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Old 03-15-2020, 10:10 AM
 
Location: About 10 miles north of Pittsburgh International
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It is nothing like 100 skittles and 3 will kill you. It is completely dependent on the person eating those skittles.

Yes, but no. My point, for anybody that missed it is that in this case, your behavior might be what causes someone else to have to eat the skittles.

Everybody needs to look beyond their own interests.

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Yes! We are literally being asked to "do nothing", and that's a message people are finding hard to receive. It is strange. Americans generally have an enhanced bias towards action. But inaction/inactivity are kind of anathema to our national character, somehow seen as slothful.
Absolutely.

My instinct is to go out and heroically scour the countryside for that last available roll of TP, but to do so might mean I bring the virus home that'll kill my wife.

Tis a conundrum.

 
Old 03-15-2020, 10:12 AM
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Location: Pittsburgh
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Apologies for the oversimplified analogy. Let me rework it some. Here are 100 skittles. 100 of those skittles will make you carry a virus that will in turn perhaps lead to killing someone else. Why would you eat the skittles? Simple answer....you think you are smarter than experts and stronger than a virus.
If you went to a grocery store in the past two week, you ate some skittles. Put fuel in the car? Went to work? Went to any store at all? More skittles. So how many do we eat?
 
Old 03-15-2020, 10:15 AM
 
Location: About 10 miles north of Pittsburgh International
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If you went to a grocery store in the past two week, you ate some skittles. Put fuel in the car? Went to work? Went to any store at all? More skittles. So how many do we eat?
Uh... Not one more than we already have?
 
Old 03-15-2020, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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My instinct is to go out and heroically scour the countryside for that last available roll of TP, but to do so might mean I bring the virus home that'll kill my wife.

Tis a conundrum.
How attached to her are you?
 
Old 03-15-2020, 10:25 AM
 
Location: About 10 miles north of Pittsburgh International
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How attached to her are you?
Actually, I'm kinda fond of her.

I'm going to take this opportunity to proactively point out to Yac that while this general discussion might not fit the specified news and facts only intent of this thread, to the extent that it may influence the behavior of the Pittsburgher next to me in the line at Giant Eagle , it *is* Pittsburgh-centric.
 
Old 03-15-2020, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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How attached to her are you?
Awesome
 
Old 03-15-2020, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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One more confirmed case in Allegheny County. Seriously people, stay the **ck away from crowded bars and restaurants!

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020...ore-statewide/
 
Old 03-15-2020, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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One more confirmed case in Allegheny County. Seriously people, stay the **ck away from crowded bars and restaurants!

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020...ore-statewide/
Perhaps you should take your message to the streets as it doesn’t seem to be working here.
 
Old 03-15-2020, 01:44 PM
 
Location: In Transition
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I can’t believe the panic in Pittsburgh and nationwide. We have lost our marbles as a nation. Both 911 and the H1N1 infection back in 2010 was way worse. It’s just mind boggling. This over panic is crashing the economy and stock market.
 
Old 03-15-2020, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh (via Chicago, via Pittsburgh)
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I can’t believe the panic in Pittsburgh and nationwide. We have lost our marbles as a nation. Both 911 and the H1N1 infection back in 2010 was way worse. It’s just mind boggling. This over panic is crashing the economy and stock market.
How much epidemiology have you studied? Or are you an infectious disease physician? The point is not to panic, the point is to be smart, implement and adhere to measures to lower the curve, and listen to the experts. That doesn’t mean stockpiling TP, but it means understanding that epidemiologists and those who understand this for a living should be listened to. It means that temporary (and yes, terrible and disheartening) hits to business and the economy now in the long run is better (and cheaper) than overrunning the capacity of our healthcare system and really hurting ourselves and the economy it this gets to Italy and/or Spain levels (or worse)
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