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FredHayek wrote: Essential activities do not include construction. So the guys building new housing and a new stadium have to stay home. I hope infrastructure repair is an essential activity.

In Colorado, Polis shut down salons, barber shops, and tattoo joints, but left dispensaries and liquor stores open. Plus you can now order booze with your takeout. I think the governor is smart to realize that people need their vices.

But I already know a couple of women who are seeking ways to still get in their monthly manicures. Inviting the woman to their home might be a possible work around the ban.

Fourth turning? It will be interesting to see how many of these changes stay with us. No more handshakes? No more close talkers?

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Those are superficial gestures.....THAT is not what the FOURTH TURNING is going to manifest.

Pony Soldier wrote: Damage, I am also in the high risk group having had a slew of pulmonary embolisms this year. I made my peace with my own mortality a long time ago. Funny thing is that we all get issued that one way ticket at birth. All the jockeying for things and position while we’re here amounts the exactly the same end result. Worm food...

I had 12 PE's during a round of chemo and i could barely breathe for abut 8 hours so I'm sure I have damage that puts me at a higher risk. Like you, I've dodged my share of bullets and ready to accept what comes.

Rick wrote:

Pony Soldier wrote: Damage, I am also in the high risk group having had a slew of pulmonary embolisms this year. I made my peace with my own mortality a long time ago. Funny thing is that we all get issued that one way ticket at birth. All the jockeying for things and position while we’re here amounts the exactly the same end result. Worm food...

I had 12 PE's during a round of chemo and i could barely breathe for abut 8 hours so I'm sure I have damage that puts me at a higher risk. Like you, I've dodged my share of bullets and ready to accept what comes.

My all time fav book.....ILLUSIONS Adventures of a reluctant Messiah.....the best quote

''here's a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.....if you are alive,it isn't.''

Comment from a retired MD .Have no idea how to format this properly. He is responding to a poster who wrote the first sentence.


With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms,

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It’s not the only thing. We were able to stop SARS in 20013 after only a few thousand cases globally. It depends on the virus.

The big fear is to encounter a virus that will be a killer like SARS - and infectious like the flu. That would be bad.

The big lesson, IMO, from this epidemic will be - You have the technology? USE IT!

We must have rapid assessment and response mechanisms. Something like this shows up again - we must get going right off the bat - crank up testing... have researchers over at the place of origin, like Wuhan - getting familiar with the disease and it’s course, study its epidemiology locally, without waiting for it to hit our shores... learn the effectiveness of treatments. Also, the bureaucratic mechanisms must be restructured. To hand over the development of tests to the CDC - which, in turn, had one single outfit develop one test - which later failed? That’s no good at all. That’s what socialism is made of.

FDA sitting like an elephant on apparently effective treatments, totally unmovable - ain’t acceptable, either.

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An apparent answer to the atrocious problem..YET, it is not first on the list of critical things to do,
I don't get it.....I AGREE with the article.