Coronavirus II

[Trigger Time]

I went on a cruise in Hawaii last year. I used so much much hand sanitizer and handwashing and other precautions.
There is no way in hell I would be getting on a ship right now until they get this thing beat. No way.

 

[doddg]

I read on their website a couple of evenings ago where Point Blank in Greenwood had new hours of 12-6pm for store AND RANGE.
The Governor's shut down goes into effect midnight this evening (T..03.24), so I went there for 1 last range visit around 12:30 pm.
Range closed. Store open. One of the Rangemasters was on guard duty on the front door b/c there was a limit on how many could be in the store.
Bummer.
I had my Dan Wesson .22LR revolver (not to be confuses with the DW .357 that I brought actual .357 ammo to shoot today) with the new red fiber optic front sight on it to try out (1st try I found out they had to be "adjusted").
I had Browning Camper w/Tactical Solutions barrel & trigger to try out, that had some light strike issues last time and locked up: hopefully fixed now.

That does not make up that I could finally buy some green beans for the 1st time in 3 wks. & alcohol wipes for the wife today at Kroger.

I heard in some states that the gun ranges were "essential" & didn't have to close down?

 

[Trigger Time]

Where you're forced to be unarmed around 5000 strangers and the only actual exit is almost certain death.

Short of fighting in a basement, a pleasure cruise is the worst tactical situation invented by man.

I'm never unarmed. Even if you can't have a firearm doesn't mean you have to be unarmed if you plan ahead and know your surroundings

 

[nonobaddog]

Right. I was going to take the interior cruise to Alaska this summer and stay for a while, but now that is a hard pass.

 

[Route 45]

Yep. And let's also face it, if you're an idiot willing to pay $1000 for a phone, you'll also pay $1200.

Sounds like a ghetto Android user to me.

 

[maxwelhse]

I'm never unarmed. Even if you can't have a firearm doesn't mean you have to be unarmed if you plan ahead and know your surroundings

No firearm means "unarmed" in my book and I plan as much of my life as possible around that guiding principal.

[video=youtube;7YyBtMxZgQs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyBtMxZgQs[/video]

 

[JettaKnight]

Right. I was going to take the interior cruise to Alaska this summer and stay for a while, but now that is a hard pass.

I think my wife is still planning on her July 4th Alaskan cruise... without me (her dad instead).

 

[BugI02]

It was resurfaced by smokingman. I couldn't let it go this time. Primarily because the same issue has come up on other sites and I'm sure will arise again and again as the economy gets worse and people ACTUALLY have to sacrifice....perhaps for the first time in their lives.

It is just contrary to what it means to be an American. The sense of equality. The objective of equal protection under the law. It is perhaps the singular issue upon which liberty stands. It isn't socialism/communism in place, as Cammonkey incorrectly observes. But what he proposes, IS fascism.

And removing 8% or so of the population because they were going to die anyway at some future point is not better than, say, No One with a January birthdate can get treatment.

I've said elsewhere that if it is my fate to get the virus and there is a shortage of beds, it would be my choice whether I'd say that it is time I punched out. I'm not afraid of dying. I've had many years to make peace with the meaning of life and the nature of existence. Look at the old folks at Fukushima who volunteered for the cleanup to protect the younger generation. They are venerated. It appears that USA kids who live in basements won't feel the same when grampaw gets ill.

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Different than the point raised, but part of the same topic, if restrictions are eased, there is no doubt we will accomplish three things: more deaths, a greater economic struggle for a longer period of time, the development of philosophies in which the strong prey at a greater rate upon the weak.


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The other thing we do not know at this point is whether this virus will mutate into something that will change the demographic. And I don't know if they've had time yet to study the possible effect on long-term epigenetics. Maybe all those corona virus survivors in the basement dweller category won't be able to breed.

I'm with Alpo, here. If you want to go all eugenics-y, who's to say you want to save young people who can't fight it off? They have weak immune systems and will just be a drag on the system in future years. Might as well eliminate them, too

 

[maxwelhse]

Sounds like a ghetto Android user to me.

You don't know how true that is... The phone next to me right now is like $50...

I like AKs too... and cheap women! so NA!

 

[Route 45]

I heard in some states that the gun ranges were "essential" & didn't have to close down?

Gun shops are essential in Indiana. Not sure about ranges. I wouldn't want to visit an indoor range right now. Their ventilation system moves air around pretty well, and I don't think anyone is sure how long Coronavirus can remain in the air.

 

[maxwelhse]

Gun shops are essential in Indiana. Not sure about ranges. I wouldn't want to visit an indoor range right now. Their ventilation system moves air around pretty well, and I don't think anyone is sure how long Coronavirus can remain in the air.

We've still got Gary, so...

 

[IndyGal65]

Right. I was going to take the interior cruise to Alaska this summer and stay for a while, but now that is a hard pass.

We are supposed to go on a cruise to Bermuda, sailing out of NY City, on May 31st. We are definitely leaning towards cancelling as that time frame still seems to be in the iffy zone.

 

[doddg]

White house live again for the second time today.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

STOP GETTING ON CRUISE SHIPS!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ise-sailing-for-florida-has-87-flu-like-cases

Carnival Corp.’s Holland America Line said its Zaandam cruise ship has 40 guests and 47 crew with flu-like symptoms.

Holland America plans to sail the Zaandam to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, arriving March 30.

People still taking cruises.

But it's such a good deal!!

No doubt. One big floating petri dish

Where you're forced to be unarmed around 5000 strangers and the only actual exit is almost certain death.

Short of fighting in a basement, a pleasure cruise is the worst tactical situation invented by man.

Last month CNN said it was fine to go on a cruise in spite of the corona virus. Always trust CNN.
I wonder what they say now.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-safety-coronavirus/index.html

I went on a cruise in Hawaii last year. I used so much much hand sanitizer and handwashing and other precautions.
There is no way in hell I would be getting on a ship right now until they get this thing beat. No way.

Right. I was going to take the interior cruise to Alaska this summer and stay for a while, but now that is a hard pass.

When I first heard about Coronavirus in "only the remote" sections of Italy, I wanted to immediately cancel my Italian cruise.
I waited on the wife to catch up (1-2 wks) & our daughter was slower, but finally everyone "saw the light."

It's like a 6 am Bible study that I go to a Panera Bread on Fridays and they closed it so one of the dozen guys has a "man-cave" barn & said we could simply meet there instead (this was last Friday, the 20th).
I told them since there are guys from every walk of life from military pilots to business owners, and other professionals who probably come in contact with a 1000 or more people a week: I wouldn't be there.
I don't know how many showed up (I know the pilot had a flight that am and didn't), but they are having it virtual on Zoom or Hangouts this Friday.

 

[BugI02]

The screenshot says it was in C. I haven't been in that world for a long time, but I suspect it wouldn't take much to get it into C#/C++ or whatever.

ETA:
I will criticize him for not commenting it. Unless he's been using it regularly since he wrote it, it'll take some work to remember.

BTDT

It's possible he is a lazy/bad programmer and did not comment the code. It seems equally possible he is a bad programmer and does not wish to allow people to examine the code and undergo peer review and that is the excuse he is using. His track record does not inspire confidence

 

[ArcadiaGP]

They're saying 30m of an N95 mask in an oven at 158f sterilizes them with virtually no loss in filtration.

Also... obviously homemade cloth masks aren't going to stop everything, but they're still helpful. Wife is a seamstress, thinking of pumping some out if there's a hospital or something that would accept them. Lot of unused fabric.

 

[Vigilant]

We are supposed to go on a cruise to Bermuda, sailing out of NY City, on May 31st. We are definitely leaning towards cancelling as that time frame still seems to be in the iffy zone.

By 31 May, you’re going to have to bring Snake Plissken out of retirement to get to to the harbor, we’ll have walled that one off by then.

 

[BugI02]

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[STRIKE]Poor commenting[/STRIKE] [Spaghetti code] is a fact of life in [STRIKE]software[/STRIKE] [just about all] engineering. I know many, many seasoned engineers that write worthless comments in their code. When I train interns and such, I impress on them the need to write full paragraphs explaining why and how the code works.

/QUOTE]

Fixy

 

[JettaKnight]

It's possible he is a lazy/bad programmer and did not comment the code. It seems equally possible he is a bad programmer and does not wish to allow people to examine the code and undergo peer review and that is the excuse he is using. His track record does not inspire confidence

Probably one of those, "The code is self-commenting" kind of programmers.

Fixy

Not far from the truth.


My career is now built around undoing that in stuff I inherited.

 

[JettaKnight]

They're saying 30m of an N95 mask in an oven at 158f sterilizes them with virtually no loss in filtration.

Also... obviously homemade cloth masks aren't going to stop everything, but they're still helpful. Wife is a seamstress, thinking of pumping some out if there's a hospital or something that would accept them. Lot of unused fabric.

There was a local NextDoor message about that sort of activity.

 

[Alpo]

By 31 May, you’re going to have to bring Snake Plissken out of retirement to get to to the harbor, we’ll have walled that one off by then.