"Brighammer" (balcorn80)
03/12/2020 at 09:47 • Filed to: None
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"Brighammer" (balcorn80)
03/12/2020 at 09:47 • Filed to: None | 1
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Sorry for the fe ar mongering. Part of me has a hard time taking this seriously. And part of me wants to keep my kids home from school.
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ttyymmnn
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 09:53 |
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I’m right there with you. Austin has done a similar ban, but our limit is 2,500 people. I play in the Austin Symphony and Opera, and the ban won’t officially affect us because the hall holds 2,400. But people will still stay away, and canceling the final opera of the season, traditionally our biggest moneymaker, would be devastating to the company.
Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 09:54 |
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We no longer live in Oregon and my wife has been waiting to hear what will happen with the Oregon Country Fair as she has volunteered at it in the past and really wanted to go this year. But she’s also pretty sure it would not be an ideal set of circumstances to hold it and go this year.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:00 |
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So this means they are going to shut down the MAX train?
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Brighammer
> ttyymmnn
03/12/2020 at 10:00 |
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Oh man. What do you play?
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Brighammer
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
03/12/2020 at 10:02 |
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Rght?
Thy say to keep going to school but no big groups. Schools a big group. So is mss transit !
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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:04 |
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The MAX is where I get all my infectious diseases.
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Brighammer
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
03/12/2020 at 10:05 |
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Bus or the elementary school for me...
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Brighammer
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
03/12/2020 at 10:15 |
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Well, hopefully by July things are normal here again(well, as normal as OR can be). But I understand the trepidation and endorse the caution!
Arrivederci
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:26 |
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Triangle.
Oh, you were asking ttyymmnn :).
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Brighammer
> Arrivederci
03/12/2020 at 10:32 |
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ME TOO!!!
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ttyymmnn
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:35 |
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Trumpet. It’s my job, but my wife makes the real money.
Jim Spanfeller
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:37 |
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IT’S BASICALLY THE FREAKING FLU!!!!! If you’re not the kind of person who would die from the flu, you’re not in any danger. People are overreacting like crazy; t he only real epidemic here is the damage caused by hordes of people panicking over nothing. E veryone needs to calm the heck down.
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Jim Spanfeller
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:40 |
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Kazoo. Also, pots and pans.
I also play the guitar, but that doesn’t really fit in an orchestra...
ranwhenparked
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 10:56 |
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If you’re young and otherwise healthy, it seems to manifest as a fairly mild infection that the body recovers from on its own. The problem is elderly people and those w ith diabetes, respiratory, and cardiac issues or generally weak immune systems, if they get it, they will most likely require hospitalization, and there aren't enough emergency room and ICU beds in the country to handle that large of a cohort flooding the system at once.
Mid Engine
> Jim Spanfeller
03/12/2020 at 11:11 |
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It’s not the flu, I have first hand experience of what it does to you.
Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
> Jim Spanfeller
03/12/2020 at 11:25 |
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It’s not the flu. Order of magnitude more deadly and more contagious and there is no vaccine. Nobody’s trampling each other, and there is good evidence that canceling these gatherings can slow the spread so that we don’t overflow the healthcare system.
Please stop hoarding medical supplies, though.
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Brighammer
> ttyymmnn
03/12/2020 at 11:27 |
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Thats rad. And an awesome relationship to have. 5 years ago I lost my job slangin’ auto parts and went to work fixing lawnmowers and building guitar amps while my wife made the real money working with labra doodles. Now I still fix mowers but I also work with the doodles. I love working with\beside my wife. Though the first year of me being at home was a learning period. But we'll be ready to live with each other during retirement(assuming we get to do that)!
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Jim Spanfeller
> Bryan doesn't drive a 1M
03/12/2020 at 11:28 |
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Even then, if you’re not the kind of person who would be killed by the flu, you won’t be killed by coronavirus. You just need to stay home and try not to get other people sick while you recover.
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Brighammer
> ranwhenparked
03/12/2020 at 11:29 |
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Rght. That’s the wife’s and my take on it. That’s why the kids got on the bus this morning. And will continue to do so until the stop showing up.
My middle child is the one we’ll watch. Respiratory stuff hits him hard.
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Brighammer
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 11:30 |
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My boss is considering buying branded hand sanitizers as promo giveaway stuff. #someonesgottacashin
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ranwhenparked
> Jim Spanfeller
03/12/2020 at 11:35 |
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And do not go to the hospital just because you feel bad. Doctors cannot do anything for you that you can’t do for yourself, and you’ll just be exposing more, and potentially quite vulnerable, people to the virus by walking into the ER waiting room.
The caveat of course is if you're at a high risk factor (elderly, weak immune system, diabetic, etc), then you do need to seek treatment. Everyone else, stay home and eat chicken noodle soup.
DipodomysDeserti
> ranwhenparked
03/12/2020 at 11:37 |
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So, people that already have to worry about every other infectious disease.
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ranwhenparked
> DipodomysDeserti
03/12/2020 at 11:40 |
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Basically, yes. But the issue here is that someone can be totally asymptomatic or have only very minor symptoms and go around spreading the virus for weeks before it runs its course. At least with the flu, you have a pretty good idea of when you’re contagious.
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Brighammer
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 11:49 |
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Aso my boss is my mom. So I'm torn how harsh I want to criticize her judgement...
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ttyymmnn
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 12:17 |
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We have three boys, one older and twins, and I was a stay home dad for many years. Now that they’re older, I’ve returned to teaching to make some extra money. So it works well; my wife works days and has great insurance, I must say, and I work nights and weekends, mostly, with some teaching to flesh it out. My boys and I owe her so much for all the years of work she’s put in, first supporting me in grad school, and then supporting our family.
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Brighammer
> ttyymmnn
03/12/2020 at 12:19 |
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Sounds just about perfect, man. Cheers to you guys for figuring out how to navigate this life well.
facw
> Jim Spanfeller
03/12/2020 at 12:19 |
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It really isn’t.
The WHO’s best estimate for COVID-19 is that it kills in 3.4% of cases. The flu kills in 0.1% of cases, so that’s 34 times higher. There’s hope that because most cases are mild, we are overestimating that 3.4%, but the fact is that as we have gathered more information, that number has been creeping up, not down. For reference the Spanish Flu, which killed 100M people (when the world population was around 1B) was somewhere between 2-5%.
Additionally COVID-19 appears to spread around twice as easily as the flu.
So it kills many more of those who it infects, and infects many more in general.
Also, while it does mostly kill the old:
Even with a low fatality rate among the young, if it spreads wildly at a normal high school, you are still probably looking at a death or two.
This is a big deal, an it really should not just be business as normal in places where it is spreading.
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ttyymmnn
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 12:23 |
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Thanks. The boys are all teenagers now, so we’re still trying to figure out how to navigate. I’ve always said, parenting never gets easier or harder, it just gets different.
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Brighammer
> ttyymmnn
03/12/2020 at 12:31 |
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Yeah. We have 3 boys too. 8, 7, and 5. And none of them are the same, despite having the same parents, and home. So yeah, not only does it change from year to year(without getting easier) it changes from boy to boy as well... And it's all just experimentation, it feels like...
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ttyymmnn
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 13:14 |
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And the funny thing about my twins is that although they are supposedly identical, you couldn’t imagine two more different people, physically, emotionally, etc. It’s actually kind of nice.
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Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
> Brighammer
03/12/2020 at 13:55 |
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I guess I’ve thought that by July we will still be on the decline/back end but I might be a bit of a pessimist.
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Brighammer
> Brighammer
03/13/2020 at 09:06 |
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Got a 5am phonecall, text, and email to let us know spring break starts a week early, as the governor has shut down all k-12 schools until April 1st. Yay...