding), but obviously we should respect it.

    The good thing is that from this day forward, we will all health sectors much better prepared for this sort of crisis. From what I know, Denmark had ... like, 7 ICU's pr. 100.000 people. If the numbers I'm hearing are right, we'll at the very least quadruple that number.

  17. - Top - End - #257
    Dwarf in the Playground
     
    Daemon

    Join Date
    Jan 2010

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
    People still use public forums, like we're using this one right now. I'd have posed my question more directly here, but that would get uncomfortably close to board rules against providing medical advice.

    And I'm very on top of washing everything and sheltering. Again, I've read all the same information everybody else has and am sticking pretty close to it. But many food items cannot be reasonably washed and aren't meant to be cooked. Thus the wondering if there's any official word on how long they need to sit in the fridge/freezer before they can be considered safe, or if I just have to remove them from my diet until the pandemic runs down.
    yeah, I think replying your question would be against the forum rules, but when I googled about "covid19 on food" I got pretty solid answers from FDA / CDC regarding that.

  18. - Top - End - #258
    Titan in the Playground
    Join Date
    Sep 2014

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    So ... yea, I'm acutely aware that this disease does kill. I just contest that it kills more than any other flu. We should not fear covid-19 (my own fears non-withstanding), but obviously we should respect it.
    You keep asserting this but I haven't seen any actual evidence to back it up. Not to mention.

    1. We're at the start of this outbreak. Not the middle. Not the end. The start. It's got a ways to go before we're even at the peak of this particular problem so to fold your arms and go "it's not even bad as most flu" is absurd at best.

    2. You're not a doctor. You're not a member of the medical profession whatsoever. You've not only stated that clearly, you've stated that people should listen to medical professionals. Then you go around and "contest" things that are just your opinion as if it has some actual merit. I'm happy you seem to have had less symptoms and less aggressive symptoms and are mostly recovered but that doesn't mean your opinion counts for more than just opinion. I am, and I'll sadly never really know 100% because testing in the U.S is absurd, fairly certain I also had COVID. I had all the major symptoms save respitory issues and...I don't think I had a fever but I rarely get sick as it is, I honestly don't know what one feels like anymore. If I had it, and I'm fairly confident I did since other people I work with had it and had it confirmed they had it, I got lucky too. Plenty of people my age aren't getting lucky and people much older than me are getting it worse.

    3. Medical professionals are saying this is worse than the regular flu. You can disagree with it all you want, you can even disagree with them all you want, but the fact remains that they're saying it's not just a normal flu and we need to do what we're doing.

    4. You want to go to brute rationalism over fear and hysteria. Me too. It's rational to lock down with a highly contagious disease, especially when near half the people who get it never show symptoms. Otherwise you're just risking massive spread and a lot of dead. We've seen distancing and aggressive testing puts this thing dead in its tracks. We've seen it in other countries. Not taking these steps is the irrational thing to do. Not listening to the professionals is irrational.

  19. - Top - End - #259
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Vinyadan's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    About the flu... in Italy, on average, the flu kills 450 people every year (directly), plus an estimated 8,000 people due to complications. The total number of deaths is estimated at 12,000 in the worst years.

    Currently, there have been over 9,100 deaths from COVID-19.
    Quote Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
    I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful — but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!), and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).

  20. - Top - End - #260
    Dwarf in the Playground
     
    Daemon

    Join Date
    Jan 2010

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    The good thing is that from this day forward, we will all health sectors much better prepared for this sort of crisis. From what I know, Denmark had ... like, 7 ICU's pr. 100.000 people. If the numbers I'm hearing are right, we'll at the very least quadruple that number.
    The ventilators require maintenance and personnel. The only guarantee to truly be safe in future crisis like this is to have production lines within your own country, ready to supply your hospitals and all critical staff. Because now we know what we can expect from other countries: nothing.

    Plus, I am afraid this crisis was extremely mild compared to what could happen in the future. MERS and SARS Coronavirus had a mortality rate ranging from 20 to 30% and affect younger people, if in the future we suffer from a virus with such lethality, but with the transmission rate of covid19, then... prepare for food and power shortages.

  21. - Top - End - #261
    Banned
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    Denmark
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Vinyadan View Post
    About the flu... in Italy, on average, the flu kills 450 people every year (directly), plus an estimated 8,000 people due to complications. The total number of deaths is estimated at 12,000 in the worst years.

    Currently, there have been over 9,100 deaths from COVID-19.
    That is interesting, because the common flu kills around 1000 people in Denmark every year - and we have a better medical sector, and ... around a 10th of the population.

  22. - Top - End - #262
    Dwarf in the Playground
     
    Daemon

    Join Date
    Jan 2010

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    The problem with the flu comparison in terms of deaths is, you can't compare apples to oranges; it's true the death toll is relatively low right now, but the whole planet has been locked down and put in a frenzy to expand ICUs, and many other medical treatments have been suspended, so you don't know what would happen if covid19 was left to run loose and pretty much ignored, like the flu is. It wouldn't be pretty.

  23. - Top - End - #263
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Brother Oni's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Cippa's River Meadow
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    That is interesting, because the common flu kills around 1000 people in Denmark every year - and we have a better medical sector, and ... around a 10th of the population.
    I'd chalk that up to differences in Denmark's population density/distribution/demographics and social customs compared to Italy.

    For example in Japan, they've only just started introducing a limited lockdown for SARS-CoV-2, despite having their first confirmed COVID-19 case about a month before Europe did. One working hypothesis is the cultural differences, such as the substantially less direct person to person contact (e.g. bowing instead of hand shakes) and the greater social acceptance of people wearing face masks at the first hint of the sniffles, help slow the transmission of the disease.

    Whether they actually have similar number of cases as other countries, is hard to tell since they're only performing limited testing.

  24. - Top - End - #264
    Troll in the Playground
     
    Lvl 2 Expert's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2014
    Location
    Tulips Cheese & Rock&Roll
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    There is for me a personal upside to the whole thing. I'm in the process of graduating in the medical research field (though not really anywhere near viruses or vaccins), this opens up potential future job options in a for now hypothetical badass corps of worldwide pandemic responders. Like a (red) cross between the WHO and an army,

    Wouldn't make for a half bad tabletop campaign either. ;)

    The bad news is most of the other sides are still downsides. The whole situation still sucks. Africa in particular is now set up to see how the European scenario plays out if your hospitals have two beds each, disinformation is more rampant and there's still a locust plague eating a big chunk out of the Eastern side of your continent. Either this is gonna be bad, or I'm going to advocate learning everything we can from African experience with epidemics.
    The Hindsight Awards, results: See the best movies of 1999!

  25. - Top - End - #265
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Rockphed's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    Watching the world go by
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    Oh ... there's another very important distinction in the research that the press doesn't care to point out: There are now 51 people who have died in Denmark while having covid-19. That's the truth. But if you look in the press, they'll say that 51 people died from covid-19, which is not the same thing.

    I don't have an accurate figure for how many actually died from covid-19. I suspect no one really does, currently.
    I saw something from a nurse who was self-isolating because they thought they had the wuhan but was being denied a test because their symptoms were not serious enough. I suspect that lots of people will be very interested in knowing the true spread of SARS-CoV-2. Hopefully as global supply chains react more testing will come online.

    Quote Originally Posted by Brother Oni View Post
    A similar thing exists for AIDS - it doesn't actually kill you, the secondary infections that occur because of your now compromised immune system do.

    For the layman and most news agencies, this is mostly semantics, but as you've pointed out, is very important for scientists trying to develop a treatment.

    That said, HIV and SARS-CoV-2 have very different resulting disease states; AIDS has no direct way of killing you, while the fluid and mucus build up in the lungs in COVID-19 can and has killed (even if the exact numbers are undetermined).
    I saw something (I don't remember where) that in Italy about half of people who die with SARS-CoV-2 have at least 3 complicating factors, 75% have at least 2, and something like 90% have at least 1. Whether (and how much) Covid-19 contributed to their deaths is not easily extracted from the data. Ultimately this means that comparing mortality rates between countries is non-trivial.
    Quote Originally Posted by Wardog View Post
    Rockphed said it well.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sam Starfall
    When your pants are full of crickets, you don't need mnemonics.
    Dragontar by Serpentine.

    Now offering unsolicited advice.

  26. - Top - End - #266
    Bugbear in the Playground
    Join Date
    Nov 2013

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronav..._marzo_eng.pdf This lists the comorbidity percentages.

    Though be aware it doesn't compare with the normal prevalence of the conditions, e.g. the highest is hypertension (high blood pressure) with 73.9%, in general around 30% of italians have hypertension apparently (from memory might be a bit wrong) but it likely also increases with age like in other countries : https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db289.htm
    During 2015–2016, the prevalence of hypertension was 29.0% and increased with age: age group 18–39, 7.5%; 40–59, 33.2%; and 60 and over, 63.1%.
    => with how old the people dying are you expect a high percentage to have it regardless.

    (Second highest diabetes with 33.9% (https://www.epicentro.iss.it/igea/en/DiabetesFactSheet), third schemic heart disease with 30.1%)
    Last edited by Ibrinar; 2020-03-28 at 01:35 PM.

  27. - Top - End - #267
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Man_Over_Game's Avatar

    Join Date
    Aug 2018
    Location
    Between SEA and PDX.
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    My wife got tested after she started showing three of the common symptoms (muscle pain, shortness of breath, dry cough) and was someone at-risk. They did a quick test for the flu and strep throat to rule them out, and then moved on to the Q-tip.

    It's about 6 inches long and they stick most of it through your nose to rub something about a centimeter under your brain. The sound that came out of my wife was something horrifying. She almost grabbed the nurse's arm, until the nurse reminded her there was a stick less than an inch under her brain, and grabbing her wasn't going to make it much better. Then the nurse had to twist the Q-tip for 5 seconds.

    A friend of ours, a former marine, also took the test due to having several heart attacks and also being at-risk. He succinctly described it as being the most painful experience of his life.

    We're still waiting on the results. Whatever she has is definitely in my system now, too. If it is Coronavirus, the muscle pain is friggin' annoying, almost as bad as the cough. Feels like I've been lifting weights for a day or two, despite spending most of my time sitting or sleeping.


    So stay safe, kids!
    Last edited by Man_Over_Game; 2020-03-28 at 07:01 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by KOLE View Post
    MOG, design a darn RPG system. Seriously, the amount of ideas I’ve gleaned from your posts has been valuable. You’re a gem of the community here.

    5th Edition Homebrewery
    Prestige Options, changing primary attributes to open a world of new multiclassing.
    Adrenaline Surge, fitting Short Rests into combat to fix bosses/Short Rest Classes.
    Pain, using Exhaustion to make tactical martial combatants.
    Fate Sorcery, lucky winner of the 5e D&D Subclass Contest VII!

  28. - Top - End - #268
    Closed Account
    Join Date
    May 2016
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Here in Italy it's quite a mess. Nobody can move from home without a specific reason. It's a bit as being under house arrest.

  29. - Top - End - #269
    Ettin in the Playground
     
    Kobold

    Join Date
    May 2009

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaptin Keen View Post
    Oh ... there's another very important distinction in the research that the press doesn't care to point out: There are now 51 people who have died in Denmark while having covid-19. That's the truth. But if you look in the press, they'll say that 51 people died from covid-19, which is not the same thing.
    I doubt it's possible even in principle to state an exact number. If four things have to join forces to kill you, which one gets the XP?

    If you've been living with an ulcer and an inflamed pancreas for years, and the addition of covid-19 to your system finally allows them to get you, it doesn't seem unreasonable to say it was the virus that did it, even if the medical "cause of death" was diabetic shock. Because chronic conditions like that can be managed, but the addition of something that disrupts the management can tip the scale against you.
    "None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain

  30. - Top - End - #270
    Firbolg in the Playground
     
    Vinyadan's Avatar

    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: The Corona Virus

    Quote Originally Posted by Anymage View Post
    What are some good sources if you want to ask questions about the disease/virus that aren't covered in the news? I'm following all the news but I have some questions (specifically about virus lifespan beyond the "can live up to three days on plastic or metal" figure that everybody repeats) and I don't know where to find reputable sources that are open to random public questions.
    Maybe it's too specialized and it requires a lot of searching on your own, but a bibliography is being assembled here: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=co...switch&lang=en

    About the difference between Italy and Denmark when it comes to flu deaths, I think climate probably also matters. But it's true what has been said, that a comparison between flu and COVID-19 is unbalanced by the countermeasures that have been taken against the latter.
    Last edited by Vinyadan; 2020-03-28 at 09:08 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
    I thought Tom Bombadil dreadful — but worse still was the announcer's preliminary remarks that Goldberry was his daughter (!), and that Willowman was an ally of Mordor (!!).

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •