re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

Considering water is the main thing you need to live I would think it's the smartest thing to stock up on if somehow the supply or electricity gets cut, or this thing somehow enters the water supply ?

Makes way more since than Toilet Paper

How do you get out of bed every morning with all that panic?

Don’t forget “my guy”.

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read it and wrap. watch all tradcons downvote me but I've been warning them that this is serious

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The highest Internet message board virtue is WARY CYNICISM. It really doesn’t matter what we are discussing, that is the Alpha Male position. And nobody wants to feel like a dupe, or be a dupe.

With Katrina, with the Trump election, with so many sports issues, a consensus builds on this board . People rally around that consensus and it becomes conventional wisdom. And this combines with the natural tendency that some people have to think “ it hasn’t happened yet, it’s not going to happen “.

But if you are a student of history you know one day it’s a beautiful sunny September 10 in NYC and the next day the world looks entirely different. We also know that viruses have culled the human herd for the entire history of mankind. But we have this kind of cynical approach to the idea that this could kill friends and family because we somehow think we are past this. We subconsciously think we are so affluent and technologically advanced that we are now above the idea of a plague or Spanish flu.

It’s been interesting as a student of human nature to watch the wary cynics battle the alarmists. Historically both schools are correct, both outcomes happen. Absolute catastrophes and absolutely nothing. The storm may Peter out ten times in a row and then Katrina happens and the world looks entirely different. And we are always completely shocked when that thing that has happened since time began, happens again. It’s just basic human psychology and it will never change.

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But the most recent talking point about ventilator availability is a little maddening. Even if we don't have enough ventilators for a pandemic, I'm not sure what the talking heads solution is other than just trying to berate admin and officials on the issue is. We can't just magically manufacture more ventilators during a global crisis and certainly can't borrow them from anywhere.

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Yep. People bitch bitch bitch about the cost of healthcare and then wonder why we don't have an oversupply of ventilators just laying around waiting for a pandemic.

Almost everyone knows someone with a Cpap machine that they don’t use. In a pinch, you can use that to stay alive.

Containment and no huge group outings are one thing. People afraid to leave their houses and the crushing effects on local businesses are another thing entirely. The media should promote caution and common sense but not shear panic which ends up being more destructive than the event itself. It’s pretty stunning (although human nature at some point) that we have had a run on toilet paper of all things.

I guess the good news about trauma patients is that should go down a bit with less people driving like assholes on the roads.

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I’m really tired of all the uneducated hillbillies

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Good for them

More Americans should be like them, and we would be better off