BYC Café

[bruceha2000]

You could PM him your phone number and he could call you ... or vice versa.

I think grinding the planet to a halt every time a virus is causing disease might be a tad overkill.

I wasn't suggesting we shut everything down every year for the flu but if people who have the flu wouldn't go to work "toughing it out", wouldn't go to events/church/whatever, wouldn't go visit friends and family, fewer people would get the flu and fewer would die from it. In short, follow the Covid advice to self quarantine until you have recovered. People SHOULD have been doing this all along. MAYBE that is one thing that people MIGHT change in their behavior.

 

[DobieLover]

You could PM him your phone number and he could call you ... or vice versa.


I wasn't suggesting we shut everything down every year for the flu but if people who have the flu wouldn't go to work "toughing it out", wouldn't go to events/church/whatever, wouldn't go visit friends and family, fewer people would get the flu and fewer would die from it. In short, follow the Covid advice to self quarantine until you have recovered. People SHOULD have been doing this all along. MAYBE that is one thing that people MIGHT change in their behavior.

I wouldn't hold my breath that the masses will change their behavior.

 

[DobieLover]

They work!!
They're going to look so great when I get them up! This room is going to be totally transformed just with these up-lights alone.
Full bright.

Dimmed down

 

[Shadrach]

You could PM him your phone number and he could call you ... or vice versa.


I wasn't suggesting we shut everything down every year for the flu but if people who have the flu wouldn't go to work "toughing it out", wouldn't go to events/church/whatever, wouldn't go visit friends and family, fewer people would get the flu and fewer would die from it. In short, follow the Covid advice to self quarantine until you have recovered. People SHOULD have been doing this all along. MAYBE that is one thing that people MIGHT change in their behavior.

I completely agree, but then you need a system to guarantee their income. Very few people go to work when they are ill because the want to; they go because they need to.

 

[bruceha2000]

You are doing this at your Dad's house? And fixing it up to sell?

 

[bruceha2000]

I completely agree, but then you need a system to guarantee their income. Very few people go to work when they are ill because the want to; they go because they need to.

Agreed, all employers would be better off if they paid contagious people to stay home. Otherwise the other employees will get it and the cycle continues.

 

[CapricornFarm]

You could PM him your phone number and he could call you ... or vice versa.


I wasn't suggesting we shut everything down every year for the flu but if people who have the flu wouldn't go to work "toughing it out", wouldn't go to events/church/whatever, wouldn't go visit friends and family, fewer people would get the flu and fewer would die from it. In short, follow the Covid advice to self quarantine until you have recovered. People SHOULD have been doing this all along. MAYBE that is one thing that people MIGHT change in their behavior.

I doubt it, since most people are only concerned for themselves and their family.

 

[sourland]

I wouldn't hold my breath that the masses will change their behavior.

Can we hope ?

 

[ronott1]

So far in the USA 2,229 there have been 2,229 deaths attributed to Covid-19
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093256/novel-coronavirus-2019ncov-deaths-worldwide-by-country/
Last years flu season accounted for 80,000 deaths (this is an estimate because many flue deaths are not recorded)
https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/

Fauci, the infectious disease Dr., predicts 100 to 200 thousand dead in the US alone.

 

[ronott1]

You could PM him your phone number and he could call you ... or vice versa.


I wasn't suggesting we shut everything down every year for the flu but if people who have the flu wouldn't go to work "toughing it out", wouldn't go to events/church/whatever, wouldn't go visit friends and family, fewer people would get the flu and fewer would die from it. In short, follow the Covid advice to self quarantine until you have recovered. People SHOULD have been doing this all along. MAYBE that is one thing that people MIGHT change in their behavior.

Yes, a lot of what we are doing now should be normal behavior!

Especially washing hands often the correct way. My Mom drilled that one into our heads. I suspect is has to do with her being 17 during the 1957 Flu Pandemic