Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

[RobertB]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse

China lab leak infects thousands with bacterial disease

My brother is a veterinarian and said Brucellosis will make your balls swell so much you’ll need a bigger pants size. I thought he was joking.

Brucellosis - Symptoms and causes

[Joshk]

Health officials in Lanzhou city said 3,245 people had contracted brucellosis…
Another 1,401 people tested as an early positive for the disease, and health authorities said there was no evidence of person-to-person transmission so far.

Uh, ok. They said that about Covid less than a year ago.

[xevious (Gary)]

@pennzy

Atlanta — Georgia’s governor, who has opposed local mask mandates and even sued over one in Atlanta, has signed a new executive order that allows local governments to enact mask requirements to help fight the coronavirus pandemic

This is one reason why American deaths are at a higher rate than others. Without a national coherent approach to stopping the spread it was like having a peeing section in a public pool.

The water used to be clear. But now… there’s definitely a yellowish tinge to it. Uneven approach across the nation is responsible for the mess we’re in, and that all trickles up.

[xevious (Gary)]

@NorthernHarrier

If the USA was targeted, why is there no evidence of that? Why were many other countries inundated with infections before the USA? Why is the entire international scientific community who investigated the origin concluding that the virus had natural origins?

Yeah, widespread weaponizing of a virus could cause chaos in a target country. So can weaponizing conspiracy theories and false information about important issues to spread fear and anger in that country, as we’ve seen demonstrated in the USA.

You’re arguing with the wrong person, because the mind won’t be changed. We tried months ago. #COVID19 was not engineered nor purposefully disseminated. Had someone tried to do it, it would’ve happened far differently. And China would’ve been totally prepared for it, citing their “superior advanced medicine.”

[Deputy_Dog]

NorthernHarrier

More fundamentally, it’s also a huge leap to go from that one story to assuming that the state and national infection and death numbers are significantly overinflated. That doesn’t make any sense. The fact that they didn’t publicize in the press the number of cases traced to bars/restaurants has nothing to do with whether the infection and death totals were accurately reported to the authorities.

I actually think WE want the same thing. We both want clarity. You don’t have to inflate actual numbers to distort what they mean. Numbers don’t always give a complete picture. I get nervous when someone gives me numbers then says here is what you need to know. Like THEY actually know what’s best for me.

For example: When did anyone know early on what % of deaths/infections were happening in nursing homes?

Failing/forgetting to report to the press is one thing, but to hide things is another. The sad thing is, is that it happens most of the time.

[Lightbringer]

@Deputy Dog

Failing/forgetting to report to the press is one thing, but to hide things is another. The sad thing is, is that it happens most of the time.

“It is sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues.”
— Ten Bears

[Rexlion]

I get the impression that if I said it stands to reason that the sky is blue, someone would chime in to explain that blue skies are a fallacy and that I’ve fallen for a blue-sky conspiracy hoax.

[JaredM]

@Rexlion

I get the impression that if I said it stands to reason that the sky is blue, someone would chime in to explain that blue skies are a fallacy and that I’ve fallen for a blue-sky conspiracy hoax.

DUDE

It’s black

[Muto]

@Rexlion

I get the impression that if I said it stands to reason that the sky is blue, someone would chime in to explain that blue skies are a fallacy and that I’ve fallen for a blue-sky conspiracy hoax.

The sky is blue because the almighty one loves Penn State, everybody knows that
LOL

[pennzy]

@Muto

@Rexlion

I get the impression that if I said it stands to reason that the sky is blue, someone would chime in to explain that blue skies are a fallacy and that I’ve fallen for a blue-sky conspiracy hoax.

The sky is blue because the almighty one loves Penn State, everybody knows that
LOL

You’re one of them.

[MtnDon (Don Miller)]

Some days the sky is actually orange

[cabfrank]

Any idea which bridge that is?

[hank]

Looks to me like the Bay Bridge from the SF side looking toward Angel Island

[erlebo]

@cabfrank

Any idea which bridge that is?

It’s the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville.

[Sherbona]

Bidwell Bar Bridge (Lake Oroville):
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/boat-motors-by-as-the-bidwell-bar-bridge-is-surrounded-by-news-photo/1228423382

Some discussion about where the picture was taken from:

- YouTube

EDIT
Oops, erlebo beat me to it.

[cabfrank]

Thanks everyone!

[sochi111]

Sky is just a reflection of your own world

[cabfrank]

@hank

Looks to me like the Bay Bridge from the SF side looking toward Angel Island

Hank, it does look similar to the Bay Bridge, but fortunately, Angel Island didn’t catch fire, as far as I know.

[Photon_Master]

Awesome picture! When are they going to make a “Backdraft” kind of movie about the firefighters out there? Feel bad for the people out there, wish the idiots in charge would prepare better for the fires that happen every single year

[hank]

>Angel Island
Yep, bad guess on my part. I thought maybe I was seeinge electric lights filtered through the orange air.
Seen one old design suspension bridge, you’ve seen them all.

I was told long ago, in the Usenet days, that the best way to get correct information on the Internet is to post what you think and await correction.
Works for me.