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MidEngineManiac
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MAR 13, 08:04 AM
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I've always used this with septic systems and never had a problem flushing the paper
https://www.amazon.com/Sept...Liquid/dp/B0058I168Y
TP only, it won't handle cigarette butt, sanitary products or any of the other stuff that ends up down a city toilet.
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MidEngineManiac
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MAR 13, 08:24 AM
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This one came across one of my Facebook groups this morning. Take it as you will.
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I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has the chance, today to take actions that will deter the Italian situation from becoming your own country’s reality. The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today.
If you are in Europe or the US you are weeks away from where we are today in Italy.
I can hear you now. “It’s just a flu. It only affects old people with preconditions”
There are 2 reasons why Coronavirus has brought Italy to it’s knees. First it is a flu is devastating when people get really sick they need weeks of ICU – and, second, because of how fast and effectively it spreads. There is 2 week incubation period and many who have it never show symptoms.
When Prime Minister Conte announced last night that the entire country, 60 million people, would go on lock down, the line that struck me most was “there is no more time.” Because to be clear, this national lock down, is a hail mary. What he means is that if the numbers of contagion do not start to go down, the system, Italy, will collapse.
Why? Today the ICUs in Lombardy are at capacity – more than capacity. They have begun to put ICU units in the hallways. If the numbers do not go down, the growth rate of contagion tells us that there will be thousands of people who in a matter of a week? two weeks? who will need care. What will happen when there are 100, or a 1000 people who need the hospital and only a few ICU places left?
On Monday a doctor wrote in the paper that they have begun to have to decide who lives and who dies when the patients show up in the emergency room, like what is done in war. This will only get worse.
There are a finite number of drs, nurses, medical staff and they are getting the virus. They have also been working non-stop, non-stop for days and days. What happens when the drs, nurses and medical staff are simply not able to care for the patients, when they are not there?
And finally for those who say that this is just something that happens to old people, starting yesterday the hospitals are reporting that younger and younger patients – 40, 45, 18, are coming in for treatment.
You have a chance to make a difference and stop the spread in your country. Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. If you have a fever, any fever, stay home. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities – there is a two week incubation period – and if you do these things now you can buy your medical system time.
And for those who say it is not possible to close the schools, and do all these other things, locking down Italy was beyond anyone’s imagination a week ago.
Soon you will not have a choice, so do what you can now.
Please share.
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bonaduce
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MAR 13, 09:23 AM
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Tony Kania
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MAR 13, 11:09 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by ray b:
I think I had cv-19 on jan 27 2020
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I for one am very happy that you are OK after this. That sounds horrible. 
Take care. Honestly. Now is not the time for me to treat you like shat.
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maryjane
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MAR 13, 11:55 AM
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Ray, according to this morning's map Fla no longer shows to have any covid-19 patients.
Have they recovered?
It's been one of my concerns. There was/is a patient around the 1st week of Feb that was admitted to the Lackland AFB military hospital. He has not yet recovered tho I believe the USA's very first case in Washington (Jan 19) did recover tho all I can really find on it was that as of Jan 30, he was still hospitalized.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/fu...0.1056/NEJMoa2001191
US now has 1,268 confirmed cases.
According to the John Hopkins website, only 6 have recovered.
33 have died.
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MidEngineManiac
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MAR 13, 12:05 PM
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Fats
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MAR 13, 12:08 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ray b:
I think I had cv-19 on jan 27 2020
early adopter or something
no idea from where I could have caught it
I mostly stayed in miami but did a few trips to the west coast of fla
in the 2-3 weeks before I got sick
I did go to a marine swap meet and normal garage sales
no out of country but the house across the street is full of Vietnamese
symptoms bad body aches and pain worse then the flu
fever and chills very bad
bad cough lungs hurt
gut was ok no runs or throw ups but did not want to eat lost about 15 lbs
very low energy just wanted to sit or lie down
major diff from flu was NO running nose NO sore throat at all
all the above close match to reported cv-19 symptoms
minor hick-cups very often only other effect but that maybe just me
I was down for about 10 days and weak for a few weeks after the aches and fever stopped
no tests just stayed at home
wife had very minor symptoms
my two kids who live at home did NOT get sick
recently tryed to get a anti-body test to check if I had cv-19
but NO test available for that in the USA [china has one]
not the live/active virus test that they do have and use here
as I no longer have the bug after over 6 weeks time so no point in the live test
so only the anti-body test was what I wanted to check if I had cv-19
did have recent blood test last week and check up and I am in good general health
posting now as the prospect of enforced Q at a military base is over now
with standard procedure to Q at home what I basically did
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The wife and I were talking about this the other day.
Most of her family, as well as most of my family, were also sick around the beginning- middle of January.
My Father in Law, after being sick for over a week was diagnosed with Pneumonia. My Mother-in-Law had a cough she couldn't get rid of for about two weeks. Our local friends had similar things going on. Nobody was really "sick", except my FIL (He's in his 70's.)
Mom and my wife were both tested for the Flu, and both tested negative, but the doctor (Small town, same doc.) said it was common for it to be wrong, and gave Mom Tamiflu. My wife got nothing as she was on other stuff already as I recall. (And she likes that naturalist mumbo jumbo)
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Fats
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MAR 13, 12:15 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
City Boy... 
It's quite common in rural America for anyone that has or has had a septic system or aerobic wastewater treatment plant. Neither of those units can handle paper products.
The used toilet paper simply goes in a small trash bag lined trash can near the toilet and it's closed& tied up and is taken outside & burned when necessary, or thrown still bagged up into the larger household garbage and taken to the trash collection point.
(no, contrary to what many might think, there is no odor in the bathroom from the used paper) |
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Our current septic tank will not handle paper at all, but the tank at our new house will. (according to the installers.)
But, in its defense, our current septic was hand built in the 70's and needs replaced. It has to be pumped every few years.
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Boondawg
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MAR 13, 12:50 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Tony Kania:
Take care. Honestly. Now is not the time for me to treat you like shat. |
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Amazing.
You are such an incredible self-grandising little douche-bag that you have no idea how absolutely despicable that statement actually is.
You really are just a simple-minded little worm whom can’t even seem to fake being a bully convincingly.
You are without a doubt the most voluminous amount of nothing I have ever seen in a single-serving package.
If you can manage with your limited mental abilities to scrounge-up an ounce or so of intellect above that of an insect, you might want to try and evolve.
Here, I can help.
Anytime you think you have something human to say, just STFU.
You don’t.
You’re a worm.
P.S. This is in no way meant to be degrading to worms.[This message has been edited by Boondawg (edited 03-13-2020).]
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Fats
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MAR 13, 12:53 PM
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Can everybody calm down and get back to talking about this made up panic please?
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