In any event, stay at home does not necessarily mean stay inside. Getting outside in the fresh air and sunshine can really be a benefit both physically and mentally. Beaches, and parks are being closed because too many people are going to them and not staying at a safe distance. Stay safe. Stay away from others.
In my country, most local residents (85%) stay in flats ... box-like housing stacked one atop the others. So "Stay at Home" truly means - stay inside. Beaches were closed off just two days ago but the parks remain open for us to exercise SOLO only and be at least 1m of safe distance away from anyone else. This is good, we really need the fresh air and sunshine and the exercises of course.
I've been working from home, but I can still workout in my basement using the collection of weights I have and I do this naked. I've also taken to walking the neighborhood, usually after dark. No one is out then, I have the streets to myself. It's not so bad. If it was a little warmer, I could be working naked too.
Are you naked when you work from home also?
While I am looking forward to getting back to the gym where I can do a more intense workout than I can at home, I will have trouble getting used to wearing clothes to exercise.
All I can say is please go to a hospital ER and ICU in a major city like NYC that has been affected and get the real story. I know and have relatives that are nurses and its absolutely disgusting to me that you are calling this a hoax or that was planned, or that cures are being covered up. Even hospitals in lesser affected areas like Sacramento are felling it. If you believe in the freedom of capitalism as I suspect you do then saying cures are being covered up goes completely against that belief. Even if one group were doing something like that another competitor, researcher, university or whatever would develop and come forward with a cure and it would get out through different media channels, word of mouth by doctors and patients, other countries or whatever. Its almost impossible to cover up something that a large portion of the population is working on.
Well it cant be fact regarding COVID-19, possibly some other Coronavirus. The 19 in the name specifies that it was first discovered/ identified in 2019
Heres a great article with many references debunking most of what you are saying https://medium.com/swlh/misinformation-goes-viral-1aad951e4492
Thanks FullSun. Far from large population centers where thousands of experienced health professionals struggle to save hundreds of thousands of the seriously afflicted (and sometimes succumb to the disease themselves!) it is all too easy to fall prey to the bogus "hoax" theories bandied about on the internet. If first-person accounts from front-line specialists aren't convincing enough, if thousands upon thousands of dead don't mean much to you, witness rival world leaders like Russia's Putin and China's Xi hermetically suited up when they've visited treatment centers, and the UK's Boris Johnson's brush with death. The pandemic is real, folks.
As for em1dub's assertion that the Nature article he cites "proves" the virus is human engineered: The article proves nothing of the sort. In due course, genome analysis as mentioned in FullSun's reference will confirm or debunk human manipulation, but at this point, "debunk" is the prohibitive favorite. In the meantime, it matters not for how to cope: Practise social distancing (and staying home as much as possible); wash hands carefully, and often,
All I can say is please go to a hospital ER and ICU in a major city like NYC that has been affected and get the real story. I know and have relatives that are nurses and its absolutely disgusting to me that you are calling this a hoax or that was planned, or that cures are being covered up. Even hospitals in lesser affected areas like Sacramento are felling it. If you believe in the freedom of capitalism as I suspect you do then saying cures are being covered up goes completely against that belief. Even if one group were doing something like that another competitor, researcher, university or whatever would develop and come forward with a cure and it would get out through different media channels, word of mouth by doctors and patients, other countries or whatever. Its almost impossible to cover up something that a large portion of the population is working on.
My problem with that starts with "freedom of capitalism ". Human nature is divided, just like in politics, The good, bad and ugly depending on your point of view. History is full of good, but also full of graft greed, and corruption. Don't forget the "Golden Rule", he who has the gold makes the rules and wants more gold. Often those small companies and their patents are bought out for obscene amounts of money, other times at legal gun point, ever heard of hostile takeover? University Patents are sold to manufacturers to do with as they please.
Examples of greed, (1) Insulin costs in the US vs the rest of the world.
(2) Remember a few years ago when Epipens jumped from around $60 to over $700. The young guy that had taken over the company was quoted as saying basically, If they want to live they will pay the price I set.
(3) Have you seen the ambulance chaser commercials about a AIDs med with bad side effects, and the company developed a safer med. But held the safer one till the patent ran out on the first one.
The US has for a long time paid more for medical drugs than our neighbors, My parents winter in AZ and often make the trip to Mexico for meds. And being in MN there have been a number of organised bus trips to Canada to buy $300 (here) of Insulin for $30. All of it is the same brand and label.
Gordy57, I agree wholeheartedly with your last post. My post was directed at others such as reuben and gregoryps posts which read as very conservative to me. Thus the generalized phrase freedom of capitalism The greed that infects the system is a major problem as we saw in 2008 where they got greedy with mortgages and packaging up bad ones and selling them as investment vehicles causing everything to crumble.
I have to dig up the reference but Ive reads about how Ronald Reagan was known for saying Trust but Verify generally in relation to arms treaties etc. but he also used it in relation to Wall Street saying essentially we need to trust capitalism but it does need to be watched and regulated due to the greed factor. The concept has been lost for Republicans.
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