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  1. I got the Starman mask from Rushcon and tweeted about it. Now, I pretty much know what I’m doing on social media, so I tagged rush and rushcon and a couple other people and a few people re-tweeted it. And I thought hey, that’s cool. And then I happened to look tonight and saw that it gotten 15,000 engagements and I was like “well I certainly don’t have that many followers so how in the world that happen?”

     

    So then I started looking at all my notifications and realized that Rush had just re-tweeted me!

    https://twitter.com/rushtheband

    Great!!! I just followed you and then told you who I am.
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  2. I love the idea of if you want to risk going to a large gathering then that’s your right to do so. Not.

    What about your family, what’s the risk you are putting them in? Even if you live alone you’ve heightened your risk of catching it and therefore increased the risk of giving it to someone else (do you still work? Public transport? Etc) and that someone else could get seriously ill with it and die.

    That’s a great way to manage the risk for other people. Not. Don’t they call this sociopathy?

    A good part of the U.S. is now testing what the results of doing those things will be, things may turn out alright, or Mexico might gladly end up paying to finish that wall.
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  3. Colorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously thought

     

    https://kdvr.com/new...categorization/

    While they may be over counting deaths, there are also under-counted deaths because people who die from it at home and were not tested do not count as covid 19 deaths. It's impossible to tell if the actual number of deaths is higher or lower than the given numbers.

     

    I just have to revisit this... So you think that people are dying at home of a respiratory illness in the midst of this very widely known pandemic and medical examiners and coroners are not performing a simply Covid-19 blood test during the autopsy to see why they died? I just want to make sure I am understanding you correctly on this.

    There is a thread about it.

    http://www.therushfo...rus-fatalities/

     

    No, I'm not asking you for a thread or some article you read or anything. I am asking You if you believe that people are dying in their homes from respiratory illness and the medical examiner and coroners are not testing them for Covid 19. Do you believe that? Does that really make sense to you? That in the middle of a respiratory illness pandemic, people dying in their homes who didn't go to the doctor even though they were ill, are not tested for something like Covid 19 when the reason for death is unknown?

    Based on the article linked to that thread they were not doing so at that time in NYC. There were something like 8 times more deaths in people's homes per day than usual in NYC at that time.
  4. Colorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously thought

     

    https://kdvr.com/new...categorization/

    While they may be over counting deaths, there are also under-counted deaths because people who die from it at home and were not tested do not count as covid 19 deaths. It's impossible to tell if the actual number of deaths is higher or lower than the given numbers.

     

    I just have to revisit this... So you think that people are dying at home of a respiratory illness in the midst of this very widely known pandemic and medical examiners and coroners are not performing a simply Covid-19 blood test during the autopsy to see why they died? I just want to make sure I am understanding you correctly on this.

    There is a thread about it.

    http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/109562-staggering-surge-of-nyers-dying-in-their-homes-suggests-city-is-undercounting-coronavirus-fatalities/

  5. Move this thread to SOCN

     

    Absolutely not. This is not a political issue. It is a social issue as well as a health issue.

     

    What if we have another huge natural disaster, like another hurricane or an earthquake? Should we also discuss it in that dysfunctional Forum?

     

    Don't make it into a political issue, and there will be no problem.

     

    It's a public health issue that has been made political.

    Some of us are intellectually capable of separating the two. It hasn't turned into much of a political issue in this thread from what I have read. Why does it even matter to you? You seem to be the only one trying to start an argument here.
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  6. I'm so bored from this shutdown and quarantine, I'm looking more and more at a very nice Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on Amazon.com.

     

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    :drool: :drool: :drool:

    You might be able to see the virus if it is on the lens with that?

     

    I may able to see the alien freaks who planted the damned bug on our planet!

     

    I bought this wonderful telescope about a month ago, and the clouds and rain, as expected, are punishing me for it. :rage:

    Wow, that's a beast! I wish you nothing but clear skies. The picture was not showing for me before.
  7. Colorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously thought

     

    https://kdvr.com/new...categorization/

    While they may be over counted deaths, there are also under-counted deaths because people who die from it at home and were not tested do not count as covid 19 deaths. It's impossible to tell if the actual number of deaths is higher or lower than the given numbers.

     

    Then you admit that the numbers given are not correct, right?

    Absolutely, but it's impossible for us to know if the actual deaths from it are higher or lower than the figures given. I think that we have to be cautious opening things up. While I agree that businesses have to start reopening, there should still be measures taken to try and practice social distancing. Last I read scientists had found over 200 mutations of this virus. It rapidly mutates and could mutate into something much worse.
  8. Colorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously thought

     

    https://kdvr.com/new...categorization/

    While they may be over counting deaths, there are also under-counted deaths because people who die from it at home and were not tested do not count as covid 19 deaths. It's impossible to tell if the actual number of deaths is higher or lower than the given numbers.
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  9. Thing is, even if Neil were still around and could be persuaded to give it another go, there's the issue of Geddy not being able to cut it vocally and Alex not being able to play as well with his Psoriatic arthritis.

    I think that he could cut it vocally if they were to make a new album, assuming his voice has not greatly deteriorated over the past few 3 years. His vocals sounded pretty good on Clockwork Angels. As for live, If his voice would be close to what it was the last tour which was not too great, but he could still sing most of the material from Signals on OK. I'd rather have a chance to see them live again even if his voice is not great.
  10. Carter is a beast. Love his drumming. Fast hands and feet, serious groove and feel. In my opinion, he would not be a good fit for Rush. He's got the skill to play Rush music, but the feel would be all wrong. Portnoy or Gavin Harrison are two examples of good fits. Hypothetically speaking, of course -- the chance of Rush actually getting back at it with a new drummer are absolutely zero.

    Yeah, one thing that made Neil stand out above so many other drummers out there was his compositional skills. I know that he did not get any credit for writing the music on any of the Rush songs, but his drum parts just added a completely different element to Rush's songs that you would be hard pressed to find another drummer out there who could even come close to emulating what he added to Rush's music.
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  11. Things are starting to tentatively open up around here.

     

    I have no problem with the way things were handled in Canada -- at least in my (red)neck of the woods, although Quebec sent their elementary kids back to school this week, which seems a bit premature. Maybe they hate kids. :huh:

     

    I'm sure someone will find these numbers inflated, and the colours saturated, but:

    https://www.bbc.com/...reporting-story

     

    Anyhoo, I'm very happy to be alive, and very happy not to have made anyone sick! :sundog:

    In a situation like this, I'd rather that we over-reacted than under.

    No, they did not send the kids back to school. They ended up deciding against it in the end.
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  12. So the options will be to die from going to work or die from being broke due to no job. Are we great yet? :facepalm:

     

    I don't know where you're getting your info from but simply going back to work does not mean you will get the virus and die. Unless your job involves a lot of travel or contact with the public you will be at a higher risk. Even then it's not a given that you will get it. It's supposed to be a slow reopen everywhere. So it's not like everything goes back to how it was four months ago with everyone just going about things as normal.

     

    What would you consider "a lot of contact with the public"?

    A prostitute?
  13. Only 14,550 new cases found in the U.S. today. These people who think that this is just propaganda are in for a big surprise. With these kind of numbers I think that the U.S. might even pass China in cases by tomorrow. They will surely pass them within two days.This is not something to take lightly It's time for everyone to self quarantine as much as possible!
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  14. See you guys when all this is over and it will be. Plenty of time to Monday morning quarterback at that time and I promise you the media will do plenty. My prediction is lots of good things for America will come from this ultimately. Our reliance on China, borders and many other things will change for the betterment of of America from all of this and I will be cheering it all on. See you when the hysterics fade and the new media hysteria begins. Somewhere around November I'm guessing. Rush onward... :cheers:

     

    i really hope you and your famly stay healthy.

     

    Mick

    The problem is, he doesn't seem to care.

     

    i still hope he stays healthy. just because i think he's being recklessly stupid.....doesn't mean i want him sick

     

    i just really hope he doesn't have to learn the hard way.

     

    Mick

    I don\t want him to get sick either, but if everyone had his attitude the hospitals would be overrun with critical patients and there would be a shortage of respirators which would cause an abundance of deaths which could have been prevented.
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  15. See you guys when all this is over and it will be. Plenty of time to Monday morning quarterback at that time and I promise you the media will do plenty. My prediction is lots of good things for America will come from this ultimately. Our reliance on China, borders and many other things will change for the betterment of of America from all of this and I will be cheering it all on. See you when the hysterics fade and the new media hysteria begins. Somewhere around November I'm guessing. Rush onward... :cheers:

     

    i really hope you and your famly stay healthy.

     

    Mick

    The problem is, he doesn't seem to care.
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  16. See you guys when all this is over and it will be. Plenty of time to Monday morning quarterback at that time and I promise you the media will do plenty. My prediction is lots of good things for America will come from this ultimately. Our reliance on China, borders and many other things will change for the betterment of of America from all of this and I will be cheering it all on. See you when the hysterics fade and the new media hysteria begins. Somewhere around November I'm guessing. Rush onward... :cheers:

    Ignorance is bliss.
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  17. my temperature is 100.1 now, i have a splitting headache, ive been coughing, and im short of breath from my chest being tight. im gonna try to make an appointment to get tested tomorrow morning.

     

    Get tested if you can. My thoughts are with you.

     

    This thing is spreading like wildfire. 1000 new infections today in NYC.

     

    I predict there will be a 14 day mandatory lockdown shelter in place for every American. The National Guard has already been alerted.

     

    GOOD LUCK! STAY INSIDE YOUR HOMES!!!!!!

    i hope they dont pull their BS and tell me that i can only be tested if i've had direct contact with someone who has it. im a cashier, i touch money all day, how the hell would i know if a customer had it or not!

    Hi Jamie, I hope you are feeling okay. It would be nice if you could check in and give an update as I am worried about you as I'm sure many others are.

    I don't wanna scare anyone here, but i'm getting winded easily as of last night. My chest and lungs just feel tight and i have to take deep breaths so I'm avoiding doing things that take the breath outta me. I can still talk just fine and form complete sentences without getting winded which is a good sign, so i don't need to go to the ER. it's gotten better as the day has gone on, it was worse when i woke up this morning because whatever fluid or mucus might be in my lungs probably settled in my sleep (i think that's how it works?). right now i feel fine despite all this, like i've said all of my symptoms are pretty mild.

    I am glad that you are starting to feel better. It sounds like you were hit with it relatively mild. I just hope that you are on your way to recovery. I don't want to alarm you but some people describe their symptoms as coming in waves where it seems like it is getting better and then it gets worse. That is probably not the case because I think their are fewer cases like that and also women don't seem to be getting hit as hard as men do overall. This virus seems to manifest itself in many different ways. I hope you get well soon!
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  18. I now see the problem we are having. You trust the spin and I don't. Pretty simple. Remember impeachment? John Bolton etc? The hysteria? Lots of media generated hysterics over the past 4 years or so and none have panned out in their favor. Just my opinion and I pay close attention...

     

    I am sure for the most part you can guess. The media enjoys hype and eyeballs and power. After what I have witnessed the past 12 years or so I can't believe anything they say. As I said enjoy the hype while I get on with my life...

     

    People are dying and you think it won't affect you? Unless you are in a hermetically sealed container, you are in danger. Why is it that everything is a conspiracy to take down Trump? Logic would tell you that is nonsensical, everything that happens is not about him. He's supposed to be our Leader and steer the Country through these rough times. Instead he acts like a child and says everybody is being mean to me.

     

    You obviously have your mind made up and that makes me sad that you would be so callous to dismiss what is happening all around you. I'm very dismayed to see someone I like be brainwashed. :eh: I don't know what else to call it, the refusal to accept anything that collides with your world view is very disturbing.

    Yeah, Italy just called in the military to enforce the lockdown. I guess that is just another ploy to remove Trump. Don't you people who keep saying this stuff realize how ridiculous you sound?

     

    Those stupid fukking celebs singing "Imagine" online. What a joke. Why don't these ultra liberal assholes start funding relief for humans less fortunate. This is a worldwide disaster no matter what anyone thinks. Wait until the military is called in to monitor every neighborhood and every city to make sure we are all on lockdown in our homes for at least 14 days.

     

    Go on millennials and spring break selfish morons! Go out and party! Get drunk! Have wild sex with everyone!!!! Keep "SPREADING THE DISEASE!!!!"

     

    Love,

     

    QUEENSRYCHE

    I misread Earls post and overreacted because I was already wound up about Narp's post. I just can't believe that Nrps has that attitude and thinks he knows more than some of the greatest scientific minds of our times.
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  19. If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

     

    There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

     

    I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

     

    Most of us do not have to worry but the elderly and sick people do. We have to quarantine ourselves so it does not keep spreading and infecting them. When people first started dying in Seattle they said 24 people had died but 18 of them were from the same Nursing home.

     

    That is what people don't get, anyone can be a carrier without symptoms and then they spread it around to others. The flattening the curve effect is to keep the numbers down so our hospitals won't be overrun. That's why we needed our government to pay attention and not blow if off like it was nothing. We are fighting against a wave that started weeks ago but we just didn't know it because of the lack of testing capability. This isn't something we can just ignore, we are all in it together. This is uncharted territory and we need to work together or we sink together.

     

    As for the comment that Ebola wasn't as bad, that is completely wrong. It killed 50 percent of the people who got it. We also had a Pandemic Task Force that went to West Africa to help fight the disease there.

     

    In March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the West African country of Guinea. Additional cases have since been reported in the countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as Nigeria and Senegal. To date, there have been more than 22,500 reported Ebola cases in West Africa, with more than 8,900 deaths. At home, U.S. medical teams have treated 12 Ebola patients — all but two recovered.

     

    Since the start of the outbreak, the United States has sent more than 3,000 DOD, CDC, USAID, and other U.S. health officials to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to assist with response efforts, as part of a 10,000-person U.S.-backed civilian response. With their help, the U.S. government has:

    • Constructed 15 Ebola treatment units in the region
    • Provided more than 400 metric tons of personal protective equipment and other medical and relief supplies
    • Operated more than 190 burial teams in the region
    • Conducted aggressive contact tracing to identify chains of transmission
    • Trained health care workers and conducted community outreach
    • Worked with international partners to identify travelers who may have Ebola before they leave the region

    Thanks to their efforts, and the work of countless others from around the world, the number of people who are contracting Ebola has declined sharply from peak levels.

     

    So what have we done this time? Pretend it doesn't exist, wish it away despite the evidence of massive deaths. Let large numbers of Chinese come to the U.S. BEFORE we closed our borders. By then it was too late. Maybe our Pandemic Task Force could have helped go to China to see what was going on and help but oh yeah someone canned the whole group in 2018. We have been put at risk by bungling and fumbling from the get go. Test kits made here in U.S.were defective, we could have had free tests given to us by the WHO but no we couldn't do that. So they try to get test kits to Americans but it is 3 weeks since they promised 1 Million would be made available. People are dying because of this inept response. People are scared because they can't trust the government to do its job professionally and in a timely manner. So it has been left to the local Mayors, Governors and their health departments to fix it but it is too big for them to do alone. This is why some people are panicking and buying everything in sight, it gives them some sense of control but of course it doesn't really help. People who really need food can't get it because the crazies have bought it all up.

    Yes, I am upset and I am doing all I can to be careful and look out for those I can but I don't understand all the denial that this is no big deal, it has the potential to cause millions of deaths. I just hope that is wrong but better to err on the side of caution.

    Boy it's obvious where you get your "news" from and worse yet believe it. Enjoy...

     

    please tell us where you get your news from?

     

    we are all still waiting for your reply.

     

    i asked nicely too.

    I am sure for the most part you can guess. The media enjoys hype and eyeballs and power. After what I have witnessed the past 12 years or so I can't believe anything they say. As I said enjoy the hype while I get on with my life...

    You are just spewing nonsense. So many countries in the world are beginning to almost go on complete lock down and you believe the media has that kind of power? That is just ridiculous!

    I do. Hair on fire about everything with one large goal in mind and anyone paying attention can see it. Not gonna belabor the point but they form opinions on both sides. The worlds not coming to an end and this will pass when the people grow tired of it...

    Nonsense!

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  20. my temperature is 100.1 now, i have a splitting headache, ive been coughing, and im short of breath from my chest being tight. im gonna try to make an appointment to get tested tomorrow morning.

     

    Get tested if you can. My thoughts are with you.

     

    This thing is spreading like wildfire. 1000 new infections today in NYC.

     

    I predict there will be a 14 day mandatory lockdown shelter in place for every American. The National Guard has already been alerted.

     

    GOOD LUCK! STAY INSIDE YOUR HOMES!!!!!!

    i hope they dont pull their BS and tell me that i can only be tested if i've had direct contact with someone who has it. im a cashier, i touch money all day, how the hell would i know if a customer had it or not!

    Hi Jamie, I hope you are feeling okay. It would be nice if you could check in and give an update as I am worried about you as I'm sure many others are.
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