Thread: Stupid shit in Medellin
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01-14-22 05:09 #2950
Posts: 5466Originally Posted by Villainy [View Original Post]
The first happened when I was driving a tow truck in San Diego. I got called out late one night for a bad accident on I-15 by Miramar Road. It was a single car accident and the driver was dead, his head almost completely severed. The rules are that the CHP is not allowed to move the body. Only the coroner can do that. However, if the person is still alive, and they seem it necessary, they can move an injured person from the car.
It was a rainy night and anytime it rains late at night in San Diego, there are lots of bad accidents. If my phone rang late night, I knew I needed my raincoat (they only called me out at night when there were more accidents than night shift could cover).
After waiting on scene for almost an hour, one of the cops told me it was probably going to be another 2 hours or more before the coroner arrived. Another cop said there was no sense in me waiting. He walked over to the car, said "I think he's still breathing", cut the seatbelt and pulled the body out. Which allowed me to load the car and take it to our yard.
They knew there was no need to wait for the coroner to show up, certify the death and then remove the corpse. And when the coroner finally did show up they knew he would understand and write it up normally.
The second incident happened to my mother. She almost certainly had a stroke, while she was driving to the store. One of her neighbors was driving behind her when she started swerving and suddenly sped up to about 50 mph, ran off the road and the car rolled over. On that road, any sped over 20 mph was risking severe damage to your car. The other driver was at her car within seconds and she was already dead, without any obvious injuries.
Cause of death? Car accident. No autopsy was performed. My stepfather was asked if he wanted an autopsy and he said no. If the official cause of death was a stroke, the accidental death, double indemnity would not have been paid and he was not willing to lose that money.
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01-14-22 04:55 #2949
Posts: 319I think it takes a horrible person to specify that you haven't been sick in the past 14 days when you really have. The honor system doesn't work when there's no honor.
It takes an even worse person to test positive and still plan to invite company over. Whether they know or not is irrelevant, the fact that they may be in dire need may force them to accept the invitation against their better judgement. Why not just wait another 2 weeks.
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01-14-22 04:35 #2948
Posts: 1680True Villainy LOL
It is amazing Elvira still in here with the "numbers are cooked" nonsense. If there is some conspiracy to rob medical institutions then why hasn't it sweeped the globe? It's called a pandemic. They have effected the known world since bible times, is in the very book that stupid, numbskull Texans claim to worship. We also had these same dullard conspiracy theories back in the Middle Ages. The Jews anyone? So Elvira, place it where the sun never shines, along with your fellow basement buttbots. Wink.
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01-14-22 04:31 #2947
Posts: 5466Originally Posted by Lou32 [View Original Post]
Both sides of what you're considering have happened to me. The first time, a girl who really wanted to come and see me, had some symptoms. Instead of telling me, or canceling she came over and spent a few hours with me. The next day I came down with strep throat. Fortunately, with antibiotics, strep is only contagious for about 2 days, so I only lost 3 days. This was late in 2020, so Covid was a possibility.
While I was sick with strep another girl wanted to see me, even after I informed her about the strep. However, she lives with her parents and has a young daughter, so I turned her down.
The same thing happened when I went into Covid quarantine. Three different girls I know offered to come to Bogota to stay with me until I recovered. In that case, if I had accepted, they would have been quarantined with me for almost 2 weeks, which would remove the risk to others. However, regardless of how young or in shape someone is, there's always a risk they'll get very sick from Covid. It's not a risk I'm willing to knowingly subject others to.
The timing of your question was bad. One of the girls who I've known for 4 years just lost her grandmother to Covid. According to her, she went from a little sick to extremely sick very quickly and died within 30 minutes of being intubated. The same thing happened to my aunt. One day she got sick, the next she was in the hospital and the next day she died.
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01-14-22 03:23 #2946
Posts: 689Unvaccinated assholes
So you have a vaccine that has been proven effective. Not 100% effective but nothing is perfect. People who then won't take the vaccine are just selfish assholes, and should be taken outside and shot.
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01-14-22 03:19 #2945
Posts: 14Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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01-14-22 00:51 #2944
Posts: 1184Originally Posted by Paulie97 [View Original Post]
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01-14-22 00:38 #2943
Posts: 1782Lets have risk vs reward
Great interview. Espec the latter half. Elvis will love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ik6cxFBbBw
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01-14-22 00:34 #2942
Posts: 1089Originally Posted by Lou32 [View Original Post]
And it should not be up to them "if they are willing to risk it". It seems simple to me. If I test positive I probably have covid, if it was by an antigen test I am almost certainly contagious. No matter how I feel. And just be a good person who says. I don't want to take a chance on infecting anyone else even if they agree to it. It's only a few days in ones life. You don't have to knowingly put someone at risk, even if the risk is small.
Of course all of this is just theoretical. I'm not saying you are that person.
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01-13-22 22:14 #2941
Posts: 651Elvis Diarrhea Analysis Never Ends
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
So which is it Elvis? One day you talk about all the new cases are Omnicron and it is highly contagious but not highly threatening, so the pandemic is over. But now your new theory is that there are all these cases because the vaccine is ineffective.
Isn't this a new variant? Didn't the vaccine stop the primary CoVid virus and the Delta variant that followed??
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
That is just one co-morbidity. Of course people with no co-morbidities do better. Duh? My point is that the adult population is rife with co-morbidities. You can't simply ignore that fact.
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
MA or PhD in Epidemiology? Virology? Or Immunology? Should I believe them or you?? Seems like an easy choice to me.
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01-13-22 21:55 #2940
Posts: 1056Glutenous
Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
Have you every tasted a real chicken or a real pig? When we live like factory hens, we have to get sick like factory hens.
Pedro the Rooster.
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01-13-22 21:51 #2939
Posts: 430Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
To further clear it up I didn't mean purposely infecting anyone. Personally, if I'm chatting with a lady while stuck in Medellin and she (likely) offered to keep me company I'd tell her straight away that I tested positive but I feel fine. I'd make sure she was cool with that risk BUT if she hesitated at all or if I started being symptomatic I'd drop the issue.
But all of that is probably moot anyway since all it takes is for one front desk person to drop a dime about a positive gringo inviting chicas to his room then you'd be in a world of shit, probably.
So I guess just Netflix and waiting it out.
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01-13-22 21:45 #2938
Posts: 430Originally Posted by Zeos1 [View Original Post]
It isn't the AIDS virus. And "positive" doesn't guarantee that you have the virus. And I believe I wrote "if they are willing to risk it" so that means fully informing them.
I feel your reply was a bit of an overreaction.
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01-13-22 21:36 #2937
Posts: 3234Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
His attempt to end the filibuster was thrown out:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...stering-speech
And now there are 105 ships off the California coast and China is shutting down a port:
Those ships contain between 1 million and 1.5 million containers. Even if no new ships came in, I wonder how long it would take to load them. And this keeps getting worse and worse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/...cks-down-ports
And producer prices rise 9. 7% for 2021, the Most in Series History.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/produ...series-history
I am not sure if there have been any supply chain issues in Colombia yet. I looked at the shipyard in Cartagena and I was told if they are stacking containers more than 2 at a time, that is congestion. They were 4 and 5 high.
I also wonder with the weakening dollar how much inflation Colombia is going to have.
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01-13-22 20:57 #2936
Posts: 15925At least someone in the USA is thinking with some sense.
"News Alert: Supreme Court blocks nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses.
The Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine or testing requirement aimed at large businesses, but it allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide. ".