March Madness and Covid-19

[sheepdogs1]

Right, but I think abd's point (and he can correct me if I'm wrong) is that we don't even really need manned fighter jets anymore. We have drones, and hyper-accurate missiles than can do the job just as well, if not better.

Some weapons are used for both offensive reasons and defensive reasons. A fighter jet is necessary not just from an offensive perspective, but also as a defensive deterrent. It takes more than just ground based defensive weaponry to offset an attack by airborne weapons such as jets. You can take the very same golf club and place it into the hands of different players and get differing results.

On a "side pocket" note, 1 in 77313 people in Oklahoma is currently diagnosed with the virus.

 

[steverocks35]

The drones don’t have much of the same capability as manned fighters

Close air support. Air interdiction. National defense protection. Ect

Ah okay, makes sense.

 

[MJSooner]

Lol, I guess in 58 pages a conversation will twist many directions from March Madness and COVID19, but now we are on military arsenal. Awesome.

Golf, government authority, basketball, social distancing, politics, racism, COVID19, and now the military, just off the top of my head. Any other topics I missed?

 

[steverocks35]

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/

Interesting read, a guy that helped defeat smallpox talks about Covid-19

 

[BoulderSooner]

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/

Interesting read, a guy that helped defeat smallpox talks about Covid-19

Thanks for posting.



Also thanks to all of you who are active on here. It is a nice distraction some times. And even though we all don’t agree. It has been a good distractions

 

[steverocks35]

Thanks for posting.



Also thanks to all of you who are active on here. It is a nice distraction some times. And even though we all don’t agree. It has been a good distractions

Thank you as well! It has been a good discussion and a good distraction!

 

[sheepdogs1]

Lol, I guess in 58 pages a conversation will twist many directions from March Madness and COVID19, but now we are on military arsenal. Awesome.

Golf, government authority, basketball, social distancing, politics, racism, COVID19, and now the military, just off the top of my head. Any other topics I missed?

Meditation? And I'm glad you placed golf at the beginning of the cue. Priorities are priorities.

 

[MJSooner]

Thanks for posting.



Also thanks to all of you who are active on here. It is a nice distraction some times. And even though we all don’t agree. It has been a good distractions

Agreed. But we probably agree more on this thread than we all do on game threads!

 

[sheepdogs1]

Agreed. But we probably agree more on this thread than we all do on game threads!

Sports>life and death matters.

 

[MJSooner]

Sports>life and death matters.

Shouldn't that read: sports=life and death matters. :ez-laugh:

 

[steverocks35]

https://oklahoman.com/article/5658286/coronavirus-in-oklahoma-ailing-attorney-warns-dont-put-yourself-at-risk

This attorney in OKC has Covid-19, he's still not out of the woods. He got in on a trip to Miami, what got my attention, aside from how awful it sounds to have this disease, is that all three of the people that went on the trip with him tested positive!

 

[sheepdogs1]

Shouldn't that read: sports=life and death matters. :ez-laugh:

Once again I stand corrected.

 

[coolm]

This attorney in OKC has Covid-19, he's still not out of the woods. He got in on a trip to Miami, what got my attention, aside from how awful it sounds to have this disease, is that all three of the people that went on the trip with him tested positive!

It's Chris and he's a very good friend of mine. He was busy preparing to move back to Indiana in an attempt to flee this state. He's young, athletic, and now incredibly sick. This is the classic person whom everyone acts as though isn't at risk. And right now he's fighting for his life.

I also have 2 other friends from the courthouse who are positive. All 3 fought like dogs just to get tested and were turned down a few times. Chris just kept getting told "no" and he'd been trying for days. Then he found out one of his friends in Florida was positive and finally this convinced authorities to test him.

Everyone needs to stay the %#$@ at home. All the crap about percentages are pointless if we can't test on the spot. Need to assume you have it, assume it's 100% lethal, and take precautions to not infect your mom or kids. Thats the only way to be safe about it right now.

 

[sheepdogs1]

It's Chris and he's a very good friend of mine. He was busy preparing to move back to Indiana in an attempt to flee this state. He's young, athletic, and now incredibly sick. This is the classic person whom everyone acts as though isn't at risk. And right now he's fighting for his life.

I also have 2 other friends from the courthouse who are positive. All 3 fought like dogs just to get tested and were turned down a few times. Chris just kept getting told "no" and he'd been trying for days. Then he found out one of his friends in Florida was positive and finally this convinced authorities to test him.

Everyone needs to stay the %#$@ at home. All the crap about percentages are pointless if we can't test on the spot. Need to assume you have it, assume it's 100% lethal, and take precautions to not infect your mom or kids. Thats the only way to be safe about it right now.

Think positive. He'll be okay.

 

[steverocks35]

It's Chris and he's a very good friend of mine. He was busy preparing to move back to Indiana in an attempt to flee this state. He's young, athletic, and now incredibly sick. This is the classic person whom everyone acts as though isn't at risk. And right now he's fighting for his life.

I also have 2 other friends from the courthouse who are positive. All 3 fought like dogs just to get tested and were turned down a few times. Chris just kept getting told "no" and he'd been trying for days. Then he found out one of his friends in Florida was positive and finally this convinced authorities to test him.

Everyone needs to stay the %#$@ at home. All the crap about percentages are pointless if we can't test on the spot. Need to assume you have it, assume it's 100% lethal, and take precautions to not infect your mom or kids. Thats the only way to be safe about it right now.

I’m so sorry this is happening to your friends. In the story it says he got taken by ambulance to the hospital on Saturday so he’s in my thoughts.

Unfortunately I have to leave the house to go to work at the hospital, but other than that I have supplies enough to last at least a month at home.

 

[sheepdogs1]

It seems most cases in Sooner land are centered in and around OKC (35 of 53 known cases).

 

[Eielson]

golf, government authority, basketball, social distancing, politics, racism, covid19, and now the military, just off the top of my head. Any other topics i missed?

Global warming!!

 

[coolm]

I’m so sorry this is happening to your friends. In the story it says he got taken by ambulance to the hospital on Saturday so he’s in my thoughts.

what sucks is Chris had been trying to get tested since Tuesday or Wednesday and kept getting turned down. all while he was sick and he's far from a whiner or hypochondriac. no idea what his O2 level was but you could tell he was sick friday just reading his texts and speaking to him on the phone. our lack of preparedness may mean his demise.

 

[coolm]

oh, and for those of you who kept suggesting "NMH" could also mean they just hadn't been to the doctor in a long time ... quit fooling yourselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...vOQe6IAoWq-c33aXpueTW-i3BxH3dxNYgJQhKY#179875

 

[paboomersooner]

You can't calculate New York's death rate yet because all their cases are active. They literally have zero recovered patients.

But I'm not going to totally rain on the parade, those are good numbers so far, just incomplete.

This post, along with hundreds(?) more at this point, seem to indicate that you, and others, are in favor of this outbreak. Almost like you will be disappointed when this issue has ended. Like, your enjoying this whole situation. You wouldn't want all of this doom and gloom talk to come to fruition just to be...right, would you?

By the way, Pennsylvania is doing many of the same things all the other knee-jerk states are doing. Is it helping? Officially, I don't know but our infected numbers supposedly have doubled the last two days. You make the call.

I think my wife and a co-worker MAY have had this virus the first week of November. They had many of the same symptoms as The Wuhan. Five to ten days after my wife recovered, I started showing the same symptoms. I had a high fever for a week, aches, cough, tightness in my chest into mid December. No respiration problems. It sucked but not the worst illness I had experienced. However, prior to this one, I know I never had an illness like this one. All symptoms hit me within 24 hours.

My son came home for Thanksgiving break, about the time I had started to see improvement in my condition. He returned to school fine. He returned for Christmas break in mid December. One day before he returned home for break, one day after his first symptoms, he went to the doctor at school. He tested negative for the flu. He had the same symptoms. When he came home, he went to our family physician and was prescribed a Z-pack. His symptoms subsided much quicker than mine or the others I mentioned above. Could have been the meds, could have been his age.

I also question the claim of permanent lung damage to those who recover. IF what I had was The 'Rona, I have not recognized any changes in my respiratory function. I currently have a sitting heart rate of 55 and routinely jog a 7.5 minute mile with little exertion at 48 years old.

Moral of the story; I SURVIVED THE CHINESE FLU!!!!!(maybe)

"Everybody was Kung Flu fightin'"...Sing it with me...