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Panic Over High Death Rate

Buying extra toilet paper is not equivalent to panicking. Not even close. And it wasnt caused by the media.

Do you know how much toilet paper a family of 4 would go through in 2 months? I do. 30 rolls. On average. A family of 8 or who has teen girls may use much more, but would likely need at least 60 rolls for two months worth. I normally buy large packs because I hate running out. Others shop for only a couple of days. But when you are told that quarantines for this could last 2 weeks or more, that is at least a 8 rolls. Now everyone figures this out, and starts buying. Shelves empty. When they refill you've noticed that hey it went fast only for a few weeks worth, and now the government is saying this could last a few months and there are none available. Ta da we have over buying.

Panic buying is not panicking. And mixed messages were the fault of the President, not the media.

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I just wanted to add that I think we will find that traffic accidents will be lower in March and April of this year due to the stay home stay safe policy enacted in many states durning this coronavirus Heath crisis.
 
minnie616 said:
I just wanted to add that I think we will find that traffic accidents will be lower in March and April of this year due to the stay home stay safe policy enacted in many states durning this coronavirus Heath crisis.
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What I’m praying for is that something good comes out of this...that we actually learn something and apply that thing to the future. And what I’m referring to is the normalization of people working from home instead of the office when all their job requires is a phone and an internet connection. Think of all the completely avoidable congested traffic, lost hours in commute and millions of tons of CO2 added to the air.
 

Cardinal said:
I think you need to google “herd immunity.” When you do, you’ll see the problem with your theory.
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I agree.

Actually, herd immunity will not work On the Coronavirus unless an effective vaccine is used on the vast majority of the population.

Here is a snip from an article that explaines it quite nicely.



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Here's Why Herd Immunity Won't Save Us From The COVID-19 Pandemic



Here's Why Herd Immunity Won't Save Us From The COVID-19 Pandemic


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But but doctor! I didnt die! You lied to me!
Doctor: i gave you the medicine ya ungrateful sod.
 
as i posted in the other thread using this same tactic (is this spreading through Republican Media?), the OP should tweet all the other death stats to the family members who lose loved ones to this virus. it will comfort them.


either that or he should DEMAND that Trump put the country back to work.
 

Least they wont have to wear all kinds of freakish contraptions designed to focus all senses on the job. Some bosses are still thinking of axing the cubicle for that.
 

I boded the sentences I want to address.

I would like to point out that currently TCF Stadium is currently being converted into fabhospital for up to 900 Coronavirus patients.

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Technically something good has come out of it. Drug cartels are facing some huge issues with supply for their production as well as getting what they do have to customers due to closed borders and little to no travel. Crime in general may go down a bit too, but this could be very dependent on a lot of factors. Date rape is likely to drop a lot, but domestic violence could very likely spike up.

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As I understand it, domestic violence is already up. A few days ago I noticed the alcohol shelves starting to thin out and had a pretty good idea of what might be happening behind those thinning shelves.
 
Cardinal said:
As I understand it, domestic violence is already up. A few days ago I noticed the alcohol shelves starting to thin out and had a pretty good idea of what might be happening behind those thinning shelves.
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There are definitely going to be some statistics shifts. There will likely be an increase in household accidents, but also a likely decrease in motor vehicle accidents and recreational activity accidents. Hopefully there will be an increase in physically active people above the steps counted activity (which will decline rapidly). Withdraws and overdoses (surprisingly) may go up in the next few months, even with drug use in general potentially decreasing.

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Cardinal said:
As I understand it, domestic violence is already up. A few days ago I noticed the alcohol shelves starting to thin out and had a pretty good idea of what might be happening behind those thinning shelves.
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Also, many places have started allowing alcohol delivery.

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year2late said:
Are you aware that health care workers are sick and dying because of exposure?

Please do not trivialize what is happening.
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The comment to which I responded was in regard to the health system not being maxed out at this point.

"So far, so good" means that we are not yet maxed out.

What are you imagining I was saying by reading something into my comment that I didn't put there?
 

You are explaining and justifying, not denying, panic buying.

Walking through the local stores lately, the shelves are being restocked to near normal levels and varieties.

The panic buying did not extend to only toilet paper. In the local Meijer, there is a refer cabinet that runs about 50 feet or so and has cold cuts and hot dog type items stacked in columns about 7 feet high.

Normally, it's a wall of the quasi meat that these products contain. On about March 23 or 24, that cabinet was pretty much empty. A couple days ago, it was once again, pretty much full.

Kroger was similarly picked over until the last few days. About a week ago, I wanted to buy some regular old yellow mustard. There was none. They usually have it stacked deep on a few different shelves from various labels.

The genius of Capitalism is that the system responds to this kind of thing and the shelves are now stocked up again and geared to satisfy the needs of the stay at home, new normal, buying habits.

Also, the shoppers are now aware that the shelves are being re-stocked.

Amid Coronavirus Fears, Shoppers Throw Punches Over Toilet Paper

[h=1]AMID CORONAVIRUS FEARS, SHOPPERS THROW PUNCHES OVER TOILET PAPER[/h]BY [FONT=&quot]MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 3/9/20 AT 10:31 AM EDT[/FONT]
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Two things about this:

1. Throwing punches over toilet paper is unusual because it never happens in normal times.

2. The folks involved in throwing punches over toilet paper are probably otherwise normal folks WHO WERE IN A PANIC over toilet paper.

Why are you even arguing this point?
 

Panic buying is not equivalent to panicking. If it were, every single year when either a hurricane or a blizzard hits different parts of the country, people could be considered panicking since that is what happens all the time. Hell every single Black Friday could be referred to as panic buying if we are going off of throwing punches to get something.

Additionally, that was Australia. So please tell us how the mainstream media caused that. And how it was even caused by the media reporting facts, rather than people determining from what was being reported, you know, the truth, that they may need more than they normally purchase, just in case. And, aussies like to fight.

And show how many cases of throwing punches over toilet paper have occurred? Lets try to limit this to the US since it was the US whose President claimed that "panic" was to be blamed on the media and/or Dems. Has anyone died over toilet paper?

Throwing punches is actually an annual thing when it comes to trying to purchase something.

Black Friday Violence By State — Are You In A High Risk Area?

Those involved in these Black Friday incidents were also likely normal folks who just wanted the best price on a TV or toaster.
 
minnie616 said:
I boded the sentences I want to address.

I would like to point out that currently TCF Stadium is currently being converted into fabhospital for up to 900 Coronavirus patients.

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The TCF Stadium I'm talking about is in Minneapolis. It's the home field of the Minnesota Golden Gophers Football Team. It's an outdoor Football venue.

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Depends where you are. Depends what you consider the heath system.

You are aware that health care workers in many areas have resorted to makeshift PPE? Health care workers are already getting the virus and dying.:shock: Wearing garbage bags and hand made masks that they are re-using (and clearly not medical grade, let alone n95)…….so far so good my ass.

By the way, if you ended up having a major health issue --requiring intensive care and surgery.....do you think any care for you would be different? Do you think your care would be different in anyway - perhaps compromised? Think of a increased need for ICU RNs to take care of you.....there was already a shortage of ICU RNs in many areas. How do you think they accommodate?
 

So panic buying has nothing to do with panic?

C'mon, man!

Sorry about the Australian reference. Looks like they panic there as well.

Black Friday stupidities are also a great example of panic. Thank you for pointing that out. We are apparently an easily panicked species.

NPR seems to disagree with you misinterpretation of this situation as do the majority of Americans.

Out of curiosity, can you link to any source that says clearly that there never was any panic buying and that everything was completely normal throughout the month of March in the US?

I can't understand why you are even arguing this.

Grocery Stores Start To Cut Hours As Coronavirus Prompts Surge In Panic-Buying : NPR
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With panic-buying gripping shoppers, Walmart, the nation's largest retailer by sales, announced this week that it has given store managers the "discretion to limit sales quantities on items that are in unusually high demand."

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I live in Indianapolis. Here, we are not in as bad shape as is New York. The way those folks crawl all over each other during their daily routine is terrifying to me with or without the virus.

New York and California both have huge populations. California is doing fairly well coping with the virus. New York is a crap show. California is about twice as populace as New York.

I saw a picture of nurses wearing garbage bags. It looked like they were wearing the garbage bags over their PPE. They also appeared to be mugging for the camera.

That does nothing to lessen the heroism they display as they freely choose to help the rest of us in need. In truth, it shows the great and admirable spirit and humor they maintain in this crisis.

In all honesty, I wouldn't want a job in the medical business in good times or bad.

The current shortages represent a lot and some of that is the deficiency of the local folks planning effectively.

Anyway, regarding your question, here in Indianapolis, we are blessed with a vast medical complex combining the force and strength of various institutions.

If I needed any procedure to be done, there is plenty of capacity to get it done available from several different providers. Still need to seek that care "in-network".
 
Grocery stores are cutting hours to reduce exposure of their employees. Walmart has fewer people shopping and they are still considering limiting the number of people coming in.

And no panic buying (which is a subjective description that doesnt describe the actual situation, but based only on more people buying more than their current needs, stockpiling) is not related to panicking. Panicking would include killing the person with a cough, or at least threatening them. It would include taking extreme measures to avoid getting the illness. It would include riots and robbing people for their food. And all this would definitely need to be more widespread than an incident or two found out of thousands of examples of people just adapting easily.

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code1211 said:
The genius of Capitalism is that the system responds to this kind of thing and the shelves are now stocked up again and geared to satisfy the needs of the stay at home, new normal, buying habits.
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The genius will seem short lived if the pandemic is not short lived. The rate of infection in the US is extremely uneven with many sections of the country only lightly affected. So far. Elsewhere, as in Japan, the virus is having a resurgence, casting doubt on the hope that it will test us with only a single course. The longer it lasts the greater will be the strain on "the supply chain", as the admiral referenced it.
 

You apply considerations that are not needed to fit the descriptions used by most of the media sn most of the citizens of the United States.

I don't know why you feel compelled to do so, but you are certainly free to do so.

Panic | Definition of Panic at Dictionary.com

[h=1]panic[/h]1
[ pan-ik ]SHOW IPA
SEE SYNONYMS FOR panic ON THESAURUS.COM
[h=3]noun[/h]a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
an instance, outbreak, or period of such fear.

SEE MORE[h=3]adjective[/h]of the nature of, caused by, or indicating panic: A wave of panic buying shook the stock market.
(of fear, terror, etc.) suddenly destroying the self-control and impelling to some frantic action.

SEE MORE[h=3]verb (used with object), pan·icked, pan·ick·ing.[/h]to affect with panic; terrify and cause to flee or lose self-control.
Slang. to keep (an audience or the like) highly amused.









This is why everyone is hoarding toilet paper | Ars Technica

[h=1]This is why everyone is hoarding toilet paper[/h][h=2]A consumer behavior researcher explains why toilet paper shelves are bare.[/h]KIONA N. SMITH - 3/24/2020, 9:52 AM
Enlarge / You know it's crazy when they even take the letter "E" from the sign.
 

Don't you just hate it when a poster edits your posts for no other reason than to change the meaning and then presents the words as if they have not been changed?
 
code1211 said:
Don't you just hate it when a poster edits your posts for no other reason than to change the meaning and then presents the words as if they have not been changed?
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The post addressed one point and did not change its meaning.
 
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