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Musician Adam Schlesinger, a founding member of Fountains of Wayne died at 52 after being in a comma from Covid 19. Celebrate his life by remembering the great song... Stacy's Mom!

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No. Stacy's Mom is just the silliest song and you can't stop smiling after listening to it.

Also he wrong a song for the Tony's called 'It's not just for the gays anymore' which is also just spot on.

Also song of the year... Stay the Fuck at Home...
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The Airline Industry is in deep trouble.

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So I am thinking and thinking and I just don't get it... How do we get out of lockdown before the vaccine comes out? Do we just give up at some point and go out there and get sick? Will the government ever actually make that decision? What happens when the virus starts growing?
 
crookeddy said:
So I am thinking and thinking and I just don't get it... How do we get out of lockdown before the vaccine comes out? Do we just give up at some point and go out there and get sick? Will the government ever actually make that decision? What happens when the virus starts growing?
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The lockdown in many countries is to slow the spread. It will take at least a year to develop the vaccine. I think you are right in the sense that many of us will get the virus eventually.
 
crookeddy said:
So I am thinking and thinking and I just don't get it... How do we get out of lockdown before the vaccine comes out? Do we just give up at some point and go out there and get sick? Will the government ever actually make that decision? What happens when the virus starts growing?
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I've read things that say that rather than being on constant lockdown, one other option is to go in cycles... end the lockdown when the cases drop to a certain threshold, then institute it again when they rise back up to a certain level. More people will get infected this way than if we were on lockdown for the whole time, but it is thought that it might be better for people psychologically if they can at least resume a semi-normal life for short periods.

Of course, I have no idea what the various governments will actually end up doing.

EmoBorg said:
I think you are right in the sense that many of us will get the virus eventually.
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Yes, my understanding is that they've been saying all along that "flattening the curve" doesn't necessarily lower the number of total infections, it just stretches it out over a longer period of time, so as not to overwhelm the health care system with everyone getting sick at once.
 
Avro Arrow said:
Yes, my understanding is that they've been saying all along that "flattening the curve" doesn't necessarily lower the number of total infections, it just stretches it out over a longer period of time, so as not to overwhelm the health care system with everyone getting sick at once.
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& in return may reduce the number of fatalities, because the medical response will be better capable of caring for the sick
 
684 deaths in the UK today. Jesus. We've now surpassed china's 'figures' for deaths. I need to see this peak soon it's frightening and depressing.
 
Smellmet said:
684 deaths in the UK today. Jesus. We've now surpassed china's 'figures' for deaths. I need to see this peak soon it's frightening and depressing.
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I saw a group of five middle aged men and woman all walking down to the local shop this morning all together chatting away as if it were a normal day and then they proceeded to try and enter the shop all at the one time not giving one iota of care for anything going on around them, only to have the shop staff stationed on the door let rip at them, and rightly so, i mean i am scratching my head at the continued stupidity of some grown adults through this, and they say the young are irresponsible, well i am seeing evidence to counter that, even my 3 year old nephew understands he can't go and see his wee granny because they might make her sick, or she might make them sick, and she stays in the flat above them, i just can't fathom such stupidity. :brickwall:
 
in the last 24 hours we had 141 deaths in Germany, 35 in Bavaria.
Considering what a densely populated country this is, we're doing quite well so far. The most important thing from our pov is to buy time and protect the old.
The curfew/Isolation does work. Bavaris started it first and here the curve of new infections is significantly flatter than in other federal states. We've just prolongued the measures for another 2 weeks.
That won't be sufficient, of course. I estimate a total of at least 3 months. But every day gets us closer to a successful medication or a vaccine.
Personally, I put my money on the medication. This virus has an unfortunate tendency to develop subtypes, like the flu. With different types around you need a vaccination against each of them. As the flu taught us you can build a combi-vaccine against 3 or 4 strains but if you're out of luck, you get infected by #5. A vaccination will work if you have only a limited number of strains in your area. Where there is a multitude, all you can do is protect the risk groups and treat the symptoms in the infected and stay away from each other as much as you can in order to starve out the virus.
Unicron's comic is top!:techman::bolian: I've rarely seen the isolation principle explained that well.
 
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