Virus supplies worldwide comparison

[Pastel Tortie]

My household doesn't normally use much hand sanitizer...but we do stock it for hurricane season. The regular liquid hand soap doesn't work nearly as well without water...

 

[Cathie G]

asymptomatic actually just means without symptoms and you will never have symptoms even though you have , in this case , covid ….. as far as an asymptomatic person spreading the virus , I think they are questioning just how often that happens , leaning toward it being rare ……… the people without symptoms that are more likely to spread covid are pre-symptomatic people , people who will have symptoms , just haven't had them yet , that 14 day window …..…..

Yep. It just really depends on each person's response also. I need a mask handy anyway because of allergies and it's summer. Sew I stitched some.

 

[Maggie3fan]

So he's not going to be at his car dealership in Tallahassee today, is he? ?

He's running third right now, looks like I 'may' have to eat my words. Is it a Chevy dealership? You ever go see him?

 

[Cathie G]

My household doesn't normally use much hand sanitizer...but we do stock it for hurricane season. The regular liquid hand soap doesn't work nearly as well without water...

Yea...I found stockpiles around the house. (in every room...turdess room included). I even had 92% alcohol and Lysol wipes. I keep the alcohol as a fly killer...I have to say I give them a fighting chance though. Go out the door or get fried.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

He's running third right now, looks like I 'may' have to eat my words. Is it a Chevy dealership? You ever go see him?

Yes, it's a Chevy dealership. I don't go see him, but they do a fair amount of business. I know someone who got a good deal on a new truck recently.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Yes, it's a Chevy dealership. I don't go see him, but they do a fair amount of business. I know someone who got a good deal on a new truck recently.

(No comment from me on any recently made GM vehicle)
But I am somewhat relieved that the panic buying and hoarding might be ending soon.
The virus certainly isn't.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Why has gasoline been steadily creeping back up?
It's still like negative $30 a barrel.
So $2 a gallon is quite a mark up considering.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Yea...I found stockpiles around the house. (in every room...turdess room included). I even had 92% alcohol and Lysol wipes. I keep the alcohol as a fly killer...I have to say I give them a fighting chance though. Go out the door or get fried.

Ok, I'm 75. I grew up in San Francisco, the 4th child of middle-class Catholic parents. My Dad was a Graphic Artist with an office in downtown SF.
When I was 3 or 4 we had a major polio outbreak similar to Covid 19. My mother contracted the disease. It was rumored that a fly walked across her food, and Ma got polio. My Dad became obsessed with flies. He bought Raid by the gallon. When he thought he saw a fly he went crazy with the fly spray, he would fog a whole room regardless of who was in that room. I always thought that was how I'd die. My Dad would fog a room, us kids would die. But, alas, I lived thru it, and to this day I use a fly swatter, no fly poison in MY house...lol

 

[Maggie3fan]

Why has gasoline been steadily creeping back up?
It's still like negative $30 a barrel.
So $2 a gallon is quite a mark up considering.

Might be a mark up for you, but I am used to paying almost $4 a gallon, so $2.85 is a major discount for me. And I realized, I use premium not regular in my high compression hot rod motor. So it is $2.85 for premium.

OMG!OMG!OMG! I just realized I am standing here relatively pain free! Really? Let's walk, oh yeah not too bad

 

[Yvonne G]

Ok, I'm 75. I grew up in San Francisco, the 4th child of middle-class Catholic parents. My Dad was a Graphic Artist with an office in downtown SF.
When I was 3 or 4 we had a major polio outbreak similar to Covid 19. My mother contracted the disease. It was rumored that a fly walked across her food, and Ma got polio. My Dad became obsessed with flies. He bought Raid by the gallon. When he thought he saw a fly he went crazy with the fly spray, he would fog a whole room regardless of who was in that room. I always thought that was how I'd die. My Dad would fog a room, us kids would die. But, alas, I lived thru it, and to this day I use a fly swatter, no fly poison in MY house...lol

I'd like to correct just one little item in your story: Dad went crazy buying "Flit." It was an old time pump sprayer similar to this:



I remember going around with a numb tongue tip and a bad taste in my mouth most of the time. Didn't affect my child bearing (I had three) or health, though. The only thing I've got going on really is the occasional skin cancer. . . and I'm pretty old!

 

[jaizei]

I'd like to correct just one little item in your story: Dad went crazy buying "Flit." It was an old time pump sprayer similar to this:

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I remember going around with a numb tongue tip and a bad taste in my mouth most of the time. Didn't affect my child bearing (I had three) or health, though. The only thing I've got going on really is the occasional skin cancer. . . and I'm pretty old!

I remember seeing those in cartoons and never thought about or saw irl.

 

[Yvonne G]

I remember seeing those in cartoons and never thought about or saw irl.

Yeah, we had all kinds of neat stuff in the "olden days."

 

[Maggie3fan]

I'd like to correct just one little item in your story: Dad went crazy buying "Flit." It was an old time pump sprayer similar to this:

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I remember going around with a numb tongue tip and a bad taste in my mouth most of the time. Didn't affect my child bearing (I had three) or health, though. The only thing I've got going on really is the occasional skin cancer. . . and I'm pretty old!

Oh yes! Now I do remember that. Oh my, so frankly, for once I did not exaggerate, he really did lay out a toxic cloud...lol

 

[Cathie G]

Ok, I'm 75. I grew up in San Francisco, the 4th child of middle-class Catholic parents. My Dad was a Graphic Artist with an office in downtown SF.
When I was 3 or 4 we had a major polio outbreak similar to Covid 19. My mother contracted the disease. It was rumored that a fly walked across her food, and Ma got polio. My Dad became obsessed with flies. He bought Raid by the gallon. When he thought he saw a fly he went crazy with the fly spray, he would fog a whole room regardless of who was in that room. I always thought that was how I'd die. My Dad would fog a room, us kids would die. But, alas, I lived thru it, and to this day I use a fly swatter, no fly poison in MY house...lol

The three day measles is what produced my brother. My mother contracted it. He's profoundly deaf. Many other birth defects but he's so much fun. The good outweighs the bad. I hardly ever use poison. I don't want my pet bugs and wildlife dead. But I'll be darned if I'll let a fly land on every thing in my house. If it won't fly outside then It's going to get drunk And die on 92% alcohol. Sometimes I trap it first for a nice spider meal. Either way is ok with me...

 

[ZEROPILOT]

The three day measles is what produced my brother. My mother contracted it. He's profoundly deaf. Many other birth defects but he's so much fun. The good outweighs the bad. I hardly ever use poison. I don't want my pet bugs and wildlife dead. But I'll be darned if I'll let a fly land on every thing in my house. If it won't fly outside then It's going to get drunk And die on 92% alcohol. Sometimes I trap it first for a nice spider meal. Either way is ok with me...

Clearly you've never met a giant Florida cockroach.....

 

[Cathie G]

Might be a mark up for you, but I am used to paying almost $4 a gallon, so $2.85 is a major discount for me. And I realized, I use premium not regular in my high compression hot rod motor. So it is $2.85 for premium.

OMG!OMG!OMG! I just realized I am standing here relatively pain free! Really? Let's walk, oh yeah not too bad

No pain is worth millions... Yea!!!

 

[Maggie3fan]

Clearly you've never met a giant Florida cockroach.....

I can take a lot of different bugs, but Florida's giant cockroaches are scary, nauseating, gross, and there are not enuf adjectives to describe those nasty bugs. The worst, they get into your bed. So nasty

 

[Cathie G]

Clearly you've never met a giant Florida cockroach.....

Well...I did live in southwest Florida in the country. Are you talking about the palmetto, mosquito, native roaches, or what bug etc etc? If you kill all the bugs how you gonna keep all the wildlife happy so you don't get ate??

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I can take a lot of different bugs, but Florida's giant cockroaches are scary, nauseating, gross, and there are not enuf adjectives to describe those nasty bugs. The worst, they get into your bed. So nasty

Thank GOD they don't usually make it that far.
They die between the garage/laundry room door and the hallway.
They have a gauntlet of poison to get past along the way and the garage is an active war zone.
Only the strongest, largest get that far....

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Well...I did live in southwest Florida in the country. Are you talking about the palmetto, mosquito, native roaches, or what bug etc etc? If you kill all the bugs how you gonna keep all the wildlife happy so you don't get ate??

The ones we call Palmetto bugs.
I believe @Tom identified them as common American cockroaches. They just get extra large here.