#11 | Posted by rstybeach11, On April 1, I am retreating to my refuge in East Central Oklahoma. No phone. No internet. Nearest neighbor is miles away. Nearest place to buy anything is 6 miles. I have shelter, power, water and a lot of everything I need to say "it's your problem now". Honestly I can see the fall of major metropolitan centers because of your fears. NYC and LA would be tops of my list.While you are worried about survival, I'll worry about how my black eyed peas are doing.

#9 | Posted by docnjo It wouldn't bother me a moment to hear of some celebrity dying. I have more sympathy for road kill. It bothers me when I hear about some nameless LVN or RN dies. They are the ones who know the risks and showed up to work.

#8 | Posted by JOE, One thing I learned living in communes, there is always an abundance of individuals to play music after dinner. The individuals who are willing to wash dishes and clean the kitchen are considerably more rare. The only truly equal are the dead.

Something I've learned, a leader does not have to be right every time, but they need to change as the situation dictates. I have seen good and bad leaders screw up. The difference is the good leader continues, makes adjustments and changes and moves forward. Bad leaders blame others for their failure. Come November we shall see what has encouraged and benefited, or at least gets credit. Nancy Pelosi is 80 today. If there were ever a poster child for term limits in congress, she need only look in a mirror.

#14 | Posted by snoofy Hell, I don't even know what stock to buy if I were inclined to invest in this enterprise.

I need truck drivers, stockers, doctors, nurses, cops, firemen, utility workers, trash pickup, teachers, ministers and many others. I have yet to need a performer for anything. Note who is risking their lives every day doing their jobs. It isn't celebrities, they are hiding out behind bars and walls.

#70 | Posted by tonyroma, I seriously doubt you give a ---, about anything but number one. Now the grim reaper is in the neighborhood and you loose your mind. A coward always takes council with with their fears. I have faced death enough times to be acquainted with him, he eventually meets us all.

#70 | Posted by tonyroma, I seriously doubt you give a ---, about anything but number one. Now the grim reaper is in the neighborhood and you loose your mind. A coward always takes council with with their fears. I have faced death enough times to be acquainted with him, he eventually meets us all.

What mystifies me is while we have lost 1000 people due to a new virus, we lost 70,000 last year from opioid overdoses and no one even raised a damned issue.

Here is something to remember, making a terroristic threat is a felony and there are provisions in the PATRIOT Act which cover that subject . You don't have to do anything, or have the ability to do anything. Make a threat like "I am going to blow up the school, church, mosque, synagogue, hospital, plane, what ever" you could potentially find yourself in Getmo, or be remanded in custody until your trial in a couple of years.

U.S. Has the Most Coronavirus Cases in World, that is if you can trust what the CCP says, or the Iranians, or a great part of the third world who have very little means to find out the facts on the ground.

Good grief, restaurants all over the country are making deals with their landlords. Forego rent until the emergency is over. Then reimburse the landlord after they can do regular business. Most property owners prefer having a tenant that they know and having a commercial property vacant for long is a kiss of death for the value of property and potential earnings. Vacancies kill business traffic and curve appeal. That's how the mega malls imploded.

Seen mass causality situations, they generally just get some refer vans and put the corpses in those after they are processed. It isn't a big deal, you can comfortably lay out 60 or so in body bags in a 40'. There are plenty of refrigerated vans out there. This was never an emergency.

Mental health is a scandal in America, has been for 50 years. In the 70s we dumped thousands of the mentally ill on the street under the guise of civil liberty. They were supposed to go to halfway houses that never existed. Hell, if an individual is so impaired the can not care for themselves, they need someplace to survive. Of course we could leave them to be victimized on the street with all their civil liberties intact.

If you wonder about a conspiracy, here is a real one. The AMA has deliberately created a shortage of doctors. But it didn't work. Foreign doctors have taken up the slack. Then out in the sticks, in flyover country in places like Texas built the largest medical schools in the nation. At this moment the University Of Texas, Houston graduates and licenses more physicians than all the Ivy league's total every year.

So some idiot, likely mental, shouts at a passerby because they are Asian? Forgive me but 2/3s of the humans on this planet live in Asia. I wonder if this guy could tell the difference between a Korean, a Japanese, a Vietnamese, a Mongolian, and one of the seven or so ethnic groups within China. Better to pack heat than to live in fear. Most crazies and criminals in Texas have learned have learned not to mug older women, they are the group that is most likely to be armed in public. Yes, 70% of CCPs are are issued to men, but it is women who carry most often.

#9 | Posted by bored If we use the assets the military possesses we can have a 300 bed hospital in a day, complete with generation capacity and water purification and waist disposal. Counting the reserves and national guard, we have 14 of those. We also have three hospital ships in service, they are self sustaining, and have room for about 500 beds at capacity

#31 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday Hell's bells chick, a serious case of pneumonia will kill as quickly as a chronic condition. That is what generally kills those with the flu.

Gal_Tuesday, I know someone that has contracted this virus, she was dangerously ill for four days. Two days after being treated with Choroquine and Z-pac, she was released from the hospital, off the ventilator, fever broke, and sent home. She is in quarantine for another 10 days.

At this moment thousands of infected individuals are being treated with Choroquine and Z-pac in several countries. It seems to be effective. You who doubt can continue to eat Tide pods.

#23 | Posted by snoofy You first.

#20 | Posted by JOE, Prove that a 38 through your temples is not effective,

Come on

Prove it.

#18 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce Test? Why not the infected as a sample pool. We do not have 90 days to run a test. Besides do you want to be in the control group if you were infected?

#15 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce, prove that Choroquine and z-pac are not effective. Until then, sit and wait. Your greatest fear is that this will work and Trump sails into his second term.

#26 | Posted by donnerboy, My uncle contracted with the CIA for about 20 years. His job was to read and glean French periodicals from Africa. He got a box of stuff every week. Before home computers he literally had has data base on note cards. The vast majority of intelligence work is passive. We read the news papers and log the social media. James Bond would have not lasted a week in real intelligence work. Field agents have to be "the gray man". A nothing in a field of faces. They do not carry guns. Never shoot anyone. Seldom hit the street without a diplomatic passport. The wet work is mostly left to the military. We have the best bomb makers in the world, they work in EOD and they were taught by the bomb makers in several countries as they defused their "devices". We have snipers that are on par with anyone on the planet. Ask the Cartels in any country what they think about a head shot from 700 meters. Kill an American, you sign your own death warrant. There are plenty of talented individuals that are ready and willing.