Corona Virus

[saintpeter]

Okay, I wasn't much worried about it until every news station and public official told me not to panic. I picked up N95 masks before the price gouging began. I am stocked up on coffee, food and tobacco. Still got a couple hundred rounds of ammo. Pretty much the norm for me. (I came from Montana and was a survivalist before it became a fad.)

My question is this...is anybody else concerned?

I can't help but think of the 1914-1918 flu. Hit 25% of the world's population (about 500 million people sick) and took out 50 million.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Its a cold that CAN kill people with respiratory co-morbitiies.... kinda like... oh I dunno the Flu...
Its mostly hype..

 

[workman]

Not worried at all. I got the swine-flu when that was all the rage and it was just a like mild cold.
This one seems no different.
The fact that the media are so preoccupied with it should tell us a little about how out of touch they are, and how they really like to create their own news and fads rather than report on existing ones.

 

[3rdguy]

I can only pray it does not hit hard in an area like Washington DC.

 

[donjgiles]

Natural order of things, always happens in the 20s.
The 20s, which, historically, seems to be the time for a pandemic. The Spanish Flu in the 1920s, Cholera 1820s, and an outbreak of the Plague in 1720s. Unless of course this was created in some lab to thin out the population...

 

[olkofri]

You still wanna be buying those 'estates' off ewwBay? Still wanna 'save money' by buying from Aliexpress?

Not too trusting of the Wiki, but their advice on Prevention does look sound: Coronavirus Prevention.

I'd avoid clinics and hospitals for the time being unless you really, really need to go.

Prognosis depends on many factors, starting with individuals' idiosyncrasies, pre-existing conditions, habits, &c. Who knows? Maybe smoking is a defence barrier. ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

No worries. SARS, swine flu, bird flu, going to die eventually so I'm not going to panic about how.

 

[Chasing Embers]

You still wanna be buying those 'estates' off ewwBay?

Yep

 

[olkofri]

Unless of course this was created in some lab to thin out the population...

There's a strong case that it was: Man-made Coronavirus?

Nothing natural about it, or about SARS in general if you ask me.

 

[Bengel]

This is what has me truly worried

How Safe Is Your Beard from Coronavirus?

Shave your stubble, but save the soul patch.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[olkofri]

Yep

I may be the new skipper of the Frigate soon! ?

 

[olkofri]

This is what has me truly worried

How Safe Is Your Beard from Coronavirus?

Shave your stubble, but save the soul patch.

www.popularmechanics.com

No problems with handlebars: Embers is safe!! ('cept for the used pipes purchases.)

 

[Bengel]

Yea, but a soul patch or hitler mustache. Not happening here

 

[BROBS]

ummmmm who is this guy?

 

[prndl]

The hype'll probably get us before the actual virus.

 

[olkofri]

ummmmm who is this guy?
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LOL. Yeah, I wouldn't see who'd be wearing that kind of mustache nowadays, but maybe in Asia or countries where the Corporal from Hell has never been too much of a big deal. Funny thing, that kind of mustache came about and became popular in World War One because it was the one mustache soldiers could wear that didn't interfere with the seal of their gas masks. History comes full circle (although History is more of a spiral, actually. You know, like the spiral water makes in a toilet.)

 

[didimauw]

Me and the wife spent all day buying supplies today. Mostly food and Cleaning supplies. Lots of canned goods, and jugs of water to start with. And a big shelf to store it all on in the basement. I'll be also keeping my tote of spare tobacco, extra ammo, and my but out bags on it too.

 

[mikestanley]

I am not worried in the least.
Mike S.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

I can only pray it does not hit hard in an area like Washington DC.

I sense a tongue, firmly implanted in the cheek?

 

[olkofri]

Hmm, they're suggesting that in order to disinfect things we should use disinfectants with more than 60% alcohol. Guess I need to stop using gin to disinfect my pipes. Absinthe, here I come.