Chandemonium

In South Carolina the first case was in Kershaw county, which has a total population of about 60,000. It also happens to be the county I work in, and borders Richland county, which is the county I live in and where Columbia is. For a while Kershaw was leading the statewide case count by county before being overtaken by Richland, Charleston, and Greenville. As of now total confirmed cases for the state are about 2300, about half of which are in the 4 counties I mentioned.

Here in South Carolina our governor has been very reluctant to issue a “stay at home” order. He finally (sort of) issued one today, although he still is choosing to call it a “home or work” order. However, if you look at the actual measures that have been place already for days or weeks regarding social distancing, working from home, and closures of nonessential businesses they’re virtually the same as what’s in place in many states that chose to call it a stay at home order sooner. In some ways we’ve actually been under more restriction than the hardest hit states. For example, state parks were closed a couple weeks ago, but they’re still open in NY.

When I went to academy sports the other day they were doing this, and they had cones set out 6 feet apart on the sidewalk for people to stand at while they waited.

I was joking with my wife yesterday about how I’m excited that now it’s going to be socially acceptable to go out in public dressed like an Old West bank robber.

Of course. People who were already prepared had no reason to panic buy. ...and this is why the second amendment is so important, particularly in times of crisis: Filipino president tells police and military to shoot civilians dead for violating coronavirus lockdown

99.9974% is close enough.

It’s not that surprising that the outside of hospitals would appear less busy considering a lot of them are not allowing visitors and most if not all elective or non urgent surgeries have been postponed or cancelled. There’s probably people who normally would visit the ER every time they get a headache who are staying away out of fear too.

Trump told the media they should look into the 10-15 fold increase in hospital demand for masks, and implied they’re being stolen. I’m sure that will go over well.

Take a break and disconnect from all coverage for a day or two. Staying too glued to this stuff is not good for your mental health, especially if you’re already recognizing that it’s getting to you.

Specifically with regard to his tax returns from before he was president, I couldn’t care less what he is or isn’t hiding. It’s his prerogative to release them or not. The money he made as a private citizen is none of my damn business, and frankly it disgusts me that so many people feel he should be compelled to release them.

Just saw on the morning news that Boris Johnson tested positive.

Isn’t the only way for that to happen at this point a brokered convention or if Biden secures the nomination but withdraws before the general?

I’m not sure about CA law, but federally and in most states black powder muzzleloaders including cap and ball revolvers like this are not legally considered firearms, can be purchased by anyone over 18 without a background check, and are legal for convicted felons to own. He may have earned himself a night in jail by being honest about something that isn’t actually a crime.

I hope you’re right about the bolded. Sadly I think the wild card will be how long people will tolerate being unable to work or even leave their homes before it leads to massive social unrest which leads to full on armed revolt. I sincerely hope we don’t get to that point and don’t think we will, but I can’t say it would surprise me either.

I was just thinking about this and was going to post this in the main COVID 19 thread, but then I saw this one and i think it fits better here. You don’t have to think this, or any other news story for that matter, is hoax for it to give you pause on how dependent we are on others for information, and how those others may or may not have our best interest at heart. I’ve been following the story enough for it to feel like I’m informed, but when I stop and think about it I realize I haven’t seen the virus under a microscope to know what it looks like or observe its behavior in human tissue, and I haven’t studied anyone sick to track how they got it or who they may have spread it to in their social circle. Not only that, I haven’t even read peer reviewed scientific journal articles on those subjects. I also haven’t seen any people who have died from it, and don’t even personally know anyone who is sick or has tested positive. In that respect, I realize I don’t actually know anything about it, other than what media outlets and various national, state, and local governments want and allow me to know. The vast majority of people are in the same boat as what I just described, and to me that’s an unsettling realization, even if you don’t believe they’re making it all up or it part of some larger conspiracy.

Did she forget which side Germany was on then?

I know his posting history. I don’t post that often, but read this forum daily. I’m just having a bit of fun to fight the boredom of being stuck at home, and was honestly more poking fun at myself with that comment.

No, they have. That’s why I couldn’t block the mind control conspiracy waves from entering my brain. Do you even understand how tinfoil hats work?

I know this putting me dangerously close to wild conspiracy theory territory if not firmly in that camp, but I’m starting to wonder if this was done intentionally by China to attack the US and other Western countries by spreading fear and destabilizing the economy. Yesterday when @GG was asking about why new cases in China have all but disappeared when it is projected longer elsewhere I came up with a few possibilities: 1) it actually started in China longer ago than we’ve been led to believe, which is why it is on the downswing there. 2) China is lying about the number of new cases. 3) China already knew about a cure/vaccine and has started administering it to their population. 1 seems reasonably plausible, although if that were the case it seems it would have spread to the rest of the globe faster than it did. 2 I think is the Occam’s razor answer, but 3 is where things get interesting. Especially in the context of China’s recent behavior like trying to blame the US by saying it was a bio weapon the we released on them and now expelling American journalists who might get too close to the truth, is it too far fetched that they would do something like release a bio weapon on their own people first, sacrificing a few thousand to deflect suspicion knowing they could save the rest, and then just sit back and let the thing spread? Yesterday during the response team update in addition to calling China out for spreading rumors that we started it, Trump seemed to be putting veiled pressure on China with his comments saying they had great incentive to cooperate, which may suggest the administration has reason to believe there’s more than meets the eye there.

When I was in Sportsman’s warehouse on Saturday they looked pretty well stocked, but already had signs out saying they were rationing. Yesterday morning I stopped at my local Academy. I didn’t see any rationing signs like I saw at Sportsman’s. It was starting to get thin, but they still had at least some ammo available in the most popular rifle and pistol calibers, and seemed to be basically fully stocked for the less common calibers they carry on a regular basis. I was already pretty well stocked so I didn’t go crazy but I picked up a couple more boxes of 5.56, 7.62x51, .40 s&w, and a brick of bulk .22lr. I figure at this point prices are only going to go up for at least the near future.

The state government is owned by the Purell lobby and they don’t want people making homemade hand sanitizer from grain alcohol?

these guys trying to paint Trump as an authoritarian would be hilarious if so many people didn’t believe it.

No, because of the shape.

It’s not statewide in South Carolina yet, but today governor McMaster ordered 2 counties to close schools, including the one I work for.

The AR-14 exists after all ?