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My town hosts a yearly illegal St. Pats street party attended by increasingly larger university student crowds. Last year 33,000 crowded pretty well shoulder to shoulder onto a short 1000ft. student housing street. It's become a famous destination with attendees from all over. Authorities have been powerless to put a halt to it and therefore have accommodated it with portable facilities just to maintain some semblance of social control and with police patrols and temporary fencing around the perimeter. It has become a monster.


This year however, in the midst of this pandemic, warnings posted in the area to stay away with the prospect of huge fines and jail to those who defy the cease and desist order coupled with the publication of the future we're facing, not a single partygoer showed up. Not a one, nada, nyet, zilch. And there wasn't an army of cops out there either, just the usual arrangement.


Just sayin'
 
My town hosts a yearly illegal St. Pats street party attended by increasingly larger university student crowds. Last year 33,000 crowded pretty well shoulder to shoulder onto a short 1000ft. student housing street. It's become a famous destination with attendees from all over.


Just sayin'

sounds like the town i live in.
 
. The pipe dream floated today, of using an old malaria drug, is just that. It was mentioned simply to calm nerves by someone who has no clue what to do about this crisis.

This guy explains why and how hydroxychloroquine might work:

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It is quite interesting.

Just like to point out that South Korea used it extensively and it is now in short supply in Germany who so far managed to keep their death rate remarkably low.
 
Roll the dice in terms of whether it gets more/less/the same dangerous, honestly. We generally don't year-in year-out with various influenza strains, even the regularly circulating ones.

Logically, when it gets so deadly that everyone who is infected dies, the virus will exterminate itself unless it can jump to a new host before the current one dies. So quarantine works in any case.

Jan.
 
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