Selph Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Fowllife said: Since we all know we can't trust any info from China, and the US didn't stop flights out of China until the end of January I think it's somewhat short sighted to think that we didn't have cases in the US in some areas way earlier then they are saying. Yeah, this is absolutely true. I talked to a public health nurse after my test came back, and they think I got it from my father-in-law. He's had some health issues and last year we moved to a new house so he could have his own space but live with us. Anyway, he had pneumonia back in February and was in the hospital for a week. He came home literally the day before we started isolating, which was 3 weeks ago at this point. But he had a terrible cough and probably gave it to my wife. She finally got a cough and some mild cold symptoms almost two weeks ago on Wednesday. Then I came down with my initial symptoms a bit over a week ago on Friday or Saturday. They didn't test my father-in-law at the time, because they weren't that aware of the virus yet, and didn't have the tests even if they were. But he had all the signatures of a rougher case of the virus. Cough, fever, pneumonia. We're hoping for an anti-body test soon too, so we can confirm if he had it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowllife Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 That's why I think some kind of anit-body test, or whatever it is truly called will be a game changer in some ways. If we can find out who has had it it will help in a lot of ways. It just feels odd to me that the symptoms vary so widely, and there are so many people with the "usual" symptoms that test negative. It feels to either there are variation to the original virus, a very similar virus, or very bad testing. Mr SLAG, thanks for the reply. I believe they are in contact with the Ohio Dept. of Health and the Ohio State University on almost a daily basis. Neither ODH or OSU are offering anything like this yet, so they were looking more outside of the box per say. I know almost nothing about what goes into all this testing stuff, it's way over my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I have heard there is an antibody test but its so costly only people like Trump, Gates or Bloomburg can afford it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 The anti body tests are expensive now, they're almost one off lab work, the price will come down, the turn around will speed up and reliability will improve. Honest, look at the improvements in the infection tests, those took what 2 weeks and were reasonably reliable when this came to our attention and now they have 15 minute tests with a high degree of reliability, last I heard the 5 minute results were becoming more reliable. America's getting rolling on this, hang in there gang. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Reading the news on Yahoo all the stories about covid19 are all gloom and doom., don't go to the grocery store for the next 2 weeks, millions are going to die (exaggeration on my part) and on and on. Then on the local news the stories were a bit more positive, states like New York are seeing a leveling off of new cases and fewer deaths...*good grief* one doesn't know what to believe. To update a Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) attributed quote. If you don't watch the news, you are uninformed. If you do watch the news, you are misinformed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Amen. Masters of disinformation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 When you watch or read the news keep in mind the old newspaper adage. "If it bleeds it leads," following the logic a ways leads to, " if it isn't bleeding make it seem like it might." News media lives on sponsors who need viewers so they're always competing for the most dramatic story which means the most dramatic presentation. They have a lot of influence so if panic shopping is today's story they hype it for ratings which makes it a bigger story. Most large news media has little credibility anymore for good reason. Hal Clemens didn't "Watch" the news, he read it. I know TV has been around for quite a while but not quite THAT long. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 That's why I updated his quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabumi Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 There's an old article from our local paper that is posted at some of our local businesses. It is of Twain doing a lecture early in his career in 1866 in Grass Valley, the town next to mine. It states that Twain would do great feats of sleight of hand after his lecture, which turned out to be to make 6 shots of whiskey disappear and to leave town without paying his hotel bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Well life down here in New Mexico is just getting a bit more traditional; I was thinking about that as I was riding through the desert (in my pickup) to work this morning wearing a bandanna pulled up over my mouth and nose (and beard). Any folks I meet in the hall scatter to avoid me---A Marty Robbins moment to be sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 It'll be a while until I get that image out of my head, Thomas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Hey supposedly wearing a mask improves my looks! (It's one of my smithing bandannas and so it's black with red, orange and yellow flames on it....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Gee thanks..................that'll make it even harder to get the image out of my brain, Thomas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Now to braid my beard.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Oh Puleeeeeeze!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Now to braid my beard.... Do you have one of those beads to put in the braid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Crew Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Beard braid with hand forged little dingles! You go for that TP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 We'd like pics please. . . With lederhosen and Hawaiian shirt, ALA Rufo! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 You guys are going to turn me back into a drinkin' man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Read a story today that folks who are working from home are drinking a lot more. I don't drink any more or any less since this "social distancing" started. I have been wondering which genius coined that term, the very act of distancing is antisocial. Since I've been called antisocial by some, I decided to use the term "physical distancing" instead. Thomas, putting some smoldering oakum in your beard braids would really top off the look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Oh come ON man, you can't use old terms like BACKOFF! You have to invent something new, something properly pretentious. At least they didn't tack a bunch of redundant sometimes contradictory suffixes on a an already irrelevant word. Remember, "religiosity"? There was an amusing bit of video of a guy I think in NYC who duct taped a bunch of tent poles together into a ring 12' across and hug it from himself to keep the 6' distance. Folks were stepping into intersections to avoid him while he was using a cross walk. Riding the bicycle was entertaining too. What's wrong with 3-4 vicious dogs on 6' leashes? A pitch fork and torch would clue folk into keeping their distance. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 we kept it simple and put extra onions on the chili dogs we had for lunch, I suppose garlic could help with the social distancing as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 I have long maintained that enough garlic will cure you or at least make people leave you alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Large amounts of garlic definitely qualifies as "anti-social" distancing. Steve, isn't your method dangerous around sparks or open flames? As for my beard I have a selection of danglies usually based on ear rings I have been given to hang from the ties or rubber bands on the end of my braids: a set of serpentine axes, a set of anvils, a set of Laurel wreaths around faceted garnets---for Laurel meetings in the SCA,... IDF&C: I prefer slow match to oakum. Didn't they Teach you anything back in school! (I used to have some slow match for the cannon...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc1 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Quaranteen Sydney style https://youtu.be/CiwhfF5X5Jg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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