Not so funny real life Capt Trips thread

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:51 pm

I just got off a regional PIO call. Big issue right now is knocking out rumors and mis-information. That was a big problem around ebola.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:20 pm

Joe K wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:53 am
Rex wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:48 pm
brian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 6:42 pm The real panicking is still a week or so away I think.
I think Monday.
We were warned.

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Rex wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:57 pm One interesting thing about this epidemic is how the most at-risk group right now is probably rich, powerful old people who travel a lot or are surrounded by people who do. Good thing there are none of those running for President.

This one is looking pretty good too

Rams Fanny · Post by **Rams Fanny** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:27 pm

Maybe in an abundance of caution we should put RBG in forced quarantine.

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:31 pm

Speaking of which, the Emperor has no clothes and no brain:

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:58 pm

How many staffers/fellow Reps got a chuckle out of wearing that gas mask?

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:00 pm

God I'd kill to see video of this.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:05 pm

It's delicious, all of it.

It's too bad there wasn't a more direct link between contracting this and being a Fox News viewer.

You fucking morons love the Fucking Moron and all of his little fuckettes. Coming home to roost doesn't even begin the discussion.

Like, you people want to say the Dems are playing politics with this, while this asshole rolls around on the floor and has a tantrum... About a fucking pandemic. Saying stupid shit to make yourself look better sure helped calm the markets, huh? You fucking moron.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:19 pm

Hey guys, maybe this is what...

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:24 pm

I can't even begin to wrap my head around the minuscule chance that "Matt Gaetz contracted coronavirus at a racism conference and then passed it along to President Trump" could become a real sentence.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:28 pm

Atlanta (Fulton) schools closed. Recession on.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:37 pm

One kid (mine) at the group conditioning session today. Recession on.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:38 pm

Shiniest hair in the city.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:39 pm

Fuck my clients. I ain't breathing magistrate court air from 100 derelicts anymore. Recession on.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:42 pm

Seriously considering a month rental in the smokies. 35k and theyre sending info about remote learning. I can do that for free. Fuck another tuition check. Recession on.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:47 pm

Why I need your cheap gas not to travel. Recession on.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 5:25 pm

Some dude on CNN advised not to get on airplanes. ATL is everything on this side of town. Recession on.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 5:34 pm

Breaking news on my Twitter feed - Some beat writers are really defensive about the importance of their jobs

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:03 pm

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:37 pm One kid (mine) at the group conditioning session today. Recession on.

Beltline still crowded as hell, so hang on a minute

Post by **brian** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:31 pm

Yeah McCarran Airport (LAS) still busy as fuck.

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:35 pm

Rex wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:03 pm
HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:37 pm One kid (mine) at the group conditioning session today. Recession on.
Beltline still crowded as hell, so hang on a minute

Beltline folk got a couple (or many) months of savings anyway. Give em a few months before they feel the pinch. Rubber hits the road starting tomorrow. School out is a massive economic drain for the masses.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:12 pm

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:15 pm

Pear Jam cancels their tour and Boston cancels Southie's St. Patty's Day Parade.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:46 pm

N.Y. attorney general to televangelist Jim Bakker: Stop peddling unproven coronavirus cures

“WaPo” wrote:...Bakker asked a guest on his TV show whether the silver tonic he sells on his website just might cure this new illness as well.
“It hasn’t been tested on this strain of the coronavirus, but it’s been tested on other strains of the coronavirus, and has been able to eliminate it within 12 hours. Totally eliminates it, kills it, deactivates it and then it boosts your immune system,” said guest Sherrill Sellman, as Bakker interjected, “yeah, yeah.”

Other panelists on the TV set murmured their approval as well. One exclaimed: “That’s so good!”

As they talked, an advertisement was plastered across the screen: Those seeking a cure for coronavirus or another illness could get four tubes of Silver Solution gel for $80 at JimBakkerShow.com. Or, for $125, they could buy a variety pack of two bottles of Silver Solution liquid, two tubes of gel and three lozenges.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:38 am

EdRomero wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:15 pm Pear Jam cancels their tour...

It is very spreadable.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:30 am

Italia è chiusa

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:06 am

WHO report:

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source ... report.pdf

Here are some highlights from the report.
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When a cluster of several infected people occurred in China, it was most often (78-85%) caused by an infection within the family by droplets and other carriers of infection in close contact with an infected person. Transmission by fine aerosols in the air over long distances is not one of the main causes of spread. Most of the 2,055 infected hospital workers were either infected at home or in the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan when hospital safeguards were not raised yet.

5% of people who are diagnosed with Covid require artificial respiration. Another 15% need to breathe in highly concentrated oxygen - and not just for a few days. The duration from the beginning of the disease until recovery is 3 to 6 weeks on average for these severe and critical patients (compared to only 2 weeks for the mildly ill). The mass and duration of the treatments overburdened the existing health care system in Wuhan many times over. The province of Hubei, whose capital is Wuhan, had 65,596 infected persons so far. A total of 40,000 employees were sent to Hubei from other provinces to help fight the epidemic. 45 hospitals in Wuhan are caring for Covid patients, 6 of which are for patients in critical condition and 39 are caring for seriously ill patients and for infected people over the age of 65. Two makeshift hospitals with 2,600 beds were built within a short time. 80% of the infected have mild disease, ten temporary hospitals were set up in gymnasiums and exhibition halls for those.

China can now produce 1.6 million test kits for the novel coronavirus per week. The test delivers a result on the same day. Across the country, anyone who goes to the doctor with a fever is screened for the virus: In Guangdong province, far from Wuhan, 320,000 people have been tested, and 0.14% of those were positive for the virus.

The vast majority of those infected sooner or later develop symptoms. Cases of people in whom the virus has been detected and who do not have symptoms at that time are rare - and most of them fall ill in the next few days.

The most common symptoms are fever (88%) and dry cough (68%). Exhaustion (38%), expectoration of mucus when coughing (33%), shortness of breath (18%), sore throat (14%), headaches (14%), muscle aches (14%), chills (11%) are also common. Less frequent are nausea and vomiting (5%), stuffy nose (5%) and diarrhoea (4%). Running nose is not a symptom of Covid.

An examination of 44,672 infected people in China showed a fatality rate of 3.4%. Fatality is strongly influenced by age, pre-existing conditions, gender, and especially the response of the health care system. All fatality figures reflect the state of affairs in China up to 17 February, and everything could be quite different in the future elsewhere.

Healthcare system: 20% of infected people in China needed hospital treatment for weeks. China has hospital beds to treat 0.4% of the population at the same time - other developed countries have between 0.1% and 1.3% and most of these beds are already occupied with people who have other diseases. The fatality rate was 5.8% in Wuhan but 0.7% in other areas of China, which China explained with the lack of critical care beds in Wuhan. In order to keep the fatality rate low like outside of Wuhan, other countries have to aggressively contain the spread of the virus in order to keep the number of seriously ill Covid patients low and secondly increase the number of critical care beds until there is enough for the seriously ill. China also tested various treatment methods for the unknown disease and the most successful ones were implemented nationwide. Thanks to this response, the fatality rate in China is now lower than a month ago.

Pre-existing conditions: The fatality rate for those infected with pre-existing cardiovascular disease in China was 13.2%. It was 9.2% for those infected with high blood sugar levels (uncontrolled diabetes), 8.4% for high blood pressure, 8% for chronic respiratory diseases and 7.6% for cancer. Infected persons without a relevant previous illness died in 1.4% of cases.

Gender: Women catch the disease just as often as men. But only 2.8% of Chinese women who were infected died from the disease, while 4.7% of the infected men died. The disease appears to be not more severe in pregnant women than in others. In 9 examined births of infected women, the children were born by caesarean section and healthy without being infected themselves. The women were infected in the last trimester of pregnancy. What effect an infection in the first or second trimester has on embryos is currently unclear as these children are still unborn.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:09 am

Harvard going remote-class only after Spring Break.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:11 am

Looks like it'll be easier to get an outside seat at Charlie's Kitchen!!!

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:22 am

NHL and NBA should just have a knockout tournament and get it done.

First to win 4 games wins the championship.

Joe K · Post by **Joe K** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:47 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:22 am NHL and NBA should just have a knockout tournament and get it done.

First to win 4 games wins the championship.

Only a matter of time before other teams besides the Sharks get a moratorium placed on having fans at home games.

Post by **brian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:04 am

Trump orders posters of how to avoid coronavirus removed from immigration offices.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:26 am

My wife works for a pretty large consulting/research company, which does a lot of work with the Feds. She's had lots of horror stories in terms of working with various departments.

I won't go into super specifics, but like everyone else, they are dealing the cancellation of a number of meetings and conferences in the coming weeks. One, in particular, is VERY much on the front lines of the Fed response to coronavirus, and they had a totally unrelated meeting scheduled for next week in DC. They've been talking about postponing since early last week and pulled the trigger today.

email that went out just said it was postponed, no mention of why. My wife just messaged me: "Fucking Trump."

What an embarrassment.

Post by **brian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:44 am

So figure on massive disruptions to start by next week (in the US) and react accordingly.

Post by **brian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am

When you factor in the incompetence of the Trump administration and American hubris, it could spread even faster here. I'd still be shorting the stock indices. I think we're looking at the Dow ending up under 20K when it's all said and done.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:51 am

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am When you factor in the incompetence of the Trump administration and American hubris, it could spread even faster here. I'd still be shorting the stock indices. I think we're looking at the Dow ending up under 20K when it's all said and done.

OTOH, with the lack of testing, under-funding of the CDC and general incompetence, the official number of cases will be way below the actual numbers. My suspicion is the admin is going to try to downplay the numbers to make Trump's response look ... not as bad, and keep the stock market from falling further. Like Brian said on FB, Trump cares a lot more about the DOW than he does about preventing people from getting sick and dying, so smaller reported cases is more of a goal than containing the spread.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:52 am

brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am When you factor in the incompetence of the Trump administration and American hubris, it could spread even faster here. I'd still be shorting the stock indices. I think we're looking at the Dow ending up under 20K when it's all said and done.

For most of us on the board, this is pretty good timing... Allow the mutual funds to buy a bunch of cheaper stocks.

If you are in your early 60s you are bailing like the crew of the Titanic right now.

Post by **brian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:58 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:52 am
brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am When you factor in the incompetence of the Trump administration and American hubris, it could spread even faster here. I'd still be shorting the stock indices. I think we're looking at the Dow ending up under 20K when it's all said and done.
For most of us on the board, this is pretty good timing... Allow the mutual funds to buy a bunch of cheaper stocks.

If you are in your early 60s you are bailing like the crew of the Titanic right now.

Yeah, this correction was coming one way or another. In a way, the sheer rapidity of it might end up being a net positive as opposed to a two-year recession where it just drops gradually.

ETA: Unless you're looking to pull money out of the market any time soon obvs.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:00 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:51 am
brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am When you factor in the incompetence of the Trump administration and American hubris, it could spread even faster here. I'd still be shorting the stock indices. I think we're looking at the Dow ending up under 20K when it's all said and done.
OTOH, with the lack of testing, under-funding of the CDC and general incompetence, the official number of cases will be way below the actual numbers. My suspicion is the admin is going to try to downplay the numbers to make Trump's response look ... not as bad, and keep the stock market from falling further. Like Brian said on FB, Trump cares a lot more about the DOW than he does about preventing people from getting sick and dying, so smaller reported cases is more of a goal than containing the spread.

If those goes like Italy, the hospitals will put an end to that lie - given that they will have to be converted to almost entirely caring for COVID-19 patients.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:02 am

Its going to reach the point where you're rooting for "the right types of people" to die so propaganda can't wash everything away.

Post by **brian** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:09 am

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:00 am
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:51 am
brian wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am When you factor in the incompetence of the Trump administration and American hubris, it could spread even faster here. I'd still be shorting the stock indices. I think we're looking at the Dow ending up under 20K when it's all said and done.
OTOH, with the lack of testing, under-funding of the CDC and general incompetence, the official number of cases will be way below the actual numbers. My suspicion is the admin is going to try to downplay the numbers to make Trump's response look ... not as bad, and keep the stock market from falling further. Like Brian said on FB, Trump cares a lot more about the DOW than he does about preventing people from getting sick and dying, so smaller reported cases is more of a goal than containing the spread.
If those goes like Italy, the hospitals will put an end to that lie - given that they will have to be converted to almost entirely caring for COVID-19 patients.

Yeah the virus doesn't care about Trump's propaganda and tweets. News coverage of hospitals full of dying patients as the government insists everything is fine will end Trump's presidency (if that's the way they choose to go -- covering it up)