The General Covid19 Thread

zackster

My boy Hector making some questionable decisions here. Not the track tho. This edit is immense.

Smallman1

Absolute racket.

bosstrabs

You put up some absolute shit Zackster.

Remixes of bad Placebo tracks played by some cunt in a retro Scotland away kit?

It’s not 1997. Twat.

zackster

bosstrabs if it was a MCR edit you’d have had your top off inside of 30 seconds.

Smallman1

Millsy rocks those denim cut off shorts too.

Millsy

Smallman1 some nerve, poucho!

Smallman1

Millsy some nerve, poucho!

No one rocks a pouch like me!

jonattonyeah

I gotta appreciate Zack’s dedication. Hijacking a thread about a global pandemic to highlight a 150 BPM, all kick-drum, Eastern Euro Banshee Screamer techno edit. Commendable.

zackster

jonattonyeah I both love and appreciate that you got the bpm on the nose.

Along_the_Wire

What’s your current view on California and Covid, JTY?

jonattonyeah

Along_the_Wire

Can’t speak to all of California, but we’re good around here. If you’re interested in data, we have 8 points we measure every day. This is as of last night:

Hospitalizations are at 9% (Level 1, Level 4 “High Alert” is >20%)
Acute care capacity is 24% (Level 1, Level 4 is <5%)
ICU capacity is 29% (Level 1, Level 4 is <5%)
Number of new cases per day/100,000 is just under 11 (Level 4 “High Alert”, Level 1 is <2) - not great but better than we were a week or so ago (13-15); we’d like to get below 6.
Successful case investigation is at 73% (Level 3, Level 1 is >90%) - some people just won’t answer the phone or won’t provide answers.
When the positive is reached and they’re reasonable, how many of their named contacts are reached? We’re at 89% (Level 2, Level 1 is >90%)
Essential PPE supply for more than 30 days, we’re at 100% (Level 1, Level 4 is <60% Hi Florida)

But we could see a push after this weekend given it’s so fucking hot. 35 C in SF yesterday and 42-45 C inland. Brutal. We get a few days like this every August/September so it’s not a surprise. But people congregating could be cause for a messy week.

bosstrabs

jonattonyeah In all seriousness, what possibility is there of, say, an under 60 year old (i.e. anyone on this board except possibly Dermo) in reasonably healthy shape dying of COVID do you reckon?

jonattonyeah

bosstrabs

I would say very low.

But COVID is fucking weird, man. It afflicts people very, very differently. Around here, people of Latino/a/x background have been just crushed; irrespective of financial class, preexisting conditions, or living situation. It’s bizarre. I was for the most part okay, two people I know who tested positive from around the same time had full on pneumonia (one from Guadalajara, the other El Salvador).

They say 40% are asymptomatic globally; here in the Bay I’d say it’s like 60-70%. But the 10% who get it bad, really get it bad. But that said, we had a 106 year old Chinese bint get it a month or so ago and she’s now right as rain.

Could be the amount of the virus one comes in contact with initially (like making out with Wuhan v. walking past Wuhan on the road). Could be prior contact with older SARS viruses which promotes T-cell response. Dunno.

I guess to stop rambling I would say the chance of death is very, very low. But I wouldn’t recommend getting it. My chest is still messed up. 10+ day quarantine is also the worst and messes with your head.

To throw a number out: <.05%

Mad_Cyril

Quite high if wearing pastel trabs

bosstrabs

Mad_Cyril probably not as high as someone living in squalid, unsanitary rat infested Partington

Mad_Cyril

bosstrabs
Lol.
I had my caravan cleaned last year

bosstrabs

jonattonyeah The quarantine doesn’t bother me at all. I’ve basically been in lockdown in the UK since Feb, barely seeing anyone except closest family. Everything delivered.

Socialising done on Zoom, beers in the back garden. Really not bothered by these so called mental aspects of lockdown. Either already crackers (possibly) or really quite contented with my own company. I will have to do a proper quarantine when I return to China though eventually - 14 days in a converted hotel.

Don’t want to catch it really because as you said, no one knows the long-term effects on an individual.

zackster

Jon, you see anything about heart damage being a major issue? Supposedly its affected some MLB players who have recovered from covid but aren’t cleared to play. I read an article about some German study that suggests that more than ½ of people who have recovered from covid are turning up with damage to their heart during testing. I haven’t seen it reported since and have been hoping that it was a bunch of shit.

jonattonyeah

zackster

I don’t know. That sort of aggregate, research-driven data is beyond my on-the-ground, programmatic “gaze”, for lack of a better term. I’m dealing with like 40 person outbreaks and stuff like that; nothing that can be extrapolated.

I know, given I was symptomatic, that I go in for CXR and blood tests once a month. Whether they’re looking specifically at the heart v. just general cardiovascular function I’m not sure about, but I can ask. I’ve been fine other than this lingering whatever that cannot be pinpointed. I’d guess MLB players are getting a far more comprehensive test. And I know they’ve also been heavily Latino. Telling you, they have it far worse for some unknown reason.

But to say .5 have heart damage? I’d love to see that data and what test they’re using. That just doesn’t pass the smell test. If there’s anything crazy about COVID, it’s how there’s nothing 50% about it. I mean, if it was 50% anything, great, that would make it easier to isolate.

zackster

If I remember correctly, the sample size the german’s used was very small. Also since I haven’t seen anything about it since, I assume that there wasn’t anything definitive to glean. I kinda forgot about it until I saw someone wasn’t cleared to play due to heart information, which rang a bell. I’ll try to figure out who it was. Cardinals seems right but idk.

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