Yep, sad, but smart moves.

This is what calling it looks like.

This comment was edited on Mar 13, 2020, 15:54.

Well, I for one, when having a serious running nose regularly use bountiful toilet paper kept at hand, to wipe and discard.

Measley boxes of tissues can´t cope as easily

Disclosure : 29 rolls, and I live alone !

Americans are barbarians. While the rest of the world washs off poop, we smear it on paper. No one wants to run out of poop smearing paper.
I went wild and bought a 12 pack a month ago so I'm good.

Prez wrote on Mar 13, 2020, 00:31:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 22:31:
Buy TP. ALL the TP.

LOL. I still can't figure that one out. The hand sanitizer I get, but the rush on toilet paper? I mean what is up with that?

Because people are stupid. Apparently during the 1973 oil crisis Johnny Carson did a joke about a shortage of TP and panic purchasing ensued.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 22:31:

Prez wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 19:28:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 18:45:

Slashman wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 08:03:
So we're ignoring what happened in Italy and China and just going with our feelings?

Sure! What could go wrong? American exceptionalism, FTW!

I mean, what are we supposed to be doing - running around flailing our arms screaming like our hair is on fire?

Buy TP. ALL the TP.

LOL. I still can't figure that one out. The hand sanitizer I get, but the rush on toilet paper? I mean what is up with that?

Prez wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 19:28:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 18:45:

Slashman wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 08:03:
So we're ignoring what happened in Italy and China and just going with our feelings?

Sure! What could go wrong? American exceptionalism, FTW!

I mean, what are we supposed to be doing - running around flailing our arms screaming like our hair is on fire?

Buy TP. ALL the TP.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 18:45:

Slashman wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 08:03:
So we're ignoring what happened in Italy and China and just going with our feelings?

Sure! What could go wrong? American exceptionalism, FTW!

I mean, what are we supposed to be doing - running around flailing our arms screaming like our hair is on fire?

Let´s hope to see CJ Parker here again.

This comment was edited on Mar 12, 2020, 19:54.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 18:43:

WannaLogAlready wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 14:49:

Blue wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 09:03:

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 20:17:
I see that you are new here. Welcome.

Amid all the rancor in this thread I just wanted to thank you for this.

Blue, was thinking the same, then read your post.

RedEye9 is a cool guy (welcomed me too haha)

Anyway, I´ll ask again if anyone knows something about Creston, I miss his posts since december.

Also, CJ Parker.

Difference being Creston has posted every day for the last 2 years and disappeared without a trace. Parker got tired of a certain person bitching and said he was taking a century off. So certain person wins, cool huh.

And I quote

[url=https://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=206810&id=1251741&view=threads]“OK, guys, Ooooooooooookkkkaaaaaayyyy... I got the memo, gotcha, understood... and as a token of my infinite generosity you shall hereby be rewarded a CJ-free decade (but only ONE)!
How's that sound??? Can't hear ya... ah yes, better now... the worldwide relief, jubilations and celebrations are hard to overhear.
So, don't circlejerk each other too hard and have a good one!“[/url] - cjparker

Slashman wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 08:03:
So we're ignoring what happened in Italy and China and just going with our feelings?

Sure! What could go wrong? American exceptionalism, FTW!

WannaLogAlready wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 14:49:

Blue wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 09:03:

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 20:17:
I see that you are new here. Welcome.

Amid all the rancor in this thread I just wanted to thank you for this.

Blue, was thinking the same, then read your post.

RedEye9 is a cool guy (welcomed me too haha)

Anyway, I´ll ask again if anyone knows something about Creston, I miss his posts since december.

Also, CJ Parker.

Hey thanks a lot Prez !, hope to see him post again.

With your library, Steam shoud make you mandatory friend so you show them all how it´s done right

WannaLogAlready wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 14:49:

Anyway, I´ll ask again if anyone knows something about Creston, I miss his posts since december.

I'm not friends with him on Steam so I don't know if he's been active, but he tends to post in spurts and blink out for a time.

Blue wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 09:03:

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 20:17:
I see that you are new here. Welcome.

Amid all the rancor in this thread I just wanted to thank you for this.

Blue, was thinking the same, then read your post.

RedEye9 is a cool guy (welcomed me too haha)

Anyway, I´ll ask again if anyone knows something about Creston, I miss his posts since december.

I just hope this E3 cancellation will make game dev to announce their games (and gaming related stuff) in other ways and realize how irrelevant E3 had become. I don't like ESA and I don't mind they are losing support.

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 20:17:
I see that you are new here. Welcome.

Amid all the rancor in this thread I just wanted to thank you for this.

So we're ignoring what happened in Italy and China and just going with our feelings?

jdreyer wrote on Mar 12, 2020, 04:44:
It's amazing the number of famous people and top politicians that are getting infected.

Not really, they travel a lot, they frequently attend gatherings of large crowds, etc.. their risk profile is pretty damn high for any contagion.

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 20:17:
I see that you are new here. Welcome.

As for the person you quoted, In general we try to ignore "it".

Have a nice stay, the waters fine.

Thanks! I've lurked for quite a while, but I've never felt the need to post till now. I know "it" should be ignored, but in times like this, stupidity should be countered before it infects the rest who might not know better.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 11, 2020, 20:35:
Health care is a finite resource: there are only so many hospital beds, doctors, nurses, medical laboratories, doses of medication, etc. Most of the resources that make up a health care system are also extremely expensive, especially so in the United States. As a consequence, health care systems tend to have enough resources to deal with the average demands with some amount of excess demand. As you may have noticed, we're still in flu/pneumonia season, which itself consumes the lion's share of the health care system's resources each year. If you layer on a large outbreak of corona virus, the resulting influx of patients will overwhelm the system's ability to cope.

Good post, but just to add one thing you missed: As the number of patients increase, so do the risks to those who have to spend time attending to patients: the healthcare workers. They get exposed for longer, and inevitably, they will contract the disease. So the higher the number of patients, the more likely it is that the numbers of doctors and nurses available will decrease as well as they contract the disease.

So it's not just the beds and equipment available versus the number of patients, the manpower available to care for the patients will also decrease as well.