2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

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  1. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    While I've been home over the last 5 weeks I've spent 2 hours a day on the exercise bicycle, I do sit-ups, push-ups, lift weights,
    eat fruits and vegetables, and I take a multi-vitamin each morning.

    I haven't had this much time to read in over 30 years, I get plenty of sun puttering around the garden, and after what should be our
    final freeze warning until next fall, I can start my plantings which will require even more time out in the sun.

    You're just assuming everyone is glued to the TV set all day and has domino pizza delivery on speed-dial.
     
  2. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    In what universe is 10,000 Britons being me 'assuming everyone'?
     
  3. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I can only offer you an example of how I'm personally coping through all this, and neither you nor I can know what everyone else is doing.
     
  4. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Pretty safe bet at least a few percent are sitting on their ass
     
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  5. Driftrue

    Driftrue Banned

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    i'm glad lockdown is providing you with time for this : P
     
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    I want what she's having:


    Maria Branyas: 'Oldest woman in Spain' beats coronavirus at 113

    A 113-year-old woman - believed to be the oldest woman in Spain - has recovered from the coronavirus, officials have said.

    Maria Branyas was diagnosed with Covid-19 after the country went into lockdown in March.

    But after weeks in isolation, Ms Branyas recovered, having suffered only mild symptoms.

    It means she has lived through the flu pandemic of 1918-19, the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the coronavirus

    'Oldest woman in Spain' beats coronavirus at 113
     
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  7. Driftrue

    Driftrue Banned

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    wow. imagine having a grand kid who is 60
     
  8. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Funny, but the truth is I'm doing everything I can to help pump up the immune system
    should I be stricken by this deadly virus.

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    WASHINGTON — Two of the federal government’s top health officials painted a grim picture of the months ahead on Tuesday, warning a Senate panel that the coronavirus pandemic was far from contained, just a day after President Trump declared that “we have met the moment and we have prevailed.”

    The officials — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, and Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — predicted dire consequences if the nation reopened its economy too soon, noting that the United States still lacked critical testing capacity and the ability to trace the contacts of those infected.
     
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    Now that was funny
     
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    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    16,000 people -- most of them young adults -- have volunteered to be intentionally infected with COVID-19
    to support a controversial method of speed up the development of a vaccine.

    I wish them the best but I know statistically some of them will die or suffer permanent lung or heart damage.
     
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    newbie-one one with the newbiverse

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    Link? Could not find anything about this online
     
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    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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  18. jagerhans

    jagerhans Far out, man. Lifetime Supporter

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    Maybe I'm just ignorant, but why purposefully infecting perfectly healthy people instead of asking those who are already ill to volunteer ? They already have nothing to lose and there is no shortage of them either.
     
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    Lol, this is deadly virus guys please be scared for your life, but we need a few volunteers to be infected so we can test things. :)
     
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