Legga said:Those ones I don't like so much. I can't figure out if SpatialMind is like that. He's become so boring and ordinary now.
From what I can tell, he'd been trying to watch his temper for a few months, and otherwise "for his own good" seems to avoid conflict on this website now from figuring they won't agree with him by the end of it anyway.
@PalePeach : is AliceInWonderland ordinary or crazy?
She's kinda crazy, but a good crazy. Like she only leaves the house once or twice a month and she bought 60lbs of dried food to prepare for if Corona hits the US. I dont see any signs of worrying level crazy at least. She doesnt have wild hallucinations of grandure, and thankfully she doesnt believe bleach is a miracle cure-all and the FDA doesnt want us to find out, like some wack-jobs I met last week.
Hmmm her and I sound a lot alike. I bet we would get along just fine. Does she grab a gun when someone comes to the door? lol. I been working on my COVID-19 virus list. Found this one. Even if the virus is under control, its good practice for everyone. I hate canned vegetables.
I'm going to add vitamins and a few other things to the list.
@PalePeach : is AliceInWonderland ordinary or crazy?
She's kinda crazy, but a good crazy. Like she only leaves the house once or twice a month and she bought 60lbs of dried food to prepare for if Corona hits the US. I dont see any signs of worrying level crazy at least. She doesnt have wild hallucinations of grandure, and thankfully she doesnt believe bleach is a miracle cure-all and the FDA doesnt want us to find out, like some wack-jobs I met last week.
Hmmm her and I sound a lot alike. I bet we would get along just fine. Does she grab a gun when someone comes to the door? l
I clear the whole house when I hear a sketchy noise.
@PalePeach : is AliceInWonderland ordinary or crazy?
She's kinda crazy, but a good crazy. Like she only leaves the house once or twice a month and she bought 60lbs of dried food to prepare for if Corona hits the US. I dont see any signs of worrying level crazy at least. She doesnt have wild hallucinations of grandure, and thankfully she doesnt believe bleach is a miracle cure-all and the FDA doesnt want us to find out, like some wack-jobs I met last week.
LOL Corona virus. Doesn't that have something like less than one percent fatality? How is dried food going to help?
Yeah she's nuts. I can see why you like her.
It's 2% but imo likely higher...
Regardless, my fear isn't so much the virus itself but the very real possibility of shortages caused by panic. This happened in China and even Singapore (only for the day after raising its disease outbreak metric to orange) after their outbreaks, so if a decent number of confirmed cases popped up here I can see people freaking out and rushing for supplies. I worked in a grocery store for 2 years when I was teenager and every time a snow storm was about to hit the place was packed with people buying unnecessary junk. People are crazy and I negate this by being crazier than them.
Also, FEMA and the CDC recommend having at all times enough food and water to last 2 weeks...I can't be that crazy.
AliceInWonderland said:it's hard for me to distinguish between ordinary and crazy.The more you dig into this concept in general, the less that ordinary appears to exist and the more that crazy appears to be everywhere. Crazy comes from somewhere, and "ordinary" is a template norm that people are collectively trying to live up to as opposed to naturally exhibiting. It's only the truest of laymen that push for it being so binary.
Words like "Normal" are just as damaging as words like "Happiness".
I've never been able to articulate it but that's exactly it.
When I look around I see a mad world, but if I point this out to anyone who doesn't see it, or rather is either ignoring it or not paying attention, I'm the one who seems crazy. In the end we're both crazy and ordinary, we just have very different concerns derived from different modes of being.
Also, FEMA and the CDC recommend having at all times enough food and water to last 2 weeks...I can't be that crazy.
I've seen other governments recommending the same thing. Two months would be better imo.
It's 2% but imo likely higher...
So the reason I said it was less was due to selection effect. 2% of the diagnosed die. However, some people contract the virus, only experience minor symptoms, and don't go to the hospital. That'd make the real number somewhere between ~1-2%, depending on how many go on without major symptoms. Also, most of the infected are in Wuhan, where hospitals were completely flooded, whereas in the US it wouldn't be too much of a problem.
The probability of you contracting the virus or the virus flooding to the US is also very small. One of the reasons viruses like that spread easier in many Asian countries is because it's crowded everywhere.
Regardless, my fear isn't so much the virus itself but the very real possibility of shortages caused by panic. This happened in China and even Singapore (only for the day after raising its disease outbreak metric to orange) after their outbreaks, so if a decent number of confirmed cases popped up here I can see people freaking out and rushing for supplies.
Oh, I see. Still, I don't see this happening in the US. In fact, I do not see it happening even in China. The only supply that I know of that has run out is masks.
I worked in a grocery store for 2 years when I was teenager and every time a snow storm was about to hit the place was packed with people buying unnecessary junk. People are crazy and I negate this by being crazier than them.
Fair enough.
Also, FEMA and the CDC recommend having at all times enough food and water to last 2 weeks...I can't be that crazy.
Well, I didn't know that.
