So coronavirus is definitely going to kill a few of us.

**Walter Sobchak** · 07-07-2020, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by BCR

Originally Posted by tgull

You really think that contact tracing works? Out of the 100 you call, 90 won't give a shit. You are wasting your time. We are not South Korea.

I mean like my buddies I went golfing with on Friday and Saturday, my old girlfriend and her entire family who was there on the 4th at her mothers house, her kids and kids teammates and coaches and other parents at the game whom I know and sat and spoke to.

I’m not talking about trying to hunt down some random I may have crossed paths with working the desk at the golf course or the starter and bartender who brought me a drink on some patio bar. Everyone I’d feel the need to contact would definitely want to know. I’d only be worried about maybe 5 of them as far as over 65 and in ill health.

The coach of the little league team has a wife going through stage 4 ovarian cancer- she was the first one I thought about as I always go out of my way to talk to her when I see her. She’s only 40ish, but knowing some dude with Covid sat and talked to her would unsettle the fuck out of her I’m sure. Just the idea made me cringe and think about the ethics of disclosing shit with so much going on. It would make me feel horrible and would be easier to not tell anyone, and made me wonder if you’re even doing someone a favor when you have no symptoms at all about getting them worried. But temp is technically a symptom even if you didn’t know you had one.

Won’t likely matter as I think it’s probably 1% I have it.

I’m fully aware we aren’t South Korea and think contact tracing on a large scale is idiotic. Telling people you sat and talked with and ate with and spent hours with is a different story. You don’t always have to be an ass. I like you, but it gets a bit much.

A bit?

**splitthis** · 07-07-2020, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by tgull

Originally Posted by BCR

I had to take a COVID test today. Showed up for my doctors appointment yesterday that I have monthly, and they take temp, and mine was 99.6. They said I couldn’t be seen. They told me to monitor it. Woke up this morning, was 99.8-100.2 over like 6 tries. Feel 100% normal. Would never suspect I have a temp. I called back doctor and they sent me to a flu clinic that is doing testing. Place is 100% COVID or suspected Covid cases. Small office. Only allow two patients at a time and they have most chairs blocked off. I was only one there. Felt idiotic, but had no choice to return to normal doc. Did the nasal test with like a long probe that goes all the way back. Doc then came in and said I had an ear infection. Looked like swimmers ear. I had went swimming on 4th. Ear felt fine. Called me in Augmentin pills and Cipro ear drops.

Absolutely torn. Would love if I had it as I’m 100% fine at this point , but saw more people in last 5 days than at any point in last 6 months with the holiday. Golfed on Friday and Saturday. Pool party on 4th. Went to little league game Sunday. I legit will have to notify 100 people I actually know, so in that sense I hope it’s not, plus I guess it could get worse. Said it will be 2-5 days for results. Pulse ox was 98. Have smell and taste. Have no symptoms. Seems super unlikely I have it. Doc said just around 10% of tests he did last week came back positive, but I assume almost anyone had a better reason than me to be tested. I’ve known a handful of people convinced they had it all come back negative, I’m convinced I don’t and it sure doesn’t feel like it, so I probably will come back positive. If it takes 5 days and I still feel like this and no one else I came into contact with has gotten sick, I will probably be hoping I have it by then. Seems incredibly unlikely.

You really think that contact tracing works? Out of the 100 you call, 90 won't give a shit. You are wasting your time. We are not South Korea.

Completely correct.

**splitthis** · 07-07-2020, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by BCR

Originally Posted by tgull

You really think that contact tracing works? Out of the 100 you call, 90 won't give a shit. You are wasting your time. We are not South Korea.

I mean like my buddies I went golfing with on Friday and Saturday, my old girlfriend and her entire family who was there on the 4th at her mothers house, her kids and kids teammates and coaches and other parents at the game whom I know and sat and spoke to.

I’m not talking about trying to hunt down some random I may have crossed paths with working the desk at the golf course or the starter and bartender who brought me a drink on some patio bar. Everyone I’d feel the need to contact would definitely want to know. I’d only be worried about maybe 5 of them as far as over 65 and in ill health.

The coach of the little league team has a wife going through stage 4 ovarian cancer- she was the first one I thought about as I always go out of my way to talk to her when I see her. She’s only 40ish, but knowing some dude with Covid sat and talked to her would unsettle the fuck out of her I’m sure. Just the idea made me cringe and think about the ethics of disclosing shit with so much going on. It would make me feel horrible and would be easier to not tell anyone, and made me wonder if you’re even doing someone a favor when you have no symptoms at all about getting them worried. But temp is technically a symptom even if you didn’t know you had one.

Won’t likely matter as I think it’s probably 1% I have it.

I’m fully aware we aren’t South Korea and think contact tracing on a large scale is idiotic. Telling people you sat and talked with and ate with and spent hours with is a different story. You don’t always have to be an ass. I like you, but it gets a bit much.

Anyone with stage 4 cancer intermingling with others is an idiot.

**tgull** · 07-07-2020, 01:43 PM

Originally Posted by splitthis

Originally Posted by tgull

You really think that contact tracing works? Out of the 100 you call, 90 won't give a shit. You are wasting your time. We are not South Korea.

Completely correct.

My point is out of those 100 people, there might be like 4 that will self quarantine for 14 days. And I am being generous. If everyone self quarantined for 14 days because they were around someone with Covid, then 50% of the country would be self isolating forever.

Another thing is why are grocery stores considered safe? You know good and well 20% of the people in there have Covid but for whatever reason that does not count, but getting a haircut is potentially deadly.

Granted you will always have a few losers here and there like Much Ficon who are milking this virus for all that its worth because they make more money collecting unemployment and can play video games, but for the most of us this hysteria is getting out of hand.

**Walter Sobchak** · 07-07-2020, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by tgull

Originally Posted by splitthis

Completely correct.

My point is out of those 100 people, there might be like 4 that will self quarantine for 14 days. And I am being generous. If everyone self quarantined for 14 days because they were around someone with Covid, then 50% of the country would be self isolating forever.

Another thing is why are grocery stores considered safe? You know good and well 20% of the people in there have Covid but for whatever reason that does not count, but getting a haircut is potentially deadly.

Granted you will always have a few losers here and there like Much Ficon who are milking this virus for all that its worth because they make more money collecting unemployment and can play video games, but for the most of us this hysteria is getting out of hand.

Your fagginess is getting out of hand.

**big dick** · 07-07-2020, 07:20 PM

56 Florida hospital ICUs have hit capacity

(CNN)The worsening coronavirus pandemic hit a series of somber peaks across the United States on Tuesday, renewing fears that more hospitals could be overloaded with Covid-19 patients.

At least 56 intensive care units in Florida hospitals reached capacity on Tuesday, state officials said. Another 35 hospitals show ICU bed availability of 10% or less, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration in that state.
Georgia surpassed 100,000 reported coronavirus cases, becoming the ninth state to pass the mark.

**TheXFactor** · 07-07-2020, 07:34 PM

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for Covid-19 after months of dismissing the seriousness of the virus

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/07/a...ntl/index.html

Brazil's President tests positive for coronavirus.

How long before Donald Trump tests positive?

Trump is at least 50 pounds overweight and in poor health for a 74 year old.

Will Trump survive the coronavirus?

**big dick** · 07-07-2020, 07:40 PM

What's happening in our country right now is an absolute disgrace.

This is fucking bullshit that we are in this position right now. Middle of fucking summer and 50k+ new cases a day and no signs of slowing down. This whole notion that younger people don't get fucked up from this disease is just not true. Young people are getting fucked up too.

I saw an interview with a Dallas ER Doctor and he said he had lost count of how many very sick people in theirs 20's ended up in his ER that week.

**Sanlmar** · 07-07-2020, 09:02 PM

I give zero shits about coronavirus in California, I just find the headline catchy

Nearly 1,000 inmates will be removed from San Quentin prison after its infection rate has gotten so bad it's been dubbed 'the Chernobyl of COVID'
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/i...f-covid-2020-7

The prisoners are now being exported hither and yon throughout that fine state. What a shit show.

California doesn’t win the prize for stupidest handling of Covid but they are still in contention.

**Sanlmar** · 07-07-2020, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by Sanlmar

Wife and I went for a walk this afternoon. Bumped into a neighbor who works for Regeneron Pharmaceuticqls.

He told the story of a visiting executive in early January coming to his building. She was coughing and hacking. People are like “what the fuck”. Fresh off the plane from China.

This neighbor got sick with what was then diagnosed as pneumonia. Chest X-rays for him and his wife. Said he was never so sick in his life. Came back after the episode as only part time. Completely wrecked.

He was talking about donating plasma and all that.

I ask him, “do you think you are now immune?” He insta-responds, “No”.

He said Regeneron is working on testing etc. Lotta smart people and lots being said in the office. Based on what he hears he is resigned.

I later posted the guy went for chest X-rays and what not a month or so ago cause he was still feeling crummy. Lotta missed time at work, needless to say.

His wife texted my wife saying he got laid off today. 20+ years with them.

There has got to be more to the story. Regardless, shit def just started rolling downhill for him.

The moronic dialog that makes Covid a binary issue - death or recovery, measuring death rates only as a sign of success or seriousness is just profoundly dumb.

BCR was following the story so I thought I’d continue the Covid serial. I gotta stay out of it. There is always pride when a guy get laid off. Personally, I hope the next news I hear includes words like “attorney”.

Crazy times. Stupid people.

**Sanlmar** · 07-07-2020, 10:16 PM